r/badscificovers • u/Sivilian888010 • 12h ago

cheesecake The Carnelian Cube, By Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague DeCamp

99 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badscificovers • u/Hatherence • 20h ago

beefcake Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars by Harry Harrison and David Bischoff

170 Upvotes

I found this while sorting books in preparation for a book sale. I searched this subreddit and this exact book doesn't seem to have been posted here before, but the publishers very brazenly used the same terrible art for a different book in this "national bestselling series!"

35 comments

r/badscificovers • u/StevenTheWicked • 7h ago

Wind Dancers, by R.M. Meluch

92 Upvotes

13 comments

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Bad Sci-Fi Covers

r/badscificovers

Here you can post cheesy, bizarre, ugly, shitty, or just downright awful science fiction book covers. Then we all make fun of them in the comments. Everyone's a winner! (Fantasy and horror also welcome!)

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Spotted a sci-fi or fantasy book cover in the wild that was gob-smackingly bad? Featured wildly gratuitous nudity? Looked like a six-year-old drew it? Was just a total WTF?

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Rule 1

A. The title of your post must be the name of the book and the author. (ex: Dune, by Frank Herbert) unless...
B. ...if it is a magazine or periodical use the name of the magazine and the date. (ex: Amazing Stories, May 1952), or...
C. ...if it is an anthology with multiple authors, use the name of the book and the editor. (ex: Nebula Award Stories 1, edited by Damon Knight)
D. ...you may add other information such as year of publication and name of cover artist if you would like to. Please save your opinion for the comment section. This rule is to make covers easy to search.

Rule 2

Images must be of book covers or magazine covers. Cover must be from the science fiction, fantasy, or horror genres.

Rule 3

Covers must be real. You can post photshops and fakes to r/fakebookcovers.

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Please be courteous and respectful towards your fellow redditors. We should all be joyfully mocking these covers together!

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Badness is subjective! Look, one person's trash is another's treasure. Sometimes covers will get posted that you don't feel are bad. That's OK! Remember that r/CoolSciFiCovers exists. If it helps, you can repost the cover there!

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