"Starswarm" cover art

[bellatrys]

Used drop cloth or post-party tablecloth?

Comments

[rikibeth]

I see what you mean about the bathtub anti-slip decal asterisks!

If only they were in baby blue, avocado green

[bellatrys]

or dried-cat-vomit-yellow! But one can't have everything.

(I just look at both sides of that book and think "What were they THINKING?" Often I can see why a designer made a decision even if I don't agree with it, but this one soooo looks to be held together with chewing gum and baling wire.)

[rozasharn]

I'd say more "images seen through a smeary red glass," myself.

[fridgepunk]

My first thought was actually; "It's Obese Zombie Napoleon! And he's coming at us through a sheet of stained red cellophane that's being held in front of a sauna!!"

[vito_excalibur]

Dude, that was your first thought? I want to watch movies with you sometime.

I'm now thinking "My masterpiece - after David, but in Red Jello!"

[bellatrys]

Mixed media actually, using Del Monte fruit cocktail for the details.

[badgerbag]

Tragical!!!

train wreckalicious

[hrafn]

And that's the only example of mid-century SF cover art one needs to see to understand the horrors perpetrated on the genre. Ye gods and little fishes. I can't tear my eyes away.

[baron_elric]

Yep. I'd remembered the cover from your description earlier. I feel I should start babbling about Drowned Rlyeh and gibbering spawn of...something or other. Maybe Karl Rove.

"Obese Zombie Napoleon In Red Jello"

[bellatrys]

And they say that readers today are embarrassed to carry representative covers on SF around and would prefer more abstract ones.

Yeah, just try explaining *this* to somebody on the bus!