S/D: Freaky/psychedelic pulpy book cover design

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (91 of them)

Yeah, that one was funky, and a great precursor for what was to come(dig the painting year: 1979). The original one from the early 60s was a pretty stark abstract design.

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Check the Groovy Age of Horror blog for scads of outragous nonsense in this vein.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

y'know, I've never read Canticle For Liebowitz - is it worth reading? I don't find the basic premise all that exciting.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I read it in high school, which was a looong time ago. I recall it being unique, which I guess is one kind of recommendation. how many satirical novels about postapocalyptic religious trends are there?

― Edward III, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't find it all that satiric; it's pretty much about taking the medieval monastery system and applying it to some atomic age post-apoc version.

I first read it b/c it was base of the source material for the first Fallout game; it's where they got the idea for the Cathedral.

http://www.gildia.pl/schron/fallout/fallout/grafiki_tekstow/opis_miast/12/*w/300

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

part of the source material, rather

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I can think of quite a lot of post-apocalyptic sci-fi books featuring religious nuts (Lethem, PKD spring to mind - not to mention Battlestar Galactica more recently)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think the book is nec. about religious nuts, so much as commenting on mid-century Catholic politics.

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa. (Not the cover I was looking for but a good deal more freaky and psychedelic)
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4204/bokfsflx7.jpg
Hannes Bok, you are my new god.

― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Bok is amazing, and his life story is tragic and fascinating.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/Arkadin.jpg

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

hell yeah: now we're talkin'

http://www.pjfarmer.com/simages/fsfoct53.jpg

http://www.pjfarmer.com/simages/fsfjul55.jpg

http://www.pjfarmer.com/simages/fsiapr63.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Frightening
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/509078325_43735c5ab9_o.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Frighteningly bad, I meant.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://members.cox.net/sjrohde2/images/books_b/blish_case_bal256.jpg

Jesuits in spaaaaaaaaaaace!

― kingfish, Saturday, 9 June 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link

i recently picked up a christian sci-fi post-apocalyptic novel all about the survivors deciding how to set up a new church. it's from the 70's, i think. great cover. i'll try to remember to take a picture of it.

― scott seward, Saturday, 9 June 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

One of these days i'll start a thread about religion in sci-fi. Not the rightwing fundie Rapture Left Behind crap, but stuff where the author has some semblance of knowledge of theology, society & history, and brings them into play. PKD had plenty of early church/catholic bits in his later books, f'rinstance.

Are you thinking of A Canticle for Leibovitz? It got reprinted with that great cover in 1979 or so.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553379267.01._AA_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The more modern one doesn't look nearly as cool, but more like a Neil Gaiman book:

http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/muze/books/0060892994.jpg

The image from a 1986 version:

http://www.peterthorpe.net/media/canticleartbig.jpeg

― kingfish, Saturday, 9 June 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Great book, that.

― chap, Saturday, 9 June 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link

The first edition, many of which had this weird orange tag overtop the artwork:

http://www.robertweinberg.net/gifs/rarebooks/leibowtz.jpg

how many book covers are nothing but plugs?

I like this fan-made one:

http://www.fwis.com/cerealboxes/images/cerealboxes/127.jpg

― kingfish, Saturday, 9 June 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Bought this weekend. Much better than the Vintage version obviously.

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/transmigration9.jpg

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

ick, no.

― Maria, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Another recently purchased fav.

http://www.jdbgrphx.com/brozbooks/images/covers/340brunner.JPG

― Alex in SF, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

ick no what?

― kingfish, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link

just picked this up, Moorcock's book starring Hawkwind. It is amusingly bad.

http://www.blaskan.nu/Bilder/moorcock_butterworth_the_time_of_the_hawklords.jpg

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

sweet: http://www.coverpop.com/pop/visco/

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:15 (fourteen years ago) link

contrasted with:

http://thetorchonline.com/2009/06/29/crappy-fantasy-novel-covers/

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g179/supaflisi/img024.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link

ah the 60s:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2470/nb1889.jpg

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link

[nsfw] http://efanzines.com/EK/eI16/#wank

Apparently Harlan Ellison had a hand in these

― requiem for crunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.