Mar 17
Art direction: Actually, I wasn’t really looking for an actual castle. Instead, could you have a couple of people juggling things with little water tentacle creatures and others watching them? And if we had a close up of one of the guys making you think “is he juggling those balls with magic… or just… well, juggling?” … anyway, if we had that, that’d be juuuust great.
Thanks to CSA!
(Average: 6.37 out of 10)
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March 23rd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Good book. Bad cover!
March 26th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Its not even a Mark Harrison cover you imbecile.Good lord get the artist right first you halfwit.
March 26th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Glad your getting into the spirit of the site! Submit your bad/cheesy covers using the submit page.
March 26th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Hi Michael,
Thanks for pointing that out. It’s not always easy to verify who the cover artist is and it’s good to know when a mistake has been made.
A great many of these covers are utterly amazing and it’s best that credit can be given where its due.
J
April 30th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I just want to point out that he is, indeed, simply juggling. It’s an important plot point in the book. Or at least a lot of pages are devoted to it. I don’t know that this cover actually sells books, but it does provide a valuable consumer notice: “Juggling inside.”
April 30th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Gah, you’ve spoilt if for me now Hitch! I liked to think he was simply using the power of his mind.
If I’m ever on the look out for a book on the basis of juggling, this will be a sure fire bet!
May 15th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
I own this painting. Another masterpiece by Jim Burns.
May 28th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
A cover pulled right out of, I think, the early 90’s
The book was middling in my opinion (good in bits, though) but the cover is truly terrible. If you’re curious there IS a castle… on the back. And veeery very tiny.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:45 am
1981 actually. You may not have liked the story, but the painting is accurate. And the castle is massive, with thousands of rooms. Try re-reading the book retard.
November 22nd, 2013 at 12:22 pm
I am saddened upon perusing the comments to this early post shortly after the posting of the 1,000th cover, to see just how far we have strayed from the original spirit of GSS.
November 22nd, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Re-try re-reading the re-book, retard.
There. Is that better?
November 22nd, 2013 at 12:45 pm
@RachelJ: Ahhh, now that’s more like it.
November 25th, 2013 at 9:45 am
Since this is fantasy, I assume he’s not really juggling but cheating with magic somehow….
November 25th, 2013 at 10:00 am
@A.R.Yngve. Actually, it’s science-fiction and he’s just plain juggling.
November 28th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Then he must be juggling… ATOMS!! (Gasp!)
November 28th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
No, he’s juggling… IN SPAAAAAAACE!*
*(but in front of a painted backdrop)
November 28th, 2013 at 6:37 pm
No, he’s CYBER-JUGGLING! (In the Wienerian sense.)
November 30th, 2013 at 9:21 am
Tom Noir wins. He is juggling IN SPACE, or at least on another planet. It’s what you might call a “futuro-medieval”, or perhaps “techno-magical” setting. Featuring juggling.
November 30th, 2013 at 9:21 pm
@Rachel j’s Comment to fear – hahaha now thats the spirit!
What is the true spirit of GSS though… I can imagine it’s some sort of single malt whiskey.
July 31st, 2015 at 7:48 pm
The spirit of GSS? I’d say half methanol, half formaldehyde, distilled in some distant planet by a loincloth-wearing unicorn.