Feb 22
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Phil’s Art Direction: Look, no one will guess that this book is about futuristic police, unless you paint POLICE onto the side of that hovership. While you’re at it, give that policeman an unusually large face. I hear that’s how policemen will look centuries hence.
Published 1976
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Tagged with: bubble helmet • dude • flying • frickin laser beams • gun • Panther Books • Philip K. Dick • Unknown Artist Institute
Aug 18
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Mary Comments: Accompanied by the long lost monkey cousin of Scuba Horse?
Published 1982
You might remember this from here.
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Tagged with: blood • bubble helmet • cross • flowers • Good Show Sir • jazz hands • Melvyn Grant • monkeys • mountains • neo-jesus • once you see it • Panther Books • Philip José Farmer • planets • space • strange creature • WTF
Jun 20
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Ian Comments: Reach for your gun! A man wearing nothing but a couple of spangly lights has just materialised and is scaring the women!
Published 1966
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Tagged with: aliens • Belmont Books • bubble helmet • damsel • dude • font problems • gun • magic • muscles • once you see it • space • space suit • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute
May 05
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Ian Comments: This is not a terrible cover – it quite accurately depicts the book’s contents. It’s the UK edition cover. The US cover follows..
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Ian comments: This is what the US publisher used for the book. It is, incidentally, a steampunk space opera, with Victorians in space.
Both were published in 1993
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Tagged with: Avon Books • bubble helmet • Colin Greenland • damsel • David O'Connor • dude • HarperCollins Books • hot air balloons • monkeys • muscles • planets • Rowena Morrill • ships • space • space ships • space suit • strange creature • Ting! • wings
Mar 30
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Whitney Comments: Night Fevah! Night Fevaaaah! We know how to do it!
Published 1978
Many thanks to Whitney!
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Tagged with: Algis Budrys • Avon Books • bubble helmet • Carl Lundgren • crab people • dude • moon • planets • space • space suit
Mar 24
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Miggity’s Art Direction: Shirtless black dude in tighty whities with a space helmet and a pneumatic fishing spear gun, flanked by two white Amazonian women in see through tops giving the whole thing a weird sex vibe, with a spacecraft carrier, space figthers, four planets and sweet moon base in the foreground… PERFECT!
Published 1981
Many thanks to Miggity!
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Tagged with: author in the comments • Bantam Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • damsel • dude • gun • Lou Feck • muscles • planets • rifle • space • space ships • Steven E. McDonald • white-clothed protagonist
Feb 16
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Craig Comments: Half a catman is better than none – or one.
Published 1987
Many thanks to Craig!
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Tagged with: aliens • anthropomorphism • bubble helmet • cat people • david bowie • dude • Greg Theakston • half a face • robots • Ron Goulart • St Martin's Press • WTF
Dec 16
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Elfi Comments: Nothing says “serious astronaut” like Steven Tyler in a bubble-helmet.
Published 1982
Many thanks to Elfi!
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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • aliens • booties • bubble helmet • Clyde Caldwell • dude • ill-fitting spacesuit • long haired men • monsters • Pocket Books • space • space ships • strange creature
Mar 19
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Look, I am busy – what the hell do you want? Cover ideas? My god, man. You’re new here, right? Here’s the sheet, it has everything we need. Huge terrible multicoloured fonts, obligatory best selling author line and something like a women in a space suit looking generally awful. Don’t worry kid, you’ll pick it up soon enough. Then you’ll be one with us. Don’t run… don’t run…
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bob Eggleton • bubble helmet • damsel • David Weber • font problems • planets • shuriken of approval • space • space ships
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