Scott’s Art Direction: I was drinking fairly heavily when I read, “The E.S.P. Worm” but I’m pretty sure it was about an estranged pair of anthropomorphic sticks of chalk, plus a bespectacled penis, I mean “worm”, lassoing the Earth with its magic rainbow powers. So put that on the cover!
Published 1970
(Average: 8.68 out of 10)
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Phil Comments: I may be skewered and chained inside this crystalline tesseract, but at least I’ve got the TV for company. A shame it’s…pressing…down…on my…chest…
Published 2012
(Average: 8.81 out of 10)Loading...
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
(Average: 8.80 out of 10)Loading...
Published 1972
Published 1980
Whitney Comments: I’m sending in two different covers of the same book. They are both wretched.
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)Loading...
Craig Comments: Ultimate because they can’t smell you apparently.
Published 1990
Many thanks to Craig!
(Average: 8.81 out of 10)Loading...
Don’s Art Direction: I want a seriously bronzed (think gallons of Man-Tan) hero on a gryphonish thing with wings growing out of his butt.
Published 1982
(Average: 8.51 out of 10)Loading...
Corwin Comments: Where to start… A truly wretched color scheme with a bright pink neon title, two title fonts that go in four different directions. Then the rest of the cover is way too busy including a blue shark, a green sub with pink polka dots, and a man hole cover. And lest we forget, the story has a computerized Ayn Rand as one of its characters.
Published 1998
Flying shark!
Many thanks to Corwin.
(Average: 8.65 out of 10)Loading...
Carolyn Comments: You can probably analyze this better than I! I assume the artist just read the jacket blurb.
Published 1977
“Imagine: Gorilla-shaped bismuth junkies who stack their dead ancestors like cordwood in the living room; gentle souls who can touch with a touch or a thought. A throwback fiefdom on a planet where huge poisonous bats rule the night sky, where serpents the size of semi-trailers slither though the rotting jungle. A sarcastic mansized beetle that’s a Talmudic scholar and swears like a longshoreman. And claims to be immortal. All in a life’s work for Otto McGavin: Prime Operator for the TBII, undercover guardian of the rights of aliens and humans under the Confederacion.”
Mmm… uhh… seriously? That snake doesn’t look too happy.
Outstanding! Good Show Carolyn!
(Average: 8.62 out of 10)Loading...
It was my late teens and I was studying hard at some top notch university. Then came the LSD and it was all, floating semi translucent men surrounded by magical orbs in a forest being watched by unicorns. I suppose that has something to do with the world of cats, right?
(Average: 8.48 out of 10)Loading...
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