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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: I’ll save you the trouble. Google Translate: “Sheet Metal Buddy”.
Published 1982
(Average: 8.56 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: I’ll save you the trouble. Google Translate: “Sheet Metal Buddy”.
Published 1982
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December 15th, 2020 at 9:23 am
The robot’s moved to tears. And his neck is moved to tiers.
December 15th, 2020 at 12:36 pm
Ah, that weird Deep Space Nine episode where due to a completely unexpected holosuite malfunction Sisko turned silver and Kira and Morn turned human. Don’t remember Richard Dawkins being in it, though. Good thing it’s just fan art or I might be inclined to be critical.
December 15th, 2020 at 12:45 pm
Gotta love German titles… Apparently the original title is simply “The Tin Men”.
December 15th, 2020 at 1:15 pm
Somerset Maugham is sailing in some strange waters to have ended up here.
December 15th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Oddly enough, I read this again a few months back: it’s become topical again since the Random Daily Mail Headline Generator seems to be doing a better job than the humans supposedly in charge. No doubt some half-baked columnist will call it and ‘A Very Private Life’ “prophetic”.
This cover’s one of the better ones. It’s never been treated as SF in Britain (it can’t be – he went to the right school and knows influential people) so ‘serious’ publishers pick up on the jokey tone.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511252.The_Tin_Men
https://www.biblio.com/tin-men-by-frayn-michael/work/114190
December 15th, 2020 at 2:43 pm
WTH is that goldish bar-thing across the middle of the page? Is the artist opening a can of sardines?
December 15th, 2020 at 2:54 pm
Destro [1] doesn’t talk about his brother.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destro
December 15th, 2020 at 4:58 pm
You’d think with German engineering, the eyes would line up.
December 16th, 2020 at 1:11 am
Blech indeed.
I would find this cover to be lacking as art for fanfic; seeing it on a legit published book is mind-boggling.
@Ryan: Maybe all the characters are so small they fit in the sardine tin?
December 16th, 2020 at 2:31 am
@GSS, ryan, Frank: so the tin men are in the tin which is what it says on the tin?
December 16th, 2020 at 9:41 pm
@Bruce: precisely. And I have a feeling the artist would be overly proud of SUCH a deeply clever remark and elbow you in the ribs going “geddit?”
This cover is less subtle than Frayn’s “Noises Off”.
June 13th, 2021 at 8:03 pm
When in Bavaria, try the delicacy called “Blech-kumpel”… but if the waiter asks if you want the “Messing-schtang” with that, just say “Nein!”