Good Show Sir

Dec 16

Elfi Comments: Nothing says “serious astronaut” like Steven Tyler in a bubble-helmet.
Published 1982

Many thanks to Elfi!

(Average: 7.89 out of 10)

Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • aliens • booties • bubble helmet • Clyde Caldwell • dude • ill-fitting spacesuit • long haired men • monsters • Pocket Books • space • space ships • strange creature

Dec 15

Omnivore

24 Comments »

Guys.. hate to tell you... but that's it's ass... Click for full image

Libraryman comments: This cover has it all!

Large centipede monster: check
Flying Manta Rays: check
Improbable mouths: check
Pink foliage: check
Big head Charles Bronson babysitting two “special” people : You better believe a check!

Published 1985 (maybe)

Many thanks to Libraryman!

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • Avon Books • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • damsel • dude • gun • mighty moustache • monsters • Piers Anthony • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Dec 09

Herds

18 Comments »

And for your coarse hair we recommend disembodiment and fire! Click for full image

John Comments: There isn’t a joke I could make that would trump the description on the back – “The wife of a powerful figure in CA is found brutally murdered in the couple’s lonely mountain retreat. Wesley Stoneham made certain that all the evidence concerning the murderer of his wife pointed to a nearby hippie community. He had 3 goals in mind: to get rid of his wife, to drive out the hippie commune, and to enhance his own power in the state. He was at the point of achieving them all when Garnna, from the peaceful planet of Zartic finally made contact with Debby, a hippie from the commune, who had problems of her own. Then, Stoneham’s troubles began.” OF COURSE I BOUGHT THIS RIGHT AWAY!
Published 1975

Many thanks to John!

(Average: 8.48 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • beard-wielding • dinosaur • dude • fire • Kelly Freas • Laser Books • Roger Elwood • space • Stephen Goldin • strange creature

Nov 16

A Heinlein Trio

25 Comments »

'I can haz cheezburger' by Stanley Kubrick. Click for full image

NGpm Comments: Okay, so there’s this face vase thing on the left, but it’s a mushroom (just like what the art director just ate) … and a decaying woman that is scaring the mess out of a cat that lives in Salvador Daliwood.
Published 1980

Includes – The Puppet Masters, Double Star & The Door into Summer
Many thanks to NGpm!

(Average: 6.54 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • damsel • dude • Gary Viskupic • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • Robert A. Heinlein • strange creature • WTF

Oct 29

Scary Halloween Covers

13 Comments »

“You have to have a sense of humor, darling, to be alive. Even a bit mad. It helps to be mad.”
Peter Cushing

Welcome readers to a world of fear, pain, man-tigers, wizards, mind bending horror and damsels in distress. Here we have a collection of the scariest covers sent in by our followers, or should I call them… minions! mu HA HA HA HAAAAA!

Anyway, I hope people have a good Halloween weekend and if you are dressing up or at least watching the fabulous 1958 Hammer Horror version of Dracula, I hope you all have a great time.

I see Nicholas Cage is still 'acting'. Click for full image

Libraryman’s Art Direction: Ok, now this is a scary book right? Well, what’s better than skulls? Am I right? I want a big one though, yeah I don’t care that real skulls don’t look that big, what am I an anatomist?? Oh and a crab claw. Gotta have a crab claw.
Published 1987

Not known to many - Toads, a zombies best friend! Click for full image

Neil’s Art Direction: A flooded city burns in the background, they’ll be a rotting head in the water. Nah, thats not enough, lets add something else. A toad maybe.
Published 1993

Graham’s Art Direction: This is a collection of horror stories by a world-famous author, so I really want you to go to town on the cover art. Try and capture the gothic-horror aspect: make the reader feel that these stories could be taking place right now in his own neighborhood. [looks at this quarter’s finances] Ah, never mind, we’ll just send them something from one of those sci-fi books that got canceled.
Published 1976

(Average: 7.62 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • bladed weapons • death • Guy N. Smith • John Stchur • Piatkus Books • Ray Bradbury • space • St Martin's Press • strange creature

Oct 25

Slow Train to Arcturus

30 Comments »

No, no - I said kick left and twirl right! Ok: from the top! Click for full image

Corwin Comments: In the future, designer space suits are in style, asynchronous space ballet is an Olympic sport, and we’ve all lost our pinkies.
Published 2008

(Average: 8.12 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • Baen Books • Dave Freer • David Mattingly • dude • Eric Flint • font problems • shuriken of approval • space • space ships • space suit • WTF

Oct 14

Starkissed

34 Comments »

Sex? I actually reproduce via spores... ah well... Click for slightly bigger image

Hayley Comments: This is what the back-cover says, “Warning: Graphic sex between a human woman and an alien male who is anatomically different from human men!”
Published 2008

Many thanks to Hayley!
Submitted through our wonderful Facebook group!

(Average: 8.30 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • author in the comments • BEHIND YOU! • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dude • Lanette Curington • muscles • Samhain Publishing • space • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Oct 08

The White Sybil

9 Comments »

I may be freezing and dying of hypothermia... but boy to I look good... Click for full image

Art Direction: We don’t need an artist! Have you seen what I can do with photoshop? Look, I can take this picture of Karen and… BAM… she’s blue! I know, hilarious right? And that’s not it, just cut and paste and… WHAM… she’s in a badly rendered icy landscape looking cold. Stick in the title and oh hold on, why is it behind her arm… Layers? Sounds like witchcraft to me. Finished!
Published 2004

(Average: 5.88 out of 10)

Tagged with: aliens • Clark Ashton Smith • damsel • Unknown Artist Institute • Wildside Press • WTF

Oct 06