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BBCF: Moonsinger’s Friends
Not gonna lie, this one makes me smile at the same time that it makes me wince. Some things are so awesomely dated that you can’t help but love them. Rainbows. Stumpy-necked hippocampi. Mermaids riding...
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BBCF: The Saga of Recluce
Apologies for actually missing Friday – it’s been a long week. To make up for it, for this week’s Bad Book Cover Friday, I’m covering (har [?]) a series that Kakaner has been begging me to do pretty...
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BBCF: Birth of the Firebringer
Foreign-language editions of fantasy novels tend to be particularly fertile grounds for weird book covers. And man, I love many a Scandinavian illustrator, but their covers also tend to be the loopiest...
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BBCF: Relationships II
[Sorry for the lateness – apparently I specialize in redefining “Friday.”] Oh small presses, sometimes (frequently) I just don’t know what you were thinking. So far I’ve tried to stay away from...
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So this week’s BBCF stars are tasteless enough that I’m putting them both under a cut. Very much borderline NSFW/NSFpeaceofmind/Ican’tbelievethisactuallyexistsandwasapproved. (...)Read the rest of...
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BBCF: I Will Fear No Evil
So when it comes to book covers, there’s overly literal, and then there’s this kind of thing, courtesy the mass-market paperback cover of Robert Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil: Allegorical...
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Time Warp 1987: F&SF and a couple of soggy old men
I picked up a few old copies of Fantasy & Science Fiction for free this past fall, and should be posting a couple of reviews from them at intervals. Reading this issue, April 1987, meant a number...
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BBCF: MF&SF, June 1983
What’s that, you say? It’s Friday? Indeed it is, and for once I have something to show for it. Although it’s only sorta a Bad Book Cover Friday, as this June 1983 Magazine of Fantasy & Science...
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BBCF: What a stallion
“Stay back, horse! She’s mine.” Go to: Bad Book Covers Friday Archive BBCF: MF&SF, June 1983 Time Warp 1987: F&SF and a couple of soggy old men © Emera for The Black Letters, 2011. | Permalink...
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Lovecraft the terrible, the ridiculous, the great
Reviewer: Emera Date read: 11.18.2012 Book from: Library. Lovecraft’s works are also available online in various archives, such as hplovecraft.com. Last Halloween I realized I hadn’t really read any...
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BBCF: The Diabols
Cover art is whatever (actually I quite like the front cover, so perfectly of its era as it is); this BBCF is all about the copy-writing. Thanks to Pandemonium Books’ sale on used books for R. W....
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