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Midjack posted:Artist page here, he sells prints: https://davidmattingly.com Omg this is a goldmine 
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Russian book covers from the 90s and very early 00s were absolutely insane. It's like the nation was expressing its mental distress through extremely tacky and lovely book cover art. I'm gonna dig out a couple of the worst ones next time I'm at my parents. In the mean time, here is a Soviet one from a time when things were still going ok 
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madmatt112 posted:Omg this is a goldmine the cat! yes!!!!
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Midjack posted:Artist page here, he sells prints: https://davidmattingly.com legit going to pick up this series (Honor Harrington) because of the implication this hardnosed space ship captain refuses to part with her terrifying cat no matter how impractical of a choice that might be    
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Midjack posted:Artist page here, he sells prints: https://davidmattingly.com Oh cool, the Animorphs cover art.
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secret volcano lair posted:favorite one i own. this is what scifi was all about in 1964 You can't fool me, that's Gannondorf.
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The German cover is really something too: 
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fritz posted:The German cover is really something too: Here's the Kindle version currently on Amazon 
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WarpDogs posted:legit going to pick up this series (Honor Harrington) because of the implication this hardnosed space ship captain refuses to part with her terrifying cat no matter how impractical of a choice that might be I read like the first two and this is very much the case. Like, she even has padding on her jacket because of the space cats claws and the space cat has its own custom kennel with life support for when space navies clash.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:David rules drat this accurately represents how cats feel to me on mushrooms brb fetching treats for this cat because it made me feel confused and slightly subservient does it know~?! HOW?!?
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I'm loving most of what I'm seeing but David's really phoning it in on some of these  
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King Vidiot posted:I'm loving most of what I'm seeing but David's really phoning it in on some of these He went a little downhill when he started working in digital.
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I know i have this book somewhere and I'm sure it's an earlier printing than this one because while i can not remember the cover at all, it absolutely cannot be that. I won't allow it. This, on the other hand, is beautiful.
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Nearly a decade ago I stayed in an Airbnb owned by Tony sansevero who was renting our spare rooms and he made his living creating sci-fi covers and had a whole room dedicated to the art and covers. It ruled 
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lol that Fox Family logo activated a part of my brain that hasn't been booted up in decades
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buffalo all day posted:fake books are cheating !! I wanted to believe that it was real so much that I forgot to do my due diligence, especially with that obviously fake author name. I am ashamed before you, RSF. 
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Jossar posted:I wanted to believe that it was real so much that I forgot to do my due diligence, especially with that obviously fake author name. I am ashamed before you, RSF. The cover sure looks real though, text aside.
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Grizzwold posted:I remember finding this in the library back in high school. I saw this on the paperbacks shelf at my local comic book store recently, but I passed it over. Anybody know if it's worth picking up? I would accept good-good or good-bad as long as it's not boring.
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48 Hour Boner posted:The cover sure looks real though, text aside. yeah I’m pretty sure Paperback Paradise only rewrites the text and all the cover paintings etc are accurate
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From my book collection: From my mother's Narnia books:  
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I'm not sure Dildohands is an actual book, but it should be.
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central dogma posted:I'm not sure Dildohands is an actual book, but it should be. 
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central dogma posted:I'm not sure Dildohands is an actual book, but it should be. it's actual cover art and seemingly representative of the plot, Dildohands just makes it clear. Goodreads Summary Enter the world of Chrome, where nothing is as it seems. In the 22nd century, a forbidden love between a man and a machine spins the Earth toward one final war. Genres Science Fiction Gay LGBT Romance Fiction M M Romance Queer
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Owl at Home posted:I saw this on the paperbacks shelf at my local comic book store recently, but I passed it over. Anybody know if it's worth picking up? I would accept good-good or good-bad as long as it's not boring. I remember it as being pretty good, but it's also been thirty years since I read it.
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Grassy Knowles posted:it's actual cover art and seemingly representative of the plot, Dildohands just makes it clear. Domo Arigato, Fister Roboto
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 and the WWWE:  this is a stretch to call a 'paperback' but i remember finding it a bit dubious looking even when i was like 10: 
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Jossar posted:Found another good one: Fake or not that tagline owns
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Owl at Home posted:I saw this on the paperbacks shelf at my local comic book store recently, but I passed it over. Anybody know if it's worth picking up? I would accept good-good or good-bad as long as it's not boring. It is very good. It is also book 1 of a trilogy, so the plot doesn't wrap up very well, but the other two books should be fairly easy to find. (There are at least two more books after the trilogy, but their plots are single-book.) Barbara Hambly is a good author, no weird sex scenes. Some is meant to be as much horror as fantasy.
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Alhazred posted:From my mother's Narnia books: Oh gently caress yes, Norwegian publishing houses in circa the 1970s-1980s were on some good drugs. I grew up on a ton of this stuff.
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Owl at Home posted:I saw this on the paperbacks shelf at my local comic book store recently, but I passed it over. Anybody know if it's worth picking up? I would accept good-good or good-bad as long as it's not boring. Barbara Hambly is an actual good author and this is actual good 1980s fantasy, from before everything had to be a trilogy with seven books of 1000+ pages each.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I kind of envy the ability of people like this to take a premise that is like barely even a joke and flesh it out into an entire story, not stopping once to ask "is this idea worth this amount of effort?" Haven't read that one but Adam Roberts is in fact a very good and clever author. Dude has a bunch of pretty serious SF novels to his name, and a good handful of other silly-rear end parody novels like this one.
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