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Click for full imageJohn C Comments: Yes, I think we have it in a size 12 in puce, let me just check out the back sir.
Published 1980
(Average: 7.03 out of 10)
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John C Comments: Yes, I think we have it in a size 12 in puce, let me just check out the back sir.
Published 1980
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June 20th, 2013 at 9:58 am
I’m pretty sure that the artist is Peter A. Jones. He did a bunch of covers in the 70s for Orbit. He started off as a Foss clone, and then graduated into unusual figure work.
June 20th, 2013 at 10:12 am
I’m gonna go for the obvious here: there ain’t nothin’ long about that dude’s arm.
June 20th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Never mind the quality, feel the width…
June 20th, 2013 at 10:33 am
I do believe you’re right, John – thank you.
There might not be anything long about Mr Man’s arm, but there sure is something downright strange going on.
June 20th, 2013 at 11:11 am
Maybe the title refers to Gil’s LEFT arm, relative to his RIGHT arm.
June 20th, 2013 at 11:14 am
Sequels include:
-THE SHORT ARM OF GIL HAMILTON
-THE LONG FACE OF GIL HAMILTON WHEN HE WENT TO THE SHOP AND FORGOT HIS WALLET
-THE REALLY LONG PART OF GIL HAMILTON (NUDGE, NUDGE)
June 20th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Hey, Kurtwood Smith’s been in the gym!
June 20th, 2013 at 11:41 am
LOVE his expression!
‘Allo, Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc..’
June 20th, 2013 at 12:03 pm
“The piece on my left shoulder is to scratch my nose, the piece on my right shoulder is to rub my nose, and the blanket on my arm is to give my nose a real good blow. Oh, and the crescent-shaped clasp is a sculpting tool. I used it to scrape the blanket and make a sphere out of boogers. Don’t you just love it?”
June 20th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
In the future humans all look like circus performers! I love the arm bands, I always hoped this would make a comeback.
Is he speaking to his bicep??
“Gil Hamilton to left bicep. Thanks for the good work last night, and for not blabbing to right bicep, its our little secret…”
June 20th, 2013 at 3:36 pm
The thing is, this is accurate. Gil had his arm amputated, replaced by a transplant from someone else but his ‘long’ arm (HE’S A COP) is the phantom-limb symptom that he can manipulate as a psychic extension,opening doors from the other side and so on.
Look, it’s Larry Niven doing ‘hard’ science again.
(I have a soft spot for this, as it was the first time I knew more than a ‘Mastermind’ contestant about his specialist subject).
June 20th, 2013 at 3:46 pm
This is a book? Oh man. My friend told me this was the cover for Elton John’s long lost (or suppressed) concept album about gay circus performers. And I believed him. Damn you Orntney Bulske!
June 20th, 2013 at 3:58 pm
@DeadStuff 8—his expression seems oddly similar to that of the petulant little man in back of the Glory Road babe. Do you think they are gazing at the same sights?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/05/glory-road-3/
June 20th, 2013 at 6:47 pm
We might have had this discussion before, but “Larry Niven” is presented here in STAR WARS font.
June 20th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Wow,one of my favorite Niven books, in any other cover. LOL.
June 20th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
“Like my stylish attire? It was designed by my architect. Unfortunately he only works in concrete”
June 20th, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Ah, so they’re remaking “Planet of the Liefields” again.
June 20th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
@Phil: EPISODE IV, A NEW COVER
It is a period of Man-Kzin War. Larry Niven, striking from a hidden Baen, has won his first victory against good taste. During the battle, Niven managed to steal secret plans to GSS’ ultimate weapon, the SPACE SHEEP, an armoured censor with enough power to cover an entire mammary. Pursued by the long arm of Gil Hamilton, Gilbert W. Izard races home aboard Evil C. S. Lewis’ Head, custodian of the Patchwork Girl that can save the commenters and restore the mote in God’s eye…
June 20th, 2013 at 10:57 pm
I think I owned this very edition some twenty five years ago. Was Gil Hamilton (groovy name, eh kids?) some kind of of SF detective with an invisible arm? This may be some kind of false memory but I’m sure these stories really were rubbish.
June 21st, 2013 at 7:50 am
It’s Gary Glitter! Who, as we now know, is evil.
June 21st, 2013 at 8:05 am
@Jed. Looks like you’re right, at least insofar as I can make any sense of the Wikipedia page.
The book obviously has at least a teeny obsessed cult following, as the article has all the symptoms– too long, too detailed, and far too many links. (You can always tell when a fanboy’s been at a Wiki article because of all the pointless linking he does; don’t ask me why.)
July 2nd, 2013 at 5:48 pm
“I’m too sexy for my cloak
Too sexy for my hair
Too sexy for my pointy shoulder pads…”
July 9th, 2013 at 8:45 pm
“So, do you think this arm-band hinders the look of my fabulous arm-muscles, or do you think it adds to them?”
March 17th, 2014 at 7:22 pm
Of course if he moves from that awkward pose his entire outfit falls apart.
December 29th, 2016 at 1:30 am
Ooo, I snapped another terrible cover for this book (which really isn’t bad) today and will send it in, along with more BAEN atrocities.