The cover for Warriors of Thlassa Mey by Dennis McCarty is an interesting thing. It shows a mustachioed warrior of some sort emerging from a tomb, and as his mummy-like wrappings are falling away he’s zapping an unfortunate victim with some sort of finger magic. His chest is puffed out, and there’s a sword on the ground — perhaps belonging to the victim.
This is actually the second book in the somewhat-obscure Thlassa Mey series (perhaps its obscurity is linked to its difficult-to-pronounce title). The first in the series, Flight to Thlassa Mey, was published in 1986. The fifth and final book, The Birth of the Blade, was released in 1993. This title was published in 1987.
The Thlassa Mey books are the only science fiction titles Dennis McCarty has published, but he has still had an active and unusual career. McCarty is a reverend in the Unitarian Universalist church. He has written a play titled Servetus: the Radical Reformed Musical and a book called Little Celebrations: Readings from a Gentle Atheist. He is an active pulpit preacher and a newspaper columnist.
This cover, which is the work of Darrell K. Sweet, is the first and only cover this novel has received. Sweet supplied covers and art for
Sweet’s illustration career took off in
