Book Covers

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The fact that you have a favorite cover artist (whose name you know) illustrates to me that I must be missing a some sort of cover art chromosome.

I've got a decent collection of reproductions of the original art for a fair number of science fiction book covers. Di Fate, Freas, Burns, Bonestell, Fazetta, Vallejo & Bell, etc. I spent many a happy hour at various cons browsing the dealer's room when I was younger.

Then I have my wife's collection of cover art such as the three-armed cover.

Edit: for those who have no idea what I meant by the three-armed cover, I've attached an image of the cover.

[Apache]

Maybe it is a Sci Fi Romance cover.
Apache

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I will never decide to read a particular book based on whether the cover is good, or not. But I *will* decide NOT to read a book if the cover indicates that its a genre I will not normally read. I am not interested in romance or erotic stuff, so any cover with half naked men and/or women will never hook me in, but rather it will turn me off.

My favourite genre is scifi, with an emphasis on the "sci" part. So if I see some book called, oh i dunno, Monsters from Mars, which has a half naked anybody on the cover, I *know* its not going to be the kind of thing I want to read. I could be wrong about it, but the cover will put me right off even bothering.

It depends on how the half-naked people are drawn. Sometimes they can indicate proper fantasy and sometimes not. Take Conan the Barbarian for example.On most covers, he's half naked. But it is proper fantasy.

But in your example, half naked would defiantly be a no-go for me as well. There are way too many "fantasy" books that are really romance and putting them in the SF/Fantasy section of a book store is wrong (IMHO). They belong is the romance section.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Then I have my wife's collection of cover art such as the three-armed cover.

Edit: for those who have no idea what I meant by the three-armed cover, I've attached an image of the cover.

The cover you've attached is actually very much wrong. It looks like a Templar Knight and Templars would not be having such a romance.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The cover you've attached is actually very much wrong. It looks like a Templar Knight and Templars would not be having such a romance.

Well, maybe she was a pilgrim he'd rescued after she was shunned and abandoned because of her disability?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It depends on how the half-naked people are drawn. Sometimes they can indicate proper fantasy and sometimes not. Take Conan the Barbarian for example.On most covers, he's half naked. But it is proper fantasy.

But in your example, half naked would defiantly be a no-go for me as well. There are way too many "fantasy" books that are really romance and putting them in the SF/Fantasy section of a book store is wrong (IMHO). They belong is the romance section.

Whaddya mean, "fantasy?" Conan's REAL, Wolfie!!!!

Hitch

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I've got a decent collection of reproductions of the original art for a fair number of science fiction book covers. Di Fate, Freas, Burns, Bonestell, Fazetta, Vallejo & Bell, etc. I spent many a happy hour at various cons browsing the dealer's room when I was younger.

Then I have my wife's collection of cover art such as the three-armed cover.

Edit: for those who have no idea what I meant by the three-armed cover, I've attached an image of the cover.

They're well-preserved zombies and that's an arm she'd been gnawing on.