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My great uncle was an awesome guy. He flew in the Pacific in WW2 and after that was an outdoorsman, professor, and paleontologist. But he also got me hooked on scifi around 4th or 5th grade, plugging me straight into Asimov, Brin, and Le Guin among others. When he died ~6 years ago, one of my cousins and I asked to take on his library of paperbacks rather than sending these to the garbage or library. These have been hanging out in the attic since then and now that it's time to move, I've got to address the collection. As much as I'd love to undertake the task of absorbing this library myself, it simply isn't going to happen. Luckily, we've got a great local bookstore that'll happily take the bulk of the collection. But before saying goodbye to 50 lbs of books, I did want to take a moment to share the most easily accessible aspect of this small library - the coverart. Now, my apologies that picture quality is gonna vary shot to shot and at best they'll be quickly taken phone cam shots. But nevertheless, there are some absolute gems from the late Golden Age and early New Wave that I think folks will enjoy. I'll be breaking these up into groups of 10 or so and will just be uploading and posting as they come. This will result in some collections being broken up which does irk me a little bit (but not enough to actually fix it). I hope you enjoy the absolutely nutty range of artists and art styles these books bring to the table.
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I swear, at one time I knew how to post images
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Gertrude Perkins posted:This is the version I have! It's great. I hope we have some kind of revival in strange prog-rock-esque book cover art in the near future. This is the version he gave me: 
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Sorry, a few lousy pics or uninspiring covers have snuck their way into the batch. Hope the cool ones make up for it.
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Selachian posted:I have a bunch of those. But then, I am old. Our friend from the used book store went through the collection (more to post, just lazy) and we got $300 in store credit for what he took. The rest went to recycling. Wasn’t there to see what was worth keeping
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Sorry for the periodic huge pics, harder to quickly timg from my phone when I'm throwing in an update on the fly.
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Ccs posted:This is the funniest yet. “Probably…”
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Ccs posted:This is the funniest yet. Also, given that this was Niven that could be a puppeteer, but did not crack the cover on that one myself
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drat, missed a date appropriate post here
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