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Click for full imageGK Comments: Which came first? The golden swan or the golden egg?
Published 1983
(Average: 6.67 out of 10)
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GK Comments: Which came first? The golden swan or the golden egg?
Published 1983
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March 22nd, 2012 at 9:51 am
Not a good idea to sit that close to a swan, especially when you only have a thong for protection.
The text on this cover is pretty dire. The typesetter couldn’t even be bothered to use italics for previous book titles, and just underlined instead.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:35 am
@Phil: dire text indeed. All mushed together at one side, as if they painted Necky the Swan first, and were left with limited space.
It’s not just the neck of that animal that bothers me. It’s more time-consuming than difficult technically to do birds’ wings. But, in sharp contrast (or sharp focus?) to the remainder of the realistic cover, the artist turned the wings into broad-stroke smears. Possibly so she could put more time into her signature?
March 22nd, 2012 at 11:14 am
Watch out, those things can break your… er, arm! That’s it, your arm!
March 22nd, 2012 at 11:50 am
The nekkid dude is really rather well-executed, though. Perhaps we are to assume that he is the only ‘real’ thing in the picture (as supported by the fact that his leg extends out of the frame), and that the swan and the rest of it is dreamed up by him as he… er, touches himself.
March 22nd, 2012 at 12:41 pm
He’s singing to the swan…
“I love myself, I want you to love me…”
And the swan’s flying away because it can’t stand his voice.
March 22nd, 2012 at 12:52 pm
We have to cut the cover-designer some slack on the fonts – he clearly did not want readers to miss the cover image in all its swan-wanking glory.
March 22nd, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I think I have to quote MST 3K here:
“Oh now it’s almost like that’s gratuitous!”
March 22nd, 2012 at 3:19 pm
“Leta and the Swan” yaoi style.
March 22nd, 2012 at 3:44 pm
@Deadstuffwithbigteeth: I think the artist did put a lot of work into the swan’s wings. If you look, you can see she has the feathers arranged properly, with shadows of the quills and the multiple layers of feathers all with light shining from behind. It’s quite impressively done, really.
Pity about the image overall.
March 22nd, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Not much reaction on his part though. I know if I were in his place the scene would skew toward chaotic scrambling rather than composure. He must get buzzed by massive golden swans on a regular basis. Or he’s finally gone blind.
March 22nd, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Everything on this cover is at the same angle. Male model, swan, background rocks, wave crest on far left.
March 22nd, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I can’t believe no one else made the obvious pun:
SWAN THONG
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:22 am
Now we have to kill you.
March 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 am
Dying is easy, comedy is hard. ;-P
But seriously, is this the gayest book cover we’ve seen so far?
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:49 pm
@A.R.: Your kilometrage may vary, but I am still of the opinion that The Fetch was queerer than folk. Maybe if the swan were eyeing the hunk, and/or there were another phallic rock formation in the background, I might change my mind.
@admin: After flipping back to Merlin’s Ring, maybe there should be subdivisions within Strange Animals? Birds of a Different Feather, Rodents of Unusual Sizes, etc.
March 23rd, 2012 at 2:59 pm
And don’t forget Manseed. I remember seeing that one in a thrift store and thinking “That looks like something that belongs at goodshowsir.” Then coincidentally it showed up here a week or two later.
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:21 pm
“Leave it out! I’m not stopping here. I’m off to that Stephen Pearson painting in Abigail’s Party, at least that’s not pornographic”
http://www.flying-duck.com/HTMLs/art/wingsoflove.html
March 24th, 2012 at 1:58 am
Now we know what killed the Iceman.
March 25th, 2012 at 11:13 pm
Cover blurb written by KGB — revealing nothing! Contents of book is state secret!
April 16th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Everyone’s so focused on the swan that no one has notices the mess that is his left hand!? It looks like he’s got a right hand on there or something!
April 17th, 2012 at 11:12 am
Hmmm. Also that his left arm is about 2/3 the length it ought to be.
April 25th, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Holy crap. I’d forgotten about Mr. Looking At Swans One-Handed.
April 26th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
It’s the breastbone! It’s not the wings themselves that have bothered me, it’s that the bird has a big divot right where its sternum ought to be. And the axillae are all pinched out of existence.
January 3rd, 2016 at 11:18 pm
A naked guy fondles himself to a swan. Would you read this on a bus?
January 4th, 2016 at 1:52 pm
Well, it could’ve been worse: The tagline “A Novel Of Golden Swan Fellowship”
March 17th, 2016 at 4:14 pm
On first sight, I read “Crowning” as “Growning” and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why either Golden Swan or Mr. Scopin’-Out-Golden-Swan would be Growning…. 😉