Apr 23
So I was like playing this game…for my computer…. and then role-playing it later…. and like all we did was like, totally drink beer and fight elves. I’d like some huge tankards and fringes please!
So I was like playing this game…for my computer…. and then role-playing it later…. and like all we did was like, totally drink beer and fight elves. I’d like some huge tankards and fringes please!
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Just love the guy on the left… his hair is amazing……
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
“First novel by 14-year-old publishing sensation”
Artist: hehe im gonna make his cover so awful nobody will buy his book. it’s gonna look really 2D and lifeless and the people on the cover will all have mullets… even the manish looking chick
evidence: only one book on amazon.com, no wikipedia entry, google search “ned resnikoff” returns only 6,190 hits. Next stop Obscurityville, population…you
May 1st, 2009 at 9:30 am
Arrrghhhh ! Why is the guy (or is it a “butch” chick) on the right wearing a Dalek costume without the helmet.
August 24th, 2009 at 12:33 am
This cover has to be 20 years old. You might recognize it as “Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn,” a collection of Thieves’ World novels released by the Science Fiction Book Club back in the day (like 1985? 86?). Way to recycle the artwork there guys.
August 24th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Hi Susano and welcome to the site! Great memory, you’ve pretty much got it in one there. It certainly is a re-used cover – why, just whyyyyy? Thanks for the heads-up. Tags now updated!
Quest announcement: Title, author and publication of the book. A virtual Level 8 Chicken Of The Infinite goes to whoever gets the goods first.
August 24th, 2009 at 8:46 am
No way! So maybe the story behind the Fool’s Tavern cover is more like “Hey, cool idea: use a cover from before the kid was born. He’ll never know! Copies shifted, money saved, job done. Golf course?” 😉
May 1st, 2010 at 2:44 am
I came to say exactly what Susano said. The minute I saw it I had to go search for the “Vulgar Unicorn” cover to show my husband. I have a copy of that one. Not sure I’d want a copy of this one…lol.
Great list. We had fun going through them all.
May 28th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
I think this was on the cover of a D&D game I saw in a bargain bin at CompuSmart in, say, 1991.
I can only imagine these are actually the publishers clinking mugs for how quickly they shoved this out the door.
January 11th, 2014 at 1:48 pm
The original use of this wonderfully generic cover was indeed for “Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn; Shadows of Sanctuary”. A collection of thieves world stories published in July 1982.
Found it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Sanctuary-Thieves-Vulgar-Unicorn-Shadows/dp/B000HTBA2Q
January 11th, 2014 at 2:29 pm
@RML: It’s actually an Ice Warrior wearing a rubber John-Taylor-From-Duran-Duran mask. He’d feel uncomfortable supping ale with William Hurt and Rick Parfitt otherwise.
January 13th, 2014 at 8:59 am
I feel sorry for the young author. ‘Cos he got a raw deal here — like being a child actor. What happened when he grew up?
“The fifth novel by the now 24-year-old former teen publishing sensation!”
Never, NEVER sell an author with an age argument. There’s no future in that.
January 21st, 2014 at 1:37 pm
A publishing sensation eh? What else did he publish? He sure as hell didn’t write anything else.
January 21st, 2014 at 4:32 pm
@rev: that isn’t necessarily a bar to being published http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/06/06/charles-hartman/on-being-plagiarised/ Morgan honestly thought nobody in the UK poetry circles would read ‘Strange Horizons’.
January 22nd, 2017 at 8:12 pm
I knew that cover looked familiar, and not by a 14 year old. Explains the tankards, unicorn (not accurately depicted; there’s a reason “vulgar” is in the title), and indeterminate gender. Yay SFBC.
December 20th, 2021 at 11:04 am
Wait, isn’t the 14 year old publishing sensation too young to know about what goes on inside a tavern? I guess the landlord is a fool to play fast and loose with his license….