Aug 27
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir comments: I hate buying a book with a broken spine.
Check out the wraparound cover.
Published 1979
(Average: 6.63 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: I hate buying a book with a broken spine.
Check out the wraparound cover.
Published 1979
(Average: 6.63 out of 10)Loading...
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August 27th, 2020 at 9:30 am
Tinted glasses AND a turtleneck. He probably has a flying car and a mansion with a secret research lab in the basement where bald Mel Ferrer keeps him tuned up.
August 27th, 2020 at 9:35 am
“Before you go hit on that Suicide Girl [1], remember – I have the off switch to your groin.”
[1] Wrap-around cover link
August 27th, 2020 at 9:57 am
Looks like he got more actual back than his baby.
August 27th, 2020 at 5:58 pm
The bald guy contemplates switching off the entire experiment.
August 27th, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Doh! Jose not Mel.
August 27th, 2020 at 6:57 pm
Dammit! I wish I had studied anatomy. I really want to know where that cable is intended to exit.
Sidenote: Wasn’t 1979 a bit late for reel to reel tapes to be considered futuristic (although one of the units has only one reel so I suppose that counts for something).
August 27th, 2020 at 7:05 pm
This was the breadboard model of the 6-Million Dollar Man.
Easier to troubleshoot.
August 27th, 2020 at 8:40 pm
Behind every Robert Evans there’s a… Jackie Earle Haley?!
August 27th, 2020 at 9:05 pm
So, is a Fire Ship like a Fire Truck and puts out fires in space stations and such, or is it a more metaphorical fire, like the one we didn’t start but has always been burning, burning?
Re the Suicide Girl on the back cover: can’t tell if those are tattoos or just really fancy socks, and unsure if that is face paint, a bad job of shading, or severe rosacea.
@fred: I was wondering about that. But your comment at #1 is apt: he does have a really 1970s Six Million Dollar Man knock off hero look, doesn’t he?
@THX 1139 #3: I think that’s just deliberately weird perspective, with the way the spine sort of dwindles away in the distance.
Edit: but you probably knew that already. Sorry about nerdsplaining there.
August 27th, 2020 at 10:10 pm
“I don’t always wire up bionic men.
“But when I do, it’s through the bum.”
August 27th, 2020 at 11:23 pm
@Tor M The bum jack reminds me of the VR port in ‘Existenz’
https://youtu.be/W1fkINKMwHA
August 27th, 2020 at 11:37 pm
“See you have to remove the plug from the bunghole without hitting the sides or else the buzzer goes off and his nose lights up and the operation is a failure!”
August 28th, 2020 at 8:07 am
Ah yes, this one also resides upon the shelves at Chez xN.
Fugly as it is, it does a reasonable job of showing things that happen in the story. Well, the title story anyway, which is about 40% of the book. IRL the cover is excessively orange, presumably because the story takes place on Mars.
SFBC’s captive audience suffered much for their book bargains.
@BC: GSS.
August 28th, 2020 at 4:25 pm
@JP: I have that movie, and you’re right, it’s exactly like that!
September 16th, 2020 at 9:55 am
“Doug McClure is… THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR CHIROPRACTOR.”