Apr 26
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I don’t know about you, but when I think of animal slaves I hate that everyone just thinks of chimps. If I had an animal slave I’d definitely want a Scottish Terrier bringing me my dinner while a seal pleasures me. Mmm, well maybe don’t draw that – but at least put a seal on there!
Brilliant! Thanks to Noah!
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • dude • Frederik Pohl • Karl Swanson • strange creature • WTF
Apr 23
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Eron Comments: While my girlfriend was like “Hey! I own that book!” it’s pretty hard to argue with a half-naked man fencing an immensely bored looking black unicorn. Also, while I am assured by said girlfriend that it has something to do with the story, the man’s blue hat is epic.
Leo Comments: If I were to sword fight with a unicorn, I would probably have my shirt off too.
Many thanks to Eron and Leo who both sent this in!
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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • bladed weapons • dude • muscles • Piers Anthony • Rowena Morrill • sword • tapered cap • Unicorns!
Apr 22
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Harry Comments: According to the author, this cover was commissioned for another book but somehow ended up on hers. It’s very loosely appropriate: there is a sword, and there is a hero, but he is quite explicitly gay.
Superb! Thanks Harry!
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Tagged with: Alan Craddock • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • devil's dumplings • Diane Duane • dude • lens flare • Magnum Books • spear • starkers • sword • war
Apr 21
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No comments. Yea we’re not too sure what to say about this either. We’ll leave this one to the mercy of the readers!
Thanks to Lorcan!
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Tagged with: Beacon Books • cleavage • damsel • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • Raymond F. Jones • Robert Stanley
Apr 20
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Jen Comments: I have no words. Someday, I’m going to have to build up the courage to actually read this.
Amazing! Thanks Jen!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • busy hands • magical orbs • once you see it • planets • Robert A. Heinlein • space suit • Steele Savage • strange creature • strapping outfit
Apr 19
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NoiselessPenguin Comments: I’ll leave you with Samuel L Jackson grinning vaguely with eggcups stuck to his eyes.
Many thanks to NoiselessPenguin!
We’ve been searching for this one, MU HA HA HA!
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Tagged with: Good Show Sir • Greg Mandel series • mind fountain • Peter F. Hamilton • space • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Apr 16
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Remember when you used to dress up in black clothes, paint red eyes on your hoodie, stand with a knife and pretend to sacrifice your little brother to an evil spirit just to gain some physical power that will, in the end, only destroy you? No? Well you haven’t lived man! Now, let’s put that on there.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • clouds • daemons • evil • evil book • glowing eyes • Marc Olden • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
Apr 15
These collections of books were submitted by Eron Rauch. Thanks to Eron for making my day full of Icelandic volcano ash that little bit easier! Check out Eron’s site www.eronrauch.com which shows off some of his great photography, some of it also brilliantly nerdy!
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Eron Comments: The first of three in this series. I mean, how else do I explain it more than the title “Camelot in Orbit”, except I don’t really understand logic of the title, since they seem to be on another planet. I guess technically that planets are in orbit, but that’s rather redundant. Also, King Arthur seems to be riding a beaked dinosaur that is so pathetic that He-Man would be caught near it. I mentioned that before right? A fecking armored dinosaur.
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Eron Comments: The second in the series, I think, I mean it’s hard for me to care really, but this cover is passably bad until you notice the creepy-as-sin inbred ewok/mogwai knock-off sitting just to the bottom left of the girl. Staring. Into your soul with hollow black eyes. Seriously the stuff of nightmares.
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Eron Comments: The third in this utterly original series. Which features “Magick” with the added “k” which must mean serious fantasy is about to be had! In addition, we get a phenomenal rendering of the back of some random knight and a severely constipated dragon trying desperately to crap himself in terror at the War of the Worlds spaceship blowing the hell our of it’s castle with a laser that comes from nowhere.
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Tagged with: Arthur H. Landis • bladed weapons • Camelot series • castle • DAW Books • dragon • frickin laser beams • knights • lance • lizards • planets • shields • space ships • strange creature • sword • Thomas Barber Jr
Apr 14
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Jen’s Art Direction: A book about telepaths, you say? You’re blowing my mind. In fact, that’s just what we need on the cover! A man with his head exploding! And if that doesn’t just scream sci-fi, we’ll put him in coveralls and put after-images of him all over the place. Oh, and emboss it. All of it. I want everything to stand out.
Thanks so much to Jen!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • David Mattingly • dude • font problems • magic • mind fountain • my head aplode • omnibus • once you see it • space • Timothy Zahn
Apr 13
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Nix comments: This has an annoyingly shiny cover, so it may be hard to read its contents. It’s an anthology of four famous SF works: _2001_, _The Demolished Man_, _The Day of the Triffids_, and _I, Robot_. As you know, all of these contained city-sized giant mecha and huge explosions (although only two had the giant mecha dive-bombed by rocketships), so the cover is quite appropriate, and obviously is a fine piece of artwork: tasteful, yet subtle. I’m only sending it in because it’s so annoyingly shiny.
Many thanks to Nix!
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Tagged with: aeroplanes • Alfred Bester • Arthur C. Clarke • Chris Moore • explosion • giant • Isaac Asimov • John Wyndham • once you see it • robots • shiny • shiny oh so shiny • space ships • St. Michael
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