Somewhere a Voice

From the back cover:

Meet a Martian poet who saves the human race...
Learn how Jensen planned to give himself a few lifetimes of foolproof crime...
Watch the humanizing of Bill Mallet in a horrifying trek across Valmia, sixth planet of ZM17...
Hear Satan's side of the story...
And a whole lot more.

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The Sleep Eaters

From the back cover:

One night a man named John went to bed as usual. But as he lay on the edge of sleep, he received a telepathic message from a world leader, and a vision into the future.

He couldn't believe that his mind was a radio receiver from an invisible space enemy so he committed himself to a mental hospital. Later he tried to tell the world about the coming space invasion.

But who would believe an escapee from an asylum?

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La Terre a peur

Une fabuleuse aventure de science-fiction de Perry Rhodan...



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The Martian Way

Haven't posted any covers for a while... so here we go:



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Goodbye 2010

Happy New Year!

Cat's Cradle

Currently reading and enjoying this:



Cover by the awesome David Pelham -
"David Pelham‘s arrival at Penguin belatedly followed Alan Aldridge’s enforced departure. With experience as art director for a number of magazines he brought a much needed consistency and dignity to Penguin’s diverse fiction titles and, after the departure of Germano Facetti in 1972, to other parts of the list."

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The Arena

Haven't posted any covers for a while... so here we go:



Nice! Picked this up in one of those stores on Charing Cross Road, as far as I can remember.

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Crash

Picked up this t'other day under Waterloo bridge...



A starkly powerful novel where the technology of the automobile explodes into a repellent yet totally fascinating climax of violent sexuality...

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The Art of Science Fiction

Inspired by the fascinating Art of Penguin Science Fiction website, I put together a montage of covers from my collection - I don't have enough to make a Penguin Science Fiction version... yet!

Computers

computers are basically machines for doing arithmetic. But because of their speed of operation and their capacity for storing complex information for use at precisely the right moment, they represent an immense and sudden step forward ; already computers exert a powerful influence upon the shape of modern life. Will they cause massive unemployment among 'white collar workers' or alternatively open up a tremendous new era of prosperity and technological progress?

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Berserker

No one knew where Berserkers came from. Everyone knew what they had come for.
They were mechanical killers; their brain a computer programmed to destroy all forms of life.

And Berserkers were illogical. The random disintegration of atoms could select any one of infinite means of destruction.

Already planet after planet had been pounded into steam and dust.

Only one kind of being could beat the Berserker.

A race whose whole history had been spent developing more powerful weapons.

A race conditioned to throw away their lives for the title 'hero'.

The race was called man.

[From the back cover BTW]

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Richard M. Powers

Picked up a couple more Richard Powers (vintage) covers to add to the collection:



Richard M. Powers (Richard Michael Gorman Powers) began by working in a conventional pulp paperback style, but quickly evolved a personal Surrealist idiom influenced by the cubists and surrealists, especially Picasso and Yves Tanguy. From the 1940s through the 1960s, he did many of covers for Doubleday. During the 1950s and 1960s, he served as an unofficial art director for Ballantine Books.

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Check out Levar's fantastic collection of Powers' covers.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Cover artwork: David Pearson
This cover was voted 'Favorite Book Cover of 2008' over at The Book Design Review

Sense and Nonsense in Psychology

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The Drought

Ransom climbed up on to the jetty and gazed down at the houseboat, stranded with all his hopes on the bleached shore. He brushed the dust off his sleeves and trousers, looking out at the mud flats rising from the centre of the lake. At his feet the swollen body of the dog was blurred by the heat, and for a moment the whole landscape seemed to be covered with corpses. The dead fish rotated slowly from their hooks in the drying sheds, and a spasm of dizziness made Ransom retch emptily...

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Digits and Dastards

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Tron

An electronic wonderland come to life...

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I, Robot

'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. You don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are'