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Phil Comments: Almonds for eyes – check. Visible inner organs – check. Bionic limbs – check.
Published 1978
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Phil Comments: Almonds for eyes – check. Visible inner organs – check. Bionic limbs – check.
Published 1978
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December 7th, 2012 at 9:52 am
“You call this finished?! I have a terrible pain in the all diodes down my left side, for a start!”
December 7th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Nicely ambiguous strapline. ‘Of my many Nebula Award winning novels, this is the most recent …’
December 7th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Strangely, this was Pohl’s FIRST Nebula Award winning novel, so the strapline was optimistic (or possibly clairvoyant).
It’s actually a terrific book still (I last re-read it about four years ago), and the cover isn’t a gazillion miles away from interpreting what Pohl describes. In fact, there are WORSE efforts out there – you may recall this one:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/07/homem-mais-man-plus/
December 7th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Uh, teal and orange?
(Damn, I too am now inflicted.)
But seriously, why is that the men on those ‘Man Plus’ covers all look so pathetic?
December 7th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
This is my most recent award winning comment!
December 8th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Frederik Pohl Man staggered through the unwelcome city streets. His bionic arm struggled to keep his epidermis over his vitals. His almond eyes glanced desperately for help. His defeat by Triangle Man had reduced him to a dun-brown blob of indeterminate shape…
…for now.
But soon he would be back – bigger, stronger, faster – as Frederick Pohl Man Plus!
December 11th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
He’s not doing a very good job of trying to cover up his private parts.
March 10th, 2013 at 9:20 pm
@THX1138: And afflicted with GPP as well no doubt. Brilliant sir, I tip my Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster to you.
March 31st, 2015 at 12:15 am
” The Korova Man Bar sold man plus. Man plus velocet, or synthemesc, or drencrom, which is what we were drinking… “
August 1st, 2015 at 8:32 am
Lately Man Plus had began to regret his insistence on the matter and started wondering, if indeed that part of the budget might have been better spent on the surface materials of his body rather than the orbital disco lighting, which could only be seen by him, alone on Mars.
March 7th, 2019 at 4:56 pm
I’ve got another one of these I’ll remember to post someday. It’s mostly font problems but oh boy howdy, what font problems.
Having read the book, I suspect the artist just gave up upon hearing the description of the creature.