Jan 06
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Don Comments: If you were surrounded by a tribble with fangs, Dennis the Menace, the girl from Season 1 of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a corpse, a skeletal alien, a streaker, a horse and an off-panel Robin Hood, you’d be all “WTF?!” too.
Published 1971
Many thanks to Don!

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Tagged with: abstraction • Ace Books • bighanditis • Claude Nunes • evil children • font problems • Haircut 100 • horses • Kelly Freas • monsters • once you see it • people • Rhoda Nunes • shortbow • strange creature • WTF
Sep 22
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GK’s Art Direction: Alright, Lem asked us for a giant robot of some sort. Preferably with the ruins of a burning city in the background, perhaps people running in terror, a few puppies being crushed, you know, that sort of thing. Can you do it?
Published 1977
Artist has been listed as two people. I’m unsure which is correct.
Many thanks to GK!

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Tagged with: Avon Books • damsel • Daniel Mroz • font problems • Haircut 100 • robots • Stanislaw Fernandes • Stanislaw Lem
Jan 19
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Eyelashes! We’ll have a dragon with eyelashes, peering over at some wizard reading his dragon magical book. It won’t just be any mage, he’ll have a magical staff! Unheard of I know. And a side parting to make the king of side partings proud. As for the title, make it silver. We have to stand out somehow.

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Tagged with: author in the comments • BEHIND YOU! • books on the covers of books • castle • dragon • evil book • font problems • Haircut 100 • magic weapon • Michael C. Staudinger • once you see it • pole weapons • shiny • staff • TSR Books
Oct 02
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I need sci-fi mixed in with something suggestive! Yeah baby!! I am talking about tight space suits that make you wonder how they ever got into them. Huge racks and huge packs, if you know what I mean! Guns shaped suggestively like a… you know… *giggles* Whatever you do don’t mess it up with something like giving the women a perm. Are you listening to me?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • computers • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • ill-fitting spacesuit • Jerry Pournelle • Larry Elmore • moon • once you see it • planets • shuriken of approval • space • suggestive • super soakers
Sep 28
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In my life time, I’ve seen dragons vs lasers, dragons vs swords, even dragons vs man-tigers. Where haven’t we gone you ask? Well my dear friend, let me but whisper these words into your ear and pray they don’t start to bleed with pleasure. Dragons vs Concordes! That’s right, with shoulder pads and eighties hair cuts!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • dragon • dude • goblet • Haircut 100 • Jon & Lobo series • Mark L. Van Name • shoulder pads • Stephen Hickman • throne
Aug 12
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We’ve both been talking this over and really there is one thing we need on our cover. A horrific font! Have it big, bold, blocky and have the ‘fought’ look like someone has tried to adjust the colour balance in photoshop and then forgot about it. For the rest, just have some women crawling out of the air vent shooting an android. But seriously, who cares about the artwork these days.

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Baen Books • Brainship series • cybernetics • font problems • glow • gun • Haircut 100 • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • space ships • Stephen Hickman
Apr 08
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Typical blonde helpless maiden, possibly a wench from the local drinkery. Then a typical bartender looking guy with perm, a wooden magic wand, a glowing wrist band and a red misty entity coming from the side. Come on… do I have to think of everything?!?!

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Tagged with: Ace Books • damsel • Deborah Chester • embossing • Haircut 100 • magic • Michael Herring • shiny • Sword the Ring and the Chalice series • wand
Apr 01

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WEELLL!! How about a guy in a space ship pointing at some futuristic map. Hmmm, yeah, you are right, it’s just not sci-fi enough! How about putting in someone with a straight bowl hair cut, and a huge werewolf creature with botox lips?!

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Baen Books • cat people • epic thoughts • Haircut 100 • Lois McMaster Bujold • space ships • Stephen Hickman • strange creature
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