It's a real book. A new cover has been created, but it's still pretty awful. The original cover just has that certain something, though ... I like how the author's name is just about illegible.
Not so much bad as outright lazy, this cover is the worst one I have seen of arguably the first example of isekai literature, where a Yankee engineer goes to fantasy Medieval England and shakes things up with machineguns, electricity and proto-democracy.
The Librivox audiobook version is real fun to listen too as well.
The alternate cover is a definite improvement.
Greener than you think and Ward Moore's work in general is the perfect example of underrated talent in genre fiction. Along with Theodore Sturgeon, I believe that Moore's work is criminally underrecognized by most readers when he was, in fact, the grandaddy of things like eco terror in fiction.
The free audiobook of Greener Than You Think, available at Librivox, is a work of love and I must recommend that you give it a listen.
> The best donkey space pirate adventure you’ll ever read!
> Symbiont Harry—rejected by his tribe, exiled from home, and braying at the stars—is imprisoned in the form of a donkey. > Trapped on an interstellar livestock vessel, Harry dreams of being loved, or at least having a decent conversation. > Space pirates capture the ship, hoping to score. What to do with a hold full of livestock? And what's with the wisecracking donkey? > 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. > 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.
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.
Yes. It is.
Novellas and novelettes are two different things. Novelettes are not as long as novellas, but longer than short stories. Roughly, novelettes run 7,500-17,500 words, novellas run from 15,000 to 40,000 words. Novels are over 40,000 words. There are other differences, but that's the bare bones.
It’s the cover of a book called “It’s a Beautiful Day at the Plaza” https://www.amazon.com/Its-Beautiful-Day-Plaza-seasidepress-ebook/dp/B078HBZR9Y
Are you referring to this cover? I’m not trying to sell anything, just the first link I found with it. The way Grendel seems to be in so much internal pain sells the book. It’s a really good cover, especially compared to this. It’s the cover that my copy from high school has.
I've read both versions, and the Stoddard version on Amazon is the one to get.
It's a memorable book and a good read, despite its age. Hodgson was an amazing writer and he tried to give "The Night Land" an old-timey feel with an affected writing style... and for the most part, failed. The fake 17th-18th century language gets in the way of the story.
His "The House on the Borderland" is very creepy. It's also available for free on Amazon.
Here's the Amazon link for the book. The description is, um ... quite a read!
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.
I'll be heartbroken ... no I won't, it'll be a great giggle ... have at!
One thing though ... the image you linked to looks like a thumbnail blown up. What I get at BN when I click on the cover looks like this. Still a bad SF cover but no jaggies. Maybe it's because I'm on a desktop and you're on mobile.
I went to pick this up on a lark, and funnily enough, if you go to the book's page and click Kindle, it takes you to a completely different book with the same title. The author of the other book is also named Alan, so probably just some crossed wires.
Apparently the whole trilogy is available on Kindle for $2.99 though, so I'll definitely give it a shot lol
Not sure what to ‘call this style’ but it’s def. inspired by old horror paperbacks from the heyday of publishing in the 70s and 80s.
Check out Grady Hendrix’s ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ book… it’s a history of the horror paperback boom and it’s unforgettable book cover designs. Great stuff!!
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1594749817/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_glt_i_X3956CVE4F47ZAH7KECW_nodl
Currently $9 with delivery, from a used bookstore on Am-z-n Marketplace:
https://www.amazon.com/Invader-My-Back-Destination-Saturn/dp/B0007EMWX2/
p.s. $1 in 1968 is about $7.67 today with inflation.
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 :)
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.
Cool. The stories are public domain, btw, so you can get the ebook for free on Amazon.
Yes, it's the hot Hillary Clinton-on-Anne Coulter erotica novel you've been dreaming of. And the author is none other than /u/PatPowers1995!
I don't know how you can NOT read this. Buy a copy for yourself here.
This series was generally good. I’d consider this one of the good covers: the last couple I’ve seen went for some art I didn’t agree with with sometimes cartoony vibes.
The collections have set an interesting format for short story collections both size-wise and content-wise. I feel like I have a lot of collections with a similar format far beyond the Chassis fiction line. Delta Green and several authors seem to have adopted the same format.
As for content, these tended to have a story or two from Lovecraft, followed by stories that either inspired or were inspired by it. The introductions are scholarly and do not shy away from at least mentioning the racist and other troublesome elements of the stories.
I like this cover. The lime has some I dislike like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Yith-Cycle-Lovecraftian-Cthulhu-Fiction/dp/1568823274/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1662419845&refinements=p_27%3AChaosium&s=books&sr=1-3
Have you ever seen something like The Unofficial Star Wars The Force Awakens Trivia Book or published game guides. Talking about an existing work of art is considered a review and isn’t copyright infringement in the same way your R2D2/7 of 9 slash fic is.
