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more about #margaretatwood Dirk Anger: De Elektrische Nachtmerrie? And here I thought title translations to Spanish were lame more » Bigdamnhero: Thank you. That was a wonderful waste of an hour. I got a kick out of the Dick covers. You can just hear the designers thinking, "I gotta stick som... more » gods-n-clods: Water from the well, this is. Must preserve them for future generations. #bookcovers more » SJ_Edwards: #bookcovers [www.chrisfossart.com] more » SJ_Edwards: Awesome! For me, it's the polychrome space derelicts of Chris Foss's covers, that will forever populate the endless Oort cloud of my mind........ [en... more » Pittsburghmuggle: There was a Asimov's Foundation book cover that had a girl standing atop something with her back to us with ruins in the background. I didn't read th... more » rroonnbb: Shelfari (www.shelfari.com) has a cover history for just about any book - here's the page for Neuromancer: [www.shelfari.com] and one for Dune: [www.... more » veeerules: Wow, I've suddenly had some flashbacks of rummaging through boxes of my parents' books in dark corners of the basement... I think it is fun to try and... more » HowIsYourFlat: This could have been awesome if each edition's release year or date was displayed. But I like this. #bookcovers more » gd01skorpius: Lol at the Enterprise in the spanish War of The Worlds #bookcovers more » Chip Overclock: This is an awesomely cool idea. After all, it's the cover that catches our eye. And covers are representative of the time and space from whence they c... more » Garrett Steele: I love looking through cover art like this, but one got a belly-laugh out of me before I even started with the gallery. I have to say, I'm really digg... more » Lowry: Some of the coolest classic sf covers I've seen are from the spanish editor Martinez Roca: [www.flickr.com] Worth checking out... #bookcovers more » Lalei: This reminds me of one of the sessions of a sci-fi lit course I took last year, where our professor showed us this awesome powerpoint on sci-fi book c... more » Obama takes time to read kotaku's comments...: Fahrenheit 451 #10 is my copy #bookcovers more » soundkeeper: I love that someone decided to put a glass of milk on the cover of A Clockwork Orange. I think it's fascinating to see that when someone picked a repr... more » MonkeyT: War of The Worlds #18 looks like a giant Disney character about to eat people. #bookcovers more » MonkeyT: I'm surprised the collection of Farenheit 451 covers didn't include what I would consider the obvious design answer: the cover itself appearing heat d... more » omnibus_spiritus: What's up with the Starship Enterprise on the cover of "La Guerre de los mondos"? Must be a pirate copy! #bookcovers more » Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: I love these posts, except for one thing - I look at some of the copies I have of these and realise there are much, much better editions out there I s... more » -
#coverart
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 » -
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Vegan Rebels of the Bio-apocalypse in “Year of the Floodâ€
What happens when you get the apocalypse you wished for? That's what a band of eco-subversives called the Gardeners find out in Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood, a story of humanity destroyed for meddling too much with the environment.
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#conceptart
A Nightmare of Genetically-Modified Animals
In her biotech apocalypse novel Oryx and Crake, author Margaret Atwood depicts a future where genetic engineering has warped the animal kingdom into "pigoons" (pictured), "snats," glowing bunnies, and worse. Now an artist has captured her dystopia in images. More » -
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Margaret Atwood Says She Doesn't Write Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin Disagrees
Margaret Atwood insists that her novels aren't science fiction, as everything she writes either has happened or could happen today. But in looking at Atwood's latest novel, The Year of the Flood, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin disagrees. More » -
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Margaret Atwood's All-Singing, All-Drama Post-Apocalyptic Roadshow
With Margaret Atwood's long-awaited novel The Year Of The Flood coming out in a month or so, she's ramping up a promotional blitz, including a spiffy website and T-shirts. She also plans a roadshow with actors and choirs... and plushies? More » -
#lastlines
Our Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels
Science fiction is the literature of the future. So the best SF novels have endings that resolve the story and leave you feeling as though it continues after the last page. Here are our favorite last lines from SF books.
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#books
Margaret Atwood's Latest Deals With Financial Crisis, Horrific Floods, Hymns About Al Gore
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin) tackles the economic crisis in her upcoming novel The Year of the Flood with a sprawling tale of social decay and environmental ruin. And hymns. More » -
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Handmaid's Tale Too Politically Incorrect For Canadian Schools?
Margaret Atwood's seminal dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale has been called many things before — but sexist? That's what one Toronto parent is claiming in his quest to get it out of schools. More » -
