Jan 27
Click for larger imageRaoul Comments: The new neighbors seem nice.
Published 1979
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: The new neighbors seem nice.
Published 1979
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January 27th, 2022 at 8:41 am
I guess you don’t need shoes if you can float?
January 27th, 2022 at 11:22 am
The dangers of mixing guns with trampolines.
January 27th, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Don’t tell mom the babysitter’s George Clooney.
January 27th, 2022 at 1:59 pm
Not everyone looks cool walking away from explosions.
January 27th, 2022 at 2:41 pm
“Pulp Fiction” totally ripped this off.
January 27th, 2022 at 3:19 pm
“I’ve got the leg of lamb. You take the baby. Now let’s get out of here before our parole officers show up”
January 27th, 2022 at 4:27 pm
‘Raising Arizona’ as Spielberg would have done it.
January 27th, 2022 at 4:47 pm
A whole new take on the Jesus, Mary and Joseph story?
January 27th, 2022 at 4:52 pm
WHITE TRASH FROM SPACE
January 27th, 2022 at 5:51 pm
No masks, no social distancing, and open carry. Just another day at a typical Missouri strip mall.
January 27th, 2022 at 7:12 pm
This reviewer didn’t like the book, although he does describe some stuff that would make for interesting alternate covers.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/how-not-to-write-about-atomic-war-e1632a6a19e8
January 27th, 2022 at 10:55 pm
The food prices clearly have them shocked and stunned.
January 27th, 2022 at 11:30 pm
Heinlein was still around when this came out.
I’m sure he thought the cover couple were patriotic individuals.
January 27th, 2022 at 11:37 pm
I just noticed that there is a sign in the store window that seems to be for Space Food Sticks.
I wonder if that’s a regional thing you can get only in certain areas.
January 28th, 2022 at 12:02 am
Admittedly I haven’t read the book in decades, but I don’t recall anyone floating. And why is her hair like that? Maybe the artist wanted to literalize “barefoot and pregnant”.
@fred (3): Looks more like Christopher Walken to me.
@Francis: GSS! Particularly her.
@Tat: isn’t that just “Sugarland Express”?
@Bruce, @Nomad, @Raoul: GSS, and exactly.
@Tor: It was a thing at the time the story was written (or slightly after), so I guess the artist decided to go for that?
@fred (11): It is a truly reprehensible book. Even people of the Orthodox Church of Bob don’t mention this one much. It wasn’t well thought of even at the time. Click through from your link to the New Republic one for more.
January 28th, 2022 at 12:31 am
@fred: I suppose the glowing Space Anus represents time travel and they’re returning to the present, although it doesn’t really explain how they’re dressed (Couldn’t the Black Dictatorship provide some shoes?) and why they arrive brandishing guns. Perhaps that’s how they normally go to the store.
January 28th, 2022 at 1:31 am
The New Republic review states that Heinlein “resurrected some of the most horrific racial stereotypes imaginable,” ultimately producing “an anti-racist novel only a Klansman could love.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/118048/william-pattersons-robert-heinlein-biography-hagiography
January 28th, 2022 at 8:45 am
If you enjoyed FARNHAM’S FREEHOLD, then you’re going to love Hugh Farnham’s hit song “You’re the Voice”:
We all date someone’s daughter
We all hate our sons
How long can we impregnate each other
Without owning lots of guns?
You’re the voice of survivalist weirdos
Make an anti-government cheer
Oh-wo-wo-woo, oh-wo-wo-wooo…
We’re gonna play bridge in silence
All other people should be feared
Oh-wo-wo-wo, oh-wo-wo-wooo…
January 28th, 2022 at 1:03 pm
The Idland Bank. Seems appropriate given the reviews.
January 28th, 2022 at 11:23 pm
@Bruce: No shoes for her, just a pistol and a shmatta. Going to hurt when they suddenly succumb to gravity. I guess that’s why he’s holding the larger baby.
@fred: If there’s something below the Id, that’s also in this book, I bet.
@ARY: I hear banjos…
@B’man: I remember the usual suspects whining when it didn’t win a Hugo that year. It lost to, gasp, a book written by women. The general consensus was “RAH was important, but this book… wasn’t that good.” Volume 2 wasn’t even nominated, and wouldn’t have made the cut even had the Puppies not been there.
We might have a copy of FF still around. I need to remedy that on next week’s garbage day, and wash my hands after.
January 29th, 2022 at 2:48 am
I read Farnham’s Freehold at my late great-aunt Katherine’s house in Fort Lauderdale while my parents were selling her house after she passed away in 1982.
It was so disturbing I ended up reading another entire book that night trying to get it out of my mind. That didn’t work, and I’m still freaked out about it 40 years later.
I don’t recall the title or author of the second book, maybe someone here can recognize it: The one where there’s an experiment to create a sentient computer aboard a space station, and the protagonists end up trying to reach the computer (Spartacus) core before either it kills them, or the nuclear bomb the military installed in the service shaft destroys the station.
January 29th, 2022 at 5:31 am
@Lars of Mars: That would be James P Hogan’s “The Two Faces of Tomorrow.”
February 2nd, 2022 at 2:29 pm
That couple didn’t go through any portal or anything. That’s simply the result of eating too many beans.
October 16th, 2022 at 5:11 pm
WTF? I name-dropped this Freehold only a couple of days ago, here…
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11573#comments
Now today it’s a Random Terrible Cover 😀
October 16th, 2022 at 10:20 pm
@Blue: Pure coincidence… or is it? (insert any spooky movie theme here)
GSS is a magical place 😉
January 13th, 2023 at 11:21 pm
“Honey, the Boeberts are here…”