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Click for larger imagePam Comments: David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars bring Brain-Man down to Earth.
Published 1974
(Average: 4.64 out of 10)
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Pam Comments: David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars bring Brain-Man down to Earth.
Published 1974
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February 20th, 2020 at 10:44 am
“Dang it, we remembered the brain and forgot to buy milk!”
February 20th, 2020 at 11:30 am
“Watch out, they’ve got pointy sticks!”
‘Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!’
February 20th, 2020 at 1:07 pm
How many Doctors does it take to wheel Davros down a ramp?
February 20th, 2020 at 1:32 pm
I love this. I mean, I know it’s crap, but I love it. Looks like a Sun Ra album cover.
February 20th, 2020 at 1:36 pm
Is this 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? I have delivery of one replacement brain for your leader.
February 20th, 2020 at 1:52 pm
Before teal and orange there was purple and yellow.
February 20th, 2020 at 2:04 pm
“The *brain* man!” Oops. We brought the Muffin Man!”
“The Muffin Man?”
“The Muffin Man.”
February 20th, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Now that Brain Man has had his bouncy castle session, he is ready to take on the aliens!
February 20th, 2020 at 4:39 pm
@Michael—kudos on the
Sun-Ra reference! Possibly this is the image you had in mind. Saw him live once and have never forgotten it.
February 20th, 2020 at 5:41 pm
I remember the first time I used Photoshop’s Paint Bucket too!
February 20th, 2020 at 7:45 pm
“Somebody set us up the bombe.“
February 21st, 2020 at 12:36 am
“Hey, everyone, our big walnut is here!”
February 21st, 2020 at 12:44 am
@Tor M, @THX1139— GSS! GSS! 🙂 😉
February 21st, 2020 at 4:12 am
You know, I quite like this one. It’s better than the book deserves.
February 21st, 2020 at 4:50 am
There’s a typo on the cover. It should read “Only the Brian May could stop the Earth’s take-over”. After all who’s going to defeat a psychedelic alien invasion if not* a prog-rock astrophysicist.
*Well, yes, probably Sun Ra.
February 21st, 2020 at 7:19 am
Brain-Man? Looks more like just a Brain, with accompanying Men.
Blurb does say it’s a brain in a mechanical body, but only two humans?
Seconding the GSS to Tor and THX.
@Francis: I think to be safe, you might want Sun Ra and Brian May both.
I thought the artist’s signature read “Chancre” at first glance, but no, it’s “Chance”. Make up your own joke to go with my initial thought.
February 22nd, 2020 at 3:02 am
@GSS ex-noob: that’s the sort of artist that can make you sore?
The ship looks like a beehive (the well-guarded honeycomb hideout?)
If it needs two guys to push it around everywhere, it’s hardly a “robot body”: barely makes it to “wheelchair body.”
February 22nd, 2020 at 7:45 am
@Bruce: I guess “brain in a box on tea trolley” was too long and uninspiring to print.
February 22nd, 2020 at 4:21 pm
Oh, all right…
Unexpected item in bagging area
February 23rd, 2020 at 1:46 am
@Tat: GSS! That explains the annoyed posture of the men. “We’re taking it out, dammit! Bad enough we had to scan this heavy thing.”
February 23rd, 2020 at 2:05 am
Oh, and as a callback to one of our favorites, namely
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11153
you can get it (on sale for the next 3 hours) in a single volume with another book by the, er, master.
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Science-Fiction-Adventures-Six-Gun-ebook/dp/B008LPB532
Dull cover, though. And it’s Kindle, so doubly safe to read on the bus.
February 23rd, 2020 at 3:00 am
_Neither_ of those settings make any sense.
February 23rd, 2020 at 5:38 pm
Behold the awesome might of the Brain-Man on his brain-cart!
Bathe in his splendor! Submit to it!
February 23rd, 2020 at 11:44 pm
@ARY: It’s only a model.
@Bruce: From what I’ve seen, pretty much none of his SF settings made any sense. That second blurb contains a contradiction in its first 2 sentences — they rode robot horses but wanted to escape technology?
February 24th, 2020 at 6:50 am
@A.R. Yngve: he’s no Simon (The Living Brain) Wright.
(I mean, did he get his own toy? https://www.lulu-berlu.com/upload/image/captain-future—professor-simon-wright—popy-germany-p-image-292007-grande.jpg )
@GSS ex-noob: this statement
In On Wheels, the United States has become so overpopulated that a tenth of its people have no home. Instead, they spend their lives on the highway. With all of the dangers of the road, dropping below forty miles per hour would mean certain death—even for men like Billy Spoiler. The clans of the open road spend their lives battling each other for control of the freeway, and the Spoilers are no exception. They never give up, never pull over, and never take their hand off the throttle
raises so many questions that I am vaguely tempted to get the book just to see if the author answers any of them.
February 25th, 2020 at 1:20 am
@Bruce: Questions like — how do they refuel? What sort of arrangements for replacement parts, food and water, waste disposal, sleep, mating, and childcare* do they have? How do they get anything done if they’ve always got one hand on the throttle (in a car?) and presumably the other on the wheel?
I would bet maybe 10% of the questions are answered. 25% at the outside
*”If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts…”