May 19
Good Show Sir Comments: So many wasted Ting! opportunities.
Published 1975
Tagged with: arrow • Ballantine Books • Centaur! • Darrell K. Sweet • font problems • lion people • Poul Anderson • spear • strange creature • sword
May 19th, 2016 at 11:12 am
I conjecture that the cover artist has an issue with drawing clear, well-defined faces.
May 19th, 2016 at 12:03 pm
Banana-centaurs! Like regular Centaurs, but now a good source of potassium as well!
May 19th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Are those Wemics? Haven’t seen hide nor hair of one since post-Time of Troubles Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
May 19th, 2016 at 1:54 pm
That there is a font that will *never* look dated.
May 19th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
They are called Centauroids …
…’Roid Rage!
May 19th, 2016 at 4:00 pm
So it IS possible to have a green lion-man with a mullet who wouldn’t look cooler with a giant ray-gun.
May 19th, 2016 at 5:05 pm
Inserting at least one clear, well-defined face and some ting! may have made this cover slightly more interesting to look at. It’s pretty impressive that the artist managed to make a battle between lion-centaurs look boring.
May 19th, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Back cover.
http://www.gdprice.com/j/31124b.JPG
At least the cover didn’t prevent it from being nominated for a Hugo.
Coughing up one of their hairballs must be a real bitch.
May 19th, 2016 at 5:30 pm
That is some kind of fierce-looking Dr. Seuss character in the feathered tiara.
May 20th, 2016 at 1:08 am
How does a lion-centaur sleep? Some kind of elongated hammock?
May 20th, 2016 at 2:26 pm
More like Dire Time, amirite?!
May 21st, 2016 at 5:04 am
With a title like ‘Fire(d) Time’ I’m strangely reminded of Donald Trump, especially when the stylised T resembles a caricature of his hair:
http://www.zazzle.com.au/donald_trump_hair_gop_elephant_logo_poster-228918680151032087
May 21st, 2016 at 6:03 am
I’ve just realised what the font reminds me of: a late 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon. That could be why the illustration looks like an episode of ‘The Banana Splits’ that’s gone horribly awry.
May 21st, 2016 at 11:34 am
@Tat: there’s your answer for #10. Like most hunks on this site, a lion-centaur sleeps in a banana hammock. 🙂
May 26th, 2016 at 9:03 pm
This cover is strikingly unique in its visual detail.
The standard type of cover would include:
A) A rugged male astronaut
B) A scantily clad heroine
C) A human armed with a gun/sword/whatever
D) All of the above
But it’s almost like the target audience is four-legged aliens. Almost like… oh no, they WALK AMONG US!!
June 6th, 2017 at 12:08 am
Stop!