Always happy to find a cover for a book that is worse than an earlier post.
I literally looked at this and thought “Heinlein didn’t do a lot of robots, with or without boobs” and then went “wait wut… Friday? WTF?”
But I guess when it’s a European-published science fiction book, robots are good for anything SF, and boobs are a given. See also J’ai Lu.
Blurb says “If LeCarre and LeGuin had a baby*, the mutant result would have written this splendid novel.”
¡No! Harlan, it wouldn’t have. UKLG wouldn’t have been so violent, male-gazey and approving of rape as this book. Although a book written by the two of them might have been interesting.
Also, the mouseover text is, I hope, deliberately written and punctuated badly. “Yes, Harlan Spanish” No, Harlan not Spanish. Harlan no habla Espanol much either, probably.
“Looking for Bender? Yeah, he’s back there, sleeping off a real, hm, bender.He’ll be really annoyed when he wakes up and finds the lower half of his body is missing, but he’ll get it back when he pays my robo-pimp what he owes.”
Science fiction + uncomfortable sex scenes = sexbots, of course. (One gets the impression the artist learned about the book through multilingual Chinese whispers).
September 26th, 2023 at 6:44 am
Always happy to find a cover for a book that is worse than an earlier post.
I literally looked at this and thought “Heinlein didn’t do a lot of robots, with or without boobs” and then went “wait wut… Friday? WTF?”
But I guess when it’s a European-published science fiction book, robots are good for anything SF, and boobs are a given. See also J’ai Lu.
Blurb says “If LeCarre and LeGuin had a baby*, the mutant result would have written this splendid novel.”
¡No! Harlan, it wouldn’t have. UKLG wouldn’t have been so violent, male-gazey and approving of rape as this book. Although a book written by the two of them might have been interesting.
Also, the mouseover text is, I hope, deliberately written and punctuated badly. “Yes, Harlan Spanish” No, Harlan not Spanish. Harlan no habla Espanol much either, probably.
*literally “joined”
September 26th, 2023 at 7:25 am
“Looking for Bender? Yeah, he’s back there, sleeping off a real, hm, bender.He’ll be really annoyed when he wakes up and finds the lower half of his body is missing, but he’ll get it back when he pays my robo-pimp what he owes.”
Science fiction + uncomfortable sex scenes = sexbots, of course. (One gets the impression the artist learned about the book through multilingual Chinese whispers).
September 26th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Goodness! Han Solo! It is I, C-3PO! You probably do not recognize me because of the red boobs.
September 26th, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Now Harlan has me wondering what book would get the mutant child of Ludlum and Tanith Lee.
September 26th, 2023 at 4:27 pm
@fred
The Dragon Waiting, obvs.
September 26th, 2023 at 7:12 pm
Well, spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska because there’s no way I’m going to be seen reading this on a bus.
September 26th, 2023 at 7:46 pm
Can we be sure this isn’t just a misspelling of “Weirdness” on the cover?
September 26th, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Monday, you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart
Thursday, doesn’t even start
Friday, all of the above.
September 26th, 2023 at 9:43 pm
A hearty GSS to @Bruce, @Tor, @fred, @FB.