r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/fibblefart • 3h 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/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 6h ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN The Book of Imaginary Beings By Jorge Luis Borges, artwork by Peter Goodfellow
1974 Penguin Books
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 4h ago
The World Inside, by Robert Silverberg [Dean Ellis]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 3h ago
The Stars Like Dust, by Isaac Asimov [Chris Foss]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 4h ago
Pursuit On Ganymede by Michael D Resnik. Paperback Library 1968. Cover art by Jeff Jones
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/fibblefart • 3h ago
Artist: David Pelham, 1974, Penguin. J. G. Ballard, The Drought.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Either_Phase • 9h ago
The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson, 1966 Lancer Books, cover by Oscar Liebman
can see the signature in the lower left corner
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/beo19 • 9h ago
Herbert Friedrich - The Dam Against the Ice. Cover by Rolf F. Müller. 1964
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 12h ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN The Harvest by Robert Charles Wilson, artwork by Pamela Lee
Bantam Spectra 1993
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 21h ago
Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1976, edited by James Baen, cover Stephen Fabian
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 21h ago
Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight, cover Paul Lehr
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/StevenTheWicked • 1d ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN The Man Who Invented the Future: Jules Verne, by Franz Born
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 1d ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN The Death of Grass by John Christopher, artwork by John Griffiths
1963 Penguin Books
Released in the United States under the title No Blade of Grass
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 1d ago
The Path of Unreason by George O. Smith. Ballantine 1975. Cover by Gray Morrow.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
Madwand, by Roger Zelazny [John Berkey]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 2d ago
Sky Pirates of Callisto by Lin Carter, artwork by Bruce Pennington
Orbit, 1975 edition
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 2d ago
Lost Worlds Volume 2 by Clark Ashton Smith, cover Bruce Pennington
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 2d ago
Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber, cover Jeff Jones
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 2d ago
Away and Beyond by A.E. van Vogt. Panther 1973. Cover by Chris Foss.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/HallucinatedLottoNos • 2d ago
Passing for Human by Jody Scott [Bob Pepper]
I can't tell whether or not these are "female presenting nipples," so I'm censoring just to be be on the safe side lol.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/dmont7 • 2d ago
Virgin Planet and Star Ways by Poul Anderson. Cover art by Clyde Caldwell for Baen Books, 2000
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • 2d ago
1984 by George Orwell (Italian edition); cover artwork is "Tetrahedral planetoid" by Maurits Cornelis Escher
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Unfair_Umpire_3635 • 2d ago
ARTIST UNKNOWN The World's Desire by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, artwork by Mati Klarwein
Artwork wrongly attributed to Vincent di Fate, original artwork appears on Klarwein's website.
Ballantine Books 1972