Great Book Covers

[AE35Unit]

Thanks Om!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

one of my favorites

I've never seen that one before, but it is gorgeous.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

The artwork is by Bob Eggleton,published by Dark harvest in 1990 on the rear cover is an astronaut's gloved arm sticking out of a sand Dune.

 

[Rinman]

First book I ever read, I like the cover of this updated one...

 

[dask]

Dask,

This cover?

Yes! That' the one. Wish I knew how to put book covers on the forum like you guys.

 

[AE35Unit]

Yes! That' the one. Wish I knew how to put book covers on the forum like you guys.

Its quite simple really. You just copy the URL of the pic you want and insert it in between the IMG tags
[ IMG]urlofpicendingin.jpg[ /IMG]
(Just take out the spaces after the [ )

 

[dask]

Its quite simple really. You just copy the URL of the pic you want and insert it in between the IMG tags
[ IMG]urlofpicendingin.jpg[ /IMG]
(Just take out the spaces after the [ )

Okay. Thank you. I'll, uh, work on it, see what happens.

 

[J-Sun]

I'm not always a big fan of this very popular style (this is Powers but he had many imitators) but I like this one:

(This image is 261x400px whereas my book is about 106x161mm (4 1/8x6 3/8in), which means the image is too tall for its width and I had to shrink the whole thing to get it under the attachment limit, but it gets the idea across.)

@dask & AE35Unit: I'm attaching because, IIUC, that means if the remote link goes down, this image will still be accessible and you avoid "hot linking" which some sites don't like - but I really don't know. BTW, how do the people who seem to be attaching but getting fullsize images rather than thumbnails do that? I only know the attach/IMG methods and the attachment results in a thumbnail link that takes you to the full image. (I mean, this is a handy thing if you're dealing with a large image, but when the image isn't much more than a thumbnail to begin with, it'd be nice to just put it right in there.) -- Never mind - it does seem they are all either IMGs or thumbnailed attachments.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Just had a go at this myself - this is one of the Commando-esque covers I mentioned

 

[AE35Unit]

I'm not always a big fan of this very popular style (this is Powers but he had many imitators) but I like this one:
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(This image is 261x400px whereas my book is about 106x161mm (4 1/8x6 3/8in), which means the image is too tall for its width and I had to shrink the whole thing to get it under the attachment limit, but it gets the idea across.)

@dask & AE35Unit: I'm attaching because, IIUC, that means if the remote link goes down, this image will still be accessible and you avoid "hot linking" which some sites don't like - but I really don't know. BTW, how do the people who seem to be attaching but getting fullsize images rather than thumbnails do that? I only know the attach/IMG methods and the attachment results in a thumbnail link that takes you to the full image. (I mean, this is a handy thing if you're dealing with a large image, but when the image isn't much more than a thumbnail to begin with, it'd be nice to just put it right in there.) -- Never mind - it does seem they are all either IMGs or thumbnailed attachments.

The only trouble with using attachments is my images are often too big and so I just upload to photobucket so avoid hotlinking,but the major drawback is that I can't see those pics other than the tiny thumbs, when browsing from my phone. I don't know if its Opera Mini or my phone's server but if I click on the thumb it just refreshes the page, and all I see is the tiny thumbnail.

 

[J-Sun]

The only trouble with using attachments is my images are often too big and so I just upload to photobucket so avoid hotlinking,but the major drawback is that I can't see those pics other than the tiny thumbs, when browsing from my phone. I don't know if its Opera Mini or my phone's server but if I click on the thumb it just refreshes the page, and all I see is the tiny thumbnail.

Ah, I see. That sucks. But how you browse from a phone in the first place, I don't understand.

Well, I'm having a hard time finding images of some of the stuff I've liked. For instance, the cover of Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series is very cool - it may have been used on The Great SF Stories 10 but I couldn't find that, either. It's probably been used elsewhere - I know one similar to it has - anyway, it's a psychedelic looking alien holding an earth-like planet (maybe the earth) in his hand.

There's also these, that I can't find in anything but thumbnails, so these'll be thumbnails to thumbnails , though the targets will be a tiny bit bigger. One is a spiffy SF cover and the other is a great fantasy/horror cover that looks like a riff on a Dell Deathbird Stories cover, only much better. If anyone found any of these three in better shape (or at all) and wanted to upload them, yay.

 

[J-Sun]

Here's one for Man Plus (though, in a sense, he's Man Minus ) which is very cool. A striking, memorable image. There's a thumbnail to a thumbnail of the actual cover, and then a larger rendition of the art without the cover text.

 

[J-Sun]

Last one from me for the forseeable future. What I really love is the Bonestell-type astronomical art, but I'm having a hard time finding any. This from the Dozois annuals will do - I apologize (once again) for the crap quality. Just imagine it larger and sharper where it's an actual spiral rather than a blob and so on. And then a kind of spiffy neo-Gernsbackian cover for Reynolds - this is like mine and is better than another version I've seen - it has the ship ascending rather than descending. Maybe the other's more thematically apt, but this makes a better cover.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Here's a thread...

Book Covers

 

[nj1]

Anyone mentioned Joe Abercrombies First Law series, The books look and more importantly feel like old paper, don't know how to post a pic but they're my fav out of my collection

 

[ratsy]

Anyone mentioned Jow Abercrombies First Law series, The books look and more importantly feel like old paper, don't know how to post a pic but they're my fav out of my collection

I agree, Abercrombies are pretty slick.

 

[AE35Unit]

Last one from me for the forseeable future. What I really love is the Bonestell-type astronomical art, but I'm having a hard time finding any. This from the Dozois annuals will do - I apologize (once again) for the crap quality. Just imagine it larger and sharper where it's an actual spiral rather than a blob and so on. And then a kind of spiffy neo-Gernsbackian cover for Reynolds - this is like mine and is better than another version I've seen - it has the ship ascending rather than descending. Maybe the other's more thematically apt, but this makes a better cover.

Yea i have that Reynolds book. Great cover and of course what you can't see in a pic is its irridescent quality,like its made of metal.

 

[J-Sun]

Yea i have that Reynolds book. Great cover and of course what you can't see in a pic is its irridescent quality,like its made of metal.

The cover's certainly sharper. It's kind of surprsing how hard it is to find decent images, but no image would be the cover.

Here's a thread...

Book Covers

Thanks LOW! (I try to cross reference threads when I notice them, myself.) Interesting to see more stuff.

Anyone mentioned Joe Abercrombies First Law series, The books look and more importantly feel like old paper, don't know how to post a pic but they're my fav out of my collection

This it?

 

[WizardofOwls]

I always loved this one too. Saw it as a kid and was SO intriqued by the plant-centaur guy. The people werent so great though.


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[steale]

Cover for Ishtaria: Prince of Blades