Comments | pabba: The Top 100 Speculative Fiction Magazine Covers, #100-#91

pabba

The Top 100 Speculative Fiction Magazine Covers, #100-#91

Jul 24, 2009 11:37

There's been a lot of talk about cover art lately, some negative and some good. In fact, here's Jim Hines on fantasy covers that do it right.

I figured it was time I do my part for y'all so here I present to you part one of...

The Top 100 Speculative Fiction Magazine Covers

#100

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listing it up, cover art analysis, artwork

Comments 9

buymeaclue July 24 2009, 15:59:44 UTC

Wow, I liked the New Worlds one.

pabba July 24 2009, 17:04:42 UTC

It's pretty awesome for what little is actually there.

j_cheney July 24 2009, 16:15:24 UTC

I look at that copy of If and immediately wondered why they'd put a Cone of Shame on a human....

pabba July 24 2009, 17:04:57 UTC

He's been a bad, bad boy.

79semifinalist July 25 2009, 03:42:19 UTC

Man! I can't tell if you stole from me or I stole from you or we're just sharing a brain. How weird for our cover posts to go up almost at the same time. Bizarre.

Also, I'm super impressed with these. Sybils Garage is good but that Worlds of If cover is unbelievable. The New Worlds and Electric Velocipede are also fantastic. If these are the bottom 10 I can't wait to see more.

Nice work Paul

pabba July 25 2009, 15:52:21 UTC

Heh, well you definitely kicked the idea into full gear for me. I've got a ton more cool magazine covers coming up, too. :D

anonymous December 18 2009, 23:13:33 UTC

I think the NW cover is Peake . . .

kaolinfire January 20 2010, 23:27:30 UTC

Some lovely covers. Watching with bated breath to see if GUD pops up further down the list, but I like where you've started (for the most part--the F&SF cover doesn't do anything for me; very few of theirs have (since I started reading them, anyway--I don't know their history), even when the idea is interesting they tend to feel too... bland, somehow).

Really enjoying the "Reason it rocks" segment. :)