Jan 27
Click for larger imageJoachim Boaz Comments: “The Adventures of a Monk in Bondage”
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Published 1976
(Average: 8.25 out of 10)
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Joachim Boaz Comments: “The Adventures of a Monk in Bondage”
Read the back cover blurb over at Joachim’s most excellent SF Ruminations blog!
Published 1976
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January 27th, 2020 at 10:35 am
It’s what Freddie Jones would have wanted.
January 27th, 2020 at 12:50 pm
Checkmate, mofo,
January 27th, 2020 at 3:10 pm
Why We Need the Ozone Layer, chapter 4: People with pretentious Maori tattoos may dissolve in hard UV and leave just inkly leatery swirls behind. The naff punk-style hairdo that caused the PCP build-up in the first place may also remain in some cases.
January 27th, 2020 at 3:24 pm
The Adventures of Rusty Epitaph!
And his Kelly Freas Griffin.
January 27th, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Sky fishing? He looks more like he was engaged in some sky hooking.
January 27th, 2020 at 3:46 pm
Kelly, were you trying to tell us something.
January 27th, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Stop the game! There appears to be an injured little person down on the board.
January 27th, 2020 at 5:01 pm
@FB in reviewing Kelly’s other covers on GSS there does seem to be a bit of a fetish theme.
January 27th, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Bondage boy needs an eyebrow trim, also a neck.
January 27th, 2020 at 11:14 pm
I predict Joachim will enjoy the Russell book. I’d forgotten everything about it till I read the blurb, when I remembered it, and recall enjoying it. Unless I’ve mixed it up with another satirical novel with the exact same settings, which hardly seems possible even in SF. It might be a fix-up.
As for today’s GSS selection… oh dear. No one did their best work for Laser, thanks to low, low rates for everything, and a whole bunch of first-time authors. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a decent cover on any of them. Laser seemed to require both text and covers turned up to 11 on the “70’s Daft” scale.
But — here’s the kicker — the covers usually bore some resemblance to the plot and characters. Which means this is even weirder than you think.
Another blurb sez:
“An Epitaph in Rust unfolds in a grim future Los Angeles, following a young man who escapes a bleak life of servitude in a monastery. Hunted for a seemingly insignificant transgression in a city driven mad by the mayor’s explosive destruction and the subsequent murderous rampage of the android police [I’m guessing the exploding mayor and/or android police in background], young Thomas finds refuge with a troupe of actors [presumably the group of people]who have more than Shakespeare on their minds.” And there’s the revolution [presumably represented by the chessboard]
But it could be worse: dig l’edition Francais!
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/9/9e/LSPCHRSDCL1997.jpg
@THX: Explain, please. I’m only familiar with Freddie’s work when he was already older, and this certainly isn’t the chap with the prosthetic eyebrows from Lynch’s “Dune”.
@Francis: As for the bondage collar, that might have just been Kelly’s joke. He was a fan of Bettie Page, after all.
January 28th, 2020 at 12:00 pm
@GSS xn: Just looked like the Freddie I was familiar with (see Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, or The Elephant Man and wonder if they had to do very much with his eyebrows on Dune). Maybe with an Apollo hairpiece.
January 29th, 2020 at 12:23 am
@THX: I think he nicked Rutger Hauer’s 70s/80s look, then. Save for the eyebrows, which are all his own. Did they need their own Equity card?
January 29th, 2020 at 9:53 am
The book that blew the lid off the rampant use of hallucinogenics in Nazi Germany!
January 31st, 2020 at 2:29 am
Freddie Jones? I can’t imagine this guy in ‘Emmerdale’. He does look like a peroxided version of affable 70s Radio 2 drivetime DJ John Dunn, though.
https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/john_dunn_page.htm
November 25th, 2021 at 3:02 pm
Inspired by today’s inspiring selection (https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=17509), I got digging. “Timothy Powers” is Tim Powers of The Drawing of the Dark, which was his next book, and he doesn’t seem to have looked back from that. So one wonders if Laser Books actually did hit the jackpot once in a while.