Mar 29
Cathal’s Art Direction: It’s quite simple. A flaming-winged, bikini-clad woman with a sun for a head, rising out of a lopsided cauldron. And an amazon with a flaming arrow. See if you can make the amazon lopsided too, maybe give her two left legs… Looking good!
Published 1992
Many thanks to Cathal!
March 29th, 2011 at 8:44 am
One part of the description of this book needs to be noted:
“The metaphysical climax will astound you!”
That so should have been on the front cover!
March 29th, 2011 at 10:19 am
The winged sun face person looks deeply unimpressed!
March 29th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Typical, you have your best pose for the cover and then the artist plonks a big sun in front of your face. Nobody will know it’s you now!
Does the extensive introduction take up most of the book? That’s what extensive means to me.
March 29th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
They have to have an extensive introduction to distract people from reading this terrible story for a while.
March 29th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Man, I hate it when books shortchange you on the introduction. Kudos to these guys for giving readers lots of introduction value!
In other news, does anyone think that this looks more like a pamphlet for Scientology than a fantasy novel?
March 29th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Seriously though, Robert Anton Wilson introduced the hell out of this book!
March 29th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Is that the Black Cauldron?
March 29th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Should have been THE ILLUMINATI OF IMMORTALITI.
Amazon lady seems to have an atrophied or otherwise foreshortened right arm.
Cybersonic, eh? Sounds like it’s something to do with cybernetics, and something to do with sound. Noisy robots?
March 29th, 2011 at 9:22 pm
How can I fire this arrow when my bowstring isn’t obeying the laws of perspective?
March 29th, 2011 at 9:37 pm
So the Illuminati are using sun-worshippers to shrink the lower bodies of Amazons? The fiends! Have they no shame?
(Nope — and neither did the cover artist.)
March 29th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
That’s not a sun. That’s a censorship mark like our very own admin’s sheep. Obviously this person has breasts for a face.
March 30th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Q: What’s a “cybersonic quest?”
A: When the volume in Microsoft Windows gets stuck, and you try to open the Sound menu but it keeps freezing.
March 31st, 2011 at 7:26 am
Alchemy, dreams and a cybersonic quest; two very cliché fantasy themes and a completely made up (and I suspect un-researched) word. What’s stopping you? Ah the sun head..
March 31st, 2011 at 7:44 am
I have to say, the sun *is* quite hot.
March 31st, 2011 at 8:30 am
Scott B. wins the awful-groan-at-a-terrible-pun award.
I just hope sun-face’s wing feathers aren’t held on by wax, Icarus-like. Mind you, whatever they’re held on by doesn’t stand much hope against a quintillion-degree fireball like a sun.
What? Oh, it’s a mask. OK, as you were.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:09 pm
“Bow down and worship Pac-Man, Devourer of Pills!”
April 3rd, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I don’t know where to start, everything about the archer lady is just so wrong. Her hips are all messed up, not to mention her top half is totally out of proportion, and what’s up with her right hand? It looks tiny.
The blue/green cybersonic jet underneath the THE in the title is a nice touch though.
April 4th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
“NOOO!! I am not an elephant amazon!! I… am… a human being!!”
February 14th, 2014 at 1:05 pm
Why didn’t they just put a bag over her head?
January 25th, 2015 at 10:52 pm
*laughter about the ridiculous title*
The Sun-woman, with her amateurly-made mask, rose from the cauldron, while the misshapen Amazon guard kept watch with a perspective-ignoring bow and arrow.
August 19th, 2015 at 8:07 pm
It would have sold better if the title had been “The Illuminati of Immorality”.
November 14th, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Is it worth being immortal if you have wings on your back, a sun-ish thing for a head and are forced to spend your time inside a huge goblet of flaming lava?
November 14th, 2015 at 8:07 pm
@anon: Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
January 12th, 2017 at 2:01 am
€7 for that? I think we know why it was in the bookstore 20+ years later for Cathal to find. I don’t care how extensive the intro is or how many words they make up, ain’t nobody paying 7 euro, pounds, or dollars for that.
(Look! My new keyboard has a euro sign! €€€€€€)