Mar 28
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!
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Tat 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
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Laura 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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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
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • evil children • explosion • Good Show Sir • Gordon Rattray Taylor • gun • Hawthorne Vance • Honourable Mentions • Panther Books • Paul Di Filippo • shotgun • snake • space sheep • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 26
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Frank Comments: This is clearly of the 1970s, a fantasy warrior knife-fighting pose, but in disco dress, with zodiac symbols in the background. And big bugs! Seriously, I looked at it to see if it was an update of “The Radio Man” for the Disco Years. It wasn’t.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Alan Annand • Alan Marks • antennae • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • cleavage • daggers • damsel • dude • giant ants • insects • monsters • proportional issues • spider • strange creature • Tower books • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat • wings
Mar 19
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Tom Noir Comments: Lady, it’s time to get a Macbook Air.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: aliens • Barclay Shaw • C.M. Kotlan • cleavage • computers • damsel • G.C. Edmondson • glow • Haircut 100 • maths! • monsters • WTF
Mar 15
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Rachel R Comments: We apologize, ladies and gentlemen, but due to pilot fatigue we will be rerouting from our original destination Planet Professionalism to make a stop at the Space Station of Sleazy Symbolism.
Published 2005
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Tagged with: architectural framing • Baen Books • cleavage • damsel • David Mattingly • David Weber • devil's dumplings • dude • Eric Flint • font problems • frickin laser beams • glowing eyes • orson • planets • polymastia • shuriken of approval • space • space ships • WTF
Mar 08
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Frank Comments: Now here we have an example of how to punch up a work by giving it a new title and new cover art. The story is from 1950, and was previously published as “The House That Stood Still”.
Published 1960
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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • baldy bad man • Beacon Books • chucky the evil toy doll • cleavage • damsel • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • Gerald McConnel • rope
Feb 22
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Joachim Comments: A monkey woman/man (?) or is that a tail… Regardless, two sheep are required.
Published 1962
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Tagged with: cleavage • devil's dumplings • dragon • Four Sqaure Books • gibberish title • John Wyndham • monsters • space sheep • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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 21
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Scott B Comments: Judging by the back cover blurb this one surprisingly is a faithful cover. Except it didn’t mention geodesic-head guy there. But the rest of it, including blue-glow-from-nose man, seems to be taken straight from the book. Still… wow.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Avon Books • Burt Cole • cleavage • damsel • dude • evil children • gun • mighty moustache • rainbow • rifle • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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