Sep 18
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Think of your target audience, 15 year old boys and 39 year old single males still living with their parents. So that would be, a women with an unimaginable rack walks in space across….liquid alien gooey stuff….and then just throw in a red computer grid and some flying male/female symbols. Sorted! We’ve pretty much got a winner!
Thanks to Mairi! 🙂

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Tagged with: Alex Stewart • cleavage • damsel • double trouble • ewww • frickin laser beams • gun • New English Library • omnibus • planets • spectacular space chart
Jun 05
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Leah Comments: Another beaut from my personal collection. Fairly good book, but the protagonists (human woman and psychic alien cat) don’t look like that. First, I’ve never seen a living, healthy adult human being with such a tiny head. Second, they’re both pregnant in this volume of the series. No sign of that here. Also, the text never says anything about the cat having a double chin.
Published 1995

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Tagged with: Braldt Bralds • Cats! • damsel • DAW Books • embossing • font problems • Gayle Greeno • neo-jesus • robes • staff • sword • tombstones
Apr 02
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: You spilled your whiskey all over the cover art! No time to redo it. Just sponge it off and get it out the door. It has to be at the printer’s today.
Published 1977

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Tagged with: baldness • baldy bad man • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • booties • dinosaur • dude • handguns • I'm melting! • Jack Woolhiser • Leigh Brackett • lizards • monsters • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • once you see it • skeletons • sword • Unicorns! • WTF
Nov 15
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Good Show Sir Comments: Giving someone the middle finger… in style!
Published 1973
Many thanks to Darren!

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Tagged with: C M Kornbluth • David Pelham • fingerbeams • Frederik Pohl • Penguin Science Fiction • space ships • WTF
Jan 14
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FluffyGhostKitten Comments: There’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and then there’s this.
Published 1999

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Tagged with: Baen Books • big gun • bird • font problems • Harry Turtledove • helicopters • L. Sprague De Camp • Larry Elmore • lizard • ridiculous hat • robes • shuriken of approval • snake
Sep 28
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Billy Awesome Comments: Mescaline binge meets community college art exhibit.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: Clifford D. Simak • clouds • damsel • Del Sarte • geometric oddities • Paperback Library • people in bottles • planets • space • strange creature • WTF
Jul 17
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth’s Art Direction: On our cover, we won’t show ANYTHING. But legs. Lots of legs. We got a volume discount on legs.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: cave • damsel • dude • evil children • long hair • mega limbs • Michael Whelan • muscles • Patricia Wrightson • strange creature
Jul 27
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Good Show Sir Comments: The apostrophe is on the spine. Not on the cover. Quality copy editing.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1975

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • DAW Books • font problems • Fred Saberhagen • giant • Jack Gaughan • loincloth • ridiculous shirt
Jul 20
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Good Show Sir Comments: The Real Slime Shady
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Guy N. Smith • monster • New English Library • slime • Unknown Artist Institute
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