May 22
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Lillie Awesome Art Direction: Give me a little man, with a giant bird grafted to his head, and out of the giant bird’s head, I want a man’s head if human heads were shaped like potatoes, but upside down, and sitting inside that, I want a man, but with a bird’s head, and maybe make it look like the bird-headed man is shooting a bird out of his hand, which should also be holding a torch. Throw a bunch of rainbow people in a birth control pillbox in the background — it’s very high concept. We’re going to have to skimp on printing costs because we went over budget persuading Heinlein and Asimov to appear together, so don’t break your neck painting detail. Now, what say we make this a five martini lunch?
Published 1970

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • Anthony Boucher • Avram Davidson • bird • bird hairdo • bird people • Damon Knight • detachable head • George P. Elliott • Howard Fast • Isaac Asimov • James Blish • John Collier • Mark Van Doren • Paperback Library • people with animals for heads • Poul Anderson • R.V. Cassill • Ray Bradbury • Robert A. Heinlein • Robert P. Mills • Theodore Sturgeon • Unknown Artist Institute • Walter M. Miller Jr • WTF
May 11
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Mark E’s Art Direction: We need to get more women reading science fiction. How about we put a picture of a naked women with a snake on the cover. Oh – and make sure the angle leaves NOTHING to the imagination.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • damsel • Fontana Science Fiction • lady parts • Sir Mix-A-Lot • snake • starkers • Tim White • wings • WTF
Apr 08
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Mark E Comments: So many bad things done in the name of cover art to this great book. This isn’t the worse but nor does it scream “read me”.
Published 1974
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • balls • computers • David Pelham • geometric oddities • my head aplode • Penguin Science Fiction • WTF
Feb 02
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Bibliomancer Comments: Would you read this on a bus … late at night … riding through Compton?
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • city • claws • damsel • devil's dumplings • fangs • fire • horns • Rowena Morrill • Satan • Sir Mix-A-Lot • tasteful smoke • Timescape Books • topless
Sep 25
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Vincent’s Art Direction: So here’s what I’m thinking. A man and a woman in a landfill. I want the woman tastefully nude, so have the man covering her naughty bits even though they’re standing about twenty feet apart. Lastly, have an army of giant preying mantises coming over the hill.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • cleavage • damsel • dude • giant insects • Jack Woolhiser • jeans and a t-shirt • monsters • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • starkers • strange creature
Mar 27
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Jaouad Comments: More proof of the ongoing Maori conquest of the universe.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • damsel • dude • font problems • Michael Whelan • planets • space • space suit • spear • Tor Books
Dec 09
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Jami Comments: Me giant floating head and shoulders of Demolished Man. Me crush tiny stereotypical Hammer film type female vampire and tiny floating head version of me. Then me play with all the pretty animals and the tiny naked women. Tiny clothed men can get moon dust out of my giant ear. Me have glowy thing above knuckle. Me love glowy thing.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • capes • Cats! • damsel • dude • floating head • giraffes • Jerome Podwil • leopard • monkeys • moon • planets • Pocket Books • space • starkers • strange creature • sun • Ting! • zebras
Nov 16
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Alessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • beast-riding • Bob Fowke • dude • Eric Frank Russell • FaceBoob.com • Frederik Pohl • Fredric Brown • Good Show Sir • horns • Isaac Asimov • J.G. Ballard • J.T. McIntosh • Jack Finney • Kurt Vonnegut • mountains • Penguin Science Fiction • polymastia • strange creature • Theodore Sturgeon • Tom Boardman • waistcoat • wilderness • WTF
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