Welcome to the PULP-O-MIZER where, thanks to Bradley W. Schenk, you too can join the annals of pulp cover history.Screenshot There are plenty of design and text options and if you're happy with your creation you have the opportunity to merchandise the pants off it.Here's what the t-shirt would look like:WARNING! This could be a time vampire, proceed accordingly.PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generatorThanks to Booklicious for the lead
Star Trek for the Holidays
This holiday season's must have for the Trekkie in your life is the new book; "Star Trek Federation - The First 150 Years."Published by 47NORTH, this "deluxe history book" focuses on the founding and early years of "the United Federation of Planets" - you remember that interplanetary alliance that explored the galaxy committed to keeping its members safe from Klingons, Romulans, and other villains. illustration by Mark McHaleyThe book is heavily illustrated and in a pocket inside the rear cover you'll find "documents from the Federation Archives," including a handwritten letter by a young Jim Kirk to his mother.The book is housed in...
the best selling SCI-FI BOOKS of All Time: An infographic
viaAddenda:A tweet from a prominent source was sent alluding to this post as a 'book patrol infographic'This infographic was not created by book patrol.The via link above will reflect my source but I was unable to track down the original source in my research, usually that would be enough it keep out of circulation but in this case I felt the visual rendering of the information worthy of the post.Apparently the factual nature of many of the entries are in doubt. The blog Making Light exposes some of them in their post: Obvious nonsense about SF sales history. There is also an active comment...
A Century of War of the Worlds
This is sort of a vertical sampling (somewhat out of order) of cover designs for H.G.Wells War of the Worlds, from Dr. Zeus. This site features book and magazine covers from dozens of countries with an incredibly well cross-referenced database. You can find covers of tripods, flying saucers, humans running at you, humans grabbed by tentacles, or just plain odd covers of this book which was first published in 1898. Dr. Zeus even has a graph of design element trends for WotWs' covers over the last century. While you browse, listen to the original Orson Welles radio broadcast which first aired on October 30th...
A Space Library
Illustration by Lance Miyamoto, 1981.What would you name the spaceship?I think I'm going with The Odyssey