Dec 04
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World gets destroyed by large alien disco balls firing lasers. Lasers that create nuclear explosions. Then we’ll have some women in a tight shirt, unbuttoned just enough to tease our readers. And like every other cover out there, she’ll be completely ignoring the fact that there is a mammoth nuclear explosion going off in the background. Women, eh?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • booties • bracers • casually walking away from an explosion • cleavage • damsel • explosion • frickin laser beams • gun • handguns • Hymn Before Battle series • John Ringo • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • once you see it • Patrick Turner • rifle • scope • space ships
Mar 27
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Rachel and Thomas Comment: Fun fact! Megalatemeskephalesigakertomesephobia is the actual Greek for the fear that a large decapitated head is silently sneering at you.
Published 2012

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Tagged with: Ace Books • BEHIND YOU! • Charles Stross • dude • electricity • floating face • forest • magic • Mark Fredrickson • portal to another world • snow and ice
Jun 12
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Noel Comments: Promise me one thing. No white rabbits this time, ok?
Published 1971

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Tagged with: Bruce Pennington • Corgi Books • damsel • dude • Frederik Pohl • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • shoulder pads • sunglasses
Oct 04
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Jonathan’s Art Direction: ‘Syndic.’ Shall I write it down for you?
Artist: No. I’ve got it. ‘Sindy.’
Published 1981

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Tagged with: C M Kornbluth • David Davies • dummies • Sphere Books
Jul 22
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Jonathan Comments: It’s a shame AAA’s imagination didn’t stretch to clothes. Except for yellow socks.
Published 1982

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Tagged with: A.A. Attanasio • arms akimbo • Corgi Books • hunkbutt • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute
May 22
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Good Show Sir Comments: “Waving UFOs to their arrival gates. That’s all I do.”
Published 1946

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Tagged with: bathing cap • boredom • Century Books • dude • Harold M. Sherman • none more green • rocket • shoulder pads • toga • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 08
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Ruth Comments: I work in a Library. As I was clearing out some of our not so popular books, I came across this cover and thought of your site immediately.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • aliens • damsel • dude • Jim Gurney • robots • space ships • strange creature • WTF
Nov 07
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V Coupland Comments: Well, it should have been titled, Off all possible covers. There is everything on such a small space! Naked woman running around with out-of proportion limbs, marine monsters and eyes, very big, desincarnated eyes. Just missing a cat man with a gun, to be really a must!
Published 1960

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Blanchard • cleavage • damsel • eyes on stalks • fish • monsters • proportional issues • space ships • starkers • strange creature • submarine • William Tenn • WTF
Mar 12
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David A Comments: I assume after losing 80% of their population over the past 100 years, tigers are finally going to get even with the human race… with the help of a sexy female sidekick, naturally.
Published 1993

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • casually walking away from an explosion • cat people • cut-offs • damsel • DAW Books • explosion • fire • font problems • Good Show Sir • gun • Jim Burns • metropolitan apocalypse • once you see it • S. Andrew Swann • scars
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