#Who are you people. Im just a dyke who wants to fuck in a library
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Putting together some of my favourite fantasy/scifi book covers. Most of these won’t be in any particular order except for the first one
The Priory of the Orange Tree. I have this book at home but I still haven’t read it cause its really fucking big but this is literally the perfect book cover (by Ivan Belikov)
Literally every non italian Dune covers cause they are all amazing and the italian ones are atrocious (also the american 90s editions arent that good either tbh). Like putting aside the content of the book, all the graphic work is amazing
(here in order of how much i like them)
(Matt Griffin - Jim Tierney (all his serie for Dune is spectacular) - Sean O’Connel - Nancy Stahl - Bruce Pennington - John Schoenherr (second edition))
Then theres the italian edition of the Southern Reach Trilogy and Borne
But I also love the original ones (+ dead astrounauts)
When it comes to Lord of the Rings its a little hard because it had so many editions and so many covers and so many different designs and there are very few i dont like actually, so I’ll just show some of my favourites
These that are redesign of Tolkien’s original work for the covers by Harper Collins
Atrocious, old and kitsch, i love these. Also this is an unauthorized edition and its so funny, they shouldve authorized it just because of the cover
These by Barbara Remington
Harper and Collins again but illustrated by Alan Lee
And the Bompiani cover for the entire trilogy. Maybe its not that great but its the one i grew up with
La Passe-miroir absolutely stunning covers by Laurent Gapaillard
The Books of Earthsea which unfortunately I have a different, uuugly edition (by Charles Vess)
And this 2005 edition of a Wizard of Earthsea which like... i know it has static bitch on cover disease
But listen to me. This is iconic. This is fucking Gianni de Conno (RIP well miss u king) which is my favourite italian illustrator for children books (and a great surrealist artist). Here some of his other (of my favourite) covers
Also this new italian Earthsea edition *SMACK*
The Book of Babel is really good BUT if it had more a Russian Avant-garde style it would have been perfect (idk why it gives me russian avant garde vibes maybe its just me maybe my brain is broken maybe its just because the first cover is red) (illustrated by Ian Leino)
The job that mondadori did with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is STUNNING. Too bad they didnt do it first cause i have the UGLY editions......
I dont know if these are inspired by the british/american/whatever edition I know them in italian so ill show those
All the Discworld illustrated covers by Josh Kirby are iconic and funny
Descendant of the Crane, im not really interested in reading it but the cover art is AMAZING (cover by Feifei Ruan)
Now listen......... you don’t have to like Lindsay Ellis. I fucking hate that bitch. I bet her Noumena books are atrocious. But whoever designed the covers....... omg
these are so retrò, pop... i just love them so much. I can’t seem to find the artist or graphic who did the covers, but if i discover she did those im gonna KMS. If instead of filling the back of the book with people praising this idiot they would have put a fucking cover artist i would have been happier.
Going on, whatever the fuck Fazi is doing at any given time cause the graphic work is AMAZING
Another serie I have no interest in but that has amazing graphic work is the Scythe trilogy (covers by Kevin Tong)
The Way of Kings, the other covers from the Stormlight Archive serie are fine but i really like this one (by Michael Whelan)
The super iconic (original?) Neverending Story edition (theres also in red but i prefer it in green) (by Roswitha Quadflieg)
I dont know anything about Red Rising except that a youtuber has it, and the covers arent the most inspired
but they do this!
The thousand doors of January is one of the books I wanted to buy before reading the reviews on goodreads
Ok lets put the dykes in here, The Locked Tombs covers are my favourite static bitches <3 (by Tommy Arnold)
I had to go check out library catalogue cause I did not remember the title of this book (La chute du soleil de fer italian edition) but I only remembered the cover lol (i cant find the cover artist tho ill have to check the actual book)
the Sands of Arawiya duology (?) original edition (by Simon Prades)
And in general I really just love vintage scifi and fantasy covers specifically from the 60s-80s and think this should make a comeback as a marketing strategy idk in the italian publishing world cause whatever the fuck they are doing with scifi books right now... is not working. its really not working. All of Le guin’s books look so fucking ugly. Idk resurrect Moebius and De Conno or something im so tired of ugly covers.
#ok this is one long list but i have fun doing lists lol#also i didnt accidentally see any d*ltarune spoiler all day cause i was busy doing this :)#if you want send me your favourite covers or lets discuss what makes a good cover#im having fun#books
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