Jan 29
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Look, you can have an albino psychic in a bloody space capsule carried around by bird wings for all I care. The book mentions a leotard… so whatever you have on there… make sure it’s in one!
Published 1975
(Average: 8.12 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
January 29th, 2013 at 9:02 am
I wouldn’t be surprised if, when you add them up, 40% of the comments to this sites are variants of: “OMG! I had that exact same copy of that book when I was younger! LOLs!” A comment which adds nothing to the larger debate.
Nonetheless, for this post I am compelled to note: OMG! I had that exact same copy of that book when I was younger! LOLs!
January 29th, 2013 at 9:37 am
@Adam – How does it feel to be like the rest of us now? 🙂
I used to be scared of the Brian Lumley books I had… I remember hiding them in the bookshelf after reading them. I was maybe slightly too young to read those. Anyway, I can imagine my younger self doing the very same with this book!
January 29th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Pimp My Mekon?
January 29th, 2013 at 11:41 am
Brian Aldiss evidently demanded that his name be removed from this cover… but only his FIRST name.
January 29th, 2013 at 5:46 pm
The cap of Hermes?
January 29th, 2013 at 10:22 pm
What’s with the uncapitalised “minute”?
January 29th, 2013 at 11:08 pm
Well, normally I don’t like to pan Science Fiction, but since the cover insists:
The full title of this picture is “Metallic Gymnast In Bedpan With Wings.”
January 29th, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Obviously minute is not a noun. It is being used as an adjective. Apparently hours are just tiny little things in the world of this book.
February 1st, 2013 at 2:15 pm
(Grunts) Mom, I am 5000 years old, I think I can handle a big boy bed!
February 4th, 2013 at 10:42 am
Space toilets just make constipation feel a tad bit more awkward. They make every hour spent on them feel like an 80-minute hour.
April 12th, 2014 at 12:37 pm
This bedpan has wings, which means you can go horse riding while shitting in it as if it were never there. No longer need you feel embarrassed if you get invited out bicycling with friends but you really just need to take a huge dump. With wings, this full-body bedpan is discreet.
June 17th, 2020 at 1:41 pm
Oh, not ANOTHER “Squatty Potty” ad!
June 18th, 2020 at 3:52 am
Maybe you get an extra 20 minutes’ work done by never having to walk around, drive in traffic, or go off to the loo?
Excellent social distancing. No one’s going to come near you in that.
July 19th, 2024 at 1:03 am
Aldiss… and an eighty-minute hour?
I think that 80 minute hour is probably the one commencing one hour before close of business on the last working day of the week. Or maybe is just *feels* that way.
July 19th, 2024 at 1:58 am
@Hammy: That was definitely the length of the last hour of school on Fridays. Especially with those clocks that ticked backwards sometimes.
But no wingéd bedpans or silver skin, at least.
July 19th, 2024 at 2:50 am
Time really slows down when Space Grandpa drifts into the orbital habitat and starts telling one of his rambling stories about the Good Old Days of the 29th century.