Apr 19
Click for full imageJon L’s Art Direction: I want mountains! Mouths! Bad breath in the form of clouds! I’m talking The Emerald City on top of a giant screaming insect hillside chomping on the landscape! With lazer beam eyes! You know – sci-fi!
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April 19th, 2013 at 10:21 am
We all live in a Singing Citadel, a Singing Citadel, a Singing Citadel…
April 19th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Open Wide. Now say “aaaaah”.
April 19th, 2013 at 10:51 am
When dentists work on acid.
April 19th, 2013 at 11:00 am
The sun shines east, the sun shines west, but I know where the sun shines best…
April 19th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Psilocybin, LSD, makes this cover sing to me! Gooooo hippie artists! YEAH!
April 19th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
It’s Peter Max-meets-8th-grade-graphics-design class! And I think there’s a Blue Meanie lurking behind one of the mountain tops.
April 19th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Oh, ho! I’ve found a loophole in the rules. I could not be embarrassed reading this book on the train, because no-one would be able to look at the cover for more than three seconds without going blind.
April 19th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Elric, Corum, and Erekose walk into a karaoke bar…
April 19th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Why does this make me think about Skittles?
April 21st, 2013 at 3:49 am
Y’know, no matter how weird a Baen cover is, you know that it’s an accurate depiction of the story inside.
With Moorcock books, no matter how weird the cover is, it’s probably underselling the story.
April 21st, 2013 at 6:41 am
@JuanPaul: because that cathedral up top looks like a unicorn’s horn and you’re thinking about what’s happening at the far end?
April 21st, 2013 at 9:35 pm
There is a big dilemma hovering over all SF book covers:
Should you accurately depict what’s in the book… at the risk of freaking out the easily-freaked-out-public… or should you — as Dave so aptly put it — “undersell” the content and risk not attracting the target audience…?
I have no answer to that one. But don’t knock publishers for taking risks. As long as they take risks with skill and, what’s the word, panache.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:40 pm
I’m pretty sure this graphic was in a “Laser Floyd” show I saw a couple of years ago…
August 25th, 2015 at 4:37 am
That’s not a city. It’s clearly the crown of this giant alien thing who’s currently chowing down on a mountain range.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:29 pm
Citadel: I have a mouth and I must sing.
September 25th, 2019 at 11:05 am
AAANND III-III WWILLL ALL-WWWAYS LLLOVE YYOU-OUU-OUU-UUU….
September 25th, 2019 at 11:10 pm
@ARY: Bravo! Been too long since we saw that chestnut. Surprised it hadn’t already been posted for this.
September 28th, 2019 at 12:01 am
After trying out a spectacular new stage set and light show to no avail, the producers of the renamed Multi-Coloured Minstrel Show eventually had to admit that times had changed and call it a day.