Jun 15
It has been a while since we’ve had an Honourable Mention post, so following are some of the recent doozies that didn’t meet our strict, fiercely-enforced rules for cover submissions. Enjoy!
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Leah Comments: I know it’s a tie-in, but this is definitely worthy of an Honorable Mention. That lettering is not actually black, it is bright orange metallic foil. I think it says a great deal that the picture is an accurate depiction of the featured aliens.
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Leah Comments: Another Honorable-Mention-worthy tie-in. Working title: ‘Attack of the Fifty-Foot Fop’.
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Joachim Comments: A French cat woman? There’s so much wrong with this cover.
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Bibliomancer Comments: I don’t think it’s technically science fiction. But Lordy, is this a bad cover.
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Tagged with: BBC Books • Black Sheep (artist) • cat people • devil's dumplings • dinosaur • Doctor Who • dog people • Earth • flowers • Galaxie • George Roux • handgun • Honourable Mentions • Jacqueline Rayner • legs • lion • Paul Magrs • Picador • pyramids • rocket • tasteful smoke • Thomas Pynchon
Jun 01
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William Comments: Here is the church … here is the steeple … open the doors … see the Village People!
Published 1989
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • bighanditis • cowboy hat • Del Rey Books • Earth • embossing • Julian May • key to the kingdom • let us pray • little people • Michael Herring • moon • space • space ship • WTF
Dec 19
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Joachim Comments: Yes, there’s a rainbow coming out of its….
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Earth • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • Kensington Publishing • rainbow • starkers • Trevor Hoyle • unknown artist • WTF • Zebra Books
Jun 21
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Good Show Sir Comments: And the Galactic Olympics gold medal for the ribbon event in rhythmic gymnastics goes to …
Published 1965
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Alex Schomburg • alien city • aliens • baldy bad man • Earth • Henry Kuttner • lightning • little people • strange creature • Ting! • whip
Dec 07
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a naked man, and he’s playing with these two blue balls. No, no, I’m saying he’s handling two massive globes. Don’t make ’em the same size, one is bigger than the other. Have him straining, concentrating intensely. Look, I don’t see what’s so funny about this.
Published 1968
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Tagged with: Ben Barzman • clouds • dude • Earth • electricity • headband • mega limbs • muscles • Paperback Library • perspective problems • planets • space • starkers • unknown artist • X marks the spot
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: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • Earth • eye-yi-yi • H.R. Van Dongen • Hal Clement • space • strange creature • tentacles
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