Sep 21
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George Comments: I feel as if there were drinking involved in the making of this design cover. Or drugs. Or rabies. I think this is what happens when clip art and Photoshop get used in the most horrible ways possible. EVERYTHING is horrifying in this cover. Does anything really need to be said? Just looking at this cover says it all.
Published 2009
Many thanks to George!
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Tagged with: Alexander Potter • Anton Strout • Brenda Cooper • Carrie Vaughn • DAW Books • Donald J. Bingle • Elizabeth Vaughan • evil • Fiona Patton • font problems • Irene Radford • Jody Lynn Nye • John A. Pitts • Kerrie Hughes • Larry D. Sweazy • Martin H. Greenberg • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Richard Lee Byers • Steven H. Silver • strange creature • Tim Waggoner • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jul 05
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Liz’s Art Direction: We’d like for you to use some cats on this cover. Not just any old cats no, we want one that is sized up enough to be able to carry a human. In furs. And randomly in the background, give us a horse drawn sled too. Oh, and to illuminate the picture, throw in a random lamp somewhere…and the biggest sickle moon in the world, ever.
Published 2000
Ah Cat travel, the only way to break the speed of light. Or so I have read.
Many thanks to Liz!
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Tagged with: booties • Cats! • cloaks • damsel • DAW Books • font problems • forest • furs • Gayle Greeno • Ghattens Gambit Series • horses • lantern • once you see it • Paul Youll • snow and ice
Jun 29
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Jessie Comments: DUDE. GIGANTIC ALBINO KILLER VULTURE. Does anything else need to be said? Does it really matter if there’s anything else in the picture?
Published 1976
Many thanks to Jessie!
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Tagged with: beak! • bird • blood • cloaks • damsel • Darkover Series • DAW Books • deer • George Barr • horses • Marion Zimmer Bradley • snow and ice • strange creature • talons
Apr 15
These collections of books were submitted by Eron Rauch. Thanks to Eron for making my day full of Icelandic volcano ash that little bit easier! Check out Eron’s site www.eronrauch.com which shows off some of his great photography, some of it also brilliantly nerdy!
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Eron Comments: The first of three in this series. I mean, how else do I explain it more than the title “Camelot in Orbit”, except I don’t really understand logic of the title, since they seem to be on another planet. I guess technically that planets are in orbit, but that’s rather redundant. Also, King Arthur seems to be riding a beaked dinosaur that is so pathetic that He-Man would be caught near it. I mentioned that before right? A fecking armored dinosaur.
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Eron Comments: The second in the series, I think, I mean it’s hard for me to care really, but this cover is passably bad until you notice the creepy-as-sin inbred ewok/mogwai knock-off sitting just to the bottom left of the girl. Staring. Into your soul with hollow black eyes. Seriously the stuff of nightmares.
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Eron Comments: The third in this utterly original series. Which features “Magick” with the added “k” which must mean serious fantasy is about to be had! In addition, we get a phenomenal rendering of the back of some random knight and a severely constipated dragon trying desperately to crap himself in terror at the War of the Worlds spaceship blowing the hell our of it’s castle with a laser that comes from nowhere.
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Tagged with: Arthur H. Landis • bladed weapons • Camelot series • castle • DAW Books • dragon • frickin laser beams • knights • lance • lizards • planets • shields • space ships • strange creature • sword • Thomas Barber Jr
Feb 25
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The great artists of our time had a formula for where the human eye would automatically look to when presented with a work of art. At that precise point I know exactly what we need. A huge horse’s head, in pain, as it gets speared by a crazed redhead.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • DAW Books • dude • font problems • Gordon Crabb • horses • Jim Burns • magic • pole weapons • S.L. Farrell • spear • staff • surprised horse • The Cloudmages series
Oct 12
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Two fine gentlemen sir! Both of them wearing only the finest apparel that royalty can buy. On top of the highest castle tower pointing into the distance in ponderous thought. Leaving the viewer with a single thought, ‘Health and safety ain’t great in this castle.’
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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • booties • castle • clouds • daggers • DAW Books • Inda series • long haired men • Matt Stawicki • once you see it • prince • Sherwood Smith
Sep 10
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Word association game: say the first two words that come into your head when I say “Sci Fi”. Laser guns? WRONG! It’s cat people! Eat your words! Though, lasers… not bad actually. Add them in with some weird cloaked alien holding a gun. Might help distract from the fact we have friggin’ cat people on there.
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Tagged with: aliens • anthropomorphism • architectural framing • C.J. Cherryh • cat people • Chanur series • DAW Books • frickin laser beams • gun • Michael Whelan • once you see it • strange creature
Sep 02
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Edward kindly sent this into us! Thanks very much for keeping us all laughing and giving us something really nerdy and exciting to talk about!
Please check out Edward’s webpage at: http://www.edwardwillett.com/
Yours,
Good Show Sir
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Tagged with: Authors with their books • damsel • DAW Books • Edward Willett • magical orbs • Steve Stone • strange creature • Ting!
Aug 27
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Right, we’re in a recession, we need a cover that sells! Hmm, all black cover? You, sir, are fired! We need exploding cities in the midst of being attacked. A woman in a yellow and black striped catsuit, no wait… an alien woman! She can be holding a dagger while she peers into the foreground, completely ignoring the chaos behind her. If that doesn’t sell I’ll jump right out that window.
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Tagged with: aliens • author in the comments • bladed weapons • casually walking away from an explosion • catsuit • clouds • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • Edward Willett • explosion • gibberish title • planets • space ships • Steve Stone
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