r/CoolSciFiCovers

Featuring The Shadow Out Of Time by H. P. Lovecraft

1980 Mcmillan UK edition

Larkin was best known for high-impact commercial illustration: think Savage Sword of Conan, dialed up to eleven. This cover is restrained, sedate even. I like to think he was having some fun, letting the goofy anatomy do the work.

I couldn’t find the artist for this edition.

This was considered comically fat in the 60s and 70s.

"Return with Contract Diplomat Gerard Manley [ed: really?] to the lost decade before the exciting adventures recorded in the Windhover tapes. Recapture the intrigue, treachery, and passion of his years as Consort to Fairy Peg [ed: are you fucking kidding me?], ruler of the Ribble Galaxy, and Supreme Commander of the elite fighting force known as the Gabriel Ratchets. Follow Manley... on a voyage into the reaches of his own mind..."

1963 Ace Books edition

"In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation—disarmament in its most literal sense.

Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem—their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it . . ."