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Click for full imageArt Direction: The London underground, Pink Floyd concerts and the queue for Return of the Jedi. Do you know what they all have in common? They’re all… busy!! We don’t just need a strange bird attacking a unicorn, we need a full on boarder! With as much busyness as possible. I’m sure that’s sound logic… well pretty sure.
Published 1983
(Average: 5.71 out of 10)
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October 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
That unicorn doesn’t look like *attack* is on its mind. A long-term meaningful relationship, perhaps.
(Still, if there is any SF author so anvilicious in places that a sparkling unicorn is appropriate, it would have to be Sheri Tepper.)
October 22nd, 2010 at 10:28 am
I love the sword and the necklace on the corners.
This cover isn’t terrible but the boarder makes it all into a visual feast!
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:32 pm
There’s an…eye…at top centre…staring…into…my soul…searching…for…the sound between the raindrops…
October 22nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
The worst thing I can say about this cover is… if you took away all the text and used it as an album cover for an 80s “power ballad” rock band, nobody would mind.
October 23rd, 2010 at 2:59 am
Did the artist get this from a Spencer’s Gifts store at a mall in the states as one of those felt paint by numbers jobs back in 1986? All that’s missing is sea spray and a rainbow.
October 23rd, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I have to say that I think the cover damage makes it look worse than it is. It looks like a Stephen Bradbury cover.
October 25th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
@Brandon: You mean that’s just a water stain that LOOKS like a unicorn fighting a bird of paradise? Oh thank heavens!
October 25th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
the 14 yro me likes to think the ‘boarder’ is the frame of a mirror/window leading me into the magical land where a unicorn will be my friend.
November 4th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
God, I have this in a box in my loft. I don’t think I’ve read it since I got it in ’83, can anyone tell me if it’s any good?
I really need to clear out my loft. Too many of the books seem to be on this website.
November 27th, 2010 at 11:14 am
It’s definitely a Stephen Bradbury cover. He did lots for Sheri Tepper’s UK books.
December 19th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Well, everyone knows a unicorn is just a symbol…
… for incompetence.
June 19th, 2013 at 6:19 am
Excuse me, but isn’t a revenant a reanimated corpse? Usually achieved througj necromancy, which is considered ‘black’ magic by most accounts? So the ‘heroes’ of this book are evil undead beings? Please someone tell me that that is a zombie unicorn.
Ya know what they say about unicorns…the only good one is a dead one.
I love insomnia I do.
October 27th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
‘The age-old duel of magic and gods’…come again? Do gods use science or something to make the universe and establish order? Is pulling a rabbit from a silk top hat blasphemy? Are we then to assume Gahl is a god? Or a magician? Rubbish, cover! Take your blurb with you and begone!
March 31st, 2015 at 10:11 am
Where is that bookshop? I want to go.
August 4th, 2015 at 10:54 am
So, let’s say the unicorn impales the birdy thing. How does it get the carcass off its screw-like horn or wash the blood off its eyes? Does it simply wait for the nature to take its course?
January 23rd, 2016 at 1:12 am
Which one’s Leonardo?