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u/DdCno1 · 3 pointsr/badscificovers

Based on the synopsis, it's about a boy who is an outcast, believed to have no friends, nobody to play with, but it turns out he has rats as friends. Since the series is about paranormal events and a paranormal investigator, I'm assuming, based on the cover, that he turns into some kind of rat-human or that the rats he plays with aren't normal rats.

On Amazon, there's a one page sneak peak, which is contains the scene depicted on the cover, a couple on the beach being surprised by a rat/human chimera. And yes, the writing is exactly as clichéd and schlocky as one would imagine.

u/patpowers1995 · 9 pointsr/badscificovers

Stand back, gentleman. Despite not knowing a word of Portuguese, I am going to use my mighty powers of analysis to decipher the meaning of this book.

The artwork shows what appears to be a naked woman, save for boots and a G-string, straddling what MIGHT be a rocket, to which she is chained at the wrists. So obviously, this is a book about the travails of strippers in outer space. The title "Rumo Ao Infinito" probably means "Rumba in Infinity." So it's about a festive dance performed in outer space, almost certainly by strippers, possibly while chained to rocket ships. Sort of like the wing walkers of the early 1900s, only with less air and gravity, and more cosmic rays.

Looking at the nature of the cover art, which consistes almost entirely of an almost naked woman in chains, I am going to guess that the author is not James Blish, but is John Norman writing AS "James Blish," which may be legal in Brazil.

Finally, "Colecao Galaxia 2000" is probably the name of a Brazilian children's show, probably sponsored by Coleco, a toy manufacturerand creator of the Colecovision gaming console, best known for its mass-produced Cabbage Patch Dolls. Probably had a tie-in to create a stripper Cabbage Patch Dolls. (Those Brazilian kid's shows can be kinda raunchy!)

Let's see how we did.

>Seemingly tangential to what is happening on Earth is the construction of a gigantic ice bridge on Jupiter built by men and women who use remote control vehicles from outposts on Jupiter's moons. Since they live under harsh conditions they've been "conditioned" by the government to cope. The slow realization of the purpose of the ice bridge is the main thrust of the plot. The main character is Paige, a spaceman, sent to find extraterrestrial soul samples for a medical company. Delivering his samples he gets involved romatically with the receptionist (and daughter of the chief scientist of the firm) who reveals too much about the company's activities. Eventually the two main narratives intertwine.

Well, um ... close ...

u/Jordan117 · 6 pointsr/badscificovers

(HD version)

One of the worst covers for one of the best science fiction anthologies ever published -- the author actually got into a tiff with Tor over it. Thankfully later editions got more tasteful cover art.

My favorite description of it: "watch me reclining in ecstacy on a huge Japanese flag while vultures and white horses come out of this big metal penis I made, which is also fulls of monkeys." Made especially bizarre by the fact that most of that imagery has absolutely *nothing* to do with any of the stories inside.

Also, if you're interested in reading, most of the stories are available online. He's also got a new anthology out recently, Exhalation, that's quite good.

u/Meret123 · 21 pointsr/badscificovers

> The best donkey space pirate adventure you’ll ever read!

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Symbiont Harry—rejected by his tribe, exiled from home, and braying at the stars—is imprisoned in the form of a donkey.
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Trapped on an interstellar livestock vessel, Harry dreams of being loved, or at least having a decent conversation.
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Space pirates capture the ship, hoping to score. What to do with a hold full of livestock? And what's with the wisecracking donkey?
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When a galactic animal contest promises a fortune, the talking donkey starts to look like a potential winner—if only he can lay off the pizza.
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Are you a fan of fast-paced funny space operas, featuring quirky unique characters you can't help but love? You'll love the first entry into the world of Starship Ass. Grab it now.

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u/kinow · 2 pointsr/badscificovers

Had to Google this one to check if it existed.

I can see Amish Vampires in Space in Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Amish-Vampires-Space-Kerry-Nietz/dp/0983965552

But this one looks to be a joke https://twitter.com/katiedt/status/423203671145320448?lang=en

Which I would like to see someone writing some day :)

u/zombi-roboto · 7 pointsr/badscificovers

SIX HUNDRED and FORTY USD on amazon?!?! What in the everloving tarnation?

Well, that was a fun rabbit hole!

u/cpcwrites · 1 pointr/badscificovers

Hey, Flapsters! I recently had a short story published in an anthology, and thought you dudes might get a kick out of the above.

The anthology is called Enigma Front: The Monster Within, and my story is 'The Wolfville Horror.' It's a steampunk/supernatural tale leaning more towards the supernatural side (mostly due to the more rural setting in which it takes place).

In all honesty, the first draft was heavily inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Dunwich Horror' (perhaps a little too much so) but the final version ended up being a rather different thing.

EDIT: And if anyone wants to check out a quick sample, I shared this bit over in r/Steampunk yesterday.

u/fungoid_sorceror · 2 pointsr/badscificovers

OK, after perusing the link to this books Amazon page and the "also purchased" section, I vote we install this guy as the patron saint of the sub.

I mean, holy shit, his entire bibliography should just be the banner.

u/Orthonox · 25 pointsr/badscificovers

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This looks like a cover for a terrible sci-fi teen/college comedy movie featuring discount Daniel Tosh.

u/inkjetlabel · 2 pointsr/badscificovers

> I don't know whether this is actually a Kindle book or not.

It is. The excerpt is, umm, interesting(?), to say the least.

eta: Oh, dear dog, I have to share at least part of it...

> It is the 25th Century. The space cruiser Beagle, under the command of Colonel Kendrick Landry, explores a planet ravaged by war millennia ago, now inhabited by hostile savage humanoids.
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> The Beagle is shot down and grounded by an ancient, mechanized planetary defense network created by an advanced civilization long pre-dating the humanoid savages. The humanoids abduct two women officers: the sexy and sultry Maya Terrazone and the bright but petulant Veronica Winters.

u/pecuchet · 2 pointsr/badscificovers

It's interesting that Penguin have stopped doing this. Time was that they put the ever controversial Balthus on the cover and let us fight it out.

edit: shut my mouth; they still do artwork, though it's pretty anodyne.

u/P1h3r1e3d13 · 2 pointsr/badscificovers

Found in a used book store.

Yes, it's a book, not a VHS.

u/MrFrittz · 13 pointsr/badscificovers

https://www.amazon.com/dp/097487650X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

>Rifts in time during the Middle Ages allow humans to summon powerful prehistoric beasts and future technologies in this fantastic novel about the influence of perception on reality and the role of political power on the conversion of knowledge into ideology. Under the auspices of the hominids, dragon king Drekkenoth has attempted to use knowledge to corrupt the minds of all the dragons in his kingdom but is stymied by the existence of a single source of uncorrupt knowledge: a tome of omniscience known as the Lexicon. Dennagon, a lowly dragon sentry, takes it upon himself to discover this lexicon, an act that leads to his expulsion from the mainstream world of worms and humans and the creation of a band of dissident dragons who wage war on the corruption of Drekkenoth and his human masters. During his seemingly endless quest to find the Lexicon, battles with cyborg technodragons and bewildering encounters with the enigmatic forces of time provide Dennagon with insight into the ephemerality of omniscience and the instability of the temporal as he discovers that there is more to life than the lore he has so desperately been searching for.