good sci-fi book covers? c’est impossible, non

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Eric: I’m very excited about the new promotional work that Gollancz/Orion has been putting out, the Future Classics and Totally Space Opera series. Besides being surprisingly conceptual and classy takes on genre fiction, I think they point at a trend toward collectible and fetishable books as a revenue stream for authors and publishers. I hope we’ll be seeing more of these kinds of editions soon. More on this in a below.

Full gallery of 8 covers below the jump.  The link below is just so cool and so worth reading you basically have no choice but to check it out.  I will even link to it again right here.  I could run an entire blog just posting things from this blog but that wouldn’t be very original of me, even if it was way more interesting.  I’ll have to make another post drawing together different ideas on fetishable books because, I agree that’s where it’s at.

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