Sep 12
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Look this has to stand out from the rest. But how…. ummm… put a magic sea shell with stars of the universe in it. Have a disinterested man staring at it… and a blue women who is already so bored she’s fallen asleep.
Published 1993
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • Dan Simmons • dude • font problems • John Jude Palencar • magic • statuesque
Jul 19
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Frank Comments: I just thought it was cute because it was another Campbell Award nomination and the artist put a nude girl on the cover, even if it was tasteful back-side nudity.
Published 1995
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • Donato Giancola • font problems • people in bottles • strange creature • Tricia Sullivan
May 24
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Jami Comments: I’ll just let everyone else make their own captions for Space Fabio. You know, lingerie in space doesn’t seem practical.
Published 1995
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • cloaks • damsel • dude • font problems • muscles • space • Stephen Youll • Susan Krinard
Apr 26
Alessandra Comments: This is one of those subtly wrong covers. What’s up with the faces? And looking closer, the anatomy. His eyes are oddly round and oddly placed, a little too close together and a little too skewed to our right. Her right eye (on our left) is too low, giving her an odd one-eyed (or in the right light, three-eyed) look. Not a cover that screams its wrongness, but still eye-watering when you look closely.
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • Barclay Shaw • damsel • dude • font problems • gibberish title • glow • jumpsuit • once you see it • portal to another world • Ralph Mylius • Warren Norwood
Feb 15
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Libraryman Comments: I just don’t understand what good those wings will be.
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • dragon • dude • Elizabeth Scarborough • lizards • monsters • tights • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 01
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Marcus’ Art Direction: Fredric Brown mostly wrote short stories with twist endings. So let’s have a twist ending to the cover! But, at the same time, semi-naked women sell books. So we should have one of them. Not too big, though, we want lots of nice black space around.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Fredric Brown • planets • space • space sheep • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 08
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: Ok, this book is about a brain in a jar, so we’ll have a big glowing brain in a jar. With some wires and electrical discharges please, so the audience knows it’s Science. And give it evil eyesockets while you’re at it. An infinity parking lot in the background. A scientist chap. Oh, and a girl, of course. A girl in a frilly dress. With cleavage. And nailpolish.
Published 1950
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • cleavage • Curt Siodmak • damsel • dude • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 06
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Tom Noir Comments: This author has a whole series of covers involving people making out above spaceships. Jokes about her “wormhole” are left as an exercise for the reader.
Published 2008
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Linnea Sinclair • space • space ships • Stephen Youll
Nov 04
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Man of the Mountian’s Art Direction:So, the story is about a girl trapped in the middle of the black death in midevial England, while everyone back in her time are dying of a flu epidemic. Give us a nice upbeat cover, otherwise nobody is going to buy this!
Published 1993
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Tagged with: bad science • Bantam Books • Connie Willis • damsel • dude • headband • horses • horses with hairstyles • once you see it • Roger Kastel • SCIENCE! • shuriken of approval • Ting!
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