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The "Better Book Titles" blog is one of the internet's great treasures — and if you haven't checked it out lately, you've missed some total gems. The blog is just what it sounds like — people post their versions of books with more appropriate titles. More »
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Jonathan Strahan's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is always a brilliant collection of mind-blowing short stories. But Strahan's collections also always have the best covers. And Volume Six, which comes out in March, has our favorite cover out of all of them so far, by Sparth. More »
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The title of John Scalzi's secret project has finally been revealed — it's the intriguing Redshirts, a novel whose one-line synopsis says it all: "What happens when all the expendable ensigns on the exploring starship start comparing notes?" Knowing Scalzi, this book will be poignant as laugh-out-loud funny... but how do you create a cover that lives up to that title? More »
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Last week, we talked about how science fiction cover art evolved into the colorful, pulpy art we love today. Now, here's our look at the evolution of cover art from 1930 to 1955, as pulp styles exploded into awesomeness. More »
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We all love the colorful richness of science fiction pulp cover art. But pulp art didn't spring into the world fully formed, full of beautiful women adventurers and marauding robots. More »
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We told you a while ago that Vintage Books would be putting out special editions of science fiction classics with 3D covers — and now here's your first look at some of the cover designs. More »
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Our total destruction at the hands (or tentacles) of alien visitors has been gloriously featured on book covers since the dawn of science fiction. Writing in Granta Magazine, Jeremy Sheldon explores why so many book covers feature horrifying extraterrestrials. More »
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Remember when every paranormal adventure novel had to have a woman with a tramp stamp, with her back to the reader? Preferably wearing tight leather pants and holding a crossbow? Those days are over. More »
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Dan Dos Santos just won a silver medal from this year's Spectrum medals for his cover art for Diana Rowland's My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Over at Muddy Colors, he discusses the evolution of this striking cover. More »
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Over at Flavorwire, there's a nice collection of science fiction cover art — "the good, the bad and the totally bizarre." Warning: some of these covers may require some kind of specially shielded eyewear before viewing. More »
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A ship plunges boldly into the swirling eye of an event horizon, criss-crossed by a searing beam of purple light. What happens next? It's the sort of tantalizing image that leaves you dreaming — and desperate to read the book that the image adorns. More »
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Amazing fashions, including catsuits and furry vests, adorn the hep cats in this spaceport. More »
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Megan Burns' art spoofs and celebrates the sexiness of space opera. Her new gallery show, opening tomorrow in New York, pays homage to paperback book covers and comic book art, with hypnorays, alien life forms, and beautiful bodies. Possibly NSFW? More »
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Thomas Allen takes the art from old paperbacks and turns 3D in the best way imaginable. Check out more of his stuff here and here. More »
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China Miéville's novel Embassytown is all about communication with an alien race, on a distant planet. So it makes sense that the newly revealed cover shows letters falling on a luminescent cityscape. More »
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This book cover draws your eye, with its curving dark lines and its stark red-black-and-off-white color scheme. To illustrate the cover of Catherynne M. Valente's retelling of the legend of Koschei the Deathless, Beth White used actual black paper cut-outs. More »
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Mira Grant, the alter ego of Seanan McGuire, had a fresh take on the role of blogging and communications after the zombie apocalypse, in Feed. Now check out your first look at the cover of the second book, Deadline. More »
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The Pulp Archive blog is featuring a new science fiction book or magazine cover every single day, in case your day is missing awesome images like this one, of a trumpet-playing otter leading a woman. What are they looking at? More »
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Here's an exclusive look at the full, uncropped cover art to Greg Bear's first Halo novel, Halo: Cryptum. You'll notice it's pretty different than the usual Halo book cover. No Master Chief, no Spartan armor. How did this happen? More »
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The good people at Orbit Books have analyzed which dragon colors were most popular on the covers of fantasy books. More »
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When you hear the phrase "steampunk book cover," certain motifs may spring to mind, like goggles or cogs. But new covers for novels by K.W. Jeter and Harry Harrison will blow your mind with their fancy early-twentieth-century stylings. Behold wondrousness! More »
