Science Fiction Book covers

[worldofmutes]

I am contemplating.

 

[Rodders]

Love the scale on the Tides of Light cover. I feel tiny.

 

[Foxbat]

Loving looking at all these covers. Great stuff folks

 

[psikeyhackr]

The variations for the same book can be shocking.

 

[Pyan]

I wonder if the person that chose this has actually read the book?...

 

[Starbeast]

My first sci-fi novel that I discovered and read from my old grade school library.

My copy below.

 

[dask]

Both look good but my preference tends toward the Airmont. The intro by Donald Wollheim could be a big bonus.

 

[AltThinking]

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My first thought was Wallace & Gromit on the moon !

 

[Rodders]

Iain M. Banks's cover for Surface Detail was especially good, in my opinion.



I found the eyes of the "intagliated" to be very captivating.

 

[SilentRoamer]

I've always loved the art featured on Science Fiction books and figured that it'd be nice to start a thread to discuss book covers. It's a great subject, i think as new covers for old books are released all the time.

I especially enjoy the work of artists such as Chris Foss, Roger Dean, Boris Vallejo, Rodney Matthews and more recently, Jon Sullivan. I also have a soft spot for the art of the 70's and 80's and the weirder the better.

My favourite book covers are those tableaux style covers that run across several volumes. My first experience of this style was the dune books released in the early 90's.

Anyway, I thought i'd start the thread with the Dune Panorama covers that i found online.

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Please post your favourite or weirdest book covers.

I have the entire series in that particular cover but I never knew they were a panorama cover if opened and placed side by side. Thats really awesome!

 

[AE35Unit]

Iain M. Banks's cover for Surface Detail was especially good, in my opinion.

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I found the eyes of the "intagliated" to be very captivating.

Ooh fractals

 

[Rodders]

Bumping this thread for Steve Stone's cover art for Neal Asher's War Bodies.



I kinda like spaceships in my art.

 

[Harvester]

Found this version of George R. R. Martin's A Song for Lya, really surreal. Almost thought it was a misplaced romance novel at first

 

[AE35Unit]

I love this fun Asimov cover

 

[Rodders]

An interesting cover.

 

[Pyan]

So is Nightfall Two... I suppose it saved on design costs!

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[AE35Unit]

Yea I need to find the second one. Knowing my luck I'll find one in a different edition

 

[Pyan]

My own copy is the 1971 Panther first edition, with slightly different cover layout and TWO in caps, like the one above. Sadly, my matching copy of Nightfall One is long lost in house moves, etc.