Apr 18
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Jon H Comments: This one caught me off guard, I thought it was just your typical WW 2 book, maybe a little on the Sgt Rock side of reality but then I noticed the monkey and realized it said WW3. Well…I still don’t understand what the monkey is doing. I’m guess it is a part of some para-military group. “If you need help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire…ooh ooh ah ah AH AAAH!!”
Published 1976
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Tagged with: ape • Avon Books • bladed weapons • blood • Bruce Minney • daggers • dude • explosion • fire • grenades • gun • John Stanley • monkeys • racism • strange creature • utility belt • war
Apr 17
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DPN Comments: Finding a bad Baen cover is like shooting fish in a barrel, while standing on a pile of corpses as the city explodes behind you, illuminating your massive pecs.
Published 2013
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Tagged with: Baen Books • chains • corpse mountain • David Mattingly • dude • fire • font problems • gun • metropolitan apocalypse • muscles • non-papillial person • Sarah A. Hoyt • space ships • USA! USA! • war
Jan 08
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No no no… I said more glow! And more Ting! And more of the horse looking like he’s awkwardly floating over a field!
Published 2011
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • floating horse • glow • Gollancz Books • horses • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute • war
Nov 13
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Scott B Comments: The Civil War re-enacted by radio-antennaed Peter Pan fairies and giant ants.
Published 1964
You might remember this from here!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • dude • Ed Emshwiller • explosion • flag • giant ants • horns • male skirts • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • rifle • war • wings
Dec 07
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Art Direction: A lizard… with a codpiece… fighting in World War 2 may seem like a crazy idea. But just put him in a work out vest and give him a laser gun. It will all work itself out!
Published 1995
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • frickin laser beams • Harry Turtledove • lizard people • lizards • New English Library • Unknown Artist Institute • war
Jun 17
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Art Direction: Lets break away from the common Thor look stereotype. And by break away, I mean just don’t give him a cape. Keep the male skirt, shaved legs, long blonde hair and bunny ears helmet!
Published 1987
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Tagged with: Ace Books • blunt weapons • Curtis H Hoffmann • dude • font problems • glow • James Warhola • muscles • space ships • Ting! • war
Jan 20
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Jo Comments: The chrome space-knights’ war against the giant ants was going well, until the mega sock-puppet turned up!
Published 1965
Many thanks to Jo!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • dude • evil • Jack Gaughan • Jack Vance • monsters • sword • war
Jun 02
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Lauren Comments: The colors on this are just so awful. And spike heels? But at least she’s not in a fur bikini. Although he appears to be having some wardrobe malfunction with his shirt.
At least he doesn’t have a mullet!
Thanks to Lauren!
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Tagged with: damsel • dude • font problems • gun • metropolitan apocalypse • once you see it • Stephen Goldin • war
Apr 22
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Harry Comments: According to the author, this cover was commissioned for another book but somehow ended up on hers. It’s very loosely appropriate: there is a sword, and there is a hero, but he is quite explicitly gay.
Superb! Thanks Harry!
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Tagged with: Alan Craddock • bladed weapons • bracers • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • devil's dumplings • Diane Duane • dude • lens flare • Magnum Books • spear • starkers • sword • war
Mar 24
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So I just read from the list on this sheet? Alright then, terrible fonts, realistic guys doing manly stuff and pulling awkward faces, and a futuristic city. Might I add something of my own? Why don’t we credit only the editors and none of the authors? …You’re promoting me to management?! OHHH yeaaah!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Brendan Dubois • Brian Stableford • David Mattingly • Dena Bain Taylor • dude • Geoffrey Landis • Gregory Benford • gun • James Cobb • Joe Haldeman • Kristine Katherine Rusch • L.E. Modesitt Jr. • Mark L. Van Name • Martin H. Greenberg • Michael Burstein • Michael Z. Williamson • Paul J. McAuley • war • William H. Keith
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