Sep 18
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E’s Art Direction: If you could work a lime green fur shawl and a jedi-master rip off in there, that’d be great.
Published 1980
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Tagged with: Ace Books • bats • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • cloaks • dude • Esteban Maroto • furs • guitar • once you see it • puffy shirt • robes • Roger Zelazny • shoulder pads • Star Wars reference • sword • utility belt • waistcoat
Jul 02
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Rachel J Comments: To view this cover, be sure to put on your 3-D glasses! Then take them off again to read the book.
Published 2011
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Tagged with: 3D • ape • cigar • dude • eyepatch • font problems • leather • Mick Brownfield • moon • Pierre Boulle • planets • rope • space ships • Vintage Books • waistcoat
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
Sep 27
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DaveFromGP Comments: As if the creature in the star spangled thong isn’t enough, I find my eyes drawn to the creature at the rear: “What are you gonna do? I’m a giant bat, bitches!”
Published 1983
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Tagged with: aliens • anthropomorphism • boater hat • bow-tie • Don Ivan Punchatz • dude • lizards • mighty moustache • Mike Resnick • monsters • pouch • Signet Books • strange creature • waistcoat • whip it good • WTF
Jun 18
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know how Rambo poses? And Arnie in all his films? I want that and I want my hunk to have arms the size of tree trunks! One can never have his space hunk too muscular.
Published 1985
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Tagged with: aliens • big gun • dude • Grafton Books • leather • monsters • moon • muscles • Panther Books • Richard Clifton-Dey • stallone pose • Sterling E. Lanier • strange creature • waistcoat
Nov 16
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Alessandra’s Art Direction:It’s short fiction by some of the best, most respected science fiction authors in the field. So I want… A Viking with a bottom for a face! Riding the world’s most exhausted-looking dinosaur horse! With its tongue hanging out! Through a Dali-esque landscape out of the Old West! And give the Viking kind of … Samurai armor!
Published 1976
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • beast-riding • Bob Fowke • dude • Eric Frank Russell • FaceBoob.com • Frederik Pohl • Fredric Brown • Good Show Sir • horns • Isaac Asimov • J.G. Ballard • J.T. McIntosh • Jack Finney • Kurt Vonnegut • mountains • Penguin Science Fiction • polymastia • strange creature • Theodore Sturgeon • Tom Boardman • waistcoat • wilderness • WTF
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
Dec 23
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DN’s Art Direction: No cohesion, you hear me? None! And, listen, if there aren’t two guys in a tango-off over Kevin Sorbo’s shoulder on this cover, you’re fired!
Published 1989
Many thanks to DN!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • cloaks • damsel • dude • epic conflict • font problems • horses • L.F. Luckie • muscles • Tor Books • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat
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