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Click for full imageAndy Comments: The art department obviously wanted to cram as much as possible in (even though this is apparently the second novel in a trilogy). I wouldn’t be surprised however if it was an image ripped from the text. I really like the bloke standing on the ear of dragon – it seems to go well with the tag line. The spaceship is supposed to be vivid purple (the first line of the book) but is obviously out-done in the purple stakes by the dragon.
Published 1995
Ah the days of… yellow jeans…
Many thanks to Andy!
(Average: 6.26 out of 10)
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June 23rd, 2010 at 9:44 am
To quote Elvis Costello: ‘oh I just don’t know where to begin.’
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
I had to read Out Of This World, for review purposes. It was an insipid and uninspired novel, with a lightly comedic tone, and this looks like more of the same. Which might account for, but not excuse, the cover’s remorseless naffness.
What it does not account for is the woman balancing yellow shrubs on her hands.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:52 am
“Way to take the dragon by the horns, sir. So, can I stop using my flame stigmata now? Why didn’t we just bring a torch like normal people?”, says the lady in red.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 am
“Honey? I killed us some dinner! …or killed one of the inhabitants. Either way, we eat tonight!”
“I HAVE FLAMEY HANDS!!!”
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
And that dragon was all dressed up to go to the party. Looks like he’ll never go now.
Also, that guys right leg just looks… wrong?
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Does reality even have ears?
And if it does is the ear turn some kind of modern dance move I need to learn to keep up my street cred with the kids?
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
The really unbelievable thing about this cover is that that dude thought he could wear a yellow shirt with brown pants.
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
I also like how they made the word ‘Shadow’ in ‘Empire of Shadow’ huge, black and foreboding. This is presumably so that we will know that it’s not one of your whimsical, carefree Empires of Shadow but a dire and dangerous Empire of Shadow.
This message is then undercut by everything else on the cover.
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Judging by that still, Shrek 4 looks rubbish.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
She’s hot.
He’s got the horn.
June 24th, 2010 at 7:42 am
They killed the wrong oversized purple lizard- whoops thats not Barney!
June 24th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Is she trying to make that N into a P. Shapow?
June 25th, 2010 at 11:44 am
[Barney the Dinosaur voice] “I love you, you burn me….”
June 30th, 2010 at 9:21 am
It’s a remarkably well-lit Empire Of Shadow. I guess the “Empire Of Eye-Searingly Gaudy Kitsch” didn’t strike quite the right tone.
January 22nd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
“Talk to the hand… of doom!”
October 25th, 2013 at 11:40 pm
‘Reality’ must be the name of the dead dragon. Because ‘Clifford’ was already taken.
And I wouldn’t want to live in that castle. It looks a mite precarious.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Interesting how most cases of spontaneous human combustion are only documented on SFF book covers.
March 27th, 2014 at 3:31 am
Well, we killed this kick ass dragon. Now you’re stuck with us two douchbags.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:46 am
That’s supposed to be a dragon? Then why does it look like a giant purple bull?
January 12th, 2016 at 11:13 pm
The giant dead ox appears to have the Mandelbrot set on its skin. The mystery deepens.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:34 pm
@Ray P: ‘Published 1995’.
Mystery solved.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:37 pm
Well that was quick.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:48 pm
(tiptoes out of the Library)
January 13th, 2016 at 9:39 am
@Anna T.: It’s inside out.