r/badscificovers • u/jgzogaib • 12h ago
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 1d ago
Ancient Light by Mary Gentle
This is a reprint cover from 1990. The original looks different and a little better.
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 2d ago
cat people! mrrow! The Deep Beyond by CJ Cherryh
What a cover 😂
r/badscificovers • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 2d ago
2spooky4me Knights of Shadow by Roger Zelazny
r/badscificovers • u/NoirAppreciator • 2d ago
50's fever "Deadline to Pluto" (1951) by Vargo Statten
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 8d ago
BAEN! The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook
Another Rick Cook book by none other than Baen.
r/badscificovers • u/seeingeyefrog • 8d ago
Nightmares and Geezenstacks by Fredric Brown - Corgi Books, 1962 - Cover art by Hieronymus Bosch
r/badscificovers • u/No_Example3551 • 10d ago
misleading cover Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 10d ago
BAEN! Mall Purchase Night by Rick Cook
And another one!!
r/badscificovers • u/Ebirah • 11d ago
misleading cover Tales of the Dying Earth, by Jack Vance
r/badscificovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 12d ago
The Power of Blackness, by Jack Williamson.
Bad because someone decided to cover the focal point of a lovely Paul Lehr painting with a goofy font. For a better treatment of the same art, see Fonts in Use.
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 12d ago
BAEN! Forge of the Elders by L. Neil Smith
Baen never fails.
r/badscificovers • u/LifeGivesMeMelons • 13d ago
A World For the Meek - Harry Willson
I thought I left this weird thing behind a few moves ago, but nope! Still on the shelf.
It's a very strange psychedelic post-apocalyptic novel that's exactly what you'd expect from a guy who did a bunch of acid in Albuquerque while thinking about how cool dolphins are. The cross-eyed octopus has always bugged me.
Credited artist: Claiborne O'Connor
r/badscificovers • u/darren648 • 13d ago
Mutants edited by Issac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles Waugh. Raintree 1982.
Illustrated by William Ersland.
r/badscificovers • u/seeingeyefrog • 14d ago
Shambleau by C. L. Moore, the 1976 British paperback from Sphere Books. The cover artist is listed as unknown
r/badscificovers • u/VisitRealistic3653 • 14d ago
The Stainless Steel Rat For President by Harry Harrison 1982. Sphere SF with cover art by Peter Elson.
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 15d ago
BAEN! Mad Roy’s Light by Paula King
Might be the laziest Bae effort.
r/badscificovers • u/Impressive-Step7261 • 16d ago
Raider by Mikhail Mikheev — cover illustration by V. Dvornik, from the Combat Science Fiction book series
Blurb: A Russian cruiser crashes during a reconnaissance flight. The sole surviving crew member finds himself stranded in a primitive world, where he must fight for survival and reshape the world to suit his needs, unaware that these are the first steps toward building an Empire of his own…
As someone who’s read Mikheyev, you need to thank the Lord his books were never translated into English…
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 16d ago
BAEN! The Hub: Dangerous Territory by James H. Schmitz
Baen for the win again!!
r/badscificovers • u/DrPrMel • 17d ago
BAEN! RX for Chaos by Christopher Anvil
Baen never fails.
r/badscificovers • u/darren648 • 17d ago
Titans Of The Universe by James Harvey. Manor 1978. Cover artist unknown.
A famously plagiarised, retitled edition of Gardner Fox's 1964 sci-fi novel Escape Across the Cosmos.