Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing ...

Australian book cover designer WH Chong has won numerous awards for his book designs. And speaking to Spook Magazine, he singled out some of his favorite book cover designs for classic science ...

Penguin art director Jim Stoddart took a minimal approach in the cover design for this series of ten classic science fiction books, which includes titles by James Tiptree Jr, Kurt Vonnegut, HP ...

Call something “science fiction,” and it’ll inevitably be marketed to men. Call something “romance,” and the pink covers come out. This isn’t fair to either genre, and it creates a ...

“There is perhaps a tradition for science fiction books to illustrate unfamiliar conceptualised worlds on their covers. But when judging a book by its cover, even with all the best intentions, I ...

His latest book, Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art being funded on Kickstarter, is a massive hardcover collection and a curation of classic science fiction book and ...

Datajunkie has posted an astonishing collection of over 50 covers from the beautiful 1930’s pulp Astounding Science Fiction. Curiously enough, though I was born in the late 70’s, I spent a lot ...

The world of science fiction literature includes some truly out-of-this-world stories, which are often accompanied by astonishing, beautiful, and flat-out bizarre covers. Now, a pair of leading ...

Glenn Brown has turned some of your favorite book covers into “re-appropriated” paintings. In 1996, he painted “Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis),” which is the spitting image ...

Think of visually stunning science-fiction movies or high fashion. We might just have to live with the fact that sci-fi cover art has detached itself from the text, surviving by diffusing itself ...