Mar 28
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Tom Noir Comments: Naked cybernetic armed cat woman in an improbable pose bursting through a cover of shiny 3D fonts? This is what happens when cover designers play Bingo. This cover is SO shiny that the camera couldn’t quite deal with it. Pretty much everything that looks black is actually highly-reflective chrome.
Published 1998
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • cybernetics • devil's dumplings • font problems • Good Show Sir • Greg Bear • gun • handguns • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Niven • Man-Kzin Wars • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • shiny oh so shiny • space sheep • Stephen Hickman • WTF
Mar 27
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Jaouad Comments: More proof of the ongoing Maori conquest of the universe.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • damsel • dude • font problems • Michael Whelan • planets • space • space suit • spear • Tor Books
Mar 26
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Don Comments: Oi! Peter Pan! When you and your adventuring companion are being attacked by a mutant reptile puma with a bad case of sunburn, and said companion is trying to fight it off with his sword held backwards…probably not the best time to be checking out his butt. Nice though it is.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • damsel • DAW Books • dude • Dumarest series • E.C. Tubb • George Barr • monsters • strange creature • sword
Mar 22
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GK Comments: Which came first? The golden swan or the golden egg?
Published 1983
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Tagged with: bird • dude • font problems • giant birds • loincloth • muscles • Nancy Springer • planets • Pocket Books • Rowena Morrill • strange creature • Timescape Books
Mar 20
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Mangraa’s Art Direction: What? The cover is due TOMORROW? OK, um.. a planet, but make it space-agey. Like that Epcot ball thing, just don’t get us sued. Something new … vampire bat spaceship! Perfect. Slap some starbursts and a Jupiter on there, and we can get back to drinking.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Allen Wold • Gary La Sasso • planets • space • space ships • St Martin's Press • Ting!
Mar 19
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Colette’s Art Direction: We need to convey a Utopian future, so nothing represents that better than a pastel circuit-board Lego city with buildings encased in test tubes. Add a happy gorilla-headed torso man carrying a life-like unitard-wearing sex doll. Ooh, and lasers! And… and shoulder pads!
Published 1982
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • ape people • Avon Books • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • robots • shoulder pads • Stanislaw Fernandes • Stanislaw Lem • Ting! • trapezoid head • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Mar 16
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Art Direction: Look it’s Friday, so stop asking me hard questions! Just put a naked human sized fairy on a beach somewhere. And two glowy boxes in the corners. Why? We’ll reach two kinds of people: those who love the sea and those who love naked fairy bums. And anyone who likes both, then WHAM! Instant cash!
Published 1987
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Tagged with: beach • bottoms • fairies • fool • glow • moon • Orbit Books • Patricia A. McKillip • sleepy time • Unknown Artist Institute • wings
Mar 15
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Frank Comments: In this one, we know which character on the cover is referred to by the title, because he’s the one grabbing the active element on his weapon. The mannequins would never do such a thing.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: awesome foursome • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • capes • damsel • dude • glow • Jim Hawkings • Mariano • planets • Popular Library • space • sword • Ting!
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