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The rest of the information about the book is almost as good.
It’s rather refreshing to learn that Christians don’t have a monopoly on sappy “spiritual” romance novels with ghastly glurgey artwork on the covers.
My teeth hurt! My brain is melting!
He’s a mystic AND a scientist!
Well Batman’s a scientist…
Are you kidding? I work at a bookstore. The romance novel covers I see would blow your mind.
And here I thought the OP was going to be about Darrell K Sweet.
Not even in my top twenty. You can beat that with any random PublishAmerica or iUniverse cover:
http://www.publishamerica.com/inside_story/index.asp
http://www.publishamerica.com/greetingcardpro/createcard1.asp?PostCardID=14161
http://www.publishamerica.com/greetingcardpro/createcard1.asp?PostCardID=12548
http://www.publishamerica.com/greetingcardpro/createcard1.asp?PostCardID=13033
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-20374-4
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-27837-X
Hey, you can beat that with the latest Nebula Awards Showcase.
The larger image looks even worse. You can see her stubble.
Aw, c’mon. I like DKS’s work.
You give him some interesting aliens (Like all the Jack Chalker Well World books he did covers for) and you could get some wonderful images.
The American covers of some of Terry Pratchett’s books are criminally hideous. Monstrous Regiment and Night Watch come to mind, especially.
GAG!
SWALLOW!
Nasty… All thats missing is a unicorn and rainbow.
This is on page 45 of “Diary of a Hack PhotoShop Artist”
Well when the first cover in the series is this, and the last one in the series is this, (though admittedly they’re not that great) you really get let down by the middle one… ugh.
I hated having to read the 2nd book, just because I was so embarrased by the cover.
Not bad fantasy though, if you’re a young teen.
Boy howdy! I’d say most of them, though.
I love how these two use the same clip art. I remember when people at AW would go through a week of PA’s releases and find the matching clip art covers. There were a lot of them.
Though nothing beats the one where the cover art was Orlando Bloom as Legolas but with fangs (it was a vampire book.)
I remember seeing a cover for some anonymous fantasy novel. Objectively speaking, it was pretty nice - a Roman-style arch with a tree on top, with several figures stading beneath it; one is pointing a crossbow at the others.
No problem, there, except for one fact: the publisher had taken the painting from the cover of *another *fantasy novel - A Song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay. Which would be fine (it was a nice picture from a paperback edition published a dozen years earlier), except that it depicted a scene from the novel. From the prologue, in fact.
In other words, they published a book with a cover portraying a scene from a completely different, and much better, book. Which is pretty damn stupid.
Oh, heck, I’ve seen plenty of that. I have an edition of Jules Verne short stories, but the paperback cover is obviously an ilustration from Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama.
Or my edition of Quest for Riverworld whose cover is the same as Tales of Riverworld flipped backwards! For TOR the cover made sense.
Story-Wallah is a great collection of short stories by Indian writers, but the cover art…just look. Way too much going on, plus it’s tacky as all hell.
I’m probably going to get bonked by the Scone of Stone for a heretic, but I’ve never really been crazy about Josh Kirby’s work–the style is just too weird for me. Paul Kidby’s okay, though.
I humbly submit that the cover of The Little People by John Christopher. occupies the precise point where ‘godawful’ intersects with ‘awesome.’