Apr 15
Click for full imageJoachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)
Loading...
Joachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)Loading...
(9.25 out of 10) (9.18 out of 10) (9.01 out of 10) (8.97 out of 10) (8.93 out of 10) (8.93 out of 10) (8.93 out of 10) (8.92 out of 10) (8.88 out of 10) (8.88 out of 10)
Lastest Tweet
April 15th, 2013 at 9:03 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Horses’ Asteroid http://t.co/GgWsvm6cpy
April 15th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Are they standing in a hole? I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:38 am
It’s Lady Godiva’s personal modesty asteroid.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:54 am
There has gotta be some horse puns… my head just isn’t working this morning…
I love the look on Horse, “OHHHHH yeah!”
April 15th, 2013 at 10:55 am
Pleased with their work, the editors mused:
“We said ‘ass’ on the cover! Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
“Heh-heh, heh-heh!”
“Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
“Heh-heh, heh-heh!”
“Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
Unt so weiter…
April 15th, 2013 at 11:45 am
That’s no moon, that’s a half-melted chess-piece with her off ‘Mad Men’ embedded in it.
April 15th, 2013 at 11:45 am
And some astro-turf.
or maybe it’s real grass for the Modesty Sheep
April 15th, 2013 at 11:53 am
I looked at this cover three times, and each time I read its title as Horse Is A Steroid. This may be because I regularly ingest horse in an effort to bulk up my muscles.
April 15th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Or “Horses’ Ass” as it is commonly referred to in the publishing business.
April 15th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
So this Barbie and chess piece on an intergalactic divot walk into a bar…
April 15th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
That cover is so brilliantly horrible I’d probably buy this book without hesitation.
April 15th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
— oh the comments, my sides hurt — http://t.co/aoVhl5JYe2
April 15th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Horses’ Asteroid http://t.co/GgWsvm6cpy
April 15th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
I think this cover qualifies for the Trypophobia Banned Books List. You know, if thrypophobes were united and organized enough to compile a list of literature with unsettling artwork.
April 15th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
“Listen, honey, I don’t mind the long face, but next time please clip your toenails before we get into asteroid.”
April 15th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Looks a little like the troublesome micro-meteorite from the original Andromeda Strain movie, maybe. Even has the green.
April 15th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
@Bibliomancer—note the subliminal support for this *Horse’s Ass* reading in the proliferating “s” sounds of the blurb, but try to avoid thinking about how truly awful that alliterative first line is:
“A second scintillating collection of satisfying sic-fi. . . .”
Really, “satisfying”?
April 15th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
She has a look on her face like she just realized that she’s trapped on asteroid with a gay horse who has no interest in her.
April 15th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
The Horsehead Nebula had to downsize in the wake of the Great Galactic Recession.
April 15th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
@B. Chiclitz – good observation. The blurb is written with a sort of galloping poetic meter – I believe it is called iambic pentathlon.
April 15th, 2013 at 6:06 pm
What’s happened to the ratings?
I’ve just noticed that there’s been a big shake-up in the top 15, and that the top rated books have lost about 0.5 of a point.
April 15th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
@David Cowie – with the leaders bunched at the top with a 9.5 score, it is easier to advance your favorites by voting zero on the rival covers.
I believe there is rampant voter fraud underway and I demand an investigation. I am allowed to repeatedly vote for my favorite bad book cover … and I’ve been deceased for years!
April 15th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Your own..personal..asteroid. Somewhere to take your horse, your horse of course. Reach out and touch him…
April 15th, 2013 at 7:01 pm
I’m ridin’ ‘cross the cover on a horse with no game…
April 15th, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Damn that asteroid grass, how did it get there??? What do they grow in the space grasss??
It is blocking a perfectly good sheepy moment.
April 15th, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Hmmmm. Spacegrass, Dodge Swinger, 1973, top down,chassis free…
April 16th, 2013 at 9:24 am
@David Cowie & Biblomancer
Excellent work Detectives! It seems we had someone, though coming from different addresses, spam the ratings system causing the chaos!
The bad news is… the plugin I use doesn’t allow me to delete specific ratings, only all of them! So I either set, for example, I Sing the Body Electric back to zero or do nothing.
