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Dec 10

Cover artist majored in My Little PonyClick for larger image
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Marcia Rose Comments: You would think a guy who can paint a halfway decent horse wouldn’t screw up a half-horse centaur.

You might remember this from here. But not here.

Published 1983

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 7.41 out of 10)
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15 Responses to “Night Mare”

  1. A.R.Yngve Says:

    MY LITTLE PONY MEETS THE BRONIES

  2. THX 1139 Says:

    At least we can agree this does have a brilliant theme tune.

  3. Bibliomancer Says:

    That little castle is adorbs

  4. fred Says:

    Clapton…???…David Crosby.

  5. Ryan Says:

    So many questions.

    Why are the centaurs murdering children?

    Why is the horse farting out the moon on the back cover?

    Why is The Noob (http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/1/) appearing on book covers?

  6. B. Chiclitz Says:

    —Bad Beard #1: Where’s the blurb? I thought you were going to write the blurb.

    —Bad Beard #2: Don’t look at me. I ordered us these swell looking sleeveless t-shirts. I thought Weak Chin was writing the blurb.

    —Weak Chin: No, the horse was supposed to write the blurb, I’m sure that’s what the editor said.

    —Horse: Me write the blurb? Uh, have you noticed—no hands?

  7. JuanPaul Says:

    They’re not murdering children. They are murdering little green ninjas in Bermuda shorts.

  8. Tor Mented Says:

    Centaur in the middle: “Holy smokes, there’s a centaur that’s half horse and … the other half horse.

  9. Alice Says:

    If you click on Tony Fiyalko’s tag, you’ll see this isn’t the first flying equine rodeo he’s done for the Science Fiction Book Club.

  10. Francis Boyle Says:

    I can’t look at those centaurs without thinking black horse is the new space sheep.

  11. Raoul Says:

    I have feeling Tony had a pretty painting of a castle and a pony and when he found out it was a Piers Anthony cover added on the centaurs murdering children.

  12. B. Chiclitz Says:

    @Tag Wizard—I must confess I just spontaneously crack up whenever I see that “He’s dead, Jim” tag. GSS! 😉

  13. GSS ex-noob Says:

    Ah, SFBC, what would GSS do without you?

    That middle centaur’s hair and beard are artificial, I think, and molded out of one piece. Fits over his head like a helmet fits on a Lego minifig. Which is why he doesn’t look like a rock star, @fred.

    @Alice: well spotted!

    @Raoul: It does look that way, doesn’t it? Although to be truly Piers, he’d have to have the centaurs, er… flirting with children.

    But since the black horse is apparently a mare, perhaps the centaurs are attracted to it. Or it’s their mother.

    Really don’t know where the children/small ninjas come into it.

  14. Emster Says:

    Is this cover
    A) before PA got famous and was allowed to work with the artist famous for the rest of his Zanth covers?
    or
    B) wee falling out between cover artist and Publishing Company and they had to make the best of it?

  15. GSS ex-noob Says:

    @Emster:

    C) none of the above; SFBC had a… unique take on original cover art.

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