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 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
Mar 24
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So I just read from the list on this sheet? Alright then, terrible fonts, realistic guys doing manly stuff and pulling awkward faces, and a futuristic city. Might I add something of my own? Why don’t we credit only the editors and none of the authors? …You’re promoting me to management?! OHHH yeaaah!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Brendan Dubois • Brian Stableford • David Mattingly • Dena Bain Taylor • dude • Geoffrey Landis • Gregory Benford • gun • James Cobb • Joe Haldeman • Kristine Katherine Rusch • L.E. Modesitt Jr. • Mark L. Van Name • Martin H. Greenberg • Michael Burstein • Michael Z. Williamson • Paul J. McAuley • war • William H. Keith
Mar 22
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Women love their horses and I’m pretty sure everyone grows up wanting that pony all their life. So that’s what we’ll give ’em. Except give the horse a certain quality, an almost surprised expression as he stares off into the vast distance. And give the L&D letters of the title a black fill. I can’t see that one back-firing.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • cloaks • damsel • Dark Horse series • font problems • forest • Fred Fields • glowing eyes • horses • horses with hairstyles • Mary H. Herbert • once you see it • sword • TSR Books
Nov 20
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You know what you thought? You thought, you’d seen everything anyone could possibly do with a dragon. Well, you’re wrong. Three words for you to eat today, ‘Dragons In Space’! Oh yes, and trying to decipher the controls of a space ship! I mean, dragons can read, right?

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • dragon • planets • space • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • WTF
Mar 17

Art direction: Actually, I wasn’t really looking for an actual castle. Instead, could you have a couple of people juggling things with little water tentacle creatures and others watching them? And if we had a close up of one of the guys making you think “is he juggling those balls with magic… or just… well, juggling?” … anyway, if we had that, that’d be juuuust great.
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: balls • Jim Burns • magic • Majipoor Cycle series • Pan Books • Robert Silverberg • ruffles • strange creature
Apr 08
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Tom Noir Comments: Now THAT’S what I call a smoking hot body! I’ll get my coat.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Ace Books • cleavage • damsel • magic • once you see it • shuriken of approval • starkers • Stephen Hickman • tasteful smoke • Thomas Burnett Swann
Mar 27
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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • Con Sellers • dude • loincloth • long haired men • maeslse • mascles • mob rules • musals • muscles • muslces • mussels • Papillon Press • Unknown Artist Institute • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
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