Dec 09
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Mark E’s Art Direction: You know how when you cross a fly, an elephant and a ram you get something really awesome that can outfly a fighter plane? Well give me some of those. Oh – and its Sci-fi so best put a stock image of a planet looming far to close in the sky as well.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: hunk • space ships • eye-yi-yi • shoulder pads • strange creature • WTF • planets • Fred Gambino • handgun • Grafton Books • beast-riding • horses with hairstyles
Nov 16
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Billy Awesome Comments: Give me a giant, noseless alien with male pattern baldness and a 2nd-degree sunburn, looming behind the planet Earth while he scratches his forehead bewilderingly with one tentacle, and digs for earwax with another. Put him in a cutoff denim vest, and try to give him an air of whimsy. Now, get out of my office.
Published 1977
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Tagged with: eye-yi-yi • space • strange creature • Hal Clement • Ballantine Books • A Del Rey Book • H.R. Van Dongen • tentacles • Earth
Nov 02
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Bibliomancer Comments: Introducing Whatdafug – the 23rd Century Philadelphia Eagles football mascot.
Published 1968
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Tagged with: strange creature • Berkley Books • WTF • J.G. Ballard • alien city • Michael Moorcock • Brian W. Aldiss • John Brunner • Roger Zelazny • Thomas M. Disch • wings • Paul Lehr • David I. Masson • Langdon Jones
Oct 22
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Tom Noir Comments: Authors: do your covers often suffer from font problems? Garish costumes? Badly drawn cat people? Half-witted expressions? You may be experiencing BAEN-ITIS.
Published 2003
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Tagged with: hunk • cat people • uniforms • strange creature • Baen Books • font problems • David Mattingly • handgun • Gordon R. Dickson • BEHIND YOU! • eyes on stalks • Smirky McSmug
Oct 20
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Bibliomancer Comments: The Man in the Iron Depends.
Published 1965
Ace Doubles, double the reading pleasure, double the bad cover art.
This is the flip side of last week’s book: Off Center
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Tagged with: hunk • frickin laser beams • strange creature • Ace Books • Jack Gaughan • booties • Damon Knight • BEHIND YOU! • puffy shirt • crotch armor • blow drier gun
Oct 19
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Mirrie’s Art Direction: Sci-fi villians must be as campy as possible. Hmmm, maybe give him a chair made of antlers like Jareth from Labyrinth had, and have him wearing a gold suit. 70’s babe on the left of him, sinister chimp-surgeon to the right. And behind them all looms the Angel of Death, looking like if Peter Capaldi played Grandpa Rick.
Published 1975
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Tagged with: hunk • damsel • throne • waistcoat • cleavage • strange creature • anthropomorphism • Cordwainer Smith • planets • Ballantine Books • computers • Gray Morrow • wings • ape • monkeys • Smirky McSmug
Oct 15
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Bibliomancer Comments: Sing along with the California Raisins … in space!
Published 1965
You might remember this from here
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Tagged with: space • strange creature • font problems • Ace Books • Jack Gaughan • Damon Knight • moon • asteroid
Oct 14
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Perry Comments: I actually rather like the artwork for this junior, abridged edition (even the title’s abridged!), but remain intrigued by the gentleman depicted at centre. Either he was already blind, or, assuming he’s one of the multitude blinded the night before, clearly thought it important to locate/don dark glasses prior to venturing outside!
Published 1973
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Tagged with: hunk • strange creature • unknown artist • John Wyndham • tentacles • suits you • sunglasses • Patrick Nobes • Hutchinson • blind man's bluff • bullseye
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