@Tom Noir. And amongst all the Dragons! Demons! Mermaids! and Seaserpents! we find… Horses!
Possibly the series would have gone on to feature such legendary monsters as Sheep! and Cows! had the editors not decided to drop the exclamation point and change the whole concept to “The Museum of Science Fiction Trends”
(“Hackers”… “Nanotech”… etc).
It’s not just the picture, either. The articles include, “Breeding Up New Options, A.I. Pioneer Looks Toward The Past And Future”. Can we expect an army of time-travelling cloned sheepborgs?
There have been some terrible covers on here over the years but somehow, this one strikes me as the one I’d be most embarrassed to be caught reading on the bus.
@13 Tom: One can only imagine the tag lines after a bit…
‘SIXTEEN MAGICAL TALES ABOUT THE MOST WONDROUS OF ALL CREATURES OTHER THAN UNICORNS, MERMAIDS, DRAGONS, WIZARDS, ELVES, DWARVES, FAERIES, WEREWOLVES, SILKIES, CENTAURS, DEMON DOGS, CATPEOPLE, THUNDERBIRDS, BROWNIES, HALFLINGS, WIZARDS, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, GNOMES OR CHUPACABRAS…
I had another book from this series (the Exclamation! anthologies?) called MAGICATS! Apparently the editors felt that CATS! alone wasn’t sufficiently exciting. Maybe CATS! sounded too much like exasperated pet owners yelling at their errant moggies.
Sadly, the cover of MAGICATS! was just a boring picture of a sly-looking cat.
Uncle Bill?
Beastmaster?
Buffy?
Mr. Drysdale?
Mrs. Beasley?
Dark One?
Chief?
UNICORNS!
Unicorns!
Unicorns?
Ace Books’ Unicorns!
Ace Books?
Ace Books aliens anthropomorphism Baen Books Ballantine Books beard-wielding BEHIND YOU! bladed weapons bracers cat people cleavage cloaks daemons damsel DAW Books devil’s dumplings dragon evil fire font problems glow Good Show Sir gun horses hunk lasers loincloth magic monsters moon muscles once you see it planets robots space space sheep space ships space suit starkers strange creature sword Ting! Tor Books Unicorns! unknown artist Ursula K. Le Guin Vonda N. McIntyre *thud*
Extinct!
I have been on a field expedition with a number of other palaeontologists. One happened to mention that she had been reading an article on using radio collars on sheep to improve remote Internet connections. Her source for this article? Sheep Magazine.
Coincidence? Six degrees of Space Sheep? Or a conspiracy…?
@ Dead Stuff: Bravo! This has guaranteed that I’ll spend all day worrying about the implications.
Why does a unicorn(!) need a business card? Surely anyone can see that s/he is a unicorn(!) without it. Does it have the bearer’s contact details? If so, this raises the matter of whether a non-centaur mythical horse-creature can use a phone or a keyboard. And how do you hand it over? Can a unicorn(!) even manage a handshake?
What line of business is a unicorn (!) going to be in?
Do you know that scene in Animal House where the members of Delta house pour cheap American beer on the new initiates? I feel that Xnoob has gone through the same thing tonight. 😉 Cheers, pal!
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Unicorns!
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July 15th, 2015 at 9:52 am
Unicorns!
July 15th, 2015 at 10:58 am
Unicorns!
July 15th, 2015 at 11:20 am
Unicorns!
July 15th, 2015 at 11:49 am
KHAAAAN!
edit: Unicorns!
July 15th, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Unicorns!
Virgins!
Virgins?
Laps!
Lapps???
Laps!
Finns?
Fins???
Finns!
Mermaids?
Huh?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3pxWASlzesA/UZGcI1ukS5I/AAAAAAAAJ9Q/QVfwAAGGnN0/s1600/mermaids.jpg
UNICORNS!
JUGHEAD!
July 15th, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Dammit, there’s no way we can get these guys under the Trade Descriptions Act now!
July 15th, 2015 at 1:20 pm
That tail looks like a tapeworm on fire.
July 15th, 2015 at 2:12 pm
@Tom: observe, everything’s on fire. Tail, mane, hooves, chin, suspicious white milky pollutant on the river.
July 15th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Q. What’s worse than a Unicorns!
A. A smirking Unicorns!
July 15th, 2015 at 4:06 pm
It appears that the best defence against a smug unicorn made of white chocolate is a powerful hairdryer.
