Mar 16
Art Direction: Look it’s Friday, so stop asking me hard questions! Just put a naked human sized fairy on a beach somewhere. And two glowy boxes in the corners. Why? We’ll reach two kinds of people: those who love the sea and those who love naked fairy bums. And anyone who likes both, then WHAM! Instant cash!
Published 1987
March 16th, 2012 at 9:56 am
FOOL’S RUMP
(Hey, if I hadn’t said it, someone else would!)
March 16th, 2012 at 9:57 am
Not much good for flying, so I assume those things are fins.
March 16th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Of course, what you shouldn’t do with beached fairies is blow them up, unless you want an embarrassing viral video on your hands.
March 16th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
“How did her hair get like that, Holmes?”
“An excellent question, Watson. If the body had really washed up from the sea, the hair would be beneath it. This woman was killed and then dumped on the beach for us to find!”
“Brilliant Holmes! But the wings?”
“Elementary my dear Watson – she’s a bloody fairy.”
March 16th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
But what of the strange, white glowing boxes on the bottom left and bottom right? They look like those tiny, crappy speakers you can get for your MP3 player. No wonder she is lying flat and still on the ground: the sound is being drowned out by the crashing waves.
March 16th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
I think you are supposed to put the shell to your ear to hear the sea, not the other way around. And also, not be by the sea.
March 16th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
It was an exhausting battle of dueling moons.
Though some even called her foolish — bare-bottemed she remained — stubborn to the very end.
March 16th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Oops. Please excuse my bottem… er bottom.
March 16th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
It’s got two wings, no toes, blue nail polish on only the left thumb and seems to attract Cosmic Cubes. I’ll head up the beach and get a fish taco and maybe call The Shore Patrol.
May 14th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Fool’s Run? I think someone dared our little fairy there to run across the ocean…
November 21st, 2013 at 10:57 pm
Perfect example of what this site is about. I like this author. I really enjoyed her Riddlemaster Trilogy I look at this cover and have no interest in it at all. ‘Dead fairy on a beach. Yeah, I think not.’
August 11th, 2014 at 9:14 pm
The baby who launches Baen symbols from her butt all grown up and on the piss.
August 13th, 2014 at 5:15 pm
FOOL’S RUN
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August 25th, 2015 at 4:25 am
They’re message boxes. The question is, what are they doing accompanying a dead fairy dumped on a beach?
December 10th, 2015 at 8:32 am
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FOOL’S RUN
December 10th, 2015 at 9:16 am
Fool’s Run:
Where Angels Fear to Drown
July 6th, 2018 at 7:54 am
Maybe she’s listening for horse’s hooves. In wet sand. Fairies can do that, right?
July 6th, 2018 at 8:18 am
I looked at the Goodreads comments for an explanation of the “fairy”. Nyet. Nada. Zilch. Most of them insist that the book is science fiction not fantasy, although a lot of them seemed to find it confusing. So no explanation of the fairy. Maybe it’s a metaphor for something.
July 6th, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Joanathan Livingston Flying Fish.
July 6th, 2018 at 2:43 pm
I like beach butts and I can not lie
Them little angel wings they so fly
When a fairy washes up on a posh Brighton beach*
And you gonna get the heat
Fool you better run the riddle
Cause you get caught in the middle
….
* Yes, I know Brighton is not posh.
July 6th, 2018 at 4:29 pm
Fairy Peg of the Ribble Galaxy?
July 6th, 2018 at 5:39 pm
♫ Come, they told me,
A rump, rump, rump, rump.
A fairy’s on the beach,
A rump, rump, rump, rump.
Our finest gifts we bring,
A rump, rump, rump, rump.
And maybe better wings.
A rump, rump, rump, rump.
Rump, rump, rump, rump.
Rump, rump, rump, rump. ♫
July 6th, 2018 at 6:40 pm
B’mancer: Nah. Pretty sure Fairy Peg, Ruler of the Ribble Galaxy, didn’t have any wings. Although she was pretty well washed up.
July 6th, 2018 at 8:46 pm
Are we sure those are wings and that she wasn’t ritually stabbed with cuttlefish bones?
July 6th, 2018 at 9:32 pm
@Tor M, Thanks for helping me understand. All this time I thought they were singing “A bum-bum-bum-bum” 😉
July 6th, 2018 at 10:47 pm
@B.C. That would make her a beach bum.
July 7th, 2018 at 1:14 am
Who’s the fool here? Not the fairy, as she obviously didn’t run. The artist or art director?
https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Run-Patricia-McKillip/dp/0446512788/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1530922272&sr=8-2&keywords=fools+run
This says it’s definitely science fiction and involves a rock group, on a penal colony in outer space. Also a gobsmacking cover.
Nowt to do with naked fairies washed up on beaches with glowy boxes.
July 7th, 2018 at 5:29 am
Yeah I was thinking the combo of the picture and the title tells us nothing about the story. No one is running, for one thing. And the fairy(?) is too unconscious to be acting like a fool.
July 7th, 2018 at 4:39 pm
I pity the fool!
Ha ha, that never gets old!