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 12
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Scott Comments: This little piggy levitated glowing hourglasses, this little piggy immolated itself, this little piggy performed a Satanic ritual and was possessed by a demon…
Published 1982

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Tagged with: Ace Books • daemons • evil • evil book • font problems • glow • magic • magic fingers • monsters • Randall Garrett • Robert Adragna • WTF
Mar 07
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a cover that depicts the author’s existential angst and self-loathing. Just kidding! Draw a naked broad with big gazongas on it and call it a day. Ooh, and maybe have a bird squawking at her.
Published 1993

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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • font problems • giant bird • painting in the painting • ships • starkers • strange creature • Tanith Lee • The Overlook Press • Wayne Barlowe • WTF
Feb 23
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MisterBob Comments: I… have… a… headache.
Published 1973

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Tagged with: DAW Books • dude • exposed brain • John Holmes • Michael G. Coney • WTF
Feb 20
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Diggler’s Art Direction: What we need is a man in a hot tub doing some New Wave Impressionistic dance moves for his girlfriend on the video phone. Meanwhile we’ll have him being squirted by red dye for artistic effect… What do you think?
Published 1982

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • jazz hands • Larry Niven • lens flare • muscles • once you see it • Orbit Books • Peter Jones • space • starkers • Ting! • WTF
Feb 17
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Frank Comments: I didn’t realize that coffee, cigarettes, and cheap women were that much of a secret. Maybe it’s the intravenous delivery, or the soaking in it, or the little marshmallows.
Published 1976
You might remember this from here. And here.

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Bart Forbes • damsel • dude • floating face • people in bottles • Philip José Farmer • starkers • WTF
Feb 16
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Collette’s Art Direction: I envision floating elderly embryos, spaceships, and armed jungle animals before a crimson sky! Hmm… maybe we should put that in a small box on the cover, because now that I say it out loud, it sounds kind of crazy.
Published 1971

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • Ace Books • anthropomorphism • baldy bad man • cat people • cheetah people • fox people • gun • hippo people • John Schoenherr • space ships • WTF
Feb 13
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Diggler Comments: Nothing says Agent of Chaos better than Ming The Merciless, dressed in a naked man print gown playing with marbles.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: Belmont Books • cloaks • dude • let's shoot hoops! • mighty moustache • muscles • Norman Spinrad • planets • space • Tim O'Brien • WTF
Feb 10
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Rachel J’s Art Direction: Mark, *nothing* happens in this yawn-fest, so let’s go with the general girl-power-in-space-with-crystals theme from the earlier books. Pink-and-purple colour scheme, huge embossed title in neon yellow, rocketships, chick in the foreground holding up a sparkly rainbow crystal. Oh, and make her look awed. What? No, I said “awed”, not “bored!” But hey, “bored” works too.
Published 1993

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Corgi Books • crystal • damsel • glow • magic • Mark Harrison • space ships • WTF
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