Sep 02
Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: A centaur-babe with an evil papoose devil-baby being chased by an alien army that looks like surfboards with eyes. Have that on my desk by five! And don’t forget the purse!
Published 1977
Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: A centaur-babe with an evil papoose devil-baby being chased by an alien army that looks like surfboards with eyes. Have that on my desk by five! And don’t forget the purse!
Published 1977
September 2nd, 2015 at 10:19 am
That’s no centaur – that’s the mother of all transporter accidents!
September 2nd, 2015 at 10:21 am
There’s something seriously wrong ( well, along with the whole thing obviously ) with that centaurs legs.
September 2nd, 2015 at 10:53 am
This has centaur round the bend.
September 2nd, 2015 at 12:10 pm
‘Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga, ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga…’
September 2nd, 2015 at 2:17 pm
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that the painting began with the horse bit of the Posh Spice Centaur running away from us towards the pointy-headed horde then the artist decided otherwise but couldn’t remember how a horse’s chest went so just stuck the tail on the neck and grafted a fashionista on its hind-quarters and a beat-poet on hers. Then gave Neddy three front legs and a back leg instead of two and two bigger hind legs. Then replaced her cocktail with a broadsword.
But of course I do know better and this theme of transformation, using a computer-aided Kabbala, runs through the book and the many sequels so it must be deliberate.
September 2nd, 2015 at 3:00 pm
One of my favorite book titles, any genre.
There be ‘glorious’ covers in this series. BAEN.
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1176014155l/584365.jpg
September 2nd, 2015 at 4:35 pm
@Fred: My copy was the incomparable Penguin, cover by Peter Goodfellow
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/612DyWJpRGL.jpg. It’s the moose in the background that does it for me – Monarch of the Dune.
September 2nd, 2015 at 4:46 pm
@Tat Wood – Let me zoom in on that “moose” on your glorious cover:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=5356
September 2nd, 2015 at 5:34 pm
The Evacuation of Nathan Brazil?
September 2nd, 2015 at 9:19 pm
@Bibliomancer: there is only one legitimate response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wioh5qUj7fM
September 2nd, 2015 at 11:20 pm
The leg from the guy, that’s just hanging in midair – it looks like a goat leg.
Which makes this a seriously messed up centaur-satyr hybrid.
September 3rd, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Why is it always at midnight, then? Why not at 00:23:56.4409? Or every hour between 14 and 18 minutes after? And, if it’s a strange and distant planet, what if the day-night cycle is irregular?
September 3rd, 2015 at 4:21 pm
“TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE WELL OF SOULS”
September 3rd, 2015 at 5:27 pm
How the Moai got to Easter Island.
September 4th, 2015 at 8:40 am
Horse: “And I thought I was going to show those humans that a horse can also go to a costume party! Well, is my face red! Can somebody please get this thing off my head! HELLLP!!”
September 5th, 2015 at 2:13 am
Baen reprinted these books. Somehow *cough* the covers are worse than this one.