Oct 09
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: My name is Bibliomancer. I’m from 2015 in the future. I want a cover with a future-retro Amy Winehouse using a space music ghetto blaster to kill some dudes … and a satyr! Don’t make the art very good. I need it to win a ten-star rating on a website of terrible sci-fi cover art. Why are you looking at me like that?
Published 1961
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • ax-wielding • chain • damsel • dress for success • Fritz Leiber • Haircut 100 • hunk • radio • satyr • unknown artist • visible waves
Dec 11
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Tom Noir Comments: In the future, everything will be needlessly complex and ridiculously over-engineered… except women’s clothing.
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • antennae • bikini • cleavage • damsel • eye-yi-yi • frickin laser beams • hunk • inadequate armor • Paul Alexander • planets • shoulder pads • space ships • space suit • tights • Warner Books
Oct 17
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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: I want a picture that will be timeless. Like a mash-up of Peter Max meets Chairman Mao. Art like that will never go out of style. Now give me another foot-long pill and leave me alone. I’ve got a lot of art-making to do!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • baldness • bighanditis • bumhead • gun • hunk • Kim Whitesides • paging John Galliano • Philip K. Dick • proportional issues • suits you • wraparound cover • WTF
Jul 25
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Scott B’s Art Direction: I want a cover with no Sioux, taking place not in space. Just show one of the evil slaver horsemen, but without a horse. Just give him a radio-technology weapon, a bird mask, and a snappy vest.
Published 1966
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Andre Alice Norton • antennae • beak! • bird hairdo • chains • Ed Valigursky • hunk • male skirts • muscles • native american • ridiculous hat • wings
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 • giant ants • hunk • insects • monsters • proportional issues • spider • strange creature • Tower books • unknown artist • waistcoat • wings
Mar 13
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Scott B Comments: If I don’t get to sit in the fancy chair, I will taunt you by mimicking your body language behind your back. Using only one of my many arms, obviously.
Published 1989
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Tagged with: antennae • anthropomorphism • architectural framing • BEHIND YOU! • bird people • Bryn Barnard • butler • damsel • david bowie • DAW Books • double trouble • goblet • Ian Wallace • robots • statuesque • sundial • supernumerous limbs • throne • WTF
Mar 04
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Make sure herantennae/horns are made of felt…
Published 1967
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Tagged with: antennae • damsel • font problems • Rex Gordon • Tandem Books • unknown artist • 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 • giant ants • hunk • muscles • radio man series • Ralph Milne Farley • strange creature • wings
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
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • Ed Emshwiller • explosion • flag • frickin laser beams • giant ants • horns • hunk • male skirts • radio man series • Ralph Milne Farley • rifle • war • wings
Jun 23
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Jaan Comments: Surprisingly, this is actually a murder mystery. Note the Kirby signature. Hopefully Jack never sank this low.
Published 1982
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Tagged with: antennae • bladed weapons • DAW Books • DIY • Josh Kirby • planets • robots • Ron Goulart • WTF
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