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Good Show Sir Comments: Marilyn Monroe on a cactus. Check.
Published 1966
(Average: 6.18 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Marilyn Monroe on a cactus. Check.
Published 1966
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November 20th, 2023 at 10:27 am
‘Prophetic’ is right: the villains are a tech cartel called ‘Intel’ who want to control computer manufacture. The TV version rightly guessed that Susan Hampshire would be as popular as Julie Christie.
Not sure about the cacti in the Shetlands, though.
November 20th, 2023 at 12:16 pm
Not a cactus, it’s the face of a fly.
November 20th, 2023 at 1:59 pm
I don’t know about the novel but the cover is less “prophetic” and more “don’t do these drugs – ever!”
November 20th, 2023 at 2:35 pm
@Dave Van Domelen Indeed, ’tis a fly. The more boring sequel to the movie The Fly… instead of a live fly in a teleporter, it’s a microscope slide of a fly in a printing press.
Presumably this is the novelisation?
November 20th, 2023 at 4:59 pm
Kinda looks like a muddy boot print on a picture that fell on the floor of the truck. Also maybe coffee stained if there was an almost empty coffee cup on the floor at the time.
November 20th, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Marylin on peyote and magic shrooms breaks on through to the other side.
November 20th, 2023 at 10:05 pm
Raid insecticide ads have gotten rather artsy and pretentious lately.
November 21st, 2023 at 2:03 am
Zzzzzz… oh, is there a new cover today?
I agree it’s a fly, which doesn’t make sense either, even if being less WTF as-is. I see no reference to flies in the synopses of either TV show or this novelization, much less why the fly outline should take precedence over the toothsome Miss Hampshire, who is after all the title character and presumably as @Tat said, the main draw.
@Emster: As another person who’s been in trucks with muddy boots, I concur.
@Bruce: “Quick, Henry, the Flit! You might get a British TV equivalent of Marilyn Monroe!”
November 21st, 2023 at 8:12 pm
Yet another “prophetic novel of tomorrow’s universe” . . . just once I’d like to see a prophetic novel of yesterday’s universe. Now that would be a breakthrough.
November 21st, 2023 at 10:55 pm
” just once I’d like to see a prophetic novel of yesterday’s universe.”
Isn’t that most of them, once the predicted date has come and gone?
https://www.amazon.com/Yesterdays-Tomorrows-Visions-American-Future/dp/0801853990
November 22nd, 2023 at 4:09 pm
@Bruce A M—Well, today is yesterday’s tomorrow, so I see your point, but I’m not so sure about the prophetic angle on that. As the Firesign Theater would say, when it comes to time, we’re all trapped “like Mars flies in a Klein bottle”
November 22nd, 2023 at 6:00 pm
@B. Chiclitz
To be honest, I think they stopped making prophecies about the future after it turned out that nuclear reactors wouldn’t lead to free electricity after all…
November 22nd, 2023 at 8:19 pm
@Max B—GSS!
November 23rd, 2023 at 8:53 am
I never knew you could draw a pair of lungs with a Spyrograph.
November 24th, 2023 at 1:41 am
That prophetic cover makes me think of a line from an Elvis Costello song:
🎵”Yesterday’s news is tomorrow’s fish & chip papers”
December 9th, 2023 at 11:42 am
Looks like artwork pilfered from “Barbarella”?