May 17
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Mangraa’s Art Direction: OK, the main character’s a hot chick, so slap a Barbie head on a soldier’s body, that’ll work. Make this cover look like the end of a Michael Bay sci-fi clusterf***! I want not one, but TWO ships blasting away at her, the entire city burning, maybe throw in a lava spout just to be safe. I want NO EMPTY COVER SPACE!
Published 2004

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • David Mattingly • explosion • font problems • frickin laser beams • gun • Michael Z. Williamson • once you see it • proportional issues • space ships
Oct 28
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction:
“Are you sure you’re a licensed massage therapist?”
“Of course dear, now just relax and let me work. Your thighs look very… tense.”
Published 1986

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • Judith Tarr • Kevin Eugene Johnson • magic • mullet • Tor Books
Sep 27
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: It’ll be just like our D&D game we played last night… except John from Accounting can be the hunk attacking a skeleton… and Dianne the Receptionist can be the sword-wielding damsel in a cape!
Published 2000

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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • capes • damsel • dude • font problems • Gollancz Books • Jon Sullivan • once you see it • Orion Books • shiny • Simon R. Green • skeletons • skulls a-poppin' • sword
Jul 27

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GSS ex-noob Comments: Editor’s 12 year old: See, he’s got a long arm, and he smokes, and it’s in spaaace!
Published 1979
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • Ballantine Books • dude • font problems • Jim Spanfeller • Larry Niven • planets • tasteful smoke
Apr 02
Only two honourable mentions for the long Easter weekend! Mainly because I have completely lost track of what’s in my inbox!
Good to be back and posting covers again, thanks to everyone for supporting me through the dark times! You all get a cookie!
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Piper Comments: It isn’t exactly fantasy/science fiction. It’s psychology. The longer you look the more insane it gets (E.G. Eagle heads in crystals).
Unknown published date
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Good Show Sir Comments: Unfortunately I never got to play this, I like to think it would be just as epic as the box art.
Published 1988

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Tagged with: birds • crystal • damsel • floating face • giant birds • Good Show Sir • Honourable Mentions • landscape face • lens flare • lightning • magic • magical orbs • magical weapon • shortbow • sky-eyes • strange creature • sword • Ting! • Tor Books • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • wolf
Feb 11
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JuanPaul Comments: Don’t worry about your dangerous liaison in the ice cream cone. The mime won’t tell anyone.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Jove Books • mime time • none more white • sexytime • starkers • Tony Profumo • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 22
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Rick Deckard Comments: The Cheshire Cat is trying to hurry up and disappear from this godawful cover.
Published 1954

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • C.L. Moore • Cats! • damsel • disembodied head • evil children • frog • Henry Kuttner • Lewis Padgett • little people • Mitchell Hooks • people with tails • scissors • spider • starkers • tree people • WTF
Jul 03
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Good Show Sir Comments: Send in our three best Maytag repairmen!
Published 1957

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Eric Frank Russell • font problems • necktie • Robert E. Schulz • rocket • tasteful smoke • uniforms
Mar 15
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Tat Wood Comments: Painted by Emsh during a Cortico-Thalamic Pause and with an introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman, just in case the cover-art didn’t make you run away fast enough.
Published 1964
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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • Ace Books • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • joystick • my head aplode • rocket • spectacular space chart
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