Apr 15
Joachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
Joachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
April 15th, 2013 at 9:03 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Horses’ Asteroid http://t.co/GgWsvm6cpy
April 15th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Are they standing in a hole? I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:38 am
It’s Lady Godiva’s personal modesty asteroid.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:54 am
There has gotta be some horse puns… my head just isn’t working this morning…
I love the look on Horse, “OHHHHH yeah!”
April 15th, 2013 at 10:55 am
Pleased with their work, the editors mused:
“We said ‘ass’ on the cover! Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
“Heh-heh, heh-heh!”
“Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
“Heh-heh, heh-heh!”
“Huh-huh, huh-huh…”
Unt so weiter…
April 15th, 2013 at 11:45 am
That’s no moon, that’s a half-melted chess-piece with her off ‘Mad Men’ embedded in it.
April 15th, 2013 at 11:45 am
And some astro-turf.
or maybe it’s real grass for the Modesty Sheep
April 15th, 2013 at 11:53 am
I looked at this cover three times, and each time I read its title as Horse Is A Steroid. This may be because I regularly ingest horse in an effort to bulk up my muscles.
April 15th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Or “Horses’ Ass” as it is commonly referred to in the publishing business.
April 15th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
So this Barbie and chess piece on an intergalactic divot walk into a bar…
April 15th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
That cover is so brilliantly horrible I’d probably buy this book without hesitation.
April 15th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
— oh the comments, my sides hurt — http://t.co/aoVhl5JYe2
April 15th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: Horses’ Asteroid http://t.co/GgWsvm6cpy
April 15th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
I think this cover qualifies for the Trypophobia Banned Books List. You know, if thrypophobes were united and organized enough to compile a list of literature with unsettling artwork.
April 15th, 2013 at 3:34 pm
“Listen, honey, I don’t mind the long face, but next time please clip your toenails before we get into asteroid.”
April 15th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Looks a little like the troublesome micro-meteorite from the original Andromeda Strain movie, maybe. Even has the green.
April 15th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
@Bibliomancer—note the subliminal support for this *Horse’s Ass* reading in the proliferating “s” sounds of the blurb, but try to avoid thinking about how truly awful that alliterative first line is:
“A second scintillating collection of satisfying sic-fi. . . .”
Really, “satisfying”?
April 15th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
She has a look on her face like she just realized that she’s trapped on asteroid with a gay horse who has no interest in her.
April 15th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
The Horsehead Nebula had to downsize in the wake of the Great Galactic Recession.
April 15th, 2013 at 5:51 pm
@B. Chiclitz – good observation. The blurb is written with a sort of galloping poetic meter – I believe it is called iambic pentathlon.
April 15th, 2013 at 6:06 pm
What’s happened to the ratings?
I’ve just noticed that there’s been a big shake-up in the top 15, and that the top rated books have lost about 0.5 of a point.
April 15th, 2013 at 6:24 pm
@David Cowie – with the leaders bunched at the top with a 9.5 score, it is easier to advance your favorites by voting zero on the rival covers.
I believe there is rampant voter fraud underway and I demand an investigation. I am allowed to repeatedly vote for my favorite bad book cover … and I’ve been deceased for years!
April 15th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Your own..personal..asteroid. Somewhere to take your horse, your horse of course. Reach out and touch him…
April 15th, 2013 at 7:01 pm
I’m ridin’ ‘cross the cover on a horse with no game…
April 15th, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Damn that asteroid grass, how did it get there??? What do they grow in the space grasss??
It is blocking a perfectly good sheepy moment.
April 15th, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Hmmmm. Spacegrass, Dodge Swinger, 1973, top down,chassis free…
April 16th, 2013 at 9:24 am
@David Cowie & Biblomancer
Excellent work Detectives! It seems we had someone, though coming from different addresses, spam the ratings system causing the chaos!
The bad news is… the plugin I use doesn’t allow me to delete specific ratings, only all of them! So I either set, for example, I Sing the Body Electric back to zero or do nothing.
Though I could always delete the logs, so everyone would be able to vote again and will keep the current rating. Basically the plugin I use sucks and I should really look at using another.
I think Biblomancers suggestion of voting zero seems pretty good.
A boon to you both!
April 16th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
I think it’s a sneak attack by someone at Baen Books who wants to make sure that their covers are not mocked but recognized as the masterpieces they truly are!
April 16th, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Is there a way to view more of the covers by rankings? For instance, if I wanted to see the ones lurking just outside of top 15 glory?
April 17th, 2013 at 8:58 am
@Yoss – Why… I’m just working on that very thing! If you notice just above the ratings on the right hand side there is now a link of:
Click here to see our Top Rated Covers
That displays all the covers by rating, which you can scroll back through!
Hopefully I’ll put a few things in the menu bar at some stage. Might need to update my template first though.
EDIT – Actually just looking at it… it seems to be great for the first 3 pages then it starts throwing random rated covers in after. Man…
April 17th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Now that’s service right there! Best of luck getting the details sorted out.
April 17th, 2013 at 5:21 pm
It’s no surprise that the ratings upset was caused by a person or persons unknown spamming the site with low scores, the big question is WHY?
April 20th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
I have nothing to add. Just…this website makes me so happy.
April 25th, 2013 at 5:42 pm
The Horses’ Asteroid….where clothes are frowned upon.
June 20th, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Oh boy! I definitely owned this at one time in the dim and distant past but I have no memory of ever reading it, but I do remember it was much heavier than other books of a similar size. What can this mean? I must seek out a copy on E bay and find out….
March 28th, 2014 at 10:55 pm
GET BACK BEHIND THE ASTEROID, YOU PANTOMIMETIC CHARACTERS!
August 25th, 2015 at 5:05 am
@JuanPaul: No, she’s contractually obligated to be in this picture, and she would really rather be absolutely anywhere else.