Mar 28
Oh yes! It’s the Easter weekend and that can only mean one thing, some honourable mentions! These have been sent in to us and oh boy they are simply amazing!
So enjoy the covers and have an excellent long weekend (if you get one!) And once again thanks to all who send in covers and comment on the site. You gals and guys are all amazing, also you keep my grammar correct and my tags sensible!
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Tat Wood Comments: it was published in 1970 and tells of all the different ways the Earth will end by 2000 AD (although one would be enough). As we are now a dozen years beyond the Best Before date does it now count as fiction? A bit? Sort of?
Published 1970
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Laura Comments: I came across this book in a used book store and I was hoping that the badly-drawn tough old guys would fit on Good Show Sir.
Published 2007
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: Let’s see… Pynchonesque, Burroughsian, Robert Anton Wilson-like… Oh, I know! Tim from Marketing has a girlfriend who does exotic dancing, right? See if you can get her to pose. Ask her to bring one of her pets. Yes, I know the author will want in on this… I’ll think of something.
Published 1996
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • evil children • explosion • Good Show Sir • Gordon Rattray Taylor • gun • Hawthorne Vance • Honourable Mentions • Panther Books • Paul Di Filippo • shotgun • snake • space sheep • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 27
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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974
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Tagged with: beard-wielding • Con Sellers • dude • loincloth • long haired men • maeslse • mascles • mob rules • musals • muscles • muslces • mussels • Papillon Press • Unknown Artist Institute • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Mar 26
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Frank Comments: This is clearly of the 1970s, a fantasy warrior knife-fighting pose, but in disco dress, with zodiac symbols in the background. And big bugs! Seriously, I looked at it to see if it was an update of “The Radio Man” for the Disco Years. It wasn’t.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Alan Annand • Alan Marks • antennae • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • cleavage • daggers • damsel • dude • giant ants • insects • monsters • proportional issues • spider • strange creature • Tower books • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat • wings
Mar 25
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Phil’s Art Direction: Who’s a cute little Harlie? Now, keep still for the cover artist, there’s a good little cyborg. When you grow up, you’ll be a famous writer and have your face on your own book!
Published 1975
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Tagged with: baldness • Ballantine Books • computers • cybernetics • cyborg • David Gerrold • evil children • font problems • half a face • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 04
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Make sure her antennae/horns are made of felt…
Published 1967
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Tagged with: antennae • damsel • font problems • Rex Gordon • Tandem Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 27
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Benjamin Comments: “Listen, if this book sells more than 30 copies it’ll be a miracle. It’s done up in a strawberry-ice-cream-pink cover with a bright green toy rocket ship and some cheap plaster busts of LBJ and JFK and a coke bottle and a hamburger on the front — I showed it to a classroom full of gifted children up at the College of Marin and one kid said ‘That’s a toy book.'” – Richard A. Lupoff (Locus #159, 1974)
Published 1974
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Tagged with: bad science • Barry N. Malzberg • damsel • dude • explosion • Good Show Sir • Pocket Books • political figure • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 22
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Joachim Comments: A monkey woman/man (?) or is that a tail… Regardless, two sheep are required.
Published 1962
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Tagged with: cleavage • devil's dumplings • dragon • Four Sqaure Books • gibberish title • John Wyndham • monsters • space sheep • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 14
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Frank Comments: Another work re-issued with new title and new cover. There was a previous publication of it as “The Radio Man” in 1924.
Published 1950
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Tagged with: antennae • Avon Books • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • giant ants • muscles • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • wings
Feb 07
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Tat Comments: It’s nice to see that old-style Cylons will be in the re-re-relaunched ‘Battlestar Galactica!’
Published 1966
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Tagged with: frickin laser beams • none more black • Pan Books • Robert A. Heinlein • space suit • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 06
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Ben Comments: I say kudos on the daemonic and the large yellow VOLUME 1.
Published 1974
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Tagged with: blindfold • Clark Ashton Smith • dude • magic • Panther Books • robes • rope • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF • yellow number one
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