Oct 05
Click for larger imageJuanPaul Comments: That hunk Lee Majors? It’s more like Sigh-borg!
Published 1974
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JuanPaul Comments: That hunk Lee Majors? It’s more like Sigh-borg!
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October 5th, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Because REAL test pilots wear leather gloves and cowboy boots.
October 5th, 2022 at 1:30 pm
@The Blue Are Coming
Maybe that’s why he crashed that flying wing and needed rebuilding in the first place?
October 5th, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Last Christmas, it was the Six Million Dollar Man action figure and red jogging suit.
This Christmas, all the kids want the space pj’s, slippers and B52 bed sheet set!
October 5th, 2022 at 2:54 pm
@The Blue Are Coming: those boots, plus the explosion and the ‘B52’ written on the side of the plane – I wonder if this was originally a cover for ‘Dr Strangelove’ and Lee Majors was Space Sheeped over Peter Sellers.
October 5th, 2022 at 4:12 pm
In what possible way is this in the tradition of The Andromeda Strain beyond doctors, scientists and $$$?
October 5th, 2022 at 6:53 pm
Cowboy boots combined with a pressure suit, a surprisingly accurate B-25 Mitchell (sans props) and a B52 that isn’t. The artist has put a remarkable amount of effort into not making sense. Oh and if that’s Lee majors, I’m Farrah Fawcett.
October 5th, 2022 at 7:38 pm
Is it actually living tissue over a metal endoskeleton? My understanding was the “skin” on the Six Million Dollar Man’s arm and legs was just improbably convincing plastic. (Watched a fair amount of the show back in the 80s, and I’m fairly sure his wiring was exposed more than once without any accompanying bleeding. Not that they’d show it on TV at the time.)
Cyborg “cutaways” are rarely very convincing. For instance, in the case of that hand, the links between the fingers and the palm look rather flimsy.
@fred:
“Caidin, Crichton, what’s the difference?”
@Francis Boyle: as any caricaturist will tell you, drawing people so they’re recognizable is harder than it looks. I’m not sure the Unknown Artist Institute gives classes.
October 6th, 2022 at 10:19 pm
Come to think of it, I remember seeing a film version of “The Terminal Man.” And George Segal’s character arc is quite a bit different from that of Col. Steve Austin.
October 7th, 2022 at 5:51 am
Finish the Blurb Already Dept:
“In the explosive tradition of The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man but, clearly, neither of those books.”
October 7th, 2022 at 6:57 am
Good heavens, bad art!
My copy* of “Cyborg” was this one
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?240381
Which is no prize at art, but at least is less likely to fry your retinas.
Of course mine pre-dated the $6M Man. Book was NOT aimed at children/family audience.
I don’t see anything this has in common with “Andromeda Strain” and “Terminal Man” other that they’re all SF-y novels written by men? Doesn’t narrow it down much, blurb writer.
I guess? that’s supposed to be Lee Majors, or possibly a melting wax museum bust of him. Guess the background fireball got to him.
I know Lee’s a good ol’ boy, but am pretty sure even he knows better than to wear cowboy boots and leather gloves with a spacesuit. And what the B-25 does and doesn’t look like.
I don’t recall Steve’s eyeball popping out and shooting lasers, either, and I saw almost every episode.
@Bruce: Yeah, it was always plastic skin over the sparking wires.
* or possibly the one I nicked from my older brother
October 7th, 2022 at 12:38 pm
Well that sucked.
GSS was down yesterday. Did anyone else notice ?
October 7th, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Blue: you bet we noticed. A day without GSS is a day without sunshine. Er, maybe I should reconsider that. Nearly every day here is a day without sunshine but the database crashes somewhat less frequently.
October 7th, 2022 at 11:45 pm
Editor: “We can rebuild the cover of Caidin’s book. We can make it sell stronger…. [t-t-t-t-t…] …faster… [t-t-t-t-t…]”
October 8th, 2022 at 1:14 am
@Blue – If you ever get a strange feeling, like the friend you lent a SF book to just misplaced it on the bus, that’s your GSS ESP warning you that the site is down.
Personally, I’m blaming it on @A.R. Yngve for being MIA the past several cover offerings – almost threw the entire cosmos out of order – had it not been for some quick-witted catch up, who knows what would have happened 😉
October 8th, 2022 at 2:39 am
@AR Yngve: how many millions of dollars will it cost?
October 8th, 2022 at 2:58 am
We ALL notice when GSS is down. I try not to check more than twice a day, though.
In return for all the books I nicked from my brother as a kid, I am mailing him several of mine that he wants, as well as some kids’ books he’d like to see again to see exactly how non-PC and canceled they are. Hint: you haven’t been able to buy for years and another is from The Movie Disney Never Shows.
October 8th, 2022 at 9:03 pm
That top blurb is just bewildering, at least to those of us who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. Cyborg is the book Six Million Dollar Man was based on, and if I recall correctly, has very little in common with the TV beyond a basic premise.
I do believe that in the book Colonel Austin’s first replacement eye was a camera, complete with film that had to be removed and developed.
October 8th, 2022 at 10:36 pm
@Bruce A Munro: Adjusted for inflation since 1974, six BILLION dollars.
October 9th, 2022 at 12:58 am
This is actually pretty restrained by the standards of earlier Martin Caidin covers. https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10973
October 9th, 2022 at 7:10 pm
Is the Vesalius-alike bottom centre supposed to be Stretch Armstrong?