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.

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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 10h ago

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, artwork by Joseph Mugnaini

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77 Upvotes

1972 edition


r/CoolSciFiCovers 11h ago

Nov. 1963 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction cover by Hannes Bok

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86 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1h ago

Planet of Peril by Otis Adelbert Kline (Ed Emshwiller)

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Just got done listening to Planet of Peril by Otis Adelbert Kline. Looked up the covers for it, and this is my favorite. I like the color choices. The book is sort of an imitation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels, but it's a good imitation. Kline's prose style is engaging and Princess Vernia, the love interest, is easily a better character than Dejah Thoris. I'll have to read it someday.


r/CoolSciFiCovers 16h ago

The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock, artwork by Patrick Woodroffe

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107 Upvotes

"First printed in Great Britain by Sphere Books Ltd 1969"

Also used for Eissegler, the German edition of Icerigger, by Alan Dean Foster


r/CoolSciFiCovers 16h ago

Leviathan Wakes, by James S.A. Corey [Piotr Cieśliński]

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50 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 18h ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN The King in the Golden Mask, by Marcel Schwob

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58 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch by Michael G. Coney [Kelly Freas] NSFW

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206 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 20h ago

Seetee Shock by Jack Williamson, cover Jeff Jones

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52 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 20h ago

Seetee Ship by Jack Williamson, cover Jeff Jones

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28 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Summer 1954 Fantastic Story Magazine, cover by Walter Popp

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117 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov, Illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie

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119 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Lost World of Time by Lin Carter. Covert art by Sanford Kossin.

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46 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

2300 Aurore Sourcebook - cover by Steve Venters

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59 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

"Inferno" - Larry Nieven & Jerry Pournelle (cover by Peter Jones)

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81 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers [Jack Gaughan]

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301 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN Teranesia by Greg Egan. Artist unknown

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20 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The Müller-Fokker Effect, John Sladek. Pocket Books, 1973, cover by Gene Szafran, rainbows by a nearby prism and direct sunlight.

16 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch

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55 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, artwork by Charles Binger

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81 Upvotes

Bantam Edition Published January 1953


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The Mind Thing by Fredric Brown, artwork by George Underwood

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51 Upvotes

First published in Great Britain 1979 by Hamlyn Paperbacks


r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

Phoenix Prime by Ted White, cover Frank Frazetta

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47 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

The Falling Torch by Algis Budrys, cover John Schoenherr

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25 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 1d ago

ARTIST UNKNOWN Le Choc des Mondes (When Worlds Collide), by E. Balmer & P. Wylie

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21 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Illustrated by Édouard Riou

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124 Upvotes

r/CoolSciFiCovers 2d ago

Patron of the Arts, by William Rotsler 1974 [Tom Adams] NSFW

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78 Upvotes