Mar 07
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Stuck for something to draw eh? All one has to do is follow the editors rhyme, “Golden chair on which a hunk may sit, dinosaur.” Yeah… it’s not much of a rhyme really. But here’s the twist: it’s in space!
Published 1989
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Tagged with: computers • dinosaur • dude • Jack L. Chalker • lizards • Penguin Science Fiction • Peter Goodfellow • space • space ships • throne
Mar 06
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DPN Coments: I wasn’t sure if this was a bad cover until I discovered that it was severely edited down from this.
Published 2012
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Tagged with: Baen Books • beard-wielding • Bob Eggleton • David Drake • dude • font problems • John Lambshead • long haired men • planets • space
Mar 05
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Bibliomancer Comments: Face off between the Man with the X-ray eyes and the Invisible Woman, I like what I DON’T see!
Published 1964
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Tagged with: Ace Books • baldy bad man • cape • cybernetics • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • half a face • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • robots • Samuel R. Delany • Ting!
Mar 04
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Make sure her antennae/horns are made of felt…
Published 1967
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Tagged with: antennae • damsel • font problems • Rex Gordon • Tandem Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 01
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Lauren Comments: Thought you might like to compare another version of this timeless tale of a dentist bravely going where no man has gone before. Namely, into an alien mouth full of yuk caused by a lack of dental hygiene.
Published 1985
Previous ‘Prostho Plus’ Cover Here
And… Sorry it took two years to post this!
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Tagged with: aliens • bad science • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • Don Maitz • dude • Piers Anthony • robots • Tor Books • WTF
Feb 27
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Benjamin Comments: “Listen, if this book sells more than 30 copies it’ll be a miracle. It’s done up in a strawberry-ice-cream-pink cover with a bright green toy rocket ship and some cheap plaster busts of LBJ and JFK and a coke bottle and a hamburger on the front — I showed it to a classroom full of gifted children up at the College of Marin and one kid said ‘That’s a toy book.'” – Richard A. Lupoff (Locus #159, 1974)
Published 1974
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Tagged with: bad science • Barry N. Malzberg • damsel • dude • explosion • Good Show Sir • Pocket Books • political figure • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 26
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Ethan Comments: I just finished raiding my book shelf and I unearthed some truly wretched book covers.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: Bridge Publications • dude • explosion • fire • flowers • Gerry Grace • L. Ron Hubbard • metropolitan apocalypse • Mission Earth series • tuxedo • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Feb 25
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Frank Comments: I think the cover art is meant to convey that there are three different stories within, but then there is… Font Problem at Infinity!
Published 1963
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Tagged with: alien city • font problems • Gold Medal Books • Leigh Brackett • Leo Margulies • maths! • Ray Bradbury • Richard Powers • Robert A. Heinlein • space ships • space suit • Theodore Sturgeon
Feb 22
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Joachim Comments: A monkey woman/man (?) or is that a tail… Regardless, two sheep are required.
Published 1962
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Tagged with: cleavage • devil's dumplings • dragon • Four Sqaure Books • gibberish title • John Wyndham • monsters • space sheep • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: He’s writing about the fourth dimension? Well I bet there are plenty of space ships, space suits, afros, statues, men in grass skirts and party streamers there!
Published 1963
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • Jack Gaughan • magic • maths! • Pyramid Books • Robert A. Heinlein • space ships • space suit • WTF
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