Though I could always delete the logs, so everyone would be able to vote again and will keep the current rating. Basically the plugin I use sucks and I should really look at using another.
I think Biblomancers suggestion of voting zero seems pretty good.
A boon to you both!
April 16th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
I think it’s a sneak attack by someone at Baen Books who wants to make sure that their covers are not mocked but recognized as the masterpieces they truly are!
April 16th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Is there a way to view more of the covers by rankings? For instance, if I wanted to see the ones lurking just outside of top 15 glory?
April 17th, 2013 at 8:58 am
@Yoss – Why… I’m just working on that very thing! If you notice just above the ratings on the right hand side there is now a link of:
Click here to see our Top Rated Covers
That displays all the covers by rating, which you can scroll back through!
Hopefully I’ll put a few things in the menu bar at some stage. Might need to update my template first though.
EDIT – Actually just looking at it… it seems to be great for the first 3 pages then it starts throwing random rated covers in after. Man…
April 17th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Now that’s service right there! Best of luck getting the details sorted out.
April 17th, 2013 at 5:21 pm
It’s no surprise that the ratings upset was caused by a person or persons unknown spamming the site with low scores, the big question is WHY?
April 20th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
I have nothing to add. Just…this website makes me so happy.
April 25th, 2013 at 5:42 pm
The Horses’ Asteroid….where clothes are frowned upon.
June 20th, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Oh boy! I definitely owned this at one time in the dim and distant past but I have no memory of ever reading it, but I do remember it was much heavier than other books of a similar size. What can this mean? I must seek out a copy on E bay and find out….
March 28th, 2014 at 10:55 pm
GET BACK BEHIND THE ASTEROID, YOU PANTOMIMETIC CHARACTERS!
August 25th, 2015 at 5:05 am
@JuanPaul: No, she’s contractually obligated to be in this picture, and she would really rather be absolutely anywhere else.
June 1st, 2017 at 12:47 am
Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say ‘No’ to Soliciting For Prostitution
June 1st, 2017 at 4:08 am
Looks like the redhead is…
hot to trot.
February 25th, 2022 at 2:51 pm
Nude Girl and Panto Horse .5 are discovering why the 13th hole is Par 1000000
February 25th, 2022 at 4:56 pm
“Sure, it’s an efficiency apartment, but it’s got a lawn!”
June 9th, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Spock has reservations, but Kirk is gung-ho for bringing this wooden horse aboard.
June 9th, 2022 at 4:52 pm
And just like that panto horse threesomes became a thing.
June 9th, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Of course! The grass is there to provide life-giving oxygen. We wouldn’t want the streaker and Neddy to die horribly in the harsh vacuum of space, would we?
June 10th, 2022 at 12:04 am
Is there actually enough volume in that asteroid for damsel and a real horse (or even a pony) to fit inside it, or are they merely hiding behind it?
Maybe it’s all just a stage set, where the asteroid is papier-mache, and the woman and 50% of a panto horse are, in fact, standing there, or the whole ensemble is held up by some sort of wiring, descending from overhead, and presumably they will appear BEHIND YOU! of some other actor.
It was 1970, after all — some sort of Space Age nude absurdist counter-culture panto was probably happening.
@B’man (way back at #20): GSS. Although they’re taking the horses out of Olympic pentathlon after last year when the German coach punched one of them.
June 10th, 2022 at 2:30 am
Would be cool if there were a teeny-tiny Millennium Falcon scooting out of one of those craters being chased by a hungry exogorth. Sneaky fun altering random GSS covers, anyone?
June 10th, 2022 at 3:54 am
The morning after wakeup that brought Lillian to Alcoholics Anonymous.
@GSS ex-noob: I imagine it’s like the Tardis, Oscar the Grouch’s trash can, and Snoopy’s doghouse: bigger on the inside.
June 10th, 2022 at 10:19 pm
@Bruce: That’s the only logical explanation for the volume problem.* A Tardis-like force field for keeping air in, too, so woman, horse, and grass can survive.
@Emster: I’d like to see that! It would explain the expression on her face, too.
*When this is your art’s logical explanation, you have a problem.
June 11th, 2022 at 2:37 am
I think I must have missed this episode of The Clangers.