Book Covers

[blacknorth]

And a nice Van Vogt collection:

 

[dask]

dask - a lot of your scans are coming up as removed or deleted.

Whoops! My mistake. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Yes, I've been deleting images; figured once I posted them here I wouldn't need to store them at Photobucket. Had no idea by doing so they'd vanish from the Chrons. Just never made the connection. But photobucket's been acting up lately, getting hard to navigate. Thought I was clogging the system with too many book covers and if I removed the one's I posted things would speed up. Can't say as they have. Anyway, I'll delete no more. Sorry about that and thanks again for letting me know.

That's the edition of Doomstar I have. Haven't read it yet either. Don't have that Van Vogt that I know of, at least by that title. Good cover, pretty sure it's Gaughan. Can't tell who did Doomstar. Looks like somebody copied several different artists at once.

 

[dask]

One of my favorite covers is from Cuckoo's Egg by C.J. Cherryh. It's by Michael Whelan and is (or at least was) on display at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. I believe it's an acrylic. Suffice to say that the original painting is quite arresting. I wish I had a larger copy to share.

Whelan's one of the best.

 

[dask]

I must admit that I really like the cover of the book I am reading at the moment:

So do I.

 

[dask]

A double of doubles:

 

[dask]

More Paul Alexander.

 

[dask]

Barclay Shaw, artist.

 

[Connavar]

There is something disturbing about this cover, also posted for bad cover reasons. What has that cover,weird upper body drawing to do with the story....

I just got this version of The Rebel Worlds as second hand from bookmooch.

 

[Rothgar]

There is something disturbing about this cover, also posted for bad cover reasons. What has that cover,weird upper body drawing to do with the story....

That is disturbing.

 

[Fried Egg]

There is something disturbing about this cover, also posted for bad cover reasons. What has that cover,weird upper body drawing to do with the story....

I just got this version of The Rebel Worlds as second hand from bookmooch.

That's the cover on the edition I have, and as far as I can tell, it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the story. Although perhaps it has some obscure, symbolic meaning that went over my head, someone may have to enlighten me!

 

[Fried Egg]

And a nice Van Vogt collection:

I read that! I forgot all about it. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Another Will]

Here's a couple by two of my favourite authors:

Barrington Bayley - The Star Virus, art by Kelly Freas. Great book - stop them, they stole the focus of futurity...

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Sorry to OT on my second post, but it's nice to see Barrington Bayley being mentioned. I was a school friend of his son, and used to go around to their house to play (well, watch my mate play on his ZX Spectrum, and have a go every so often!). I remember chatting with Barry in his office, which was their front room, surrounded by books. He used to write his novels on a typewriter, in a shirt and tie, and was always willing to talk. I've only read Soul of a Robot by BB, which he lent me. I must admit to being really saddened by to hear of his death earlier this year. He was a lovely bloke.

 

[blacknorth]

Sorry to OT on my second post, but it's nice to see Barrington Bayley being mentioned. I was a school friend of his son, and used to go around to their house to play (well, watch my mate play on his ZX Spectrum, and have a go every so often!). I remember chatting with Barry in his office, which was their front room, surrounded by books. He used to write his novels on a typewriter, in a shirt and tie, and was always willing to talk. I've only read Soul of a Robot by BB, which he lent me. I must admit to being really saddened by to hear of his death earlier this year. He was a lovely bloke.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

I think those of us who are Bayley fans are all still pretty stunned and saddened by his death. I only found out about his passing by reading a thread entry here. It's hard to believe such a prolific and unique imagination is gone.

I've read most of his material - if you can find them, try to read his collections, The Knights of the Limits and The Seed of Evil - they present his work at its finest and clearest. Also there is a sequel to The Soul of the Robot, titled Rod of Light. My own favourites are probably the Chronos novels, and Garments of Caen - a sentient suit of clothes for the gentleman. Perhaps he was wearing it when you called.

I'm very envious you met him and glad to hear he was as splendid a being as his writing. I read somewhere that he worked as a coalminer for a time in the 70's - it's extraordinary to think of his mind fetching all those ideas down a coalmine in, I don't know, Cumbria...

Thanks for the anecdote - always willing to hear more of Mr Bayley.

 

[blacknorth]

dask - I loved those Ace covers for The Sun Destroyer and A Yank at Valhalla. Fabulous. Just make you wanna jump in and start reading.

The cover of my scanner is broken - I'm going to make an attempt at fixing it tomorrow.

 

[dask]

Couple of my favorite Hamilton covers. CRASHING SUNS a bit formulaic but CITY AT WORLD'S END truly exciting.

 

[dask]

A couple of No. 1s. Don't ask me how I got them side-by-side. Haven't got a clue.

 

[CyBeR]

Two of my favorite covers have got to be the "Vintage Classics" covers for Aldous Huxley's 'Brave new world' and for Yevgeny Zamyatin's incredible masterpiece 'We'.
I love when covers are simply and inviting. Less is more for me most of the time.

 

[gully_foyle]

Just found a neat collection of Penguin SF covers over the years at:
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
There are some true classics there.

Actually, I just discovered that if you follow this link: http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/toc.html there is an interesting essay on the penguin SF covers. It's not obvious to navigate to from the first link I gave.

 

[clovis-man]

Here are a couple from an Ace Double of Jack Vance stories. The artist is Jack Gaughan. The style is typical, I think for the period (mid 1960s). Sorry the condition of the covers isn't better.

 

[Heather Myst]

I love when a book has a good cover. I'm sure I have purchased several books just due to the excellent cover. The series that really stands out to me as having good covers is Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. a series that I really enjoyed that had terrible cover art in my opinion was David Coe's Winds of the Forelands. I loved the books but I can't help but think that if he had Butcher's cover artist he would of sold a lot more books. I also liked Erikson's Gardens of the Moon cover.