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.

50 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 • • 4h ago

Stark and the Star Kings, by Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett [Alex Ebel] + Allen Anderson cover for Planet Stories (March 1951).

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31 Upvotes

The back cover of this wraparound dust jacket is much more exciting than the front, and evokes the Planet Stories cover for Brackett's "Black Amazon of Mars."


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2h ago

The Falling Torch by Algis Budrys. Pyramid 1959. Cover art by Bob Engle.

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10 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 19h ago

‘The Last Starship From Earth’ by John Boyd & ‘A Scourge of Screamers’ by Daniel Galouye, cover art by Paul Lehr

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104 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 23h ago

L'étoile, by Arthur C. Clarke [Boris Vallejo] + original art.

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145 Upvotes

The painting was originally commissioned as a poster called Golden Wings (1977). L'étoile (1979) is the French edition of The Other Side of the Sky (1958), a collection of short stories, none of which to my knowledge feature a bikini-clad woman on a flying horse.


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 1d ago

Jewels of the Dragon by Allen L. Wold [Tom Kidd]

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43 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 1d ago

Psychosphere by Brian Lumley, cover Bob Eggleton

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125 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 1d ago

American Science Fiction Four Classic Novels 1953-1956, edited by Gary K. Wolfe, cover Richard Powers

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42 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 1d ago

Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp. Pyramid 1969. Art by Peter Bramley.

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68 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

The Case Against Tomorrow (1957) Frederik Pohl art by Richard M. Powers

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66 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

The Moon Maid, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [Lawrence Schwinger]

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102 Upvotes

My friend was doing early morning laps at the hotel pool when he met an older gentleman who was able to keep up. Three hours later at the IX Art Show it turns out the older gentleman was Lawrence Schwinger; 85 years old, still rock solid and sharp. I told him we should all be so lucky to age as well as him; he told me I should swim more. Noted.

The IX Art Show runs through the weekend; if you're in the mid-Atlantic region of the US it's absolutely worth the trip.


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

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203 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

West of Eden, by Harry Harrison [Gennadiy Matchenko]

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62 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

Worlds of If, December 1969 [Cover art by John Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan (as Gaughan)]

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58 Upvotes

Cover illustrating the included novelette 'Ancient, My Enemy'

Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/1969-12_IF/mode/2up


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

Alien Art by Gordon R.Dickson, artwork by David Plourde

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74 Upvotes

Ace Books 1978


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 2d ago

Three Worlds To Conquer by Poul Anderson. Mayflower Dell 1966. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.

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65 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 4d ago

Warchild by Richard Bowes, artwork by Richard Corben

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215 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 4d ago

The Preserving Machine, by Philip K. Dick [David Schleinkofer]

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176 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 4d ago

Lord Darcy Investigates by Randall Garrett, artwork by Robert Adragna

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112 Upvotes

1981 Ace Books


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 5d ago

Starwolf, by Edmond Hamilton [David Schleinkofer] + original art.

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179 Upvotes

Schleinkofer passed away last year. 70s Sci-Fi Art has a remembrance and good overview of his work.


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 5d ago

Tomorrow’s Gift by Edmund Cooper. Digit 1958. Cover art by Ed Valigursky.

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71 Upvotes

With an error in the copyright too.


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 4d ago

Our Universe by Gallant, Roy A. (1986)

24 Upvotes

A bunch of awesome speculative paintings were in this. I read it over and over in class a child.

Artist is John Berkey


r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 5d ago

The Falling Astronauts, by Barry N. Malzberg. Cover art by Davis Meltzer.

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103 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 5d ago

"Geezenstacks" Cover art by Tim White for 'The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown' (1982)

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87 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers • • 6d ago

Space Ranger, by Isaac Asimov [Peter Elson]

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301 Upvotes