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JuanPaul Comments: Suzy sees cyborgs by the seashore.

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Published 1974

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 6.27 out of 10)
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13 Responses to “Chains of the Sea”

  1. A. R. Yngve Says:

    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!

  2. fred Says:

    Trump seems to have omitted any mention of Dagon. Undoubtedly an unintentional oversight.

    https://www.trumpmiami.com/

  3. Longtime_Lurker Says:

    Signior Gallardo, eh? Are these

    THE ROBOTS THAT CAME TO SARNATH?
    (https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=7281)

  4. Francis Boyle Says:

    You know, if the robots didn’t look like they’d just discovered how humans are made this would be a pretty decent cover.

  5. THX 1139 Says:

    “Mummy, where do C3POs come from?”

  6. Michael Toland Says:

    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.

  7. fred Says:

    @6 – Michael. Ask and you shall receive.

    https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/chains-sea-1973-three-original-3829097866

  8. B. Chiclitz Says:

    Has anybody got a guess as to why none of the authors of these three “orginal novellas” is named on the cover, only Silverberg?

  9. Tat Wood Says:

    @ 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.

  10. MelMc Says:

    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.

  11. GSS ex-noob Says:

    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.

  12. Bruce A Munro Says:

    “Sorry to have to say this, Ma’am, but your kid is a real beach.”

  13. Michael Toland Says:

    @7 – thanks, Fred. I dig that cover even more!

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