Bad Sci-Fi Covers

Here you can post cheesy, bizarre, ugly, shitty, or just downright awful science fiction book covers. Then we all make fun of them in the comments. Everyone's a winner! (Fantasy and horror also welcome!)

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Blood Lines by Tanya Huff

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/Svippdagg

The Eskimo Invasion, by Hayden Howard

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

Equations of life by Simon Morden (back cover by Steve Stone)

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/kittykatchan08

Scream from Outer Space by John Robert Haynes

Posted 21st Apr 2026u/Baby-Soapy

Take Back the Sky by Greg Bear

Posted 22nd Apr 2026u/Neuralclone2

City by Clifford D. Simak, cover painting by Gary Viskupic

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/Supro1560S

The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties by Barry N. Malzberg

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/HallucinatedLottoNos

The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell 1993 Cover by Simon Dewey

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/AdamJa_

Candy Man, by Vincent King

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

Hail, Hail!, by Harry Turtledove

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/Sivilian888010

The Tin Angel, by Ron Goulart

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/Sivilian888010

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS AND 8 SCIENCE FICTION STORIES BY H.G WELLS

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/CornDogRebornDog

The Animal People By Stanton A. Coblentz

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/CornDogRebornDog

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1972, art by Ron Walotsky

Posted 18th Apr 2026u/YanniRotten

Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop 1988

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/AdamJa_

Les Enfants de l'Atome (Conscience Place) by Joyce Thompson; art by Philippe Caza

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/YanniRotten

Dagger's Point, by Anne Logston

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/HallucinatedLottoNos

Visions of Wonder, edited by David G. Hartwell & Milton T. Wolf, 1996

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/YanniRotten

City of a Million Legends, by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

The Dark Passion doulogy by Susan Wright

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/Significant-Town-817

Might and Magic: The Shadowsmith by Geary Gravel

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/Svippdagg

Dark Side of the Moon by V. R. Tapscott

Posted 11th Apr 2026u/HallucinatedLottoNos

0008 Meets Gnatman by Clyde Allison

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/YanniRotten

The Time Hoppers by Robert Silverberg

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/bozog

The Day of the Drones, by A.M. Lightner

Posted 8th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

Posted 6th Apr 2026u/Ashamed_Length_2436

Il Mondo Finira Venerdi (One in Three Hundred) by James T. McIntosh

Posted 6th Apr 2026u/YanniRotten

Equations of life by Simon Morden

Posted 6th Apr 2026u/kittykatchan08

D. R. T. by James D. Long

Posted 5th Apr 2026u/DyerOfSouls

The Men in the Jungle, by Norman Spinrad

Posted 5th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

Star Ka'at World by Andre Norton and Dorothy Madlee

Posted 5th Apr 2026u/swort-elber

Lord of Thunder by Andre Norton

Posted 5th Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

The Masks of Time, Robert Silverberg

Posted 4th Apr 2026u/pompeiiviking

Copernick’s Rebellion, by Leo A. Frankowski

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/pompeiiviking

Les Pantins Cosmiques (The Cosmic Puppets) by Philip K. Dick

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/Dadaismisastratagem

Six Gates from Limbo, by J. T. McIntosh

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/jd_shaloop

The Pseudo-People edited by William F. Nolan

Posted 2nd Apr 2026u/Neuralclone2

Tik-Tok by John Sladek

Posted 1st Apr 2026u/StevenTheWicked

Against Infinity, by Gregory Benford. Cover art by Kevin Eugene Johnson, c. 1984

Posted 1st Apr 2026u/this_time_i_mean_it

Psychodrome 2: The Shapechanger Scenario by Simon Hawke

Posted 31st Mar 2026u/wyrm_slayer_106

The Escape Orbit by James White (Ace Books 1965) cover by Jack Gaughan.

Posted 30th Mar 2026u/dmont7

The freak show edited by Peter haining

Posted 28th Mar 2026u/Beneficial-Worry7131

Spacepaw by Gordon R. Dickson

Posted 28th Mar 2026u/StabbyMcSwordfish

Star Jaws by will Eisner

Posted 28th Mar 2026u/Beneficial-Worry7131

Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke

Posted 26th Mar 2026u/Dadaismisastratagem

D-99 by H. B. Fyfe

Posted 25th Mar 2026u/YanniRotten

The Champion of Garathorm by Michael Moorcock

Posted 22nd Mar 2026u/PotentialLanguage685

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