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barbarian818
#6 whatever artist did this, i think they did almost the exact same image for Omni magazine as well. It's eerily familiar
instantdreams
#12 good to see Jeremy Clarkson enjoying himself
NearHereThere
This one is surprisingly pretty good too.
mangor
#6 I remembered this one from Mechanismo by Harry Harrison, 1978. It's Womandroid by Jennifer Eachus.
EJust
The tradition started with the pulp magazines that created the genre. Here is a great article on the subject. https://activemaas.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/nudity-on-the-newsstands-100-pulp-covers/
Rathan5
Was Phillip Jose Farmer a better erotica writer than he was a SF writer? ‘Cause aside from the very first one, all the riverworld books were kinda dog water =\
QuatermainFT
honorable mention to 50% of chuck tingles book covers. "Lesbian Megalodon Shark Lifeguard Summer Butt Hunt" out now.
SirYumYum
whatdanforthsaw
#1 as silly as the subject matter may be, that is a beautiful painting
mangor
It's too close!
JeanieGoldWeddingPlanner
How many drugs did these artists take
BobRossHB
At least ..3
Skullwriter
Yes.
PoetDesmond
Honestly, where Tanith Lee is concerned, the covers are not even close to the graphic content of the actual writing. I picked up The Secret Books of Venus series at a garage sale when I was 11, and that shit made me the pervert I am today.
valicetra
Never read her other work, but did I read The Silver Metal Lover when I was a kid just because I liked the cover art. It really wasn't graphic at all, and the sex was mostly implied. Mostly it's just a young woman running away from home with her fancy bard-droid and debating if robots had souls.
Still didn't stop me from becoming the pervert I am today though.
PoetDesmond
I guess some of us are just destined to be deplorable, lol. I do recommend her other works, she's got an amazing voice. I believe Humble Bundle has an ebook bundle of her work right now, if you're cool with reading like that.
3dartwork
#1 won both major literature fantasy/sci fi awards and got published professionally....
TouchMyInfection
markhMoonHero
#1 Pretty sure that's just a robot version of Lilandra.
mikeatike
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bzZnYWpqM3htZDI5Nno5MHp1MDJueXM1d2M2c3N1ODMzdjNnaHo5ayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/pfjUKa8qWUSLC/200w.webp
MissDeeMeanor
oblimo
Thaaat's a keeper.
billybobbaggybottom
Huh, TIL the Mad Max movie poster pose sorta kinda maybe most likely ripped off this book cover (Behind the Walls of Terra)
trigonman3
Blast Hardcheese!
SirYumYum
Punch Rockgroin!
Unionburner
Thick McRunfast
SirYumYum
Big McLargeHuge!
mikeatike
#7 feel bad for the second place lover
thatwoodguy
I used to collect science fiction paperbacks from various short story compilations and then through the golden age. I've got some very not safe for work ones that were printed in Germany
EverNotRelevant
#7 all those boobs (with tits out, even !) And then you get to this guy and we don't even get VPL. Where's the gender equality!
Ohdearaudrey
#2 who are the gubbings? We will never know
YippeeKayakOB
"You cant make this shit up.". I guess you can.
Grumptious
#9 This book was written by Philipe Jose Farmer under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout which was a character in books by Kurt Vonnegut, who was based on Theodore Sturgeon.
EJust
I had a reprint where they changed the author to Farmer and used the classic Venus image. I wonder where that is?
SteelyDad
Thank you!
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Okay, that's news to me--I knew Trout was a character based on Sturgeon, and was ready to call bullshit on that cover. I had no idea that Farmer had actually written that.
PoetDesmond
Theodore Sturgeon died in the city I live in. I have no idea why I remember that.
thatwoodguy
Yeah that is completely fucking funny. I love discovering the various Adventures of Kilgore trout in the various threads through Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
Clayman8
Kilgore Trout might be a name i have to steal for my next DnD or Shadowrun character...
NearHereThere
This book is kinda okay actually.
HamSlamwich
More than a character, it was kinda supposed to be him right? And iirc he also penned quite a few short stories for magazines and the like, under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout.
DarkSock
One of my favorite science fiction books as a teenager was Phillip Jose farmers ultraviolent Armageddon book called "tongues of the moon "
Lots of explosions and fools getting capped by burpers
GMontag451
Why not?
Robbann
#9 Turtle power
koffiejuffrouw101
Thank you!
yn7jy8s84v7
Are these books real?
Thewreckoning86
I've owned 2 of them (Longyear and Farmer),
QuatermainFT
Don't know about all of them, but most of them are.
michiyl
#8 Remember to go to your doctor if you experience crotch fire
notmyrealface
#9 Venus on the Half Shell, Turtle Power!
Kittennz
Perfection.
amdkenobi
What kills me is I've seen some of these irl. They're acutal books and book covers.
RPGables
darkninja2992
#1 okay is this actually a book with a robot-fucker romance story in it? Or am i being lied to, i want to know before i invest myself in it
Dannyalcatraz
Well…it’s a real book, and Anne Droid is the protagonist’s lover, but I don’t know how much boot knocking is actually depicted in it.
https://www.cosmoscodex.com/books/naked-came-the-robot-barry-b-longyear
darkninja2992
Fuck it, sold either way, i'm a sucker for cross-species romances (only with beings that pass the harkness test)
redpandabanana
#1
Beardedgeek72
She's not naked!
redpandabanana
She’s naked under the cloths
Beardedgeek72
oblimo
Most people are. Not all, mind you, only most.
redpandabanana
…how are you not naked under you cloths?
oblimo
It isn't easy.