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Click for full imageAlessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976
Published 1976
(Average: 8.69 out of 10)
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November 16th, 2011 at 8:57 am
Poor Arseface the Viking. You’re so horrible to him.
November 16th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Is this what that Fall Out Boy song was about? Altogether now, “This ain’t a scene, it’s a god damn arse face!”
November 16th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Alternate titles:
-SORRY, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SCIENCE FICTION IS
-MARAUDERS FROM URANUS
-RHECTUM THE BARBARIAN
-CONNOISSEUR’S NIGHTMARE
November 16th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
It looks as if Rhectum and Horsiesaurus are wearing matching trouser armour.
November 16th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I just noticed that the dinohorse is licking the ground, too. Weird.
November 16th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
They’re not gonna let that one into Valhalla, that’s for sure….
November 16th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Years ago I bought this book because of the description of its contents in a catalogue. Never has there been such a mismatch between title and cover.
I got rid of the book after reading.
November 16th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Does anyone else look at horse-o-saureses hair and think ‘spaghetti’?
November 16th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
You see an arse-faced Viking on a denim-clad horse. I see a female-cleavage-faced Viking on a denim-clad horse. Potato, po-tar-to.
November 16th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
The fabled missing stanzas from “Horse With No Name”.
November 16th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
wait, I don’t understand, is that actually SUPPOSED to be a face?!?
November 16th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
@Phil: I did notice, while researching this title, that *none* of the online booksellers show a cover image for it. It is a reprint of an earlier, 1964 edition, which has a considerably better cover, albeit an abstract one.
November 16th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Abstract would be much preferred to whatever the heck this is! Really, I don’t have words for this. I think it’s making my *brain* abstract…
November 16th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I wanted to make a joke, but when in the presence of true greatness I’ll just stay out of the way. I mean, the dude has a butt for a face. Somebody drew it that way and somebody else approved it.
Heheh, butt for a face.
November 17th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Wasn’t this a South Park episode? Shouldn’t there be a sheep over the face to protect our delicate sensibilities?
November 17th, 2011 at 11:11 am
@THX – I think even space sheep won’t cover some things. Who knows where that bum face has been!
November 17th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
We ask enough of Dolly, this would make her the butt of too many jokes.
November 17th, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Warrior-dude, your horse-thing may be fugly as hell, but at at least it doesn’t have someone’s butt-end for a face.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:11 am
WTF?
November 23rd, 2011 at 8:19 pm
A.R.Yngve Says: “They’re not gonna let that one into Valhalla, that’s for sure….”
That one floored me!
January 14th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
All this time and no one has said it? Well alright then…give’s new meaning to the phrase “Give us a kiss on the cheek now..”
Now I feel cheap and dirty…and I rather like it!
May 13th, 2013 at 8:38 pm
So this alien walks up to me and says, “hey, buddy, got a match?”.
And I says, “Yeah, my butt and your face!”
October 31st, 2013 at 1:37 pm
The consensus appears to be the face is a pair of buttocks, but surely they’re breasts – aren’t the (rather highly perched) nipples doubling as eyes?
October 31st, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Boobs and not butts you say?! We’re going to have to investigate this VERRRY closely. Here is the best resolution I can find (its an eBay completed listing so I don’t know if the image will be up forever). To the Boob-O-Scope!
http://tinyurl.com/connoisseurssf
Perhaps Tag Wizard can snag that JPEG for the GSS archives.
October 31st, 2013 at 3:15 pm
The listing is already down for me old chap. Does anyone have a contact for Bob Fowke? Perhaps he has the original work hung above his dining hall fireplace…
October 31st, 2013 at 8:05 pm
It’s about a third of the way down, so you may have to scroll a bit, but it’s still there and ready for its close-up.
If you look closer, you can see some really weird things people have used as tombstones.
October 31st, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Alright, I’m convinced. Thanks crew (and thanks StevenLP).
Terrifying, really.
November 1st, 2013 at 12:59 am
Now that I think about it, a butt-faced Viking in Samurai armor on a unicorn dinosaur horse on a book called Connoisseurs’s Science Fiction never did make much sense. Of course, it was boobs all along!
November 1st, 2013 at 4:14 pm
The sad thing is, if the artist hadn’t gone for a boob face (or even a butt face) then the cover would have been pretty good – it’s full of interesting things, but once you notice what’s propping up the helmet it’s all reduced to silliness. Of course, it’s connection to a book called ‘Connoisseurs’s Science Fiction’ seems limited: but I’ve never felt strongly that cover art should match content, all I ask for from a SF/Fantasy cover is a striking image.
December 21st, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Hey, does that horse have its own sword??
December 25th, 2014 at 7:29 am
@TN: You mean your horses don’t have their own swords?
August 25th, 2015 at 4:03 am
@Tag Wizard: Arseface the Viking has a beard. I smell a needed tag . . .
March 27th, 2016 at 6:48 pm
@fred, #10: No, the answer to The Smiths’ Is It Really So Strange?.