Dec 09
JuanPaul Comments: Suzy sees cyborgs by the seashore.
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Published 1974
JuanPaul Comments: Suzy sees cyborgs by the seashore.
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Published 1974
December 9th, 2021 at 9:30 am
I like the bit with the face in the sand. That’s neat.
The robots… not so neat.
I’ll try and flip the image upside down to see if anything else appears — OH MY GOD!! NO!! THAT’S GROSS!! Whatever you do, DON’T look at the cover turned upside down!
December 9th, 2021 at 9:58 am
Trump seems to have omitted any mention of Dagon. Undoubtedly an unintentional oversight.
https://www.trumpmiami.com/
December 9th, 2021 at 10:26 am
Signior Gallardo, eh? Are these
THE ROBOTS THAT CAME TO SARNATH?
(https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=7281)
December 9th, 2021 at 10:38 am
You know, if the robots didn’t look like they’d just discovered how humans are made this would be a pretty decent cover.
December 9th, 2021 at 10:43 am
“Mummy, where do C3POs come from?”
December 9th, 2021 at 5:08 pm
I actually like this, but it looks more like a jazz fusion/prog rock album cover from the early 70s than it does a book cover.
December 9th, 2021 at 5:44 pm
@6 – Michael. Ask and you shall receive.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/chains-sea-1973-three-original-3829097866
December 9th, 2021 at 7:00 pm
Has anybody got a guess as to why none of the authors of these three “orginal novellas” is named on the cover, only Silverberg?
December 9th, 2021 at 7:45 pm
@ B.Chiclitz: Effinger, Dozois and Eklund had more self-respect.
@Michael Toland: it would have been better than a few early Weather Report covers. Mind you, the crossover of Columbia/ Blue Note cover-art and 60s Penguin covers led in interesting directions, before some idiot gave Adrian Chesterman an air-brush.
December 9th, 2021 at 11:13 pm
That is the face of a child realizing he can never go to the playground again because grandma gave him the knock-off Cybermen dolls from the dollar store instead of the real ones.
December 9th, 2021 at 11:49 pm
This is either a clever face/beach combo, or else a child is drowning and the last thing he hallucinates is a row of startled robots.
I’d think the beach would be bad for robots, all that sand and damp air. Maybe they’ve just realized that.
No chains are visible, so this gets a 50% rating for showing elements of the title.
The SFBC cover is boring, and also rates 50% but doesn’t have the genuinely interesting face-beach.
Even the usual suspects didn’t care much for this, since the best it could do was 7th place in Anthologies from the Locus readers’ poll. Perhaps Mssrs. Dozois, Effinger, and Ecklund were wise to keep their names off the front cover.
GSS to: L_L, THX, Michael, Tat, MelMc for their bon mots.
December 10th, 2021 at 6:43 am
“Sorry to have to say this, Ma’am, but your kid is a real beach.”
December 14th, 2021 at 10:45 pm
@7 – thanks, Fred. I dig that cover even more!