[Use Of Weapons]

My current favourite cover, though (for entirely lascivious reasons) is this one:



ding ding!

This post has been edited by jitsukerr: 28 November 2008 - 09:31 AM

[Battalion]

These books were great. These are the new covers, They weren't around when I first read these books and got myself into fantasy.
Check 'em out.
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[Cougar]

That Island of the Lizard King cover just nearlly made me piss myself laughing.

This post has been edited by Cougar: 29 November 2008 - 10:04 PM

[frookenhauer]

And the deathtrap dungeon one looks like he spent so much time on the crapper he died there!

[The Tyrant Lizard]

That is what happened. I thought the Lizard King one was pretty good. I must say, though, I'm having trouble distinguishing this thread from the shit covers one. Some of those ones on here are PANTS

[Traveller]

 Maia Irraz, on Nov 27 2008, 03:20 PM, said:

Two of my favorites are Malazan covers:

I was going to post these! - they are my favourite malazan covers, the pic of Rhulad is just great.

(The GotM cover with Rake is great, but when a sword in it's scabbard is longer than your arm, you can't get the thing out.)

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[detritus]

 The Tyrant Lizard, on Dec 1 2008, 10:32 AM, said:

I'm having trouble distinguishing this thread from the shit covers one. Some of those ones on here are PANTS

HA. too true.

[drinksinbars]

 Macros, on Nov 27 2008, 10:36 AM, said:

some of those are terrible!

but on the good cover front:

pity the book is crap

this might sound odd but wasnt that guy on the book foruma few years ago, i remember proof reading something like this for him??? the names and blurb sound familiar!!!

possible writers forum proof

This post has been edited by drinksinbars: 02 December 2008 - 09:48 AM

[The Tyrant Lizard]

I can't see the picture. What is it?

[drinksinbars]

storm caller by tom lloyd

[Use Of Weapons]

Michael Whelan's cover to a collection of HP Lovecraft works:


Michael Whelan's cover to Isaac Asimov's _Foundation's Edge_:


Michael Whelan's cover to Arthur C Clarke's _2010_:

[Macros]

I see no attached chapters as you claim dibs

[Salt-Man Z]

The "Foundation's Edge" cover is one of my absolute favorites. Sadly, the copy I own has the terrible cover with the girl running across it.

Anything by Michael Whelan is awesome just by definition.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 02 December 2008 - 04:11 PM

[Use Of Weapons]

Julian May's _Jack The Bodiless_


Julian May's _The Adversary_


C J Cherryh's _Faded Sun_ omnibus

[Kazaman]

Heres a great book cover:



Its a huge pity I couldnt find the back of the cover.. its awesome too.

Heres a couple more by the same author:

This post has been edited by Kazaman: 03 December 2008 - 10:43 PM

[polishgenius]

Terry Brooks gets some great covers, I think because Steve Stone does most of them (although I think Stone is totally wasted on the kind of covers he's asked to do nowadays, if I'm honest).





Gypsy Morph is a prime example of what I'm talking about: does a great picture as shown by Kazaman's cover above, then for the UK cover we get this:


And some of the others are like staffs and swords. I mean, he's good at them, but if you're going to hire him, why go with an image that doesn't make use of his talents?

[Use Of Weapons]

Another thread reminded me of this one:

Michael Whelan's cover for Melanie Rawn's _Mageborn Traitor_

[Kazaman]

Heres some pretty good ones.

This post has been edited by Kazaman: 05 December 2008 - 11:38 PM

[Yellow]

 drinksinbars, on Dec 2 2008, 09:16 AM, said:

this might sound odd but wasnt that guy on the book foruma few years ago, i remember proof reading something like this for him??? the names and blurb sound familiar!!!

possible writers forum proof

Wasn't that firecaller, or something? Firecaller rings a bell.

[meili]

Oh bah, I couldn't find a pic of my favorite Elric cover. It's not pretty or anything, just it matches my image of Elric - gaunt, dead-white, scary and not hugely muscled like a barbarian warrior. Just cause he has a famous sword doesn't mean he is built like WWF wrestler.

This one isn't too bad:



This one was one of my first favorites. Now I don't think it's particularly good but its almost one of the only covers that really depict an actual scene.



This is neat, the title of the book (Abarat) as written on the cover is an ambigram, it is the same even if you look at it upside down: