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Click for full imageArt Direction: I looked, and there before me was a pale Pegasus! It’s rider was named Martin, the local high school geography teacher.
Published 1994
(Average: 6.52 out of 10)
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Art Direction: I looked, and there before me was a pale Pegasus! It’s rider was named Martin, the local high school geography teacher.
Published 1994
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July 23rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
The horse’s legs look a bit stiff, and the man is absolutely enormous by comparison, and the wings look like they’re at a strange angle, but I’m mostly quite impressed that a male author managed to pull off a pink and purple cover. Good show, Mr Rohan.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:48 am
I found a flying horse! Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:55 am
This might be why it looks strange. I don’t think the dude was originally supposed to be there:
http://www.rowenaart.com/images/unicorn.html
BTW if anyone wants to buy me a print… feel free 😛
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
@ SI wow. they replaced the black unicorn with Martin!
If he is the local high school geography teacher he must be the one who thinks he is as cool as Arthur Fonzarelli.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:38 am
If only they’d looked back and seen their castle blasting off into the sky…
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Wow! That unicorn has a seriously heavy rump.
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Ooh dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Dear oh dear.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Proof that looking at too many bad SF covers makes you go blind. Or a little bit blurry-visioned at least.
July 23rd, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Clever how the geography teacher is actually giving the pegasus some forward momentum. In the original painting, pegasus is really just floating a bit, but on the book cover s/he is soaring!
July 25th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I might be reading the photograph wrong, but is that a cloud of noxious yellow smoke billowing up from the horseman’s behind?
:-S
December 6th, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Either this is really called E Loud Astles or it’s in dire need of a ‘font problems’ tag.
I think that the pegasus has the trailing edge of its wings sticking from its arse.
December 7th, 2013 at 9:00 am
#3: In that original image, is the pegasus carrying the castle on its back??
December 7th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
you can’t ride a flying pegasus. a gliding pegasus perhaps. otherwise the wings can’t work properly.
May 28th, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Why does Pegasus need to move his legs at all when in flight?
June 2nd, 2014 at 12:00 am
@Tat: if you’ve ever dropped kitty off of a staircase, you know.
December 14th, 2014 at 12:56 am
Can’t say I liked this cover much myself! But a Brit writer has less than no say in what his US editions look like. Anyhow, in the book there is a white horse. It does not have wings. It does not ride on clouds, just through them into mysterious but very solid mountain paths. My central character looks older and tougher than this twit. Just so you know :-))
As to the purple and pink cover, this hasn’t a lot to do with my gender, but is a benefit — or a hazard — of writing about things that happen around sunset. Cheers!
August 14th, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Incidentally, the name of the author and the text below it are WAY off center. It’s like they weren’t even trying.