Oct 02
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Scott B’s Art Direction: I know the cover is late, so just give me whatever clip art you have lying around that looks vaguely science-fictional. Guy In Huge Metallic Helmet, brilliant. Old-Timey Person In Armor, Old-Timey Person With Gun, sure, great. Wait, underwear-clad wrestlers, really? You know I’ve warned you about that more than once. Well, I guess we don’t have time to redo it…
Published 1971

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Tagged with: dude • F.L. Wallace • geometric oddities • Groff Conklin • Isaac Asimov • J.T. McIntosh • James H. Schmitz • Kingsley Amis • knights • loincloth • Pyramid Books • Ron Walotsky • 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
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 06
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Alessandra Comments: There’s a failure of perspective in the building. Where exactly is it supposed to be? Is it falling down? How big is it? Oh never mind, just keep your eyes on the guy in the bright purple Renaissance fair outfit.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • beard-wielding • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • mullet • Patricia A. McKillip • robes • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Jan 17
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Kevin Comments: After centuries of being subjected to ridiculous Christmas and Halloween outfits, the feline race finally gets it revenge….in space.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • cat people • dude • frickin laser beams • handguns • Michael Whelan • Poul Anderson • space • space ships
Jun 30
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Dorian’s Art Direction: What do you mean, there are no scantily clad women in the story? No werewolf? No heaps of treasure? No weird monster consisting entirely of teeth and wings? Ah, who cares? No-one ever looks at these things anyway.
Published 1993

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cleavage • damsel • font problems • Harry Turtledove • monsters • Stephen Hickman • strange creature
Jan 13
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Stevie Comments: Robert Silverberg’s Recalled to Life has to be the classic tentacle-sex cover drama. Why is the guy naked and floating in a huge vat of octopus to begin with? Wow!
Published 1977
Many thanks to Stevie!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • bad science • Don Punchatz • dude • muscles • Robert Silverberg • squids and nudes • starkers • tentacles
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