Dec 07
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a naked man, and he’s playing with these two blue balls. No, no, I’m saying he’s handling two massive globes. Don’t make ’em the same size, one is bigger than the other. Have him straining, concentrating intensely. Look, I don’t see what’s so funny about this.
Published 1968
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Tagged with: Ben Barzman • clouds • dude • Earth • electricity • headband • mega limbs • muscles • Paperback Library • perspective problems • planets • space • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute • X marks the spot
Oct 21
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Chris D Comments: I quite like this cover. As far as following the plot, I suppose that the vacuum tube with the face in is meant to be one of the computers with a human brain. I also like that it was probably completed in just under a half hour.
Published 1967
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Tagged with: Alan Aldridge • detachable head • dude • electricity • Frank Herbert • my head aplode • Penguin Science Fiction • space suits • WTF
May 23
YES! It’s not only a bank holiday on Monday but the site is working! Woo! That means we can finally do another Honourable Mentions!
Thanks to all of you who constantly checked the site for over a month to see if it was working again! I missed all your comments, though oddly I actually got some work done. Anyway, I’m back to my normal pace now! Till the site breaks again…
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Scott W’s Art Direction: Ok, I need me a Ben Franklin, some lecherous 18th century dudes copping feels (or having their feels copped) by busty harlots, and oh yeah, can you possibly have Mr. Hundred Dollar Bill ride in on a cardboard lightning bolt with a pleasantly startled expression on his mug?
Published 1980
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Matt Comments: It wasn’t the airplanes. It was chain smoking that killed the beast.
Published 1977
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Ian R Comments: Do you accept old pulp sci-fi magazine covers? I hope you use them, if only because of that… thing on the woman’s neck/shoulder. It looks quite uncomfortable.
Published between 1955 & 1958
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Tagged with: ape • Arthur C. Clarke • bird hairdo • bracers • cigar • cleavage • damsel • Donald Zochert • dude • electricity • fire • font problems • frickin laser beams • Fritz Leiber • goblet • gun • Harlan Ellison • helicopters • Honourable Mentions • lightning • long haired men • megaphone • monkeys • once you see it • Penguin Science Fiction • pointing • Richard Wilson • space ships • Star Books • suggestive • suits you • tunnels • utility belt • Walter Wager • WTF
May 13
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Lauren F’s Art Direction: Since this story is about elves and changeling babies and magic, it definitely makes sense to represent it on the cover with an electrical plug attacking a lady holding a fluorescent light bulb.
Published 1982
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Tagged with: bird hairdo • computers • damsel • electricity • glow • pole weapons • Poul Anderson • Sphere Books • staff • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 27
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Rachel and Thomas Comment: Fun fact! Megalatemeskephalesigakertomesephobia is the actual Greek for the fear that a large decapitated head is silently sneering at you.
Published 2012
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Tagged with: Ace Books • BEHIND YOU! • Charles Stross • dude • electricity • floating face • forest • magic • Mark Fredrickson • portal to another world • snow and ice
Oct 10
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I don’t know… just draw something… make it odd… actually make it so odd no one will have a clue what’s going on!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Darren!
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Tagged with: abstraction • bladed weapons • electricity • fire • I'm melting! • lava • Panther Books • skeletons • strange creature • tattoo you • Theodore Sturgeon • Unicorns! • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 10
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Scott B Comments: I don’t care how far into the future this book is set — there is no way that outfit will ever be in fashion.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: baldness • Brian M. Stableford • cloaks • clock • Don Maitz • dress for success • dude • electricity • fingerbeams • frickin laser beams • magic • magical orbs • male skirts • paging John Galliano • tights • vase • WTF
Aug 16
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No seriously… four different colours of font will completely work! Especially if we add blue arching electricity!
Published 1998
Many thanks to Paul D for sending this in!
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • BEHIND YOU! • Brom • dude • electricity • fire • long haired men • magic • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • sky-eyes • Terry Brooks
Jul 23
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Chuffmunky Comments: The future’s so badass, I gotta wear shades (and a bandoleer of spikes, and a fisher-price cd walkman cabled to my chest for some reason).
Published 1989
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Tagged with: david bowie • dude • electricity • font problems • Jonathan Littell • jumpsuit • once you see it • Signet Books • skulls a-poppin' • spikes • sunglasses • Unknown Artist Institute
Jul 04
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Good Show Sir Comments: Sir! How do we stop this robot plague!?! Unplug them from the wall?! That’s… well… yeah ok then.
Published 1977
Many thanks to Darren for sending this in!
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Tagged with: computers • electricity • font problems • J. Hunter Holly • Manor Books • robots • Unknown Artist Institute
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