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
Dec 13
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Phil’s Art Direction: To be honest with you, I’m not convinced he’s golden enough. Make the whites of his eyes golden as well, would you please? And a few wires attached randomly to the face will convey the science fictional nature of the book.
Published 1983
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Tagged with: computers • dude • Magnum Books • Methuen Books • Philip K. Dick • Richard Sparks • space • space ship
Oct 18
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Phil Comments: Coming up next on Radio Free Albemuth, the latest from Lynyrd Skynrd. But first, here’s the weather forecast.
Published 1988
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Tagged with: dude • electricity • music • Panther Books • Philip K. Dick • planets • space • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Apr 06
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Richard P Comments: Gary was beginning to regret that he’d neglected his garden.
Published 1966
And on the other side –
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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Frank Freas • gun • Harry Schaar • Howard L. Cory • lizards • monsters • Philip K. Dick
Aug 23
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Jo’s Art Direction: So we’ll have a human-like albino with totally gnarly fluorescent earrings clinging onto a stern-looking tree-alien holding a striped gun and sitting in a spotty spaceship, with an oddly-proportioned firefight going on in the background. Get to it!
Published 1987
Many thanks to Jo!
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Tagged with: aliens • david bowie • frickin laser beams • Panther Books • Peter Jones • Philip K. Dick • space ships
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