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According to these pulp book covers, there is one thing that we know for sure: We should start investing in basement apartments now, to prepare for the future. Also, we need bikini tops. And tentacle polish. More »
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Classic scifi cover illustrator Frank Kelly Freas created iconic alien landscapes and creatures for many of the most popular stories of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. This is the 1973 cover for DAW Books' Testament XXI by Guy Snyder. More »
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Science fiction book covers of the 1960s and 1970s blast their way onto your retinas like an acid trip from beyond the universe. They're more vivid, trippier, and often more nightmarish than today's covers. Here are some of the craziest. More »
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Over at HiLobrow, io9 contributor Joshua Glenn has been posting scans of books from his collection that include the letter X in their titles. Not surprisingly, many are scifi. Where are all the X titles of today, I wonder? More »
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From a book about the history of science fiction come these two utterly freaktastic magazine covers. Help us out, people — what's going on here? What are these people saying? Image via Kollage Kid on Flickr. More »
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The proud history of science fiction publishing offers a near-limitless supply of WTF book covers, it seems. Flickr user Zimpenfish just uploaded some real masterpieces of dementia, including one that might be NSFW. More »
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Back when the conquest of space was still a thrilling new prospect and the Moon landing seemed certain to lead to a Moonbase, educational book covers celebrated the wonders of the stars. Here are some of our splashy, exciting favorites. More »
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Now that Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan has won a Locus Award, we're even more excited to read the next chapter in the alternate-universe World War I saga. Here's your exclusive first look at the cover of book two, Behemoth. Spoilers below. More »
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Last night on Bravo's Work of Art, the reality series commissioned a pack of artists to redesign the book covers of a few genre classics, from Frankenstein to the Time Machine. A few interpretations were just brilliant. Take a look! More »
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You've seen the pulp covers featuring wide-eyed women clad in sparkles and not much else. But The Haunted Lamp, a blog which features "The Eerie, The Sublime, And The Little Bit Queer," has collected some of scifi's beef-cakiest covers. More »
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Seriously. We loved swords and crazy nudity when the late, great Frank Frazetta did them. But this? This is just... wrong. What do you think this guy is saying? [via Jonathan Strahan and Aidan Moher] More »
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What do you think is happening on this book cover? Even the poor unicorn looks confused. Our new favorite blog is Good Show Sir, in which the worst SF and fantasy book covers are thrust in our faces. (Possibly NSFW.) More »
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Neal Asher just signed another five-book contract with Macmillan/Tor, which means more thrilling adventures in the Polity universe. But it also means more bitchin covers by artist Jon Sullivan. Check out some of the most glorious covers so far. More »
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What's more amazing — the arresting loveliness of many recent SF book covers, or how different from each other they are? SFSignal asked artists and designers for their favorite recent covers. Here are a few of the ones they picked. More »
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In the opening credits of Gentlemen Broncos, the cast and crew's names are superimposed onto real science fiction book covers. Eagle-eyed io9 reader Lorcan McGrane has found several of these awesome vintage covers. Compare and contrast after the jump! More »
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Orbit Books Creative Director Lauren Panepinto has posted a high speed video showcasing her cover for Gail Carriger's upcoming urban fantasy novel Blameless. Gander at six hours of rapid-fire Photoshopping condensed into a mere 115 seconds! More »
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The alien aesthetic of 1950s scifi artist Richard Powers evokes melting clocks, Bruegel-like landscapes, and the surrealism of Paul Klee. One look at Powers' surrealist planets and you know you're not on Tatooine any more. More »
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Artist Antonello Silverini has posted a sprawling gallery of Phillip K. Dick book covers he designed for Italian publishing house Fanucci Editore. Silverini's gorgeously fractured collages truly convey the reality-altering aspects and transhumanism present in Dick's oeuvre. More »
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Quirk Classics, the makers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies have released their next cover for the cyborg inspired Android Karenina. The retold classic by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters, will be in stores June 8, 2010. More »
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