Ah May! How I love you with two bank holidays in one month and the final one falling on, my birthday. That’s right exciting stuff! So here to celebrate is a strange random collection of honourable mentions. And they are a random collection I assure you.
These covers break our well kept and hard hitting rules. There are some who even complain they are almost too hard. But these covers are generally excluded because they are part of a franchise or comedy.
Again thanks to everyone who visits the site and those who are submitting covers. Some of them are simply amazing, we’ll get to them eventually. Enjoy these great covers and to those who gain from it, have an amazing extended weekend!
As a bonus check out a vague picture of CSA (known in certain circles as ‘The Troll’)
Trolling through books to help me find covers at Christmas
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(Rating: 6.67 out of 10)
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May 28th, 2010 at 9:49 am
The speed at which CSA throws book after book. Wow..
Has anyone ever read any tekwars? Is that supposed to be Shatner on the cover?
I’ve read some resident evil books in my day. Spelling mistakes, is what I can remember.
May 28th, 2010 at 9:51 am
I knew Clare Danes’ career was flailing, but honey – Resident Evil?
May 28th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Ah May! How I love you with two bank holidays in one month and the first one often falling on my birthday. How I hate you because with you comes hay fever, and because in any other country a bank holiday would always fall *exactly* on my birthday rather than sometime vaguely near it.
And, er, the Dickson novel, while the cover is utterly dire, it’s a fantasy book. Despite the cover it is not a comedy (except unintentionally) and it’s not part of a franchise: Dickson wrote all the books in this series himself.
(Specifically it is *not* related to the Dragon Knights franchise.)
May 28th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Nix> Wow I guess we just assumed it was comedy. Maybe our minds just couldn’t register it as something serious. It’s got to be at least light hearted.
Besides it’s part of the, KENT, franchise. They’re all out to get us I tell you… get us. *looks around nervously*
May 28th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Camp dragon!
Just after the scene shown on the cover, the dragon started singing ‘I Am What I Am’.
May 28th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Based on the jacket that the androgynous individual on the cover of that Doctor Who book is wearing I’m guessing it’s supposed to be a portrayal of Ace. I must admit that a skinhead haircut like that is more consistent with her character being a juvenile delinquent punk.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Ian> he’s “clutching his pearls”, my word, yes! Ten to one the author wrote him with a lisp.
SI> Here in the Colonies (Canada) we actually produced a run of Tek War for TV (Shatner producing). If we are to judge a book by it’s cover, then the show was pretty much like the cover: Craptacular. And if that is suppose to be Shatner on the cover then really, are you surprised?
May 28th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
That’s some leak they’ve got there in that Resident Evil cover building. They need an emergency plumber, is my opinion.
May 28th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
@Dead Robot- so Tek War *was* a TV series! thank you for confirming that I did not hallucinate it during the mid-90s
May 28th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
What exactly was rule-breaking about The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent? Or was it franchished out as one per county?
May 29th, 2010 at 6:58 am
@SI & DeadRobot: The Tek books actually weren’t half-bad, as they were ghostwritten by the entertaining Ron Goulart (ostensibly from plots by Shatner, but I suspect the “plots” consisted of single sentences on the inside flaps of the envelopes containing Goulart’s paychecks.)
May 29th, 2010 at 11:22 am
hampshireflyer> As I said above we just assumed it would be comedy. I guess it deserves a post all to itself!
Robot, Don> I did have a couple of them sitting around my house at one stage. Can’t say it was because I actually wanted to read them. Might have to dig them out.
Adam> That’s no gas leak. Haven’t you heard of a nemesis cloud? It’s kinda like a cumulus one, with a bit more zombie.
May 30th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Re: Dead Robot’s comment…
Bravo in the U.K showed said series (along with Total Recall: 2070) in a graveyard slot (1am, I believe) , & being a insomoniac, I actually watched it at said time…
Shatner did appear in almost every episode, he did so as the Hero’s (Jake’s ?) boss at the agency….
As for Remocarpet’s comment regarding Ace, it’s not a Skinhead haircut, it’s a extremely short ponytail…
June 1st, 2010 at 9:46 pm
kinda looks like Ace is holding a laser cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE_vfiZZkAQ
June 7th, 2010 at 2:40 am
I read the first Tek novel when I was a teenager and I remember the short lived TV show, the pilot of which in was shown in the US in conjunction with a number of other attempts at new scifi/fantasy TV shows, the most famous and successful of which was the Hercules series.
In hindsight I suppose I should have figured that out the the novel had been ghost written. I can’t help but be feel a little disappointed now. I liked believing that Shatner really was talented enough to be that competent as a writer.
June 7th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Re: the comments above about the Doctor Who one, Ace’s hair isn’t a skinhead cut – it’s actually done in the ‘tied back so tightly it’s a wonder Sophie Aldred’s eyes didn’t pop out’ style that was done a couple of times in the show (mainly in Remembrance of the Daleks, if my memory serves me correctly). And while it’s not spectacular, there are some New Adventures that are much, much worse (I’d refer you to ‘The Pit’ by Neil Penswick (http://f.imagehost.org/0823/12_New_Adventures_No_12_2C_The_Pit.jpg) which features an amazing combination of tartan, a bare-breasted blue woman riding a pterodactyl-like creature, and a misshapen man who’s supposed to be William Blake…
June 9th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Wow that cover is spectacular! Now we know where James Cameron got the visual design for the aliens in Avatar; she’s even riding a flying reptile! And I’d like to believe that Blake did indeed go on wild intergalactic adventures. It would explain a lot.
December 15th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
CAT’S CRADLE: WARHEAD
One day, they pushed PETA too far!
RESIDENT EVIL: NEMESIS
“I say! Look up there, old chap, a dreadful monster is going to eat Big Ben!”
THE DRAGON and the FAIR MAID OF KENT
Maiden: “I don’t care what they say, darling, for a Windsor you don’t look the least bit inbred!”
TEK POWER
Corbin Berntsen is not amused.