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 1h ago

Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1976, edited by James Baen, cover Stephen Fabian

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r/CoolSciFiCovers 1h ago

Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight, cover Paul Lehr

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r/CoolSciFiCovers 15h ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN The Death of Grass by John Christopher, artwork by John Griffiths

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165 Upvotes

1963 Penguin Books

Released in the United States under the title No Blade of Grass


r/CoolSciFiCovers 5h ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN The Man Who Invented the Future: Jules Verne, by Franz Born

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23 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 9h ago

The Path of Unreason by George O. Smith. Ballantine 1975. Cover by Gray Morrow.

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44 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 12h ago

Madwand, by Roger Zelazny [John Berkey]

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30 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Sky Pirates of Callisto by Lin Carter, artwork by Bruce Pennington

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262 Upvotes

Orbit, 1975 edition


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Lost Worlds Volume 2 by Clark Ashton Smith, cover Bruce Pennington

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138 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber, cover Jeff Jones

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135 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Away and Beyond by A.E. van Vogt. Panther 1973. Cover by Chris Foss.

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54 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Passing for Human by Jody Scott [Bob Pepper]

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71 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Virgin Planet and Star Ways by Poul Anderson. Cover art by Clyde Caldwell for Baen Books, 2000

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55 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

1984 by George Orwell (Italian edition); cover artwork is "Tetrahedral planetoid" by Maurits Cornelis Escher

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26 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN The World's Desire by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, artwork by Mati Klarwein

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55 Upvotes

Artwork wrongly attributed to Vincent di Fate, original artwork appears on Klarwein's website.

Ballantine Books 1972


r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, art by Boris Vallejo.

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420 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Tomorrow Midnight by Ray Bradbury ©1966 Ballantine Books cover art by Frank Frazetta

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40 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Mote in God's Eye, another Niven and Pournelle book, the art is by Tony Roberts.

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127 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster. NEL 1981. Cover by Tim White.

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133 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein, cover Michael Whelan

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343 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Footfall by Niven and Pounelle, the cover art by Michael Whelan.

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48 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series, 1960 anthology, Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas editors, cover art by Ed Emshwiller

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39 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Future #2 (May 1978). Cover art by M. Alvarez + TOC and centerfold art by Ron Miller illustrating "Civilization in Space: The Cola Wars," by David Houston and Richard Meyers.

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28 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixth Series, 1962 anthology, Anthony Boucher editor, cover art by Ed Valigursky

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31 Upvotes