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My great uncle was an awesome guy. He flew in the Pacific in WW2 and after that was an outdoorsman, professor, and paleontologist. But he also got me hooked on scifi around 4th or 5th grade, plugging me straight into Asimov, Brin, and Le Guin among others. When he died ~6 years ago, one of my cousins and I asked to take on his library of paperbacks rather than sending these to the garbage or library. These have been hanging out in the attic since then and now that it's time to move, I've got to address the collection. As much as I'd love to undertake the task of absorbing this library myself, it simply isn't going to happen. Luckily, we've got a great local bookstore that'll happily take the bulk of the collection. But before saying goodbye to 50 lbs of books, I did want to take a moment to share the most easily accessible aspect of this small library - the coverart. Now, my apologies that picture quality is gonna vary shot to shot and at best they'll be quickly taken phone cam shots. But nevertheless, there are some absolute gems from the late Golden Age and early New Wave that I think folks will enjoy. I'll be breaking these up into groups of 10 or so and will just be uploading and posting as they come. This will result in some collections being broken up which does irk me a little bit (but not enough to actually fix it). I hope you enjoy the absolutely nutty range of artists and art styles these books bring to the table.
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Sep 6, 2021 13:48
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I swear, at one time I knew how to post images
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Sep 6, 2021 14:06
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Is this the "judge a book by it's cover" thread? 
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Ratatozsk fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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Sep 6, 2021 21:18
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This is the version I have! It's great. I hope we have some kind of revival in strange prog-rock-esque book cover art in the near future.
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Sep 6, 2021 22:18
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Gertrude Perkins posted:This is the version I have! It's great. I hope we have some kind of revival in strange prog-rock-esque book cover art in the near future. This is the version he gave me: 
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Sep 6, 2021 22:24
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This is the kind of style I like.
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Sep 7, 2021 00:43
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I had to buy this off of a guy on French Ebay after seeing it posted on Twitter:
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Sep 7, 2021 02:28
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I like how Bilbos pants and hair and shoes are all seemingly made of the same material
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Sep 7, 2021 02:39
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Bilbo le hobbit
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These covers are amazing thank you for doing this!
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Sorry, a few lousy pics or uninspiring covers have snuck their way into the batch. Hope the cool ones make up for it.
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I have a bunch of those. But then, I am old. You tossed Lucifer's Hammer into the recycling, I hope?
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Sep 10, 2021 23:58
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Selachian posted:I have a bunch of those. But then, I am old. Our friend from the used book store went through the collection (more to post, just lazy) and we got $300 in store credit for what he took. The rest went to recycling. Wasn’t there to see what was worth keeping
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Yowza. My favorite so far. I also love the stained-glass-looking Heinlein covers – who was the artist for those?
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Sep 11, 2021 03:32
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Yowza. My favorite so far. I also love the stained-glass-looking Heinlein covers – who was the artist for those? Gene Szafran.
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Ratatozsk fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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Sorry for the periodic huge pics, harder to quickly timg from my phone when I'm throwing in an update on the fly.
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Sep 19, 2021 17:14
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It's fine. Keep 'em coming! I'd forgotten how good those Earthsea covers are, and the one on A Canticle for Leibowitz might be the best I've seen for that book.
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When I read The Once and Future King, it was that edition. It's a pretty good book. On an entirely separate note, I always wondered where Vonnegut came up with the name "Kilgore Trout". Thanks to this thread, I'm pretty sure I know now.
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Meaty Ore posted:When I read The Once and Future King, it was that edition. It's a pretty good book. If you mean Venus on the Half Shell, then no -- PJF wrote that after Vonnegut had used Kilgore Trout in a few of his novels. PJF borrowed the name with Vonnegut's (reluctant) permission because he thought it would be funny to write a book by a fictional author. At least according to Wikipedia, Trout's name was inspired by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Selachian posted:If you mean Venus on the Half Shell, then no -- PJF wrote that after Vonnegut had used Kilgore Trout in a few of his novels. PJF borrowed the name with Vonnegut's (reluctant) permission because he thought it would be funny to write a book by a fictional author. I actually was thinking of Theodore Sturgeon, given how his name appears on a number of the books posted; I figured the "Venus on the Half Shell" story was written under an assumed name as it appears nowhere else. Good to know my instincts were correct.
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Ratatozsk posted:
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This is giving me real flashbacks to reading through my dad's endless shelves of sci-fi paperbacks that he kept expanding from second hand stores. Hell a lot of those are even the same covers I recall from nearly thirty years ago.
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Sep 23, 2021 18:16
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That blurb! Uhh, high praise indeed.
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This might be my favorite set yet. poo poo like the blond Fonz and the book that's probably the finest novel of alien invasion ever written is really funny, but the covers for Flight of the Horse, Tau Zero, and Protector are just awesome pulp art.
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Sep 25, 2021 22:13
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This is the funniest yet.
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Ccs posted:This is the funniest yet. “Probably…”
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Ccs posted:This is the funniest yet. Also, given that this was Niven that could be a puppeteer, but did not crack the cover on that one myself
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