July 15th, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Any bets as to whether or not ‘Edited by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois’ was intended to fit on the suspiciously blank small banner at the bottom?
July 15th, 2015 at 5:25 pm
@Tag Wizard: We need an exclamatory title tag!
July 15th, 2015 at 5:35 pm
On Facebook someone points out that this book was merely the first in a long series of exclamation-suffixed anthologies by the same editors, one that included Mermaids!, Dogtales!, and Magicats!
July 15th, 2015 at 5:43 pm
@Dead Stuff (11): Maybe it was left clear optimistically, to allow a reprint with ‘Hugo Award Winner’.
@Tom Noir: Magicats! isn’t nearly as bad as the title suggests, sadly.
July 15th, 2015 at 7:34 pm
@B.Chiclitz:
Q: What’s worse than a smirking unicorn?
A: A blonde smirking unicorn with a wavy goatee.
July 15th, 2015 at 8:44 pm
“Unicorns!”
Like normal unicorns but with show-tunes.
July 15th, 2015 at 9:21 pm
@Tat: like…this???
I simply adore how the ‘Recent Comments field shows we are all on Unicorns!
July 16th, 2015 at 3:19 am
@Tom Noir. And amongst all the Dragons! Demons! Mermaids! and Seaserpents! we find… Horses!
Possibly the series would have gone on to feature such legendary monsters as Sheep! and Cows! had the editors not decided to drop the exclamation point and change the whole concept to “The Museum of Science Fiction Trends”
(“Hackers”… “Nanotech”… etc).
July 16th, 2015 at 3:53 am
@RachelJ: there’s already a magazine called ‘Sheep!” with the exclamation mark and everything. http://www.sheepmagazine.com/
July 16th, 2015 at 5:42 am
@Tat: That cover has a good argument for being on GSS. I think that’s a tiny spaceman clutched in his cloven hoof.
July 16th, 2015 at 7:40 am
@B. Chiclitz. I believe you’re right. That is clearly Space Sheep’s evil cousin, Galactic Warlord Sheep.
“Baaa, Earthlings! Flock to me, or be trampled beneath the hooves of my ovine legions. Your planet will be renamed… Ewetopia.”
July 16th, 2015 at 8:26 am
It’s not just the picture, either. The articles include, “Breeding Up New Options, A.I. Pioneer Looks Toward The Past And Future”. Can we expect an army of time-travelling cloned sheepborgs?
July 16th, 2015 at 11:44 am
@RachelJ: ‘I’ll be baaaack.’
…someone had to say it…
July 17th, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Armadillos!
July 18th, 2015 at 11:25 am
This cover is very unicorny.
July 22nd, 2015 at 5:10 am
There have been some terrible covers on here over the years but somehow, this one strikes me as the one I’d be most embarrassed to be caught reading on the bus.
August 3rd, 2015 at 1:08 pm
So… unicorns?
August 27th, 2015 at 2:51 am
Unicorns! With weird-looking manes!
September 19th, 2015 at 8:57 pm
@13 Tom: One can only imagine the tag lines after a bit…
‘SIXTEEN MAGICAL TALES ABOUT THE MOST WONDROUS OF ALL CREATURES OTHER THAN UNICORNS, MERMAIDS, DRAGONS, WIZARDS, ELVES, DWARVES, FAERIES, WEREWOLVES, SILKIES, CENTAURS, DEMON DOGS, CATPEOPLE, THUNDERBIRDS, BROWNIES, HALFLINGS, WIZARDS, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, GNOMES OR CHUPACABRAS…
Assistant News Directors!’
October 10th, 2015 at 3:33 am
I had another book from this series (the Exclamation! anthologies?) called MAGICATS! Apparently the editors felt that CATS! alone wasn’t sufficiently exciting. Maybe CATS! sounded too much like exasperated pet owners yelling at their errant moggies.
Sadly, the cover of MAGICATS! was just a boring picture of a sly-looking cat.
Uncle Bill?
Beastmaster?
Buffy?
Mr. Drysdale?
Mrs. Beasley?
Dark One?
Chief?
UNICORNS!
October 10th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
@random Donna Or it could be to avoid confusion. “Unicorns!” isn’t a musical… yet.
