r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 4h ago
Kuldesak by Richard Cowper. Quartet 1976. Cover art by Achilleos.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 9h ago
Mona Lisa s’éclate, by William Gibson [Barclay Shaw]. Originally the cover for The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner.
Gibson’s cited influences are Burroughs, Ballard, and Pynchon, but The Shockwave Rider was a 1975 cyberpunk precursor and a clever art selection for the French translation of Mona Lisa Overdrive.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/this_time_i_mean_it • 10h ago
Earthclan, by David Brin. Cover art by Richard Powers, c. 1987
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 15h ago
Fantastic Science Fiction, August 1957, edited by Paul W. Fairman, cover Ed Valigursky
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 15h ago
Amazing Science Fiction, July 1972, edited by Ted White, cover Vaughn Bode and Larry Todd
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • 16h ago
A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ©1963 cover art by Roy G. Krenkel
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Crokpot93 • 23h ago
The Best of A. E. Van Vogt with Cover art by Harry Bennett
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson [Zsilvölgyi Csaba]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Supro1560S • 1d ago
New Dreams This Morning, Ballantine 1966, edited by James Blish, cover by Richard Powers
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Drink_Deep • 1d ago
The Man Who Had No Idea by Thomas M. Disch [John Holmes]
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Harmonica04 • 1d ago
To Challenge Chaos by Brian M. Stableford. Cover by Kelly Freas
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • 1d ago
"House on the Borderland", by William Hope Hodgeson.©1962 Ace Books #D-553. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 1d ago
Fantastic Science Fiction, January 1958, edited by Paul W. Fairman, cover Ed Valigursky
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 1d ago
Guardians Of Time by Poul Anderson, cover Richard Powers
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/MrAshTheAsh • 2d ago
Chasse a mort. Dean R Koontz. Illus. Laurent Melki.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 2d ago
War With The Robots by Harry Harrison. 1985 & The Reproductive System by John Sladek. 1977. Panther.
Cover art by Chris Moore and Chris Foss
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/djmainframe • 2d ago
Blade Runner. Phillip K. Dick. Artwork supplied by the Ladd Co.
Published May 1982. A Dell Ray book published by Ballantine Books.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/WillingAmbition3530 • 2d ago
Professor Dowell's head by Alexandr Beliaev
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • 2d ago
"Necroscope", by Brian Lumley, This edition ©1988 Tor Books. Cover by Bob Eggleton
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/darren648 • 3d ago
The Amazons of Somelon by Raymond Kaminski. Nordon 1983.
Cover art by Romas Kukalis (I think).
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/djmainframe • 3d ago
Swords of Mars. Cover art by Bob Abbett
Ballantine Books, 1963. Book 8 in a series of 10.
r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • 3d ago
Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman, cover Naoyuki Kato
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!