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Book Covers That Are Ashamed To Be Science Fiction
Check out this new cover for Sureblood by Susan Grant... You'd never know it's a swashbuckling adventure about space pirates. As the genre of science-fiction romance explodes, publishers are trying to hide the fact that these books are science fiction. More »A Vampire Love Story On The Moon, And Our New Favorite Book Cover
Move over, Diamond Star! There's a new contender for most cheesetastic book cover of the 2000s. It's the cover art for futuristic vampire romance Those Of My Blood. In the full high-res version, you can see the lunar explorer's fangs. More »Scariest Giant Heads From Science Fiction Book Covers
Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing inside the pages could be this horrifying. Here are our favorite massive-headed book covers of all time. More »Cheesiest And Most Inappropriate Book Covers Of All Time
Most of us would have no problem being seen in public reading a science-fiction novel... unless it had a cover so hideous, or so wrong, that you might get arrested. Here are the cheesiest and most disturbing science-fiction book covers. More »A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers
A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they've worn throughout the years. More »When Science Fiction Was Psychedelic
Emanuel Schongut has illustrated book covers for a ton of science fiction, fantasy, and crime classics. This small collection of his 1960s covers perfectly captures the weird, hallucinatory feel of SF from that era. More »Is This The Year Urban Fantasy Conquers Science Fiction?
Urban fantasy is swallowing up speculative fiction book sales, according to a new sales chart from Tim Holman, our new favorite chart pornographer. The Orbit Books publisher says that urban fantasy now claims nearly half the SF/F bestselller list. More »Proof That Every Fantasy Book Cover Must Contain a Sword
The nerds over at Orbit Books have examined every single fantasy book cover from the past year they could get their hands on, and tallied up the most popular visual elements. Shockingly, unicorns are extremely unpopular in fantasy cover art. More »Vampire Laser Love On Mars: The Can't-Fail Ingredients To Create The Best Worst SF Book
This tag cloud, depicting all the words that go into the worst science-fiction book titles, is a thing of absolute beauty. Orbit Books created it out of the 350 submissions for its "worst cover ever" drive. And the finalists are... More »Can You Come Up With A Science Fiction Book Cover Worse Than These?
Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they're up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below. More »Revenge Of Bad Book Covers!
Reader Mike Felkins sent us an image of the actual Slow Train To Arcturus cover, including the alleged helmet-condom. On the right, the sanitized/misspelled online version. Meanwhile, another site boasts a wealth of bad covers. More »Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into A Universe Of Terrible Book Covers
The "Judge A Book By Its Cover" blog has so much to teach us about science fiction. Like the condom-headed cover that got sanitized online... only to misspell the word "Arcturus." More »Pulp SF Book Covers That Channel Pure Id
The greatest pulp science fiction book covers aren't just trashy, they're lurid: filled with half-naked squirming and misplaced eyes, with Prince's man/woman glyph bursting out. Here's a gallery of some of our demented favorites. More »Gorgeous Reissues of Four Books that Changed the Way We See
Four design books released in the 1960s and 70s completely changed the way people saw our media-saturated world. Penguin's rebooted them for a new generation, and they're just as relevant as ever. More »Sexy Adventure Pulps That Leap Off the Page
Nothing like an adventure tale of sea monsters and lust to make you feel like the action is leaping off the page and straight into your credulous brain. Photographer Thomas Allen knows that too. He creates these images by carefully cutting book covers apart, posing them, then shooting the results to create a strange, dreamy 3D quality. We've got more of his bookish creations below. More »