Jul 15
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Art Direction: Well with the name Alpha Centauri our cover is basically spelt out for us… Centaur taking a point blank shot at a red headed girl straight out of Sunday school while she rides a horse. Make sure to make her jumper a timeless classic, something you could look back at in a hundred years and say… that never went out of fashion.
Published 1982
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • Centaur! • damsel • horses • Lion Hudson Books • Robert Siegel • shortbow • Unknown Artist Institute
Jul 11
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Jon Comments: I know those Moorcock/Mayflower covers are like shooting fish in a barrel, but I needed something to go with my chips. I actually got the man himself to sign my copy recently and I told him I felt the film version was underrated. He agreed with me, with the minor change of “under” to “over”. Seemed a nice bloke, though.
Published 1973
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Tagged with: baldness • bear people • beard-wielding • bowler hat • cage • cleavage • damsel • evil • evil doctor • fedora hat • fire • helmet • jeans and a t-shirt • jester • magic • magical orbs • Mayflower Books • metropolitan apocalypse • Michael Moorcock • once you see it • pickaxe • robes • skulls a-poppin' • space sheep • suits you • sun • top hat • umbrella • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat • WTF
Jun 30
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Dorian’s Art Direction: What do you mean, there are no scantily clad women in the story? No werewolf? No heaps of treasure? No weird monster consisting entirely of teeth and wings? Ah, who cares? No-one ever looks at these things anyway.
Published 1993
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Tagged with: Baen Books • cleavage • damsel • font problems • Harry Turtledove • monsters • Stephen Hickman • strange creature
Jun 29
Joachim Comments: Girl with strategically placed stars (of course). Chola eyebrows and bleached blonde hair with walking shark with gill piercing/oops, I mean a chain-leash…. And she has claws of course — see, the cover is derived entirely from the TITLE!
Published 1975
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Tagged with: chain • cleavage • cyborg • damsel • DAW Books • Kelly Freas • magic • Michael G. Coney • shark • starkers • strange creature • WTF
Jun 27
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Art Direction: The real question is, what can’t we put on the cover? I want everything, a dragon, a muscle bound man in tights, a wizard and even a dwarf. Oh and the standard 80’s teenager thrown into a world they don’t understand but slowly come to love. All emerging from a fine mist.
Published 1985
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • damsel • dragon • Good Show Sir • Joel Rosenberg • magic • muscles • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • Steve Ferris • sword
Jun 24
SteveAsat Comments: A thrilling last-minute escape from the Queens of Mercury! “Can you do the fandango? Then you shall DIE, Earthman!”
Published 1981
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • dude • fantastical rock star • lens flare • M.A. Foster • Michael Whelan • once you see it • planets • space ships
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
Jun 14
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E Comments: According to my husband, his dog chewed up the cover of this book. I think the dog was making a statement. Like why the hell are those people sitting in a hollowed-out asteroid?
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • daemons • damsel • dude • fire • hair on fire • Lyndon Hardy • magic • monsters • people with hooves • Rowena Morrill • Satan • strange creature • wings • WTF
Jun 07
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Phil Comments: Why John, you are so odd that I must hide behind these conveniently positioned but otherwise random spikes. But at least you’ve noticed me, which makes you not quite as odd as you used to be back in the days of: Odd John.
Published 1959
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Tagged with: Beacon Books • cleavage • damsel • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • muscles • Olaf Stapledon • once you see it • Robert Stanley • ships • starkers
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