Aug 01
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Two-Fer Tuesday Teaser: Why does a mirror reverse left-to-right but not top-to-bottom?
Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Any similarity between the cover art and turn-of-the-millenium Hayao Miyazaki heroines is purely coincidental.
Published 2009
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • damsel • Daniel Dos Santos • Jay Lake • long hair • Tor Books
Jul 31
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Wendy’s Art Direction: It’s supposed to be about some Asteroid Belt colony. Tear out the first five pages of your sketchbook and paste them on this cover mock-up.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: Anthony Sini • boxes • devil's dumplings • font problems • little people • Macmillan Books • Poul Anderson • WTF
Jul 27
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GSS ex-noob Comments: Editor’s 12 year old: See, he’s got a long arm, and he smokes, and it’s in spaaace!
Published 1979
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • Ballantine Books • dude • font problems • Jim Spanfeller • Larry Niven • planets • tasteful smoke
Jul 26
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SF Hound Comments: Good Show Sir. Bloody well done.
Published 1969
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • blood • damsel • dude • exposed brain • frog • Jerome Podwil • Paperback Library • Raymond F. Jones • WTF
Jul 25
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It’s a Spacepaws Two-Fer Tuesday!
#1 By the time Vacation to the Planet of the Apes was released the franchise had run out of ideas.
#2 Oh boy! Chase the ball … chase the ball … chase the ball …
Published 1969 and 1976
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Tagged with: alien landscape • astronaut • balls • bear people • Berkley Books • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • Gordon R. Dickson • Leon Gregori • mullet • Paul Lehr • Putnam Books • rocket • shuriken of approval • strange creature • suitcase
Jul 20
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Good Show Sir Comments: I think Emsh took “Castaways in space …” a bit too literally.
Published 1964
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Tagged with: balls • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • Ed Emshwiller • Edmund Cooper • fire • knife • Lancer Science Fiction • little people • loincloth • moon • space • spear • starkers • Tiny Ting!
Jul 19
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Tom Noir Comments: Yet again, butterfly woman is photobombed by that crafty Shrieking Smoke Head.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Ballantine Adult Fantasy • BEHIND YOU! • butterfly • damsel • font problems • Howard Koslow • James Branch Cabell • tornado • WTF
Jul 18
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JuanPaul Comments: “Two pygmies and an albino elf? Oh well, yolo!”
Published 1979
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Tagged with: albino • ape • DAW Books • font problems • framed cover art • George Barr • hunkbutt • Marion Zimmer Bradley • monkeyshines • white-clothed protagonist
Jul 17
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Kat’s Art Direction: “Okay, you’ve used the front of her shirt to make shoulder pads and recycled the scraps to make some useless pouches. Good work. But you know what this cover needs? What it really, really needs? … SHINIER LETTERING.”
Published 2004
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Tagged with: Baen Books • big gun • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • John Ringo • Julie Cochrane • none more black • shiny oh so shiny • shoulder pads • shuriken of approval
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