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
Sep 13
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Stevie Comments: Samuel Delaney’s Neveryona is so-over-the-top hetero soft porn. And the lead character is supposedly gay! What a bubble butt he’s got! I wish I had one of those! And what’s he doing with that giant sword, anyway?
Published 1983
Amazing! Many thanks to Stevie!

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Tagged with: Bantam Books • bladed weapons • dagger • damsel • dude • font problems • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • loincloth • muscles • Rowena Morrill • Samuel R. Delany • sword
Jun 17
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Tom Noir Comments: “Don’t use your fearsome claws and thick, scaly hide for protection, dragon! Use this unwieldy sword and shield instead! And for God’s sakes, wear a loincloth, we’re civilized here.”
Published 1998 (maybe)

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Tagged with: Christopher Rowley • dragon • dude • fancy hat • lizards • loincloth • quill • Roc Books • shields • sword • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 13
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You know something that won’t date badly? Long hair with fringes and dudes with long gelled back hair. I can see it now, it will be the combination of every eighties sci-fi created by man. With this, we’re sorted well into the late 1990’s!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • dude • fringe • Good Show Sir • lovers • Michael Herring • Sharon Lee • space • space ships • Steve Miller
Aug 02
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Ozzy Comments: Gordon Ramsay gets the gang back together … Celine Dion, Tonto, and Carl the human Chewbacca!
Published 1984

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Tagged with: archery weapons • BEHIND YOU! • big hair • bladed weapons • booties • damsel • Douglas Hill • dude • fat guy • mullet • native american • Piccolo Books • Terry Oakes • waistcoat • wasteland
May 28
Ah May! How I love you with two bank holidays in one month and the final one falling on, my birthday. That’s right exciting stuff! So here to celebrate is a strange random collection of honourable mentions. And they are a random collection I assure you.
These covers break our well kept and hard hitting rules. There are some who even complain they are almost too hard. But these covers are generally excluded because they are part of a franchise or comedy.
Again thanks to everyone who visits the site and those who are submitting covers. Some of them are simply amazing, we’ll get to them eventually. Enjoy these great covers and to those who gain from it, have an amazing extended weekend!
As a bonus check out a vague picture of CSA (known in certain circles as ‘The Troll’)
Trolling through books to help me find covers at Christmas
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Tagged with: Andrew Cartmel • damsel • Doctor Who • dragon • dude • evil • frickin laser beams • Gordon R. Dickson • gun • Honourable Mentions • monsters • S.D. Perry • space • space ships • space suit • strange creature • William Shatner
Feb 21

Emster comments: “It’s over!” wailed Barbie, “Ken’s left me for a Bratz doll!”
“You need someone more flexible,” confided Skipper.
And that’s when HE walked in…
Published 2010

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Tagged with: Eric Westpheling • font problems • Orbit Books • Philip Palmer • toys
Apr 20
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Brain Aldiss Comments: Dickless wonder … no more!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1965

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Tagged with: dragon • dude • full frontal • gorilla • Jeff Jacks • Mayflower Books • moons • once you see it • Poul Anderson • space ships • starkers • Ting! • visible waves
May 07
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Richard’s Art Direction: Ok, I want the devil playing chess on a life-size board with warriors from different periods of history. Don’t forget to throw in a few other random characters, at least one man must clad in leather and a scarf and find a spot for a woman in a bathing suit with a parasol. Then make it from the perspective of an opposing chess piece. Yeah, those should all come together nicely.
Excellent! Thanks to Richard!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • beard-wielding • Bill Kerby • bladed weapons • C.J. Cherryh • Chris Morris • cleavage • cloaks • daemons • daggers • damsel • David Drake • David Mattingly • dude • George Foy • gun • Heroes in Hell series • Janet Morris • leather • loincloth • Lynn Abbey • male skirts • Michael Armstrong • mighty moustache • Nancy Asire • skeletons • space ships • sword
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