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Click for full imageGK Comments: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Published 1981
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(Average: 5.56 out of 10)
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GK Comments: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Published 1981
Many thanks to GK!
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February 8th, 2011 at 9:31 am
They’re both suspiciously smiley. For robots, I mean.
February 8th, 2011 at 10:32 am
To be fair, if this is a book about robot priests it’s probably a representative cover.
It’s not a book about robot priests, is it?
February 8th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Interesting that you can have robot catholic priests, but not women catholic priests.
Someone should tell the robot on the right that hi rose bush will grow better if he puts the root system IN the ground rather than ON it.
Someone shoud reinstall the graphic designer’s fonts: his capital Ps ae decidedly broken.
February 8th, 2011 at 11:05 am
HIS rose bush, HIS rose bush. (So THAT’S why there is a preview button!)
February 8th, 2011 at 11:16 am
Don’t be fooled Phil! The preview button doesn’t actually work.. I don’t think anyone has noticed yet!
I wonder if the robots all have robot theologian names.
Metal Luther
Pope Benedict the 10001
February 8th, 2011 at 11:17 am
“Robots, romance and religion combine in the year’s most unusual novel”. Representative, then. Also I do not find this claim hard to believe.
February 8th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
What Vatican II looks like in the mind of Mel Gibson.
February 8th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
“Recite the First Law, Brother 377-TD-0.”
“Certainly, Holy Robot Father. ‘A robot may not molest a choirboy, or through inaction allow a choirboy to be molested…“
February 8th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Metal Luther sounds like an awesome band.
February 8th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
You can bet these Godbothering robots have C3-PO voices. Imagine a whole sermon of that.
February 8th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
“Project”…noun or verb?
February 8th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
..heh…I’ve heard that sermon…
February 8th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
“I never knew I had it in me…”
February 8th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
I noticed a while ago. Just didn’t get around to complaining about it.
HEY ADMINS! THE PREVIEW BUTTON DOESN’T WORK!
February 8th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Me-The robot on the right is a monk, not a priest.
Cover Artist- Well, I didn’t come here to go through the Spanish Inquisition!
( Enter Spanish Priest from Monty Python)
Spanish Priests- No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! And someone fix that dang preview button!
February 8th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Of course the robots are smiling. They’re in a Simak novel. The only way they could have a nicer time would be to find themselves in a White novel.
(btw, his name was not ‘Smiak’.)
February 9th, 2011 at 8:39 am
David> OK OK WE’LL LOOK AT THE PREVIEW BUTTON! Or possibly install something better.
Nix> Thanks Nxi! 😛
February 10th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
“Most unusual novel.” I’m not entirely sure, even in this context, that this is meant to be a selling point. Also, could we have some form of rudimentary background, or did your budget only extend as far as two figures, a rose plant… no money for actual faces, just throw some robot looking things in there.
March 15th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
See, for a second I was hoping “Maybe there’s a guy named Dr. Pope and his project is building robots”, but then…
I haven’t read the book so I can’t speak for its quality, but I’d be surprised if it managed to pull off such an odd combination as robots, romance, and religion well. What does that even mean? Is it about robots who are both romantic and religious? Or a romantic robot religion?
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:56 am
OMG, i want this book so bad!! thats perhaps the funniest thing ive ever seen.
February 13th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
A metal priesthood would solve many problems. The senior ones are given root privileges, and those under him have to cop it in the can. No questions asked.
February 13th, 2014 at 8:10 pm
Robot Pope issues an edict, and controversy erupts:
“According to the Principle Of Transsubstantiation, the act of installing any program which contains sermons first uttered by Our Savior, will cause the Holy Spirit to enter your software and hardware. However, it is heresy to claim that your hardware is part of Our Savior’s body…”
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