Comments on: Thank God it’s Friday …

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:41:25 +0000

@4: Beg to differ regarding original cover. Perhaps the UK edition, but the original hardback cover for the American edition was by the great Richard Powers. See:
http://members.cox.net/sjrohde/index_scifi_d_j.html

Friday was actually re-readable. All Heinlein should be taken with a grain or ton of salt by adults, but really late Heinlein is truly appalling.

By: Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:07:58 +0000

Not at all, Peter – Charlie kindly and gleefully gave me a copy of the US edition.

By: Peter Hollo

Peter Hollo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:31:42 +0000

Martin: Since Ken, like Charlie, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, he got the very-stock-standard sf cover (see here).
Not that he’s not aware of the US version, given how Charlie blogged about it in some anguish when he first saw it…

And I agree – it’s strangely suitable simultaneously with being utterly appalling.

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:49:11 +0000

Nothing about the cover, which for all its awfulness (think what a fembot designed for perverse sexual practises would look like, as rendered in Poser) was the perfect homage to Friday’s original Whelan cover?

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:21:06 +0000

Suffice to say that Glasshouse has a mercenary band entitled ‘The Linebarger Cats’ …

By: roac

roac — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:08:40 +0000

I have no business commenting here since I have not read any Stoss (though I will). The descriptions, however, make me think about Cordwainer Smith; the sex-bot makes me think specifically about C’Mell. Is this totally off base?

(BTW, I grew up on Heinlein juveniles, and have been rereading them lately as copies turn up in the local thrift shops. So far I find all of them to be as loathsome as his later work.)

By: fmackay

fmackay — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:50:46 +0000

Would it be possible to write a pastiche of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress without falling foul of the UK’s ludicrous “glorifying terrorism” laws[1]? I suppose you’d have to make the loonies the baddies.

[1] You’d never be prosecuted, but it might very well be technically illegal. As said, ludicrous.