Book Covers

[Southern Geologist]

This thread is a gold mine. In addition to all the nice art I've come across some interesting books here--like Take the War to Washington--that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Here are two that I love (in particular '53-'56):

I use the LoA volumes because, frankly, they look better than the original covers.

I'm also fond of this new cover for Bradbury's Martian Chronicles by Patrick Leger. He even wrote a blog post about it.

Two more I'm fond of are these covers for The Empire of Isher and The Voyage of the Space Beagle by Vincent Di Fate and Bruce Jensen respectively. Both of theme employ pretty standard sci-fi tropes, but they're beautifully done, Isher in particular.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Re the Teenage Turtle thing (Turtlegate?). I think it was actually over here the word ninja got replaced with hero. They obviously equate "ninja" with violence and our nanny state government can't allow that. Utter BS!

Ah! Then that would be why I remembered it as Ninja Turtles.

 

[Southern Geologist]

I like this one. Sort of. I don't like the way the placement of the author name is handled, but the artwork itself is interesting.

 

[thatollie]

Huh? When my daughters were young in America, mid nineties, the turtles were Mutant, They were Ninja.

As an American father, I never heard of, or approved of changing Ninja to Heroes in the title.

The theme song said that they were heroes-on-a-halfshell and that they were green. Don't **** with that. Dammit.

It doesn't make sense as anything other than TMNT.

 

[Bick]

Off Topic A final word on ninja turtles (!)
The change to Hero Turtles was actually only in the UK/Europe, not in the US where they were always Ninja Turtles.

Details: Upon TMNT's first arrival in the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Poland, Austria and Germany, the name was changed to "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program. Consequently, everything related to the Turtles had to be renamed before being released in these nations (comic books, video games, toys, etc.) The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to the "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens." However, when the live-action movie came out in 1990, the "Ninja" of the title was kept, even in the UK, and the censorship was relaxed thereafter.

 

[clovis-man]

The best cover on a book I've read this year is The Line of Polity - which is handy as the novel is in the top four of the thirteen candidates as well. And it's just my second favorite Asher this year!

Ah. A portrait of Skellor. Good representation. You can even see the evil gleam in his eye! My Tor paperback is much more mundane.

 

[Michael01]

I want to say the cover of A Dark Sacrifice. I'm really not trying to be under Teresa's feet all the time, I swear , but that cover has always impressed me.

Ooh...I really like the look of that Line of Polity cover.

 

[Wanted Hero]

Found a cover I liked:

Wow. I didn't even have to go looking. That's beautiful.