Dionysius Rogers Art Direction: Don’t we have some rejected cover art for that last printing of Stranger in a Strange Land? Where there’s a burning, lightning-struck monster in the middle of it for some reason?
Published 1977
Dionysius Rogers Art Direction: Don’t we have some rejected cover art for that last printing of Stranger in a Strange Land? Where there’s a burning, lightning-struck monster in the middle of it for some reason?
Published 1977
JuanPaul Comments: “Who’s the handsomest composer in the whole wide world?”
Published 1982
Tat Wood Comments: Painted by Emsh during a Cortico-Thalamic Pause and with an introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman, just in case the cover-art didn’t make you run away fast enough.
Published 1964
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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Müller-What-The-Fokker Goings-on
#1 Tat Wood’s Art Direction: “Look, we’re late to this whole Cyberpunk thing but I’ve got the rights to a book about a guy being stored as data. It was published twenty years ago but we can kid the nerds into thinking it’s hip and fresh. It’s a comedy but for Chrissake don’t let on.”
#2 Good Show Sir Comments: Tat lays down the challenge, but I say you can never beat the first edition. Those hardcover publishers only hire the best artists.
Published 1990, 1970
Good Show Sir Comments: A thrilling novel of two-fisted trigonometry action!
Published 1960
Perry Armstrong Comments: When a godawful film adaptation of your excellent novel does the favour of – not – using the proper title, why oh why oh why then remind us about it on the cover?
Published 1992
Bibliomancer Comments: Howdy Doody hit the skids in the 70s when he started chasing the dragon.
Published 1977
Scott B Comments: “Every move was checkmate” Sounds like an extremely short game to me.
Published 1970
Good Show Sir Comments: Another Chalker book? Does he send one in every week? I don’t care what the cover looks like. Get the new lad from the Unknown Artist Institute to throw something together. What’s his name? I keep forgetting.
Published 1988
Joachim comments: “If you look closely there’s a star on my cheek. I’m the STAR.”
Published 1980
Thanks Joachim!
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