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The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryth

The Pride of Chanur © 1981, Cover Artist Michael Whelan, First Printing DAW 1982

Please fellow Redditors, the cover art can be both bad and good! I've mentioned that my SF book collection has been downsized (several times), but this book always remains on my shelves. HallunicatedLottoNos pointed out there is something to be said for butch amazon catwomen!

Update- Thanks for all the comments and info and I apologize for posting into the wrong sub; I agree Michael Whelan is The GOAT. I've fixed that mistake and posted this wonderful book cover over in r/CoolSciFiCovers today.

u/OldManWearingPlaid — 3 days ago
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Re-Birth by John Wyndham (1960)

title (Re-Birth) and UK title (The Chrysalids) Cover Art by Richard M. Powers

u/vexedwaffle — 2 days ago
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World's Best SF 2 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, cover art by Vincent Di Fate

Bastei Lübbe 1983, German edition of The 1983 Annual World's Best SF; ISFDB entry.

u/chevkoch — 2 days ago
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Ace Double,1968: Space Chantey by R.A. Lafferty, cover and interior illustrations by Vaughn Bodē / Pity About Earth by Ernest Hill, cover and interior sketch by Frank Kelly Freas

Vaughn Bodē’s cover is so unlike anything I’d ever expect in an Ace double, but R.A. Lafferty is pretty much unlike anything you’d expect in an Ace double, either. This was Bodē’s only Ace cover; most people probably know him from Cheech Wizard. I bought this for Lafferty, but Pity About Earth sounds good too.

u/Supro1560S — 3 days ago
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Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Cover Artist Roy Carnon, Four Square Books Edition, 1962

Roy Carnon was active in the early to mid-1960’s and also did the cover for the 1962 Four Square Books, Thuvia Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and recently posted to r/badscificovers

u/ChampionshipPast3652 — 3 days ago
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Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper, Ace Science fiction 1983. Cover art by Gino D'Achille

u/dmont7 — 3 days ago
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Mysterious Motoring & Air Stories edited by William Pattrick. W H Allen 1986/87

Cover artist unknown.

After posting Mysterious Sea & Railway Stories last week a fellow Redditor posted that there were 4 in the series.

Well, I had to get them for the set.

More scary/sci-fi shorts ready for the Winter months.

u/darren648 — 3 days ago