Nov 18
Click for full imageSophy Comments: nice to think that in the distant future, dial telephones will make a comeback.
Published 1977
(Average: 5.40 out of 10)
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Sophy Comments: nice to think that in the distant future, dial telephones will make a comeback.
Published 1977
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November 18th, 2013 at 11:31 am
I keep expecting Crystal Tipps and Alistair to bound in with a clarinet-and-harpsichord soundtrack.
November 18th, 2013 at 11:46 am
@TW: the 40s? A theremin, natch.
Are those Leyden jars at right?
November 18th, 2013 at 11:53 am
“Just cleaning out the garage, looking for my right arm…”
November 18th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
“It was the first day of robot university and Bob was strolling into class with style.”
November 18th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
In the future, elbow replacement surgery is neatly accomplished using old cue balls.
November 18th, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Looks like a Dr Who Cybermen ep minus Xmas.
November 18th, 2013 at 11:33 pm
@SI:
“Hey, who’s that fine-looking lady over there?”
“That’s no lady, that’s my transistor!”
(OK, I’m off by a decade, give me a break.)
November 19th, 2013 at 9:34 am
I didn’t realise one could use ‘decade’ there as a verb in the imperative voice. A bit like ‘Decant!’
November 19th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
@Adam Roberts—thanks for making a grammatical point. I want to piggyback and complain that I hate those intrusive apostrophes people always automatically attach to decade references. “1940s” will do fine. Of course, apostrophe or not, it’s still a silly title. I apologize, dear GSS friends, for the pedantry. Back to glorious stuff and nonsense: it’s good to see that rotary phones, although somewhat larger and more complicated, will make a comeback in the future.
November 19th, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Sorry about the phone reference. Hadn’t read the topmost blurb from @Sophy. Inadvertent plagiarism!
November 20th, 2013 at 6:14 pm
The earliest fan costume shows during 1940s SF conventions were decidedly technology-oriented.
November 20th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Daaaaayyy….kaaaaahhhhd…ay. Huh. Daaay…cod…any. Yeah. Day-cod-ay. Wot’s that? Course it’s French, how else could it make sense. Not French. That’s just stupid, in it? Yobbo.
December 28th, 2013 at 11:04 am
@Adam, @Fearofmusic Must be a typo. “Decode the 1940’s”, “Decede the 1940’s”, …
I guess it still doesn’t make much sense.
August 24th, 2015 at 11:28 pm
I wonder if perhaps the title means that all the stories in the book are either SET in the 40’s, or were originally published then.
And @fred, that guy does NOT look like a Cyberman to me. In particular he doesn’t have handles sticking out of his head. Your grasp of technology troubles me.
January 5th, 2016 at 7:43 am
“In the future year 1972, all modern homes are furnished with these automatic appliances and household robots. Housewives of the future can relax by the radio and listen to Amos & Andy!”
January 5th, 2016 at 6:56 pm
@Anna T.: This is what the ‘Earthshock’ Cybermen look like when they remove their 80s-style jump-suits and cricket-gloves. There’s definitely plumbing around the ears although it’s hard to see in profile.
July 19th, 2019 at 7:21 am
Has a vaguely Monty Python collage-art look to it.
July 19th, 2019 at 2:08 pm
When holodecks go wrong. A topic which sadly had to wait till the late 80s to be fully explored.
July 19th, 2019 at 7:03 pm
Even if ‘decade’ is a verb and ‘the 1940’ is the serial-model of this prototype Cyberman, what of 1940’s is being decaded?
And I stand by my first comment nearly six years ago – this cover couldn’t look more mid-70s BBC children’s television if it had bad CSO and Johnny Ball dressed up as Pythagoras.