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John C Comments: Look, you wanted me to modernise the planet so I went to IKEA and got one of their “Flty” anti-gravity beds. It’s not my fault half the bits are missing and the instructions don’t make sense.
Published 1979

(Average: 6.08 out of 10)

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Tagged with: blue number six • blue number two • boats • dude • geometric oddities • gibberish title • Jack Vance • Mayflower Books • naked people standing in boats • none more black • Peter Goodfellow • pole weapons • spear • strange artifact

15 Responses to “Trullion – Alastor 2262”

1. THX 1138 Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 11:09 am

   Altogether now…

   It went “zip” when it moved and “bop” when it stopped and “whirr” when it stood still. I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will…

2. Tag Wizard Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 11:20 am

   It’s named after an old, old IRC client used during the Civil War era.

3. rev Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 11:24 am

   “Ok, ok . So, I’ve got these two spears. This one is pointier but this one has a nicer handle. What about if I stand like this? Which one makes me look cooler?”

   “I don’t care. Sit down!”

   “Did you just hear something go BOP?”

4. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 11:50 am

   Amazon’s initial field trials of its delivery drones went awry.

5. Bibliomancer Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 12:46 pm

   Oh crap. trullion / alastor2262 was my username / password for my Mt. Gox Bitcoin account. No wonder I got hacked.

6. Tom Noir Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 2:33 pm

   @Biblio: You just made my day!

7. fred Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 2:43 pm

   The first edition cover. Hmmmmm…….
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/TRLLNLSTRL1973.jpg

8. Robbie Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 3:06 pm

   First edition cover still has spherical things bobbing about.

9. B. Chiclitz Says:
   March 3rd, 2014 at 6:47 pm

   Hey, Bub, is that Trullion?
   I dunno, Alaster . . . .

   ba-dum-DUM

   Turns out it wasn’t truly Jan at all.

10. A.R.Yngve Says:
    March 3rd, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    Wow, a spaceship designed by M.C. Escher! (Good luck trying to find the exit, though….)

11. Jeff Vader Says:
    March 5th, 2014 at 9:35 am

    @Fred: Swampthing´s misshapen midget cousin obviously has a victorian fetisch for bare ankles.

12. Stevie T Says:
    March 6th, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    My hat is off to you THX, truly masterful that was….

13. Tom Noir Says:
    August 27th, 2015 at 12:23 am

    Despite the assurances of his friends that the thing wasn’t watching them when they were naked, Dirk decided to go with a full wet suit.

14. A.R.Yngve Says:
    June 22nd, 2017 at 11:55 am

    Erich Von Däniken’s least successful book tried to explain how Danish furniture design was brought to Earth by space aliens.

15. GSS ex-noob Says:
    June 24th, 2017 at 4:19 am

    HEX KEY OF THE GODS.

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