Sep 29
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So I climbed over the mountain peak and made my way through the snow storm. I was close to death and feared I may never see another living soul again. Then I stumbled on the temple, and the great master. There he leaned forward from his mediation. Placing a single flower petal in my hand he whispered, ‘shoulder pads’. It changed my life.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dude • gun • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • once you see it • paging John Galliano • shoulder pads • space ships • Stephen Hickman
Oct 19
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Mirrie’s Art Direction: Sci-fi villians must be as campy as possible. Hmmm, maybe give him a chair made of antlers like Jareth from Labyrinth had, and have him wearing a gold suit. 70’s babe on the left of him, sinister chimp-surgeon to the right. And behind them all looms the Angel of Death, looking like if Peter Capaldi played Grandpa Rick.
Published 1975

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • ape • Ballantine Books • cleavage • computers • Cordwainer Smith • damsel • dude • Gray Morrow • monkeys • planets • Smirky McSmug • strange creature • throne • waistcoat • wings
Sep 16
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You know what I would like to see? A huge cricket with a hat! Giving a hat salute as he greets us with a, ‘top of the morning tu yaaa!’ And why stop there, EH!? Why not have him inviting people into his huge sea shell homes……?
Why yes, I am back on medication. Why do you ask?
Thanks so much to Chris R!

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Tagged with: aliens • Jack Vance • Mayflower Books • mountains • once you see it • Planet of Adventure series • strange creature • talons
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
May 10
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Adam Comments: Soooooo, the editor must think blonde women in clingy semi-transparent dresses are either mutants, misfits or genetic mistakes.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • cat people • damsel • frickin laser beams • Leisure Books • planets • space ships • Steve Vance • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
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
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