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zebra2  ·  2101 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-Fi club: general discussion

Oh man, back when I was reading through the Hugo winner list it was a victory parade of awful covers. There's a particular grossness to the 60s-70s era, but it's hard to say there's a time period where they don't suck.

The other day I picked up one which has this exceptionally awful cover:

It's bad enough that I had to hide the cover of it when leaving the bookstore, but I also have this terrible non-germane representation of the character corrupting my mental image of what the character was intended to be.

Edit: OH almost forgot the worst part: red edge gilding on the book.