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Click for full imageJavier’s Art Direction: How about a slightly hunched, skinny, pasty white guy with a furry mustache and a laser gun that goes beep standing in front of an orange city?
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Click for full imageSuspiously good photos… Excellent though!
Many thanks to Javier!
If anyone knows what these are in English let me know. I haven’t had time to look.
(Average: 7.77 out of 10)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 8:51 am
These covers are so bad they ought to be obliczerated.
That said, I quite like the concept of a ‘wig nanny’. I picture a huge cockney gangster in a poodle wig. In my mind’s eye I can see him, and he’s yelling: ‘who’s your wig nanny now?’
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 am
I would guess that these are Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series – though couldn’t tell you what language sorry!
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:38 am
To the Stars trilogy
Homeworld (1980)
Wheelworld (1981)
Starworld (1981)
Nothing says “To the Stars” more than ‘a slightly hunched, skinny, pasty white guy with a furry mustache and a laser gun’.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
These covers might be slightly appropriate for Deathworld or the Stainless Steel Rat… but To The Stars?! Hardly.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 am
The first one looks like he’s wearing a giant power glove. No one else see it?
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:05 am
That’s a good porn star ‘tache.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am
@NIX It’s in Polish and they are this trilogy if I am not mistaken. I’ll double check again, but have no problem with being wrong.
Cheers!
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
It’s Polish. My workmate says this is the To The Stars Trilogy, the subtitles translate literally to: “Faces of Earth”, “Star-Home”, and “Exile”. Make of that what you will.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
If these covers were to be taken literally, like, say… a snapshot of every day life, then the future certainly is Chuck Norris-y (sans muscles) (sans cool)
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
The top one looks like he was auditioning for the village people.
The last one is just really bad. What has happened here is the model (in this case, an old man with moustache) has posed naked for a photo, then someone has badly drawn a barkground and armour on to him. Whats going on with the yellow circuit board on the front of his chest?
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Looks like promo posters for the sequel to the fake movie seen in the video for Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia”.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Yeah, Ku gwiazdom is Polish, and a literal translation for “To the Stars.” I found these books laying around our office a couple years ago, and was awed by the artist’s “talent.” I scanned the covers and kept them in my computer knowing that they would come in handy sooner or later; then I found this website and rest is history.
June 4th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Space craft always seem to be leaving this guy behind. He must be lonely.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
“For this covers, I pose two, three times for take photograph. I earn a few zlotys I send back to family in Warsaw. Is good. Maybe American government see this, make me real spaceman. Stanislav the astronaut, with laser gun to have shoot alien. Now I finish unblocking your drain, OK? OK.”
July 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
google translate gave me Calculated Earth, Star Home, and Exile.
I love the motorbike helmets on Calculated Earth and Star Home
July 16th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Good to see Zlad’s back in business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4