This Corgi paperback has the distinction of being voted as one of the worst SF covers ever. Not only does the artwork have nothing to do with book (an anthology of short stories by Ray Bradbury and one of my favorites way back when — I saved my hard-earned allowance money to buy it) it is so. Damn. Weird. A bodybuilding centaur with clones of himself attached at the end of his arms in lieu of hands? That is nightmare territory.
Not only that, but the artist seems to have modeled the creature’s face on a rock star popular at the time…
That’s Mick Ronson on the left, David Bowie’s guitarist and musical collaborator in his Ziggy Stardust days, and later a minor star in his own right. Further proving the close connections between SF and rock n’ roll. Hey, I thought centaur-man looked familiar!
