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(To The Stars: Homeworld)
Javier’s Art Direction: How about a slightly hunched, skinny, pasty white guy with a furry mustache and a laser gun that goes beep standing in front of an orange city?
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(To The Stars: Wheelworld)
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(To The Stars: Starworld)
Suspiciously good “photos”… Excellent though!
Many thanks to Javier!
(Average: 7.73 out of 10)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 8:51 am
These covers are so bad they ought to be obliczerated.
That said, I quite like the concept of a ‘wig nanny’. I picture a huge cockney gangster in a poodle wig. In my mind’s eye I can see him, and he’s yelling: ‘who’s your wig nanny now?’
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 am
I would guess that these are Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series – though couldn’t tell you what language sorry!
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:38 am
To the Stars trilogy
Homeworld (1980)
Wheelworld (1981)
Starworld (1981)
Nothing says “To the Stars” more than ‘a slightly hunched, skinny, pasty white guy with a furry mustache and a laser gun’.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
These covers might be slightly appropriate for Deathworld or the Stainless Steel Rat… but To The Stars?! Hardly.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 am
The first one looks like he’s wearing a giant power glove. No one else see it?
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:05 am
That’s a good porn star ‘tache.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am
@NIX It’s in Polish and they are this trilogy if I am not mistaken. I’ll double check again, but have no problem with being wrong.
Cheers!
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
It’s Polish. My workmate says this is the To The Stars Trilogy, the subtitles translate literally to: “Faces of Earth”, “Star-Home”, and “Exile”. Make of that what you will.
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
If these covers were to be taken literally, like, say… a snapshot of every day life, then the future certainly is Chuck Norris-y (sans muscles) (sans cool)
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
The top one looks like he was auditioning for the village people.
The last one is just really bad. What has happened here is the model (in this case, an old man with moustache) has posed naked for a photo, then someone has badly drawn a barkground and armour on to him. Whats going on with the yellow circuit board on the front of his chest?
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Looks like promo posters for the sequel to the fake movie seen in the video for Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia”.
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Yeah, Ku gwiazdom is Polish, and a literal translation for “To the Stars.” I found these books laying around our office a couple years ago, and was awed by the artist’s “talent.” I scanned the covers and kept them in my computer knowing that they would come in handy sooner or later; then I found this website and rest is history.
June 4th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Space craft always seem to be leaving this guy behind. He must be lonely.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
“For this covers, I pose two, three times for take photograph. I earn a few zlotys I send back to family in Warsaw. Is good. Maybe American government see this, make me real spaceman. Stanislav the astronaut, with laser gun to have shoot alien. Now I finish unblocking your drain, OK? OK.”
July 15th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
google translate gave me Calculated Earth, Star Home, and Exile.
I love the motorbike helmets on Calculated Earth and Star Home 🙂
July 16th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Good to see Zlad’s back in business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_PIjc2ga4
February 3rd, 2014 at 4:44 pm
It’s hip to wear only one half of a pair of sunglasses. All the cool kids will be doing it soon.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:41 pm
“In Russia, you don’t shoot hobos. In Russia, hobos shoot you!”
February 3rd, 2014 at 10:44 pm
Barry Chuckle: the leather-boy years.
(For non-UK residents lucky enough not to get the reference, I no sooner typed thins than found that the Chuckle Brothers were in the news again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26019626. Not everyone’s first choice of character-witness, I would have thought)
February 3rd, 2014 at 11:07 pm
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
August 25th, 2015 at 3:43 am
No one else has noticed that the second and third covers have what are clearly stock photos of Mars in the background. Maybe there’s a good reason for that, but I think not.
September 5th, 2015 at 10:16 pm
“Borat is back… and he’s mad as hell!”
September 6th, 2015 at 7:29 am
I like the way the laser space rifles and the space football helmets evolve from book to book.
September 6th, 2015 at 11:46 am
Good thing the books are in Polish, because I don’t think they could have made the hero look more Polish if they’d put Lech Walesa in the cover.
March 6th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
Laibach: How the space was won (an sf concept album).
March 8th, 2016 at 9:14 am
FTL spaceships, galactic civilizations, fine… but that mustache? Too unbelievable!
April 28th, 2018 at 8:28 am
…Dad? When did you join the Space Marines?
I’m going to have to have a chat with the old man. This is weird.😳