Robert Silverberg in addition to writing novels, wrote for Playboy magazine also.
"At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party" This is an early Eighties revisitation to the idea in Caliban: future humans are able to change their bodily appearance as the fancy takes them. In this case, the procedure is only available to a privileged class of the super-rich, while the standard underclass is left to their natural forms. The conglomeroid class prefer wildly imaginative shapes: geometric constructs, incongruous mixtures of different animal characteristics. The only constraint is that the body must house a human brain. Worldwide transportation is quick and easy to the overclass, and the favored style of housing seems to be egg-shaped and off the ground. See the cover art to The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party for an idea (but ignore the hatching triceratops, they're in Our Lady of the Sauropods).Caliban is also a character in Star Fleet
The Bicentennial Man, well Jhollywood probably jumped on it for the movie title, BI-sent-enial man, 'wow he can play a Bi-sexual!' I remember reading the book, how easy it would be to be a bi-centennial man, you'd have to be of adult age by 1999, so I guess of age 18, born 1981. There was also a book by Robert Silverberg, Vornan-19, where it was implied that the amazing thing about this anti-christ from the future, was that he was bi-sexual.
I didn't watch it all, I saw what he was doing with the role, it wasn't interesting. The book at least could be read as satire.
Nanu Nanu could be a reference to nanny state programming.
There was a 10% increase in suicides -- nearly 2,000 additional deaths -- in the four months after Robin Williams took his own life in 2014, a new study finds.
Reminds me, he's big because of Mork and Mindy, who's title combined makes D Monkey (+ir)(Devil Monkey, dire monkey?), Dr Monkiy (messed up monkey) which is why he comes out of a white egg (Sun Wukong is born of a black egg (on a mountain top).(edited)
Literally nothing he's done was worthwhile. Bicentennial Man is hilariously misinterpreted from the book.
As I recall, the rest of society was moving on, two inbred families were clinging to the 'nuclear' family ideals incestuously and 'Bicentennial Man' was such a conservative that his opinions never grew out of needing a family structure around him, he believed he needed them although they became so weak, infirm that they needed him he was also addicted to menial tasks, a slave mentality when he could have left, and so they served each other's neuroses.
Neu roses, new roses from same old sh*t.
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