Book Covers That Made You Buy

[Vince W]

That's... something else It looks more like an Image Comics cover than a book cover (I googled and saw that it's independent so... figures.).

The Brazilian edition of William Gibson's The Peripheral:
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FYI: the North-American one SUCKS.

I like that one much better than mine.

 

[CupofJoe]

The cover of David Gemmel's Legend when I saw it.

That said I was disappoint that it wasn't Druss on the cover.
This is a much better cover and how I imagined Druss as I read the tale.

 

[Rodders]

I often wonder what happens to the original art that publishers commission? Are they destroyed? Most of it is digital now, but there must be thousands of older paintings in archive somewhere.

 

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[Rodders]

Some great covers there, Dask.

I bought the entire Dune series on the basis of their covers all being from the same, huge image. Only read one.

Conversely, they say don't judge a book by it's cover, but has anyone been really taken aback by how good an unknown, but beautifully wrapped book has been?

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Love the psychedelic scientists cover!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Conversely, they say don't judge a book by it's cover, but has anyone been really taken aback by how good an unknown, but beautifully wrapped book has been?

There was something about the original Macmillan Perdido Street Station cover that really intrigued me.
It was as brilliant as the cover suggested.

 

[Toby Frost]

I don't think I've bought a novel on the basis of its cover, but I used to love the Chris Foss pictures on the Asimov books. Tolkien's pictures inside The Hobbit have always fascinated me. They've got a slightly surreal quality that reminds me of very old computer games.

 

[Guttersnipe]

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[Victoria Silverwolf]

I was intrigued by the beautiful cover art for this novel. It was well worth reading, too, a combination of ghost story, historical fiction, and near future science fiction, about music.

 

[Rodders]

I follow Joachim Boaz's blog on Wordpress and he always posts some wonderful covers. I have often wondered whether there is a SF book cover database as there is so much great art to discover. Many books get new covers when reissued.

 

[Vince W]

I follow Joachim Boaz's blog on Wordpress and he always posts some wonderful covers. I have often wondered whether there is a SF book cover database as there is so much great art to discover. Many books get new covers when reissued.

And many of those reissued covers are terrible.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

And many of those reissued covers are terrible.

Most of the reprints for P.K. Dick paperbacks, other authors, and various mysteries, that I have purchased online in the last 5 years, only have the printed title on the cover.

 

[AlexH]

Most recently from one of our own forum members - I found this cover very intriguing:

Though when I first saw it, I think I thought the figure was walking towards the shadow.

 

[K. Riehl]

I went on to read and collect everything Wagner wrote. Even the limited hardcover editions.