Personalized Pulp March 6, 2013

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 generator Thanks to Booklicious for the lead

Star Trek for the Holidays December 3, 2012

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 McHaley The book is heavily illustrated and in…

the best selling SCI-FI BOOKS of All Time: An infographic November 15, 2012

via Addenda: 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…

A Century of War of the Worlds October 31, 2012

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…

A Space Library October 1, 2012

Illustration by Lance Miyamoto, 1981. What would you name the spaceship? I think I’m going with The Odyssey