Mar 14
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Man climbing stairs to heaven, a grandfather clock with an axe for a pendulum. I think there is only one way I can improve this masterpiece… it has to shine… and I mean literally! Get the silver glossy shiny cover people on the phone, I’ve got another one for them to perfect!
Published 1992 (maybe)
Many thanks to Ethan for sending this in!
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • Bridge Publications • clock • De Franck • dude • font problems • L. Ron Hubbard • shiny oh so shiny • stairway to heaven • WTF
Feb 19
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Sara Comments: Here I am, just stepped out of my mecha-techno, time-traveling, chrome, orb-y…thing. The only drawback is that it destroys all clothes that are not right gloves or right boots. Swords are not clothes so they’re all right, too. Also it makes weird shadows stick to you. Wait, am I floating above a strange river?
Published 1958
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • computers • dickless wonder • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • Manley Wade Wellman • muscles • penguins • starkers • strange artifact • sword • Wallace A. Wood • weird pecs
Feb 14
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Frank Comments: Another work re-issued with new title and new cover. There was a previous publication of it as “The Radio Man” in 1924.
Published 1950
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Tagged with: antennae • Avon Books • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • giant ants • muscles • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • wings
Feb 12
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Daniel Comments: Bought this gem in an second-hand bookshop last year. I was slightly embarrassed taking it up to the counter. It’s rubbish on a number of levels: it’s a literally awful bit of artwork; it’s artwork that bears pretty much no relation to the story; and said story is a sombre dystopian yarn by Christopher Priest, a renowned purveyor of genre-crossing, award-winning novels that have more recently been reprinted by Gollanz with classy covers.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cave • Christopher Priest • cleavage • daggers • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • gun • Mike Ploog • Pan Books • rifle • space sheep • starkers • Ting! • 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 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 03
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments: Upset that only the City Watch showed up to her Confirmation, Melody pisses the Pleiades.
Published 2001
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • inadequate armor • Luis Royo • magic • statue • sword • Tor Books
Nov 05
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Ian Comments: We are the Guardians in Green Leaves. We’d chase you but we are rooted on the spot… on the ice…
Published 1987
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • dude • font problems • glowing eyes • Jill Bauman • male skirts • mighty moustache • monsters • sword • tree people • WTF • Zach Hughes
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