(@Tor: that’s pretty much the, ahem, ‘plot’. It’s a classic, officially, but it’s really just a bunch of robots and dogs telling shaggy-human stories.)
@Tat Wood: I believe the dog sections were bookended with an initial section with humans [1] and and a finish where a robot is the Last Sentient Being on Earth?
[1] Pardon me if I vent: the trope “all the cool people go to space, then those left behind die out due to excessive un-coolness” annoys me greatly.
I know what that entranced dog is staring at. A French dubbed DeForest Kelly in an episode of the greatest dog TV show ever, ‘The Littlest Hobo’. 2:20 minutes.
@Tat: The artist must have understood what was in the book, then.
I wasn’t prepared for that.
The premise sounds interesting if it’s done with some finesse.
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July 29th, 2021 at 9:21 am
So Clifford the Big Red Dog’s surname is Simak?
July 29th, 2021 at 10:33 am
Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, Doggy Kong’s climactic scaling of the Empire State Building turned out to be something of a disappointment.
July 29th, 2021 at 1:05 pm
Looks like a shaggy dog cover to me, even if it turns out the robots are controlled by cats.
July 29th, 2021 at 1:52 pm
Balto-more
July 29th, 2021 at 2:00 pm
I, for one, welcome our new robotic dog-sitters. Walkies!
July 29th, 2021 at 3:03 pm
That image calls for some Far Side: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5f49c37e7e1fddadaf7c16fb84e116dc?rik=%2buyVsFkc41dQ2Q&pid=ImgRaw
July 29th, 2021 at 3:13 pm
“Dinsdale? Dinnnns-daaaale?’
(@Tor: that’s pretty much the, ahem, ‘plot’. It’s a classic, officially, but it’s really just a bunch of robots and dogs telling shaggy-human stories.)
July 29th, 2021 at 3:25 pm
(For all the Zappa fans out there) Frunobulax!
July 29th, 2021 at 4:43 pm
This cover captures the exact moment your dog hears “We’re going to the Vets”.
July 29th, 2021 at 5:16 pm
@Cornelius—
🎶 Poodle bites
Poodle chews it
Poodle bites (C’mon Frenchie)
Poodle chews it
Here Fido!
July 29th, 2021 at 7:46 pm
@daard23:GSS!
@Tat Wood: I believe the dog sections were bookended with an initial section with humans [1] and and a finish where a robot is the Last Sentient Being on Earth?
[1] Pardon me if I vent: the trope “all the cool people go to space, then those left behind die out due to excessive un-coolness” annoys me greatly.
July 29th, 2021 at 10:48 pm
@daard23 : Good Show, sir, good show. 🙂
July 30th, 2021 at 3:11 am
Not a super-terrible cover for this book, particularly for SFBC. It even reflects the content!
Weirdly enough, they did another version of this in 1992, which has this:
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/e/ea/BKTG16446.jpg
and is the one we own. Yeah.
@Tat, Bruce: perfect.
@daard23: Doggo’s expression is also seen when it realizes there are no walkies about to happen, or no treetz.
July 30th, 2021 at 11:40 am
GSSXN@13: I initially read your last 2 words as “no treez”, which also works.
July 30th, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I know what that entranced dog is staring at. A French dubbed DeForest Kelly in an episode of the greatest dog TV show ever, ‘The Littlest Hobo’. 2:20 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6mxYbql8s
July 30th, 2021 at 2:06 pm
@Tat: The artist must have understood what was in the book, then.
I wasn’t prepared for that.
The premise sounds interesting if it’s done with some finesse.
July 31st, 2021 at 3:17 am
@L_L: I’m sure doggo could manage without a tree, but it might rust one of the robots.
July 31st, 2021 at 3:51 am
Robot, fire hydrant, big diff.
August 1st, 2021 at 4:15 am
Exactly. Although robots might fight back more than hydrants.
August 5th, 2021 at 7:22 am
William Wegman’s finest hour.
October 8th, 2021 at 2:57 am
THE DOG
It had one wish, and one wish alone
A CUPCAKE
Would it’s Human masters oblige, before it obliterated
THE CITY?
April 2nd, 2022 at 3:45 am
The second hand bookstore had a copy, but most of the pages were badly dogeared…