Oct 22
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Scott B Comments: It looks like there’s some serious industrial-grade symbolism happening on this cover, but I have no idea what it is. An albino woman with some sort of aboriginal figure superimposed (or inside her?) surrounded by Fire (and with weird fiery-squiggle aura around the woman) over a background of Earth and Water. It feels like it should really mean something but…
Published 1972
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Tagged with: Andrew Lang • Ballantine Books • collage • damsel • dude • H. Rider Haggard • Lin Carter • Mati Klarwein • planets • WTF
May 09
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Bibliomancer Comments: Keir Dullea in outtakes from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Published 1967
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Tagged with: Ace Books • dino-mites • dude • explosion • Hoot von Zitzewitz • Leigh Richmond • moon • space • vinyl • Walt Richmond
May 08
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Lillie Awesome Comments: When in doubt, floating eyeball and clip art alligators that can swim through sand.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: beach • crocogator • dude • eye-yi-yi • half • Joan Aiken • Peacock Books • Peter Goodfellow • rope • sky-eyes • Speedos • topless • WTF
May 07
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JuanPaul Comments: Johnny Ramone, we hardly knew ye.
Your might remember this series from here. And here.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: bangs • Charles Shields • damsel • forest • moon • Pamela Sargent • Vintage Books • volcano • white-clothed protagonist
May 03
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Tor Mented Comments: I’m not sure if this horror anthology ought to have a “snake person” tag or just an “anatomical issues” tag.
Or Neither! It’s a cat lady! — Tag Wizard
Published 1997
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Tagged with: cat people • damsel • font problems • Jeff Gelb • Michael Garrett • Pocket Books • sticker shock • The Hot Blood Series • the problem is licked • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
May 02
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Tom Noir Comments: Oh god, not another race that communicates entirely through interpretive dance!
Published 1999
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Tagged with: aliens • arms akimbo • balls • booties • dude • embossing • font problems • Frederik Pohl • interpretive dance • Jim Burns • shiny • strange creature • Tor Books • white-clothed protagonist
May 01
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RachelJ Art Direction: “This is no ordinary novel. Not even a “A Novel”. This is… “A MOSAIC”. I want every element of the cover– title, subtitle, font, artwork– to blend harmoniously into one vast, resounding “WTF”.
Do it justice, my boy.”
[Note: It’s not my camera. The cover image is just really, really dark and murky and it’s hard to tell what anything is.]
Published 1990
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Tagged with: font problems • gibberish title • Gollancz Books • John Brettoner • little people • moon • murky murk • Phillip Mann • shiny oh so shiny • tentacles • WTF
Apr 30
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Tat Wood Comments: Kraftwerk took time out from recording Trans Europe Express to shoot some hoops.
Published 1967
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Tagged with: Ace Books • balls • bubble helmet • dude • ill-fitting spacesuit • let's shoot hoops! • Mack Reynolds • Peter Michael • sports
Apr 26
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Tor Mented Comments: It never fails! There’s always a snail driver ahead of me in the fast lane.
Published 1995
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Tagged with: Ace Books • aquarium • beast-riding • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • embossing • eyes on stalks • floating head • floating horse • font problems • Piers Anthony • Romas Kukalis • snails • sweet ride • WTF
Apr 25
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Tom Noir Comments: Experimental subject 7934B believed in dressing for the job you wanted, not the job you had.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: alien landscape • dude • Felix Mendelsohn Jr. • font problems • Paperback Library • people in bottles • sports • Unknown Artist Institute
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