Oh yes! It’s the Easter weekend and that can only mean one thing, some honourable mentions! These have been sent in to us and oh boy they are simply amazing!
So enjoy the covers and have an excellent long weekend (if you get one!) And once again thanks to all who send in covers and comment on the site. You gals and guys are all amazing, also you keep my grammar correct and my tags sensible!
Click for full imageTat Wood Comments: it was published in 1970 and tells of all the different ways the Earth will end by 2000 AD (although one would be enough). As we are now a dozen years beyond the Best Before date does it now count as fiction? A bit? Sort of?
Published 1970
Click for full imageLaura Comments: I came across this book in a used book store and I was hoping that the badly-drawn tough old guys would fit on Good Show Sir.
Published 2007
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Click for… ewww…Jaouad’s Art Direction: Let’s see… Pynchonesque, Burroughsian, Robert Anton Wilson-like… Oh, I know! Tim from Marketing has a girlfriend who does exotic dancing, right? See if you can get her to pose. Ask her to bring one of her pets. Yes, I know the author will want in on this… I’ll think of something.
Published 1996
(Average: 8.50 out of 10)
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March 28th, 2013 at 11:28 am
DOOMSDAY BOOK – go, baby, go… and good luck with breathing in the vacuum of space. Poor Gordon Taylor, having rat tray (sorry, Rattray) as a middle name.
CIPHERS is a double-whammy with an ohmigawd front cover and a gorblimey back cover. I detect sexism on the part of GSS, though. Surely those man-boobs need to be sheeped. Permanently. I do hope that ISN’T a photograph of the author on the back cover.
March 28th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
I’d think the top one at least had a quote from William the Conqueror in the blurb. The second, surely the sequel to The Lifey Living. Lastly, that’s might be Judd Nelson on the back (man, that’s an obscure reference), but I’m more worried about where the snake’s head is on the front.
March 28th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
That back-cover, three-armed, bear-hairy naked author pic for Cyphers is now the gold standard for ALL author pics.
What’s that you say? It’s not Paul Di Filippo? It’s actually Matthew Broderick? He’s let himself go, hasn’t he?
March 28th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
Just noting that the back cover for Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea has not yet been revealed. Don’t let us down now!
March 28th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
In case there is any doubt, would the real Paul Di Filippo please stand up:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=paul+di+filippo&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S0dUUfnCN4Gu0QWUooGQBA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=644&sei=X0dUUY6sIsWV0AWRyYEI
March 28th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Read that copy of “Ciphers” in public and even the homeless wino will get up and move to the far seat on the bus.
(I actually once bought that edition online because of a good review but I was so embarrassed by the cover I quickly resold it on eBay without even reading it.)
March 28th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
‘Deadly Dying’ is the botched first attempt at Busted’s hit, ‘We’ll Still Be Alive In The year 3000’.
And how can someone draped in a lethal reptile look so… bored?
March 28th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Noooo… I just realised Ciphers isn’t really an honourable mention! It’s fair game! For some reason I remember googling it and finding out it was a thriller.
Oh well…
March 28th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Yes, I’m afraid that is the actual author on the back cover. I met Paul Di Filippo once; he’s a great guy and a wonderful author. An ‘elegantiae arbiter’, however, he is not.
As for Ciphers being fair game: it’s a long time since I’ve read it (always in private – never, ever on the bus). Di Filippo is widely known as an SF writer, but I don’t remember much about this book.
Of course, it could be SF by virtue of having a hairy SF writer on the back cover?
March 28th, 2013 at 3:36 pm
There is a serious lack of Mayans on The Doomsday Book cover.
March 28th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
@fred: maybe that’s a very young one. Mayan your own business! 😉
March 28th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
THE DEADLY DYING is awesome.
“Did you just take that disabled parking space?”
“Yeah, and what if I did, grand-dad?”
BANG!
“Looks like you’re entitled to it now.”
March 28th, 2013 at 6:38 pm
I think we should all be grateful that Paul Di Fillipo is on the back cover and not posed with the snake on the front.
March 30th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
On The Doomsday Book: at first, I thought the baby was a new modesty cover and wondered what in the world he could possibly be hiding. Then I realised he really was part of the cover. Bad clip art?
April 5th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
New Rule: If you think you should pose nude on the cover of your own book, you should get some exercise first. Perhaps spend a few weeks in the gym. Steroids are definitely an option. Let’s not rule out liposuction.
(Though I gotta admit DiFilippo had balls to do that cover… in fact I know this because I CAN VIRTUALLY SEE THEM!)
January 26th, 2018 at 10:41 am
Easter already? I know the Crème Eggs have been in the shops for weeks, but really…
January 26th, 2018 at 12:43 pm
A baby launching missiles, grumpy old white men acting aggressive, the new feminism, Al Franken trying to get sexy:
America 2018
January 26th, 2018 at 3:01 pm
Baby grimace
Old guys menace
Be-sheeped bint
Belly button lint
January 26th, 2018 at 3:02 pm
A Post-Shannon Rock and Roll Mystery
I like to think that Shannon is the author’s ex, and this is the book he wrote to get over her.
“F*** you, Shannon! I don’t need you to write books! I’m seeing a sexy snake lady and she actually CARES about my writing!”
January 26th, 2018 at 6:16 pm
1.) Doomsday has something to do with test-tube babies.
2.) When it is manned by men, a shotgun shooting can result in a fatal fatality. That about covers this cover.
3.) A painful cover causes much siffering.
January 26th, 2018 at 6:52 pm
My one near-miss with Paul di Fiiippo was at ReaderCon about five years ago, so just after I’d seen this very posting. It was at the Saturday night ‘meet the authors’ bash and I couldn’t look him in the eye. Luckily, I noticed that John Shirley was hitting on my wife so I had an excuse to wander off.
January 26th, 2018 at 7:22 pm
1. Baby “Jazz Hands”?
2. She’s head of the Crips gang.
3. A three-handed Filippo? Shades of Oprah.
January 27th, 2018 at 9:22 am
@Tat (21): After seeing this, I doubt I could look him anywhere BUT the eye. For fear of what I might see if I looked any lower.
Well, that photo’s certainly put us all off our Creme Eggs and other such delights, hasn’t it? Lest we have Barfy Barfing. Maybe the napalm or attack baby should be deployed against that.
January 27th, 2018 at 10:16 pm
@THX1138, I certainly hope this does not mean the site’s out for a two month holiday on this note… and y’know, a regular publicity picture of the author would have sufficed