Jan 06
Click for larger imageJoaquin Comments: Portrait of the author weeping when he saw this cover.
Published 1963
(Average: 8.38 out of 10)
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Joaquin Comments: Portrait of the author weeping when he saw this cover.
Published 1963
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January 6th, 2022 at 10:52 am
Headcheese, anyone?
January 6th, 2022 at 11:45 am
Charles Atlas had Dynamic Tension to build muscle. Cordwainer Smith used tension to build eyebrows.
January 6th, 2022 at 12:54 pm
Note the imprint: Regency.
The most unusual romance title ever released by that publisher.
January 6th, 2022 at 2:14 pm
@ 3) A.R.
This probably explains it.
‘Suggested Title: “Strange Ladies And Mad Lovers:
Romances From The Plunging Future”‘
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/all-the-stories-and-all-the-books.htm
January 6th, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Finally, the face of the mysterious Q is revealed and it makes just as much sense as expected. Determining who R and N are is left as an exercise for the nutters.
January 6th, 2022 at 3:59 pm
.Master of tension’? This is someone whose only novel begins with a summary of everything ending with “that’s the plot, except for the details: they follow’.
I wonder if they’d read the text before publishing it.
January 6th, 2022 at 5:16 pm
I’d cry too if my face were partly flayed, and someone had shoved random bits of machinery into my brain.
“In the World of Men who are Machines that Weep” – is that meant to be an allusion to Smith’s Underpeople? If so, it’s a pretty oblique one.
January 6th, 2022 at 6:19 pm
@Bruce A Munro: that sounds like someone described ‘Scanners Live in Vain’ over the phone to the blurber. From a busy train station, moments before that someone had to leave.
January 6th, 2022 at 7:18 pm
I AM SAME.
I AM SAME.
SAME I AM.
THAT SAME-I-AM!
THAT SAME-I-AM!
I DO NOT LIKE THAT SAME-I-AM!
January 7th, 2022 at 1:35 am
Wow, Smith did NOT deserve this cover. Possibly a good thing his name was so small.
I don’t recall the Scanners being flayed. They could pass for regular guys when off-duty.
I also don’t recall a whole lot of tension in his works, just a lot of elegiac melancholy.
January 7th, 2022 at 3:49 am
At least, a title that tells the truth! After seeing this cover, *I* will never be the same again, for sure….
January 7th, 2022 at 9:34 am
This reminds me of the works of the famous British painter Francis Bacon… and why I loathe them so deeply.
January 7th, 2022 at 7:01 pm
“Honey, I don’t think little Billy likes that Visible Man toy we gave him for Christmas. He’s weeping inconsolably and says if we ever try to make him take biology he will run away.”