Apr 20
Click for larger imageBrain Aldiss Comments: Dickless wonder … no more!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1965
(Average: 7.90 out of 10)
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Brain Aldiss Comments: Dickless wonder … no more!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1965
(Average: 7.90 out of 10)Loading...
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April 20th, 2020 at 12:02 pm
And by the end of the book, IQ 15.
April 20th, 2020 at 1:25 pm
Koko says: “Terrible sci-fi cover art makes Koko sad … but Good Show Sir!”
April 20th, 2020 at 1:59 pm
When Dr. Dragon say’s ‘Bend over and cough.’, your 150+ I.Q. better come up with a good excuse not to real quick.
April 20th, 2020 at 2:37 pm
“An IQ of 150+ you say. No thanks, I’ll go with the option of having an actual dick.” – just about every man ever.
April 20th, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Embarrassing to read in public, lazy/terrible art effort, puts the reader off the story – this is truly on the mark.
April 20th, 2020 at 6:15 pm
@Bibliomancer—Don’t forget Koko uses sign language to communicate. I guess that’s what the loosely closed fist moved rapidly up and down followed by the extended middle finger sign translates to.
April 20th, 2020 at 8:31 pm
Let’s be honest, any artwork is superfluous once you’ve decided on that shade of puce for the rest of the cover. So why not go for a picture that looks like an IQ test? ‘
April 20th, 2020 at 9:13 pm
The “super-intelligent” cover design is dripping with irony (i.e. the editors didn’t expect geniuses to read this stuff, so they made a cover aimed at simpletons)….
April 21st, 2020 at 12:50 am
I remember this as being a pretty good book (novella/ette), but not having any dragons in it. Maybe it’s a collection that has a dragon story?
The top reads like an announcement/introduction to an impressed crowd:
“Poul Anderson”
“OOOOOOooooooooooooooooo”
I, um, guess that’s a pretty well-done gorilla head?
@Tat: Puce hard by chartreuse! Was there an outbreak of color blindness in the cover department? I mean, we can tell they had no taste.
April 21st, 2020 at 7:59 am
I read BRAIN WAVE as a teenager…
I recall that back then, one part of the plot seemed particularly reactionary and dumb: the protagonist’s housewife, struck by the IQ-boosting “brain wave”, lobotomized herself so she wouldn’t have to suffer the agony of being a genius.
Why would anyone deliberately choose to be stupid? I reasoned… back then. Of course, I later learned that such people exist…
April 22nd, 2020 at 1:51 am
@A.R. Yngve: well, they do say ignorance is bliss…
There’s also a racist bit where a Buddhist (or Hindu maybe) is unhappy with the situation because he can’t manage a meditative trance anymore: you see, Really Powerful Minds can’t just shut themselves down like that. (Insert eye-rolling GIF)
April 23rd, 2020 at 2:37 am
Hey! Does Giant Gorilla Head have a moon falling out of its ear, or is it just a Small Gorilla Head that’s leaking Everlasting Gobstoppers?
April 23rd, 2020 at 3:54 am
Gobstoppers are multicolored, so that’s a moon. Or a rock if the gorilla is normal-sized.
April 25th, 2020 at 2:29 am
@GSSxn (prev.):
I know about Gobstoppers. I have two theater boxes of them waiting for me in my desk drawer at work. 😉
So, SGH is just losing his marbles, then?
April 25th, 2020 at 2:30 am
@GSSxn (prev.):
So, SGH is just losing his marbles, then?
April 25th, 2020 at 2:30 am
Look at how big that gorilla’s eyes are: I bet he’s used his expanded intelligence to invent drugs and is hallucinating the rest of the cover.
Or perhaps the artist is saying that he doesn’t buy the author’s explanation, it was the lizard people’s plot all along.