Aug 31
Click for full imageStevie Comments: Jack L Chalker’s Songs of the Dancing Gods cover is bizarre! Crazy wizards, super sultry fairy-women in red and green and a huge mack truck running thru everything. What’s all that crazy action supposed to tell the prospective reader?
Published 1991
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August 31st, 2010 at 9:10 am
I’m trying to see which bits of sparkle are lens glare off the shiny cover and which are part of the pattern. It’s not easy.
Also: kudos for laying this book against a wedding dress before taking its picture. That adds a certain je ne sais quoi.
August 31st, 2010 at 9:20 am
The mack truck is pure win.
By my favorite part is actually the awful type and the “Volume Four in the Dancing Gods Series” under the title.
Based on this cover alone, what would be your guesses for the titles of the other three no-doubt action packed titles?
August 31st, 2010 at 9:27 am
I love this a lot. Especially the evil punk wizard. So much going on it hurts my brain.
Anyone know who the publisher is for that one? I don’t recognise the symbol at the bottom, unless that’s part of the magic!
August 31st, 2010 at 10:49 am
“… damn electrostatics …wait, is that the Coke Christmas Truck? … ”
- actually, the bottom part makes me wish I went to Burning Man this year …
August 31st, 2010 at 11:30 am
Wow, it’s like Guy Fawkes night, with sparklers and an aeroplane made out of fireworks. It’s a shame that only 4 people and a unicorn turned up really, I so would have gone!
August 31st, 2010 at 11:38 am
Lovely start to a Monday morning that….
Wait a minute… Bah, foiled again! TEN STARS
August 31st, 2010 at 12:26 pm
If I had seen that cover when I was three, I would have said:
“Beardy man has electric ow-ow in his hands!”
August 31st, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I’m glad that Optimus Prime is finally recognised as a God, albiet a dancing one.
I bet he riverdances all over the evil wizard.
August 31st, 2010 at 3:02 pm
mmmmm…..nothin’ says fantasy like an 18-wheeler.
August 31st, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Nice to see the Jolly Green Giant’s girlfriend getting work.
August 31st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
I wonder how the insurance claim will work out when the truck runs over teh unicorn-pegasus
August 31st, 2010 at 9:32 pm
The symbol at the bottom is the logo of Orbit books.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:03 am
I rather think that the dancing gods are a happy lot. I’d be at their concert.
“Ridin’ on my Mack truck, it’s a lovely machine,
“Ridin’ with the ladies in the red and in the green,
“Ridin’ with the silly string on my hands and in between,
“Ridin’ to the songs of the dancin’ gods!” Hot-cha!
@ Chike: “AM Radio Band of the Dancing Gods”, “Juke Box with Nothing But Rush for the Dancing Gods”, and “Gastrointestinal Rumblings of the Dancing Gods”.
September 1st, 2010 at 8:48 am
I’d like to see other working-class characters represented as characters in fantasy lit:
- Plumbers
- Construction workers
- Firemen
- Nurses
- Garbage collectors
- Carpenters
- Gardeners
- Migrant farm workers
…but not TV repairmen, because everybody knows they really ARE wizards and don’t need the extra exposure in literature.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:08 am
@David Cowie – Thanks! Didn’t recognise their old logo.
It is kinda like these guys are having a wizard rave when the truck turns up. “Hey, where’s all that techno music coming from?”
September 1st, 2010 at 9:12 am
This looks like a really darn cool Rick Cook novel.
September 1st, 2010 at 10:01 am
Actually having read the Dancing Gods series the cover makes sense. The green fairy was a truck driver at the beginning of the series.
September 1st, 2010 at 11:57 am
@ A.R.Yngve
I agree with you that TV repairmen are already wizards, but I would also include computer IT tech support guys. Whoa…now THAT would be an epic modern fantasy! Gus the TV repairman vs. Neil the IT tech support guru, each representing their respective secret orders of techowizardy!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:39 pm
@Tommi That’s coke truck all right. Although, possibly not the drink.
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I have every Chalker book published… in one printing or another… but I’ve never seen THAT one before. Now I want it.
The cover acturately depicts the contents, I *will* say that.