S/D: Freaky/psychedelic pulpy book cover design

After 5 years of hunting, I finally found a copy of this:

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/F-series/F-139b.jpg

Which is about a guy who builds a rocket powered by beer.

I'm quite happy.

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone read this? It's great!

http://www.snowbooks.com/bookimages/3D9781905005352.jpg

― Neil S, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.orionsarm.com/books/whip.jpg http://www.arrakis.co.uk/jpg/dosadi.jpg

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Something about Dosadi Experiment really hooks me, btw, something adolescent and fierce. I dig that book.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

haha Abbot I recently ripped off one of those CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet covers for some poster art...

and yes I've read Flint! Aylett's great, altho he can be kind of a grueling read.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was torn between "this is great!" and "this is unreadable!", though the former won out in the end.

― Neil S, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't find the cover I used to have, but norman spinrod's the iron dream always used to have some variation of hitler on a motorcycle...

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/normanspinrad/irndream.jpg

― Edward III, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Some far-out 70s Marvel Comics design there. Capes w/ big Ghost Rider/Dr Strange collars

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

this is more 80s style

http://www.tomandmaria.com/st197/images/miller%20cover.jpg

― Edward III, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

Frighteningly bad, I meant.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:29 (sixteen 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

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