What’s that, you say? It’s Friday? Indeed it is, and for once I have something to show for it. Although it’s only sorta a Bad Book Cover Friday, as this June 1983 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction cover isn’t astoundingly bad.
I mean, it’s bad, but it’s bad simply in that there’s nothing good about it. The mediocrity/absurdity/ignorance of color theory and anything else that would contribute to an aesthetic and/or compelling cover are so generally apparent that I have nothing specific to say about them.
The contents of the magazine’s advertisements, on the other hand…
Well, some are just charmingly dated:
Others…
Ho. lee. shit.
Go to:
Bad Book Covers Friday Archive
Time Warp 1987: F&SF and a couple of soggy old men
Have added you assuming the end of your address was (@gmail.com) to readers of my other blog. Just going to look around here now! All the best
Bo
Thanks, Bo! It was an @gmail address, yes.
AAAAAAAAHHH THAT’S SO CREEPY.
Way to dispell the myth that sci-fi and fantasy readers are all misogynist loser creeps living in their mother’s basements.
What? What? I don’t even.
*headdesk*
EXCITED TO SEND STAMP!!!!