Dec 09
I’m speechless. I asked you for a mermaid, riding a merhorse on an ocean wave with a rainbow coming out of her back. But this… this is so much more. A picture like this should be kept in the Louvre.
I’m speechless. I asked you for a mermaid, riding a merhorse on an ocean wave with a rainbow coming out of her back. But this… this is so much more. A picture like this should be kept in the Louvre.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Wow… why does a merhorse need legs anyway?
It’s not like it’s going to help it swim. Horses only really use them for.. you know running. Possibly a bit of fighting. Gah! Evolution sure did screw up this one!
December 9th, 2009 at 4:54 am
How is she staying on that merhorse? Velcro?
I’d have to assume: magical, rainbow velcro.
December 9th, 2009 at 5:38 am
So THAT’s why side saddle was invented.
December 9th, 2009 at 7:39 am
But all that aside I am helpless before the awesome awfulness of this cover – I’m not sure even Saddam Hussein would have had this artwork in his palace. Not even in the shower room.
I think you may have broken this site. Where can you go after this?
December 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I wish I had friend’s like that. It would certainly add a special something to dinner parties.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:21 am
It’s beautiful. It makes me want to be a better man.
SI: to be fair you can’t see the hoofs of the horse, it might have fins at the end of the legs… which would make sense…
The colour saturation is just a little high on that cover. Andre Norton really does have some unfortunatly garish covers. You think somebody at some point down the line would have said about maybe scaling it back a bit on one of the covers.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Your right Simon. There is something so special that not even RX is Chaos can rival it.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/05/rx-is-chaos/
Maybe I should just end things now.
This book should be the standard for every book. Once a cover is decided on they should hold it next to Moonsingers Friends and ponder, ‘How does my cover compare. And why shouldn’t I just put Moonsinger on every cover?’
December 9th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Jumping merhorse adminsvessal. Where did all those names come from in the tags? Is this a collection of stories?
December 10th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I do wonder how many of these female authors are actually dudes.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Yep, it’s an omnibus of short stories. There’s even an open letter to Andre Norton contained within, so I am led to believe.
March 25th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
If this is never done as a tattoo, the world will be a poorer place.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
…!
You all fail to understand the unmitigated… jaw dropping… brilliance of this singular image. It is, all by itself, a near perfect pilot-pitch for a new unstoppable tween IP!
It just needs two things.
1. Make them pop stars. Give her a microphone. Have the mer-horse playing a keyboard.
2. Make everything blue pink.
With that we can pitch the Mer-Rainbow-Pony Princess’s to Disney and all become millionaires! Okay, the name needs some work.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:39 am
I’m so glad Andre Norton has a moonsinger.
Oh, and that moonsinger has friends?
And someone has written a book about them?
Joy!
April 30th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Damn, it I said mereunicorn, not merehorse!
April 30th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Opps, “Merunicorn, not merhorse!”
May 10th, 2010 at 3:04 am
To be entirely honest I’m not sure why it isn’t a mereunicorn. I mean I really can’t imagine a conversation between the publisher and cover artist “Whoa hey now, a mereunicorn? That’s just too silly!”
July 16th, 2010 at 2:52 am
I’d put this on my wall. No question.
December 7th, 2010 at 1:51 am
I’m fairly confident my mother had this book when I was young. In fact, my childhood home is a treasure trove for Good Show Sir.
December 19th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Not far from my house lies a small farm with horses, pigs, chicken, sheep and a few peacocks (I’m not making this up!)…
Therefore, when I see that pic of a mer-horse, my mind IMMEDIATELY conjures up a bunch of merpigs, merchicken, mersheep and mercocks next to it.
May 6th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
I think I saw this on the side of a 1977 GMC van once…
If not, it should be.
June 12th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Yep, Saddam Hussain’s 1977 GMC van. Actually if that horse had hydrofoils on the end of it’s front hooves; that would make sense.
March 10th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Doesn’t the merhorse have front legs for the same reason that the mermaid has arms? Something to ponder . . . .
March 11th, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Oh, I know. She has *two* tails. And a very broad bottom. Enigma solved!
March 12th, 2013 at 3:32 am
Good Show, Sir!
March 13th, 2013 at 2:15 am
I just don’t understand why a mermaid would need to ride a merhorse.
September 11th, 2015 at 8:06 am
I never knew mermaids were so small as to ride a seahorse!
January 5th, 2016 at 8:56 am
A mer-horse would be SLIGHTLY less stupid if it had the back feet of a horse and the torso and head of a fish (euugh!) … then at least you’d have a chance of mounting it and getting somewhere.
But a mermaid on horseback is just not going to work. One word: slippage.
April 3rd, 2016 at 8:50 pm
Merhorse!
April 7th, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Why isn’t it a merunicorn with wings? Someone dropped the ball there.
January 21st, 2017 at 1:51 am
I gasped in amazement at this.
I wonder how I missed this when it came out. It is surely the only cover of a festschrift that should have been airbrushed onto a van.
Nice to let one token dude into the anthology.
March 17th, 2017 at 11:40 am
More evidence of the ongoing mermaid conspiracy.
Reading the list of authors, really makes me want to buy this book, but alas, it’s not on google play, and an aging man reading a book with a cover like that on the train would doubtless lead to parents clutching their children protectively and being interviewed by the public transport inspectors. 🙂
It’s not really a bad cover at all in many respects, but that vertically stretched font is a bad idea in every circumstance.
March 17th, 2017 at 2:11 pm
She has a look on her face that says, “Take the f–king picture already!”
March 17th, 2017 at 2:34 pm
Yes, Mr Confectioner, I’ll have five Cola bottles, five flying saucers, three of those pink shrimp things, ten fruit salads, and a merlady and merhorse please.
March 17th, 2017 at 2:38 pm
My Little Mer-pony!
March 17th, 2017 at 3:44 pm
You can’t hang this in the Louvre unless you give a shout-out to the cover artist. Give it up for Victoria Poyser.
March 17th, 2017 at 3:57 pm
@Raoul: as little as nine bob for a poster! I’m salivating with excitement here.
No, wait. That’s my chicken and beer. Happy St. Pat’s, everyone!
March 17th, 2017 at 4:20 pm
That’s a lot of dry hair for aquatic beasties.
March 17th, 2017 at 5:03 pm
The merhorse isn’t actually that far-fetched. It’s similar to a creature from Greek mythology called the hippocampus, which was, in fact, a water-horse with two front legs and a tail.
Apart from that — ecch.
March 17th, 2017 at 6:34 pm
I’d have liked to see this cover include a mercat for maximum effect.
March 18th, 2017 at 12:05 am
Well spotted, Raoul and DSWBT!
The mermaid conspiracy deepens, to include merhorses.
MER ALL THE THINGS is what their charter says.