Mar 02
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Amy Comments: I wish this snap had turned out better but I was getting suspicious glances from the clerk at the bookstore. At any rate, high focus is not entirely necessary to appreciate a fat, be-earringed red Troll doll brandishing a sword whilst riding on an anatomically challenged horse floating above a cloud in front of an angry sun. Winds of Limbo indeed. Also, it says Moorcock *snigger*
Published 1974
WHAT?!?
Many thanks to Amy!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • horses • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • Mind Implosion • surprised horse • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Nov 02
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: That’s a really nice painting you did for the Le Guin cover, but you know what would really sell it? Incorporating this photograph of my nephew and I at the Ren Faire. Don’t be silly, my mod seventies mullet-ponytail combo looks COMPLETELY medieval.
Published 1981 (maybe)
Many thanks to Tom!

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • cloaks • dude • Earthsea Series • font problems • magic • robes • staff • Unknown Artist Institute • Ursula K. Le Guin
Mar 16
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Eighties cartoons are just fantastic, aren’t they. Wait a second… What if we go for that eighties look? Musclebound guy wearing strange straps which have no benefit and gold bracelets. Holding aloft his magic glowing scepter. No one is going to forget this cover anytime soon!

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Tagged with: ant people • antennae • baldness • Bio of a Space Tyrant series • bladed weapons • bracers • dude • evil • eyepatch • gun • HarperCollins Books • moon • muscles • Piers Anthony • planets • skulls a-poppin' • space • strapping outfit • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • weird pecs
Nov 24
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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Darren Hopes • fairies • glow • HarperCollins Books • magic • Melissa Marr • once you see it • strange creature • tattoo you • Unknown Artist Institute • wolf • wolf people
Sep 16
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You know what I would like to see? A huge cricket with a hat! Giving a hat salute as he greets us with a, ‘top of the morning tu yaaa!’ And why stop there, EH!? Why not have him inviting people into his huge sea shell homes……?
Why yes, I am back on medication. Why do you ask?
Thanks so much to Chris R!

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Tagged with: aliens • Jack Vance • Mayflower Books • mountains • once you see it • Planet of Adventure series • strange creature • talons
Apr 02

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I’m not looking for more than a typical cover. Boy, wearing an anorak and holding some sort of gold phallus meets girl, naked and curled up in a glowing ball of energy.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • magic • magical orbs • Spider Robinson • starkers • Stephen Hickman • strange artifact
Dec 17
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Bilbiomancer Comments: No need for modesty sheep. Marilyn is wearing her white fox stole.
Published 1984

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Tagged with: Centaur! • cleavage • daemons • devil's dumplings • John Varley • Science Fiction Book Club • Sir Mix-A-Lot • spear • Steve Ferris • tasteful smoke
May 29
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Alessandra Comments: Ow, ow, ow! I’m doing a dental self-exam, my back is thrown out, and I’m carrying this armful of light-sabre blades!
Published 2010

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Catherine Asaro • David Mattingly • dude • fantastical rock star • glow • Haircut 100 • lens flare • mullet • planets • Saga of the Skolian Empire • shuriken of approval
Aug 09
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Brittney Comments: A kilt and a skin tight pink body suit? On the same cover? Really?
Published 1986

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Tagged with: Baen Books • booties • catsuit • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • gun • male skirts • planets • Robert A. Heinlein • space • Unknown Artist Institute
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