October 10th, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Note to posterity: Comments 19 – 23 refer to the July/August 2015 issue of Sheep! http://countrysidenetwork.com/shop/sheep-364-julyaugust-2015/
This is the best magazine cover in the history of periodicals and it should be made into a film.
October 10th, 2015 at 9:56 pm
@RachelJ—what is left of memory in this everything-is-always-present age will be forever grateful to you.
If that cover ever is made into a film, I hope you get to direct.
October 10th, 2015 at 11:39 pm
Unicorns!
Unicorns?
Ace Books’ Unicorns!
Ace Books?
Ace Books aliens anthropomorphism Baen Books Ballantine Books beard-wielding BEHIND YOU! bladed weapons bracers cat people cleavage cloaks daemons damsel DAW Books devil’s dumplings dragon evil fire font problems glow Good Show Sir gun horses hunk lasers loincloth magic monsters moon muscles once you see it planets robots space space sheep space ships space suit starkers strange creature sword Ting! Tor Books Unicorns! unknown artist Ursula K. Le Guin Vonda N. McIntyre *thud*
Extinct!
October 11th, 2015 at 9:24 pm
You really have to look up the XXX parody, Uniporn!
October 14th, 2015 at 1:51 am
True story.
I have been on a field expedition with a number of other palaeontologists. One happened to mention that she had been reading an article on using radio collars on sheep to improve remote Internet connections. Her source for this article? Sheep Magazine.
Coincidence? Six degrees of Space Sheep? Or a conspiracy…?
October 14th, 2015 at 6:27 am
Here, kid, first sheep’s free. Don’t mind that “collar.” It’ll help you get to the Uniporns! website faster, sure it will . . . .
October 14th, 2015 at 11:41 am
@Dead Stuff. Wait, what? Sheep are literally powering the internet?
August 19th, 2016 at 11:35 pm
Stranger Things!
August 20th, 2016 at 7:31 am
@DSWBT—that’s really good, and sorta scary, if you stare at it for awhile. That room, for instance . . .
August 20th, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Stranger Things is excellent. All hail Netflix.
February 10th, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Business!
February 10th, 2017 at 3:50 pm
@ Dead Stuff: Bravo! This has guaranteed that I’ll spend all day worrying about the implications.
Why does a unicorn(!) need a business card? Surely anyone can see that s/he is a unicorn(!) without it. Does it have the bearer’s contact details? If so, this raises the matter of whether a non-centaur mythical horse-creature can use a phone or a keyboard. And how do you hand it over? Can a unicorn(!) even manage a handshake?
What line of business is a unicorn (!) going to be in?
February 10th, 2017 at 4:02 pm
@Tat: I strongly suspect it involves Granny Weatherwax, but alas! Sir Terry is no longer with us to fill us in on the details…
February 10th, 2017 at 6:44 pm
@Tat:
‘Who the hell are ya?’
‘You know. You all know exactly who I am. Say my name.’
‘Do what? I-I don’t have a damn clue who you are.’
‘Yeah you do. I’m the most wondrous of all creatures. I’m the perissodactyl who killed Gus Fring.’
‘Horseshit. Virgins got Fring.’
‘Are you sure?….That’s right. Now. Say my name.’
‘Unicorns!’
‘You’re goddamn right.’
February 10th, 2017 at 11:01 pm
Also for posterity, I’d like to point out that the magazine is titled
“sheep!”
Lower case, but an exclamation point. What’s it mean?
And finally:
Unicorns!
February 10th, 2017 at 11:31 pm
Do you know that scene in Animal House where the members of Delta house pour cheap American beer on the new initiates? I feel that Xnoob has gone through the same thing tonight. 😉 Cheers, pal!
February 11th, 2017 at 1:10 am
Thanks?
April 25th, 2017 at 5:54 pm
Einhyrningur!
A surprised Unicorns!, no less!
October 29th, 2017 at 5:29 am
Fun fact: In the Middle Ages, unicorns were thought to be ferocious, deadly animals. Which is why they’re a symbol of Scotland.
October 29th, 2017 at 8:12 am
Unique horns!
October 29th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
/dcc send FGK beerbath.exe
/dcc send TM beerbath.exe
October 29th, 2017 at 3:55 pm
@FluffyGhostKitten: James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, wrote a learned treatise based on the sorites
a. Everything in the Bible is true
b. Unicorns are mentioned in the psalms, ergo
c. Unicorns must exist.
I think there was something similar in Topsell’s Histories of Beasts.