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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: In the future, the iPad 108th generation will be HUUUUUGE!
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Good Show Sir Comments: In the future, the iPad 108th generation will be HUUUUUGE!
Published 1946
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August 17th, 2021 at 10:30 am
Please don’t slam the Slan.
August 17th, 2021 at 11:01 am
Slantennas?
August 17th, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Most people would put windows into a new build house after all the brickwork was done. Slan had other ideas.
August 17th, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Tim Cook introduces the new iSlan.
August 17th, 2021 at 2:13 pm
The gratuitous perspective lines are a real distraction on an otherwise good cover.
August 17th, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Sorry mate, I don’t care if it’s the retro-future, portrait mode video is still stupid.
August 17th, 2021 at 3:36 pm
‘OK Google, what’s the best haircut to hide the snail-eyes growing out of my head?
August 17th, 2021 at 4:13 pm
“Wow! This new vid-screen makes the city look hi-res and 3-D!”
August 17th, 2021 at 7:44 pm
@Raoul: the emperor’s new television?
August 17th, 2021 at 7:53 pm
“Gee, I wonder if that tiny rocket is about to smash through this plate glass window and smash me in the forehead? I guess I’ll just stand here and see.”
August 17th, 2021 at 10:30 pm
“Great screen, but the battery runs out too damn fast.”
August 17th, 2021 at 11:25 pm
So I guess that’s what “tell all the truth, but tell it slan” is all about?
August 18th, 2021 at 12:35 am
Panther Science Fiction ‘Slan’….Richard Harris hangover?
http://www.gdprice.com/books/04729.htm
August 18th, 2021 at 12:48 am
Usually the covers here are too gaudy.
This one’s just dull.
It doesn’t even seem to be a giant iPad or a TV or a visiplate or whatever. Slan’s just propped up a window or big empty frame near the city and from his eyeline he’s contemplating the endless green plane (with lines. why?) and not the city.
Not so much with the genius and super-race.
August 18th, 2021 at 5:10 am
Just dull? That’s Slan-der, sir!
He lives in an invisible house save for the door and window frames? Making some sort of Slan-ish artistic statement.
And maybe the lines and big green space are a giant football field ( https://wallpapercave.com/wp/JPx7STV.jpg ) for playing futuristic super-race-ball.
August 19th, 2021 at 8:46 am
As for the novel SLAN… I’ll say that at least Van Vogt made the effort to depict “mental powers” as a physical thing that required actual organs to function (the golden tendrils on the protagonist’s head).
Most stories about “mental powers” are much lazier than that – it’s “Unlocking your hidden potential” or the old hogwash [whiny voice] “You’re only using a fraction of your brain’s capacity”…
August 20th, 2021 at 3:52 am
@Bruce: I am a ma’am, sir! 🙂
Maybe in the future, football is played on a round/curved field, so the lines are radial.
In which case, Slan there is either
1) a coach using his mental powers to figure out a plan for the next game, or
2) he’s a cameraman using the frame to figure out how the field looks to people who still hold their phones in portrait. His mental powers don’t help him know why they do that, thouogh.
August 20th, 2021 at 6:18 am
@GSS ex-noob: it was my impression we were all “sirs” here regardless of gender, at least when we had performed a Good Show.
August 20th, 2021 at 11:39 pm
@Bruce: Quite right. Sorries.
Considering how many genders humans come in, much less the aliens we so often see, I suppose we all should be Sir.
April 2nd, 2022 at 2:16 am
In the future, we’ll all wear George Jetson tops, and fashion throw (way way) back to Gulliver’s Travels pants, socks and shoes? That’s seriously cheesy.