Mar 08
Click for full imageThanks to Nix who says:
_Patterns of Chaos_ is a slightly famous book with a lot of amazing setpiece scenes which could have been used for the cover, starting with the destruction of entire planets, meticulously described, and ending with a transgalactic trip to a memorably unpleasant destination. If any book counts as overblown space opera, this one does.
So what did they use for the cover? A scowling cowled bloke, a weird plant, a badly-designed castle and a random number generator.
(Average: 3.82 out of 10)
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:44 am
He does look very sad about his fruit.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Has the look of a piece of art that didn’t make the cut for the gatefold of Led Zeppelin IV.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:40 am
I know it’s usually nipples on this site, but does anyone else see something suggestive about the V-shaped foliage nestling in the folds between hills? Are all these covers just some kind of secret Rorschach test? Is Good Show Sir really run by a Dickian vast alien intelligence which is scoping out the minds of humanity in order to find The One?
March 8th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
I would probably go to the doctor and see about that weird hair growing from my stomach.
Darn it James. You’ve figured us out. Although to be fair most people consider ‘The One’ to be some sort of leader highly skilled in Kung Fu. The One we are looking for simply has to go and collect our Indian take-aways. The best curry places just don’t deliver.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
James: this book was published in the 60s. Of *course* it’s meant to be suggestive, and ‘arty’ as well. Unfortunately it ends up looking depressing.
It’s like what Baen Books does with its covers, only inverted.
(I strongly suspect that the publisher had only one cover pre-drawn and just slapped it on this book because no other was available, and the thought of letting an artist do a cover *after* seeing the book, or even knowing what book it would be, was unthinkable.)
March 8th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I don’t see what the problem is. That is a Barcode Plant. It’s how all the main supermarket chains grow their barcodes.
March 30th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
I don’t know how it correlates to the content, but the cover doesn’t look so strikingly bad in itself. It’s just mediocre and antiquated.
April 20th, 2010 at 1:10 am
I’m pretty sure based on the style, the publisher and the time it was published, it’s a Rodney Matthews cover; so the fact that it looks like a Led Zeppelin album isn’t a coincidence.