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Click for larger imageJ.R.R. Tokin Comments: She is proficient in ASSembly Language
Published 1973
(Average: 2.43 out of 10)
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J.R.R. Tokin Comments: She is proficient in ASSembly Language
Published 1973
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November 2nd, 2020 at 2:19 pm
I get the magnetic tape data storage since it is 1973, but why the huge gears?
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:28 pm
The one w/ the rapey artificial intelligence. SKYNET just wanted to kill us, thankfully.
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:58 pm
I thought they’d given up on moon shots by 1973.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:41 pm
Not gonna lie, this look like my bitz box of spare parts for modifying tabletop gaming miniatures.
(Also, Francis Boyle wins.)
November 2nd, 2020 at 4:29 pm
Number 5… is alive! Oh, wait, wrong one.
November 2nd, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Also a rather bad movie.
@Francis Boyle: zing!
Editor: remember, this book includes robo-rape, so the art should have the sensitivity and maturity the subject demands.
Artist: T&A front and center, right.
Did the robot have tentacles? I bet it had tentacles.
Dean Koontz has been churning out horror for over half a century now: gotta give him points for productivity if nothing else.
November 2nd, 2020 at 7:42 pm
Is this what became that cruddy film with Julie Christie and the voice of Robert Vaughan?
If so, have fun with the ‘conception’ scene: I keep expecting Patrick Troughton’s face to emerge from the howlround effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vku3KkBoKM
November 2nd, 2020 at 10:25 pm
Almost as good as the Orgasmatron scene from Sleeper.
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:03 am
@Bruce: Dean has been churning out the same three horror novels for fifty years, anyway.
The film was directed by Donald Cammell, who didn’t do much, but what he did complete was very weird. He turned it from a trashy potboiler about a rapey computer into a cosmic tale of womankind forced into making herself obsolete by male technology. More tea, vicar?
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:58 am
Ooh, dig that oh-so-70s “computer” font. Did this cover route checks to Koontz’ account? It must have, since he probably got a pittance for the movie and re-wrote and re-published this one in the 90s.
I ask the men of GSS: does Julie Christie have that much of a butt?
@Ryan: Good question.
@Tat: I “love” how the person who uploaded the terrible VHS copy couldn’t even bother to cut off the PBS closing credit for the episode of Python that was on the tape before it.
@fred: GSS! You win today.
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:04 am
@THX: funny how the people who fawn over ‘Performance’ never mention this.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:48 am
@Tat W—I suspect it was Roeg’s hand what made Performance to fawn for. The narrative arc of that film is carried by the pure image, starting from the opening shot (watching yourself, and watching yourself watching yourself). The “plot” is laughable, and irrelevant.
(Apologies for being serious, not usually my intention on GSS!) 😉
November 3rd, 2020 at 9:59 am
Cammell wasn’t talentless, he was overambitious though, and had to work with what he was given, rather than follow his muse more. White of the Eye is an amazing-looking film that just happens to be completely nuts, for example.
The only other thing he completed was Wild Side, one of those 90s erotic thrillers that’s… completely nuts. He committed suicide when the studio re-edited it without his permission, which shows how passionate he was about his art, and maybe a lack of proportion, too. But he wasn’t a hack, by any means.
November 3rd, 2020 at 6:47 pm
@THX 1139—Well put.
September 23rd, 2021 at 8:11 am
The novel that depicted how computer dating would snare us all!