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Click for full imageNatalie and Steve Comments: Unfortunately, Davy himself is not as vivacious as his cover suggests.
Published 1976
Many thanks to Natalie and Steve!
(Average: 8.37 out of 10)
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Natalie and Steve Comments: Unfortunately, Davy himself is not as vivacious as his cover suggests.
Published 1976
Many thanks to Natalie and Steve!
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September 6th, 2010 at 9:21 am
People only picked this up because there’s an orgy on the front.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:10 am
It’s odd, Boris Vallejo’s covers usually never have any type of sexual reference on them… oh wait…
He’s got some moths coming out of his french horn. He must not have played it in a while.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
“Hey hey, we’re the Monkees!”
September 6th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I think that, when one of my larvae does something endearing, I shall tease her by gripping her cheeks and saying, “Ooh! you’re such an irrepressible child of the future, yes you are!”
September 6th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Psst, I think a tag’s misspelled there.
And tut, I know fantasy covers can be racy sometimes, but imagine putting a chap on there who’s clearly got the horn…
September 6th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Am I the only person who has ‘Dav-ee, Davy Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!‘ running through my head?
September 6th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
This is an old, old tactic of publishers.
On a similar note, Signet Books created an unintentionally hilarious cover for the US paperpack of George Orwell’s “1984”
Clearly the editor was Trying Too Hard:
http://www.skilluminati.com/img/1984.jpg
September 7th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
As a middle school french horn player I can tell you, they’re far harder to run with than this cover makes it look like. And there’s no way you’d be that happy about it.
September 7th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Am I the only one a little creeped out about a novel which is apparently about a child’s sexual adventures?
Also I absolutely love that 1984 cover! I need a poster of that for my office.
September 8th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
I am morbidly curious about this book.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 am
“Davy is not as vivacious as his cover?” The hell he ain’t. This was Pangborn’s best–a fix-up from stories that appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, as I recall. It was great, in a Canticle for Leibowitz sort of way. A post-apocalyptic Huck Finn.
December 20th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Aha! A recycled cover. The artwork was originally used for the non-fiction book THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.
February 3rd, 2023 at 7:44 pm
“Stop blowing that goddamn horn! We’re _trying_ to have an orgy here!”
February 3rd, 2023 at 9:58 pm
With that back cover bio he must be an illegitimate son of either Jake or Elwood Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWH1Fdkjow
February 3rd, 2023 at 10:28 pm
What’s up with the wrasslin’ match in the bottom left corner? Boris had a bit of space to fill and just tucked them in there, or does it have something to do with the story?
February 3rd, 2023 at 10:48 pm
As disturbing as the cover and back cover are, it is an offsetting comfort to know that French horns will still be around “beyond the future”. And here I thought everything would be cold, entropic goo.
February 4th, 2023 at 1:27 am
@Emster: It’s Davy’s adventures with man-love.
February 4th, 2023 at 3:20 pm
It has odd incidents and Owen Wilson doing something apparently random, but it’s insufficiently neurotically-symmetrical to be Wes Anderson.
Still, at least Boris could draw feet.
February 4th, 2023 at 6:43 pm
Today’s metaphysical book blurb conundrum:
If you go far enough “beyond the future” do you end up “before the past”?