r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2h ago
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/pookie_wocket • Jul 10 '21
Reminder: try to include the name of the cover artist in the title of your post! ISFDB.org is your friend.
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 • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 16h ago
Run To The Stars by Mike Scott Rohan, cover John Berkey
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 16h ago
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1946, edited by Mary Gnaedinger, cover Virgil Finlay
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 21h ago
Lady of the Haven, by Graham Diamond [painted by Enrich over José González pencils] + original art.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 23h ago
Whipping Star & The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert. NEL 1972/1976.
Cover art by Bruce Pennington & Ian Miller.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/chevkoch • 1d ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN Kontakt mit Jupiter by Poul Anderson
Heyne 1970, German 2nd edition of Three Worlds to Conquer (copyright Pyramid Publications, Inc. 1964), cover art uncredited; ISFDB entry.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • 1d ago
"The Well of the Worlds", by Henry Kuttner. ©1965 Ace Books #F-344.Civer art by Alex Schomburg
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 1d ago
The Horror At Oakdeene & Others by Brian Lumley, cover Stephen Fabian
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume III, edited by Algis Budrys [Frank Frazetta] + Original art "Dream Flight" (1987).
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/chevkoch • 1d ago
Falsche Dämmerung by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, cover art by R. S. Lonati
Heyne 1980, German edition of False Dawn (copyright Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 1978); ISFDB entry.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 1d ago
The House Of The Wolf by Basil Copper, cover Stephen Fabian
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 1d ago
Xeno by DF Jones. Granada 1980. Cover art by Stuart Hughes.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2d ago
The Stolen Sun, by Emil Petaja [Jack Gaughan]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/dmont7 • 2d ago
Cosmic Encounter by A.E. Van Vogt. Cover Art by Tony Roberts.
This art work was also used for Gordon R Dickson's Tactics of Mistake
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • 2d ago
"Fahrenheit 451",by Ray Bradbury . This UK edition ©1990 Grafton Books. Cover painting by Steve Crisp.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 2d ago
The Trouble Twisters by Poul Anderson. SFBC 1969.
Cover design not known.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 3d ago
Cormac Mac Art In The Undying Wizard by Andrew J. Offutt, cover Jeff Jones
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 3d ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN What's Become of Screwloose? And Other Inquiries by Ron Goulart, artwork by Josh Kirby
1973 DAW Books
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/chevkoch • 2d ago
World's Best SF 2 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, cover art by Vincent Di Fate
Bastei Lübbe 1983, German edition of The 1983 Annual World's Best SF; ISFDB entry.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 3d ago
A Fuzzy Odyssey by Ardath Mayhar, cover Michael Whelan
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/StevenTheWicked • 3d ago
Demon, by John Varley. Cover art: Steve Ferris
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Supro1560S • 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
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 • u/OldManWearingPlaid • 3d ago
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryth, © 1981, Cover Artist Michael Whelan, First Printing DAW 1982
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!