From an Amazon reviewer:
> Written in prison in the years after his 1973 arrest, Timothy Leary published his first and only novel "What Does Woman Want" in 1976. Founding the one-off publishing house "88 Books" with his then-wife, Leary published the book in a limited run of 5000 copies; coincidentally, my copy is number 88. Posing as science fiction (or as Leary calls it in the opening pages, "Science Faction"), "Woman" is mostly a sequel to Leary's 1973 autobiography "Confessions Of A Hope Fiend." It picks up directly after the events depicted in that book, with Leary and his wife holing up in Switzerland under the care of wealthy arms financier Michael Duchard, aka "Goldfinger." Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty, and Leary himself poses as "Tim Leri," an "acid assassin" sent to Earth to help us "primates" advance up the chains of consciousness. The book operates on three narratives, with a 1960 section detailing Leary's LSD experiments in Harvard, a 1971 section dealing with the aftermath of "Confessions," and a future section set in 2575 detailing the future of the human race.
> ...
> This is a strange novel to grasp, as it's so disjointed. Parts of it are blow-by-blow recounts of Leary's mundane reality, hobnobbing with underground royalty on the beaches of France. Other parts are Burroughsian extracts of interstellar intrigue. Other parts seem to be torn from neuroscience journals, filled with psychobabble jargon. There's no unifying thread, no cohesive narrative for the reader to hang on to. The book does at least answer the question posed by the title (a question famously asked by Freud), with aliens descending to the Earth and telling mankind what woman wants.
You really have to check out all the other "Darkover Landfall" covers to see how badly this one is done. My favorite is the DAW edition. I mean, two very different indications about what sort of story you'll be reading here.
This cover is just crudely done. The concept is fine, but the execution, not so much. The title text font is ESPECIALLY bad, I mean, what were they thinking? (Though not as bas as the audiobook's overwhelming text. I mean, good font, but WAAAY too big.)
Clearly there is much to be learned from the covers of this book, such as "Don't ever do this."
The best of the lot is the audiobook cover though having secured such a great piece of artwork, why did they stomp all over it with they type? So stupid!
Well, actually, there aren't a lot of places where you can get a non copyrighted picture of a busty, skimpily-dressed babe for FREE. There are some that claim to do so, but their claims of being copyright free are suspect. For example, I visited a site that claimed to have copyright free images on it that I could use, and I found this one. Well, the artist may have given up copyright to the image he created, but I don't think Universal Pictures has given up copyright on images of the Enterprise. Which makes me doubt the copyright status of everything the site produces. (Especially given all the OTHER very recognizable space ships on the site.)
So there's that.
Generally, sites that charge money don't do this sort of thing.
okay dear cover lovers, after a ton of dredging up the riverbed of my garbage pc, it's here. Let me know if that doesn't work (or if you're reading this after 14 days and still want a copy). Get ready to meet lesbian Satan, whose name is Charlene
Operators and Things is actually one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read. It’s a firsthand account of a multi-year schizophrenic break, but it’s marketed like a pulp sci-fi horror novel (which in some ways the story does resemble). Anyhow, fascinating book.
The giant dick almost made me oversee the scrotum shaped figures.
> The essence of a truly null-Earth logic may never be as clearly defined as in this novel-length package of interplanetary surprises. Consider this marooned astronaut. His spaceship and supplies are swallowed in one gulp by something beneath the featureless plain of an unknown world. The natives are not hostile but they seem incurious. He is welcome to use their free railroad system - the "alimentary express" of a world-grinding Wormway. Those he regards as sane are considered to be crazy. The culture techniques he is sure are crazy turn out to be quite normal - by that world's standards. He fathers a child without ever touching the mother. It's when he does spring that he gets his most startling surprise. Stress Patten is a deceptively easy novel. Delightful reading, it will turn out to be something you will not forget in a hurry.
https://www.amazon.com/Stress-Pattern-Neal-Barrett-Jr/dp/B000JOQO2U
Now, I know what you're thinking: "This is just a bad photo of the cover! It's out of focus!" Here is the cover on Amazon. Look any better to you? This horrendous jumbled mess is the real cover for this real actual book.
Is some giantess preventing you from going to Amazon and looking it up?
Here's the listing Note the cover on Amazon is censored, unlike this one. Hmmmmmmm.
Here's the blurb for it:
>A dirty bomb has been dropped and humanity is forever changed. The boys who didn't die stayed the same but the women grew into giantesses—walking gods as tall as the mountains. To remake a new and better world, all post-pubescent men were eaten and killed, and the remaining boys were rounded up to live in The Pen and learn to become better men.
A book by someone who has Issues, for others who have Issues. This goes way beyond snoo-snoo.