Nov 04
Click for full imageMan of the Mountian’s Art Direction:So, the story is about a girl trapped in the middle of the black death in midevial England, while everyone back in her time are dying of a flu epidemic. Give us a nice upbeat cover, otherwise nobody is going to buy this!
Published 1993
(Average: 6.79 out of 10)
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November 4th, 2011 at 9:05 am
The singer from Ah-a is in it
November 4th, 2011 at 9:40 am
“Sigh… Doomsday wasn’t so bad after all that, was it?”
November 4th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Great book (all the medieval scenes, anyway. I could have done w/out most of the modern era stuff). Horrible cover.
November 4th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Trying to tell the future with the ‘DNA’ tarot, I see. There are millions of cards in that pack, you know. Though only four designs …
November 4th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
What a novel use for a TING!
I thought the DNA thing was a sticker, not part of the actual cover.
November 4th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
This is a remarkably “retro” cover — might have been on some 1940s pulp magazine.
Also, it screams “ROMANCE!!!” Because the Black Death makes the ladies swoon faster than Barry White, baby.
November 5th, 2011 at 3:11 am
Give us a nice upbeat cover… with tiny people on it, a giant head and some guy riding away on a horse.
November 7th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Wow, that horse seems to be emitting own light. Either he’s running really, really fast, or that is one badly faded cover!
November 11th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Behold! I have the biggest sleeves in all the kingdom!
December 6th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Check out the scientists having fun with the DNA strand.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:10 am
@A.R.Yngve: If it hadn’t been on this site, I would have thought that this book was a romance novel. Then I would have wondered what was with the DNA picture. Trashiness incarnate. NOTHING about this cover indicates time travel, which is much, much cooler than trashy romance novels.
January 10th, 2022 at 8:15 pm
Variant covers from ISFDB. I have no idea what is happening with the hats? in the German one. As for this, without the glare the scientist at the computer gets his rightful due.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?2087
January 10th, 2022 at 9:43 pm
This cover http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qNCmPaW8L.jpg makes it look like it’s about a time travelling plague doctor, which sounds at least as interesting as the actual book.
January 11th, 2022 at 2:35 am
Rarely is the SFBC cover not the worst, but that’s only b/c they used the original hardback artwork.
Why Bantam then went with this romance novel cover for the paperback is… beyond my ken. Thankfully, it didn’t last long as they then went to this
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?10619
(enjoy the comment from Locus on this one; big GSS energy)
The Romanian one is WTF, and I don’t know what’s with the German hat? either.
January 11th, 2022 at 8:42 am
Poor girl, she’s broken out with a terrible case of teenage Ting! Her attempt to hide it with a stylish headband isn’t working, and she’ll be mortified when her date gallops over to pick her up for the prom. Her only hope is the genetic cure the scientists are frantically working on.