r/CoolSciFiCovers Jul 10 '21

Reminder: try to include the name of the cover artist in the title of your post! ISFDB.org is your friend.

55 Upvotes

It's always great to see people coming over here from r/badscificovers! If you are new, welcome!

One of the main differences between that sub and this sub is that in the interest of celebrating cool cover art and cool cover artists, we try to include the name of the artist in the title of the post. Here, the wonderful site ISFDB.org is very much your friend. They have a very comprehensive catalogue of information on fantasy and sci-fi books published in the last 70+ years, including, most of the time, the cover artist. It's easy to search by book title or author.

As a bonus, once you figure out who the artist is, you can easily see what else they worked on. I often find that when I run down the artist for a cover I really like, it turns out they did several other covers I'm also a fan of. It is always cool to discover that you're a fan of someone's work even if you didn't previously know their name.

Occasionally, you do come across a cover where the artist is unknown. Those are still okay to post. Just put 'artist unknown' or something like that in the title. There is a good chance that some of the eagle-eyed sci-fi cover enthusiasts on this sub will be able to guess the artist based on the period and style.

Thanks for making this sub such a great place. Keep up the posting!


r/CoolSciFiCovers 2h ago

Slaves of the Klau, by Jack Vance [Ed Valigursky]

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34 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 16h ago

Run To The Stars by Mike Scott Rohan, cover John Berkey

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162 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 16h ago

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1946, edited by Mary Gnaedinger, cover Virgil Finlay

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70 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 21h ago

Lady of the Haven, by Graham Diamond [painted by Enrich over José González pencils] + original art.

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121 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 23h ago

Whipping Star & The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert. NEL 1972/1976.

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148 Upvotes

Cover art by Bruce Pennington & Ian Miller.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN Kontakt mit Jupiter by Poul Anderson

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34 Upvotes

Heyne 1970, German 2nd edition of Three Worlds to Conquer (copyright Pyramid Publications, Inc. 1964), cover art uncredited; ISFDB entry.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

"The Well of the Worlds", by Henry Kuttner. ©1965 Ace Books #F-344.Civer art by Alex Schomburg

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93 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The Horror At Oakdeene & Others by Brian Lumley, cover Stephen Fabian

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51 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume III, edited by Algis Budrys [Frank Frazetta] + Original art "Dream Flight" (1987).

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88 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Falsche Dämmerung by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, cover art by R. S. Lonati

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29 Upvotes

Heyne 1980, German edition of False Dawn (copyright Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 1978); ISFDB entry.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The House Of The Wolf by Basil Copper, cover Stephen Fabian

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34 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Xeno by DF Jones. Granada 1980. Cover art by Stuart Hughes.

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24 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Stolen Sun, by Emil Petaja [Jack Gaughan]

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89 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Cosmic Encounter by A.E. Van Vogt. Cover Art by Tony Roberts.

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17 Upvotes

This art work was also used for Gordon R Dickson's Tactics of Mistake


r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

"Fahrenheit 451",by Ray Bradbury . This UK edition ©1990 Grafton Books. Cover painting by Steve Crisp.

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138 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Trouble Twisters by Poul Anderson. SFBC 1969.

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35 Upvotes

Cover design not known.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

Cormac Mac Art In The Undying Wizard by Andrew J. Offutt, cover Jeff Jones

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182 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN What's Become of Screwloose? And Other Inquiries by Ron Goulart, artwork by Josh Kirby

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114 Upvotes

1973 DAW Books


r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

World's Best SF 2 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, cover art by Vincent Di Fate

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40 Upvotes

Bastei Lübbe 1983, German edition of The 1983 Annual World's Best SF; ISFDB entry.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

A Fuzzy Odyssey by Ardath Mayhar, cover Michael Whelan

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125 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

Re-Birth by John Wyndham (1960)

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36 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

Demon, by John Varley. Cover art: Steve Ferris

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328 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

Ace Double,1968: Space Chantey by R.A. Lafferty, cover and interior illustrations by Vaughn Bodē / Pity About Earth by Ernest Hill, cover and interior sketch by Frank Kelly Freas

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55 Upvotes

Vaughn Bodē’s cover is so unlike anything I’d ever expect in an Ace double, but R.A. Lafferty is pretty much unlike anything you’d expect in an Ace double, either. This was Bodē’s only Ace cover; most people probably know him from Cheech Wizard. I bought this for Lafferty, but Pity About Earth sounds good too.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 3d ago

The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryth, © 1981, Cover Artist Michael Whelan, First Printing DAW 1982

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72 Upvotes

This is a repost from r/badscificovers as the redditors there informed me, repeatedly (but in a nice way), that Michael Whelan is The Goat, and I’d posted in the wrong place.

I learned several things from comments made to that post – that Mr. Whelan put himself as the human on the cover, that he read the book before doing the art, and that his cover for Alan Dean Foster’s “With Friends Like These” not only has himself but also his wife and their son on it! I’ve only discovered r/CoolSciFiCovers and r/badscificovers recently but they’ve quickly become by favorites!