Jan 11
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Frank Comments: I suppose I can understand how this got sorted in with the romance paperbacks, just from the color. But this is why I look through theromance paperbacks, so I can rescue the books that need it and put them over in the SF&F section.
Published 2002
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Tagged with: damsel • Diane Duane • Don Puckey • embossing • font problems • glow • magic • robes • Shasti O'Leary Soudant • shiny • Warner Aspect books
Jan 09
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Joachim Comments: Doing the fish dance! Steps: 1) make sure you have a fish head, 2) limp wrists, 3) and a steady gurgle.
Published 1973
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Tagged with: dude • Michael Moorcock • people with animals for heads • Peter Till • Quartet Books • starkers • strange creature • WTF
Jan 08
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No no no… I said more glow! And more Ting! And more of the horse looking like he’s awkwardly floating over a field!
Published 2011
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • floating horse • glow • Gollancz Books • horses • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • war
Jan 07
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Scott B Comments: So we have a glowing underwater shark-riding, um, zombie Roman legionnaire? At least I assume he’s been zombified, or something. That’s a real death-stare he’s got going on there. Maybe he forgot he can’t actually breathe underwater?
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Avon Books • beast-riding • Clyde Caldwell • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • glow • Good Show Sir • Kenneth Bulmer • spear • strange creature
Jan 01
Happy New Year!
And so the world has spun, strutted and wobbled its way around the sun yet again! We’ve come through ruff storms, predictions of the end of the world and a lot of superhero movies. This leaves us though with one eternal question, will anyone find a cover to top I Sing The Body Electric!?! It certainly doesn’t look like it! But who knows, who knows eh? I am sure the year ahead will be full of wondrous treasures!
Thanks to everyone for sending in all the covers we’ve posted over the year! And thanks to everyone who leaves a comment. Oh they do make me laugh! Ah ha ha ha ha… ha!
The top rated cover of the year:
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A personal favourite:
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CSA Chooses Lizard shield attack:
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And finally, just for the double triple Ting!
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Tagged with: Alan Danzig • Anthony Boucher • anthropomorphism • Barry K. Nelson • bladed weapons • C M Kornbluth • C.S. Lewis • capes • Christopher Anvil • Cordwainer Smith • Damon Knight • damsel • DAW Books • dude • electricity • font problems • Fritz Leiber • glow • Good Show Sir • Hal Clement • Howard Fast • Joe Garcia • John Brunner • John Jakes • John Wyndham • jumpsuit • Kate Wilhelm • Keith Stillwagon • Kingsley Amis • lightning • Lin Carter • magic • mighty moustache • monsters • muscles • Old Year Sum Up • Panther Books • Penumbra Publishing • planets • Robert Conquest • Ron Goulart • strange creature • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • Wayland Young • WTF
Dec 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know what I would love reading in public… a book with a fully naked women on there. Tied down to some sort of Sci Fi chair… yeah… If anything it shows my literary intellect.
Published 1977
Well that’s us for Christmas folks! We’ll be back for an Old Year Sum Up on the 31st!
Happy holidays!
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Tagged with: damsel • devil's dumplings • Fontana Science Fiction • Jim Burns • Robert Silverberg • starkers • WTF
Dec 20
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I expect hell will be similar to my Friday night… naked and flexing my fine stuff! HEYOOo… high five? High five…? No? Ok… but seriously, I want a bum on there. You can draw mine, I shaved and…. what… No? Ok… just get Ron from accounting, he works out.
Published 1982 (maybe)
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Tagged with: cave • Damon Knight • dude • hunkbutt • Pocket Books • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute
Dec 19
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Jami Comments: Actually the best part is inside when I was trying to find dates on this. It’s the dedication Asimov wrote.
“To My Mother
Of Whose Authentic Gray Hairs
Not a Few Were Caused by Myself”
Yes, that’s how it’s capitalized inside.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Avon Books • Don Punchatz • dude • handguns • Isaac Asimov • space • space suit • WTF
Dec 18
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Durbin Comments: In a shocking development, skateboards actually happen in this novel. And there is, in fact, an elf inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. And a brief part of the novel occurs in New York City! But otherwise, the cover gives a completely misleading impression of the contents.
Published 1992
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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • dragon • dude • elf • font problems • Haircut 100 • Thorarinn Gunnarsson • Walter Velez • WTF
Dec 17
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Frank Comments: Good thing that fern was handy, else the publisher would have had to get really blatant with that maple leaf. All the electronic equipment out among the foliage is worrisome too. I’ve seen what happens when that sort of thing is left in a damp environment and it’s not good for continued operation.
Published 1972
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Tagged with: cleavage • computers • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • Gene Szafran • Pocket Books • strange creature • William Hjortsberg • WTF
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