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Newest Book Covers Don't "Scream Scifi"

There's an interesting discussion going on over at Media Bistro's Galleycat blog about when science fiction books should have dignified covers that look less pulpy and "skiffy." Case in point: Clifford Simak's The Way Station, which has had a host of lurid covers over the years (see left) and now has gotten reissued with a nice pastoral grasslands scene, which looks more like a Willa Cather novel. Click through to see the new, classier cover, plus a selection of the old pulpy covers. More »

1:02 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,274 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: Some sci-fi covers feature spaceships that look like their were drawn by a nine year old. Alistair Reynolds stuff for example. Cant they pay some photoshop junkie to do something that actually looks alright? more »