Sep 02
Click for full imageScience fiction is mainly read by what gender? Males! Exactly! So therefore we should have a big hunk of a long haired lumberjack man, topless, showing off his muscles and tugging on his rope. Don’t forget to add a bird in there! If ya know what I mean, nod nod wink wink!
Thanks so much to Chris R!
(Rating: 9.39 out of 10)
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September 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Think Hugh Jackman modeled his wolverine look on this?
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 am
wow…
I’m speechless… thats so beautiful :’(
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
It is glorious.
Wonder if Putin modeled himself on this guy too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/aug/04/vladimir-putin-russia-holiday
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Manly yet sensitive too. See how he is friends with the birds and the butterflys, plus he clearly spends quite a lot of time doing his hair. I feel quite weak, I think I might just swoon…
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I’m afraid I agree with little mi: gay, so gay.
I just love the hair on his stomach disappearing into his low slung jeans and sprinkled across his manly, bulging chest…It’s just not fair.
I think I’m going to have to go lie down.
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Pheww is it getting hot in here?
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
He is starting to make me think strange thoughts too…
That massively disfigured right pectoral muscle is really very attractive… mmmm… *cough* i mean… he’s a deformed circus performer, IQ = 42, and has a rope fetish… wasn’t he in an X-files episode?
also… his belt is really cool. I want one. now
March 27th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
This is actually a really good book. Too bad about the sucktastic cover.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Good book. Good series. BAAAAAAAAAAD cover.
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I’m not 100% positive but I think this is a Patrick Woodroffe illustration.
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
You are indeed correct it seems. The tag now reflects this fact, thanks for correcting us.
It had been originally tagged with Jack Gaughan’s cover art.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Is it just me or does it seem like this author’s books are known for supremely bad covers? This is like the third one I’ve seen and I only just found this site today
April 24th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Dara> You have no idea. I have some ‘inside’ info that when a couple of people here went to three second hand book shops over Christmas Piers Anthony was a clear winner in amazing covers! They might have collected quite a few still awaiting to be published. Right CSA?
April 24th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I have no idea what you could possibly mean. I certainly didnt spend an entire afternoon laughing and getting strange looks from people in secondhand bookshops.
Actually i think Sos is a masterpiece of a cover, it never fails to make me smile. Probably not its intended reaction, but its better than Piers’ other covers which make my eyes bleed
April 24th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
No – this is Dr. Ronald Chevalier on the cover. This book must be a prequel to the Cyborg Harpies Trilogy!
April 30th, 2010 at 4:21 am
How could his head be turned like that? Why is his face so flat?
April 30th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I thought it was one of his better or at least more interesting series rather than some of the pun infested puerile pap he dished out in other series ie “Xanth”. Certainly it is a shame about the cover but maybe the artist read the text and tried to recreate the spirit of the book.
I can’t remember any annoying little birds and butterflies but the rest is true to the text with a bit of artistic licence. I’m going to have to send this to my gay brother in London he would probably appreciate….Bas
May 26th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Too “bookworm” the annoying bird is called stupid and the butterfly moth things are deadly radioactive biting bugs =/. I actually like this book and i think i was even attracted by the bizarre cover, i have it close to hand and threaten to read it again but i would love to get my hands on the rest of the series. any ideas where i can get them?
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Phew … at first sight I thought that was Chuck Norris.
June 27th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Re:Admin’s comment
Well, considering Sos has surgically implanted sub-dermal armour, to protect key organs, & titanium sheathed bones in his arms & legs, one could argue yes…
As for CSA’s comment, Sos is revealed in the book to be a ex Covert Operations/Assassin type figure that was trained in combat techniques using the rope.
Sos himself uses the rope as his “Signature Weapon”, in that it’s fairly common, & as a result, people don’t think it’s a weapon, with usually fatal results…
June 28th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
…like rope burn!
October 5th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
You know, what gets to me about this cover is – wait a sec, gotta get my ferret out of my jeans -
Oh, not that again!
September 13th, 2011 at 12:04 am
If you think this cover is bad, you should see the cover for the sequel (Var the Stick). I’ll see if the copy is still in my local 2HBS, because it belongs on this blog like nothing before or since.