Jun 24
Click for full imageLauren Comments: This cover does in fact show a scene from the book, but I think maybe there could have been a better choice. I look at this cover, and all I can say is: What?? If you haven’t actually read the book, it makes no sense at all.
Published 1988
Awesome hat!
Many thanks to Lauren.
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June 24th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Was that type of hat ever in fashion for secret cults? If so.. awesome…
Their just isn’t enough robe wearing in todays society.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Love it!
Fleeing from the dead gift of immortality to some nice little cafe for and chat, some chili and then maybe a tour on one of those little train things you get on piers. A great day out for all the family!
June 24th, 2010 at 10:19 am
That should have said ‘for a chat’…obviously… damn, it’s too early in the morning for this…
June 24th, 2010 at 10:20 am
..and dread not dead…god, I’m going home…
June 24th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Its ok Little Mi, you just need more coffee. Like me!
June 24th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Is that the dread gift of immortality in the background, then? That thing that looks like a steamroller stuck in a train carriage?
June 24th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Sure is a dread gift if all you get to do is a sightseeing trip on one of those umbrella carts down a straight road in the desert with the occasional stop-over at some unbranded, robot catered road-side-cafe with a guy in a burka.
Especially if you’re McGuyver: http://bit.ly/b29iwB
June 24th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
@Tommi I second that MacGuyver!
My first thoughts were since when do MacGyver and Orko holiday together?
June 24th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I don’t know who this guy is but he appears to be having tea with the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter.
June 24th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
So, in the future, the Sorting Hat decides what you are going to order for tea?
(Again with The Prisoner-esque stripey transference -wat up with dat?)
June 24th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Damn you Tom Noir! I will eat your soul!
June 24th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
“So… you just going to sit there or help me get this traffic cone off my head?”
June 24th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Really a wonderful book, one of my favorite Simaks. When I was 18 and bought it new, it seemed like a perfectly acceptible cover.
June 24th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Its an evil wizard version of the UK 80s shows Knightmare.
“before you, a tiny robot holds a tray”
“you may take either; the magic wand of doom misiles, the grapes of doom, or the French toast of doom. Choose carefully”
June 24th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
What caster level is the wand?
Also, cute doggy. Considering his/her prominence, I hope s/he has a bigger part than George does in Alan Dean Foster’s Taken trilogy.
(Listen, I once bought a book because it had a red panda on the cover, only to find out [i] it was an Anne McCaffrey and [ii] there were no red pandas whatsoever in there, so I’ve been burned before, OK? 😉
June 24th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
It looks like Christopher Lambert chillin’ with the black wizard from Final Fantasy 1, while a robo-servant brings them a bucket of tasty KFC chicken.
The far future is… strange… and very ’80’s
June 24th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
There’s some bizarre perspective going on there if the bloke/witch/black mage/oh whatever in the hat is actually taking something from the robot’s tray.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
If you ride on the canopied, house-tank-train and let us serve your dog for desert to potential candidates, then you too can be one of the headless immortals!
June 25th, 2010 at 2:23 am
Is that a member of TISM ?
June 25th, 2010 at 3:16 am
@DeadRobot: You may have my soul, but I’ll still have said “Sorting Hat” first!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH
June 25th, 2010 at 11:40 am
The publisher suggested the following sequels, which the author for some reason turned down:
RUSH HOUR OF FOREVER
OVERPASS OF INFINITY
FREEWAY EXIT OF BEYOND
PARKING LOT OF THE GODS
June 25th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
I think that’s the robot from Buck Rogers.
June 26th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Darn. I actually have that book. I remember reading quite a few Simak novels from the library when I was a kid.
June 29th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
“I ain’t ascared of no witches! Hah! I just pulled your hat down over your face! What’re you going to do now, huh?!?
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
‘Highway of Eternity’? But this cover depicts the Futuristic Motorway Service Station of Overheated Cafeteria Fare!
December 30th, 2015 at 1:08 am
Consume mass quantities!
December 30th, 2015 at 8:23 pm
A man and his dog negotiate with Vader Wizard.
December 30th, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Nobody tell Harlan Ellison, but they’ve remade ‘A Boy and His Dog’ with Orko from ‘He-Man & Masters of the Universe” gone over to the Dark Side.