Jun 12
Lillie Awesome Comments: “I’m not going to chicken out this time…I’m going to ask the dreamy Earthman to the Robot Spring Formal…just put it out there…the worst he can say is no, and anyway, I’ve got a lot going for me; he could do way worse…Omigosh omigosh omigosh – here he comes! O.k., just be cool…”
Published 1955
June 12th, 2017 at 11:03 am
“Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, We’re hunting Wobots!”
June 12th, 2017 at 11:26 am
An early attempt to invent both the ‘super robot’ and ‘big eyes small mouth’ genres of anime.
June 12th, 2017 at 11:27 am
‘Step on a crack, break a robot’s back!’
June 12th, 2017 at 12:22 pm
Some fashion is timeless.
Guys wearing wide, star-spangled collars, for instance.
June 12th, 2017 at 1:35 pm
You can tell those eyes will pop out on springs if he gets a bump.
June 12th, 2017 at 2:34 pm
That’s the Lone Star Ranger in his cunning disguise as the old prospector robot.
June 12th, 2017 at 2:51 pm
The Springfield Republican is endorsing a group of white men hunting down and preemptively shooting someone who looks and acts differently from they…ahead of its time, I suppose.
June 12th, 2017 at 3:06 pm
“One of the best science fiction novels to appear between 10:30-11:15 am on a Wednesday in a month without an r in it during leap year!”
—Faint Praise Intelligencer
June 12th, 2017 at 3:24 pm
Futuristic Fed-Ex started going out armed on deliveries after Planet Express got aggressive.
June 12th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
“Remember guys, we’re looking for the robot with the cherry on top.”
June 12th, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Twenty years later, Gonzo the Great would toy with the idea of a septum pierce.
June 12th, 2017 at 5:08 pm
The Springfield Republican beat out the NY Times for the front cover review quote. I Like Ike.
http://andre-norton-books.com/archive/Titles_L/Last_Planet/Last_Planet_1962_D-542.jpg
June 12th, 2017 at 5:14 pm
The abridged version is titled The Next to Last Planet.
June 12th, 2017 at 7:13 pm
@BC: the incomplete version is titled The Last Pl.
June 12th, 2017 at 7:39 pm
“oh no! I forgot to disable my poorly-timed-sneeze module. Aaaaaa-aaaaaa….”
June 12th, 2017 at 9:56 pm
‘Get over here, ya coward, or we’ll star-range your FACE! Haw haw haw haw!’
‘Jeff…no. Just, no.’
June 13th, 2017 at 8:26 am
“Come out, Bender! Time to change your personality chip!”
“Bite my shiny metal ass, humans!”
June 13th, 2017 at 8:35 pm
I assume the men in red are the Star Rangers; given the low slung holsters, they appear to be carrying six-shooters. Their quarry appears to be made of metal. So I imagine it’s the Last Planet those star rangers will ever visit. Hence the title.