Contest: ENTER Misc. Avatar Contest: Go Judge a Book by its Cover

[Kai "the spy"]

Okay, the last contest was all about Vinyl Album Cover Art (shoutout to @Captain pl1ngpl0ng for running it), so I'm very lazily going for another kind of Cover Art (which is often similar, aside from format), the book covers.

Now, I'm putting in some limitations, so as not to go totally wild.

1. Cover art from fiction books, only. We don't need photograph covers from the latest celebrity auto-biography, be more creative than that.

2. No movie or TV tie-ins. Same for comic or video game adaptations. It must be from originally literary work. And no loophole through reprints to tie into media adaptations, either. So, War of the Worlds, sure, but better not the edition coinciding with the Spielberg movie.

3. Should go without saying, but keep it safe for work. Wanna do a Frazetta cover, use one without nudity.

As per usual, entries may not exceed 200x200 pixels and/or 1 Mb data. You may enter up to three avatars.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick - 1968

 

[auntiehill]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#1

Ian Fleming - Octopussy & The Living Daylights (short story collection)

 

[auntiehill]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#2

Karl May - Winnetou I

 

[think]

the next book I just ordered "now" looking for book covers
#1

Codependent No More Workbook
Melody Beattie

 

[Avro Arrow]

I've never read this, but I remember seeing it in the bookstore a few years back, and had difficulty deciding whether I should be intrigued, or laughing.

In case you can't tell at this small size, it's two astronauts examining a dinosaur skeleton on the moon.

The book is Dinosaur Thunder, by James F. David.

 

[think]

#2

the novel that got away---
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#3

Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - Conan the Cimmerian

 

[think]

#3

The Plague
Albert Camus

 

[Avro Arrow]

Hey, now.... Kai said no non-fiction!

 

[Orac]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

LAST CALL! Poll goes up within the next two days.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Okay, I just notice that, @think , your first entry is not a work of fiction, but a self-help book, and is therefore disqualified. I'll give you one more day to come up with another entry.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Terry Pratchett's "The Last Hero" picturing Cohen the Barbarian in his orthopedic sandals

 

[Avro Arrow]

Haven't read it yet (though it's on my Kobo), but I really like the cover image:

Here and Now and Then, by Mike Chen

 

[think]

this is the original book cover of the book I read in 8th grade so it has memories...

I just liked the cover of that self help book but I guess I would not find that cover in fiction---

I was going to find a bible image as a work of mostly fiction but mmmm that would of been a debate of itself---

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Alright, thread closed. You may now pass judgement on these books.