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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.
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Published 1983
(Average: 7.28 out of 10)
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December 10th, 2019 at 10:21 am
MY LITTLE PONY MEETS THE BRONIES
December 10th, 2019 at 10:40 am
At least we can agree this does have a brilliant theme tune.
December 10th, 2019 at 1:51 pm
That little castle is adorbs
December 10th, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Clapton…???…David Crosby.
December 10th, 2019 at 3:49 pm
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?
December 10th, 2019 at 4:33 pm
—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?
December 10th, 2019 at 7:17 pm
They’re not murdering children. They are murdering little green ninjas in Bermuda shorts.
December 10th, 2019 at 7:37 pm
Centaur in the middle: “Holy smokes, there’s a centaur that’s half horse and … the other half horse.
December 10th, 2019 at 8:33 pm
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.
December 10th, 2019 at 9:35 pm
I can’t look at those centaurs without thinking black horse is the new space sheep.
December 10th, 2019 at 11:01 pm
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.
December 11th, 2019 at 1:29 am
@Tag Wizard—I must confess I just spontaneously crack up whenever I see that “He’s dead, Jim” tag. GSS! 😉
December 11th, 2019 at 5:41 am
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.
April 6th, 2022 at 12:01 am
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?
April 6th, 2022 at 12:27 am
@Emster:
C) none of the above; SFBC had a… unique take on original cover art.