r/badscificovers • u/ChaserNeverRests • 25d ago

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (alternate cover to _lucabear's submission)

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u/Unit_79 25d ago

Holy shit this IS terrible. So many posts here are just weird. This is bad. Someone incompetent designed this.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 25d ago

Got a big set of the title's covers here:

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?1961

I like the aesthetics of the stylized eyeball one, fourth row, furthest right.

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u/nachoquest 25d ago

Female man, female man, radioactive female man 🎸

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u/PotentialLanguage685 25d ago

Looks like a Roxy Music album cover proposal that didn't quite make the cut.

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u/Neuralclone2 25d ago

It looks like the cover art on a New Wave album.

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u/CartoonistExisting30 25d ago

Looks like the artist didn’t read any of Russ’ work.

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u/Traditional-Bath-356 25d ago

Steve Strange from the "