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Nov 16

Well I don't know where we are going dinosaur horse but I thank god I don't have a nose!Click for full image

Alessandra’s Art Direction: It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976
Actually, that cover is a visual feast!I would pick that one up.Neeaaa, I've seen worse.Interesting, but I would still take it on a train.It's somewhere between the awful/good scale.Would not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...I swear, thats my flatmates!Gah... my eyes! They are burning!Good Show Sir.... Good Show! (Average: 8.99 out of 10)
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22 Responses to “Connoisseur’s Science Fiction”

  1. Kathryn Says:

    Poor Arseface the Viking. You’re so horrible to him.

  2. THX 1138 Says:

    Is this what that Fall Out Boy song was about? Altogether now, “This ain’t a scene, it’s a god damn arse face!”

  3. A.R.Yngve Says:

    Alternate titles:

    -SORRY, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SCIENCE FICTION IS

    -MARAUDERS FROM URANUS

    -RHECTUM THE BARBARIAN

    -CONNOISSEUR’S NIGHTMARE

  4. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:

    It looks as if Rhectum and Horsiesaurus are wearing matching trouser armour.

  5. Kathryn Says:

    I just noticed that the dinohorse is licking the ground, too. Weird.

  6. A.R.Yngve Says:

    They’re not gonna let that one into Valhalla, that’s for sure….

  7. Phil Says:

    Years ago I bought this book because of the description of its contents in a catalogue. Never has there been such a mismatch between title and cover.

    I got rid of the book after reading.

  8. Tom Noir Says:

    Does anyone else look at horse-o-saureses hair and think ‘spaghetti’?

  9. Adam Roberts Says:

    You see an arse-faced Viking on a denim-clad horse. I see a female-cleavage-faced Viking on a denim-clad horse. Potato, po-tar-to.

  10. fred Says:

    The fabled missing stanzas from “Horse With No Name”.

  11. Joachim Boaz Says:

    wait, I don’t understand, is that actually SUPPOSED to be a face?!?

  12. Alessandra Kelley Says:

    @Phil: I did notice, while researching this title, that *none* of the online booksellers show a cover image for it. It is a reprint of an earlier, 1964 edition, which has a considerably better cover, albeit an abstract one.

  13. Scott B Says:

    Abstract would be much preferred to whatever the heck this is! Really, I don’t have words for this. I think it’s making my *brain* abstract…

  14. Yoss Says:

    I wanted to make a joke, but when in the presence of true greatness I’ll just stay out of the way. I mean, the dude has a butt for a face. Somebody drew it that way and somebody else approved it.

    Heheh, butt for a face.

  15. THX 1138 Says:

    Wasn’t this a South Park episode? Shouldn’t there be a sheep over the face to protect our delicate sensibilities?

  16. SI Says:

    @THX – I think even space sheep won’t cover some things. Who knows where that bum face has been!

  17. Green Says:

    We ask enough of Dolly, this would make her the butt of too many jokes.

  18. Jerk of all Trades Says:

    Warrior-dude, your horse-thing may be fugly as hell, but at at least it doesn’t have someone’s butt-end for a face.

  19. towrope Says:

    WTF?

  20. Anti-Sceptic Says:

    A.R.Yngve Says: “They’re not gonna let that one into Valhalla, that’s for sure….”

    That one floored me!

  21. FearofMusic Says:

    All this time and no one has said it? Well alright then…give’s new meaning to the phrase “Give us a kiss on the cheek now..”
    Now I feel cheap and dirty…and I rather like it!

  22. JuanPaul Says:

    So this alien walks up to me and says, “hey, buddy, got a match?”.
    And I says, “Yeah, my butt and your face!”

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