Nov 07
Tor Mented Comments: Angel: “Sorry, but you have to be a high-fantasy character to enter here. Grizzled prospectors don’t count.”
Published 1994
Tor Mented Comments: Angel: “Sorry, but you have to be a high-fantasy character to enter here. Grizzled prospectors don’t count.”
Published 1994
November 7th, 2018 at 10:38 am
“Pearly gates? Oh, sure, you just head along – hey! Troll guy! Am I boring you?!”
November 7th, 2018 at 1:02 pm
And then the horse farted and all hell broke loose.
November 7th, 2018 at 1:49 pm
That horse is thinking “I wish he’d titled this book The Oatbound Wizard.”
November 7th, 2018 at 2:10 pm
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November 7th, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Early prototype Furbies were even more menacing than what eventually made it to store shelves.
November 7th, 2018 at 3:22 pm
@JP—That’s “Depend Battle Saddle®️”
😉
November 7th, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Red Shirt: Christmas tree ornaments are over there, this is Where the Wild Things are.
Angel: sorry, I can’t understand your accent. All I heard was ‘Ooo Ee Oo Ah Ah Bim Bam Walla Walla Bam Bam’. Are you Briddish? Do you know a guy called Pete from Maidstone?
November 7th, 2018 at 5:11 pm
I have to say, I always find fantasy cover art involving someone obviously from the modern world amusing. I’ve heard that this series does have people coming to the fantasy world from Earth, so it’s justified, but it’s even funnier when the series doesn’t have any elements like that.
November 7th, 2018 at 7:22 pm
Warlock doctors must lead solitary lives of quiet contemplation and study.
November 8th, 2018 at 1:32 am
This cover screams “Generic Extruded Fantasy”, doesn’t it?
I’d be more interested if it showed the possible next scene, where the troll eats the prospector.
I can’t tell if the knight has stirrups; I’d give extra points if he didn’t, which would require that sort of saddle. But that’s pre-medieval, and this is cod-medieval.
That is one wordy cover. At least it’s all in one font, but geez — half the cover, in 3 different colors. I guess we should be glad there wasn’t a GordBlurb or AnneBlurb down below the Wild Thing.
@GSS/Tag: the mouseover text is terrific.
@Tor: GSS.
November 8th, 2018 at 2:33 am
“Angel of Death you say? Come lookin’ for Big Jim? Why that’s the name of this here horse!”
November 8th, 2018 at 3:20 am
@B’Mancer—Fell off my chair, made my day, thank you.
😃😃😃
March 13th, 2020 at 9:49 pm
Maybe my eyesight is crap, but I see the author name “Christopher Stashfff”…