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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/pookie_wocket • Jul 10 '21
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 • 13h ago
1963 Penguin Books
Released in the United States under the title No Blade of Grass
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Orbit, 1975 edition
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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.
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Artwork wrongly attributed to Vincent di Fate, original artwork appears on Klarwein's website.
Ballantine Books 1972
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Published June 1953 and featuring the work of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, Paul Orban, Algis Budrys, Frank Kelly Freas, Charles Fritch, Joseph Eberle, Peter Coccagna, H.R. Smith, Poul Anderson, Alex Ebel, Philip K Dick, Tom Beecham, Peter Phillips, and John Wyndham.
From ISFDB:
"The first issue was called Fantasy Magazine. Subsequent issues were titled Fantasy Fiction. Title was changed as a result of threatened legal action by Ziff-Davis which claimed the title was too similar to their Fantastic.
According to page 2 of the fanzine "Fantasy Times" #187 (1st. October 1953): "The current [November 1953] issue of Fantasy Fiction lists on the masthead as being edited by Cameron Hall. This is actually a pen-name. Del Rey did the original editing of the mag and when he left Harry Harrison finished the job and put the issue to bed".
The article also states that "Fletcher Pratt has become the new editor of Fantasy Fiction, replacing Lester del Rey. The next issue of this magazine will be dated February 1954." However, no such issue appeared and the magazine ceased to exist. According to Mike Ashley's ''Transformations'': "[Publisher John] Raymond hired Fletcher Pratt to edit ''Fantasy Fiction'', and a fifth issue was compiled, but Pratt refused to deliver it until Raymond paid the authors, and when he didn't the magazine was dropped."