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Jul 23

Ow ow OW! Flying this is actually incredibly uncomfortable!Click for full image

Art Direction: I looked, and there before me was a pale Pegasus! It’s rider was named Martin, the local high school geography teacher.
Published 1994

Actually, that cover is a visual feast!I would pick that one up.Neaaa, I\'ve seen worse.Interesting, but I would still take it on a train.It is somewhere in between the awful/good scale.Would not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just Awful...I swear, that\\\'s my flatmates!Gah... my eyes! They are burning!Good Show Sir.... Good Show! (Rating: 6.56 out of 10)
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11 Responses to “Cloud Castles”

  1. Herm Says:

    The horse’s legs look a bit stiff, and the man is absolutely enormous by comparison, and the wings look like they’re at a strange angle, but I’m mostly quite impressed that a male author managed to pull off a pink and purple cover. Good show, Mr Rohan.

  2. cutmanmike Says:

    I found a flying horse! Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  3. SI Says:

    This might be why it looks strange. I don’t think the dude was originally supposed to be there:

    http://www.rowenaart.com/images/unicorn.html

    BTW if anyone wants to buy me a print… feel free :P

  4. SophaLoaf Says:

    @ SI wow. they replaced the black unicorn with Martin!

    If he is the local high school geography teacher he must be the one who thinks he is as cool as Arthur Fonzarelli.

  5. Tom Noir Says:

    If only they’d looked back and seen their castle blasting off into the sky…

  6. anon Says:

    Wow! That unicorn has a seriously heavy rump.

  7. DeadRobot Says:

    Ooh dream weaver
    I believe you can get me through the night
    Ooh dream weaver
    I believe we can reach the morning light

  8. Simon Says:

    Dear oh dear.

  9. James Lovegrove Says:

    Proof that looking at too many bad SF covers makes you go blind. Or a little bit blurry-visioned at least.

  10. Phil Says:

    Clever how the geography teacher is actually giving the pegasus some forward momentum. In the original painting, pegasus is really just floating a bit, but on the book cover s/he is soaring!

  11. A.R.Yngve Says:

    I might be reading the photograph wrong, but is that a cloud of noxious yellow smoke billowing up from the horseman’s behind?
    :-S

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