S/D: Freaky/psychedelic pulpy book cover design

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

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

Frighteningly bad, I meant.

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

Jesuits in spaaaaaaaaaaace!

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.

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.

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.

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

Great book, that.

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

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

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

ick, no.

Another recently purchased fav.

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

ick no what?

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

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

contrasted with:

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

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

ah the 60s:

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

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

Apparently Harlan Ellison had a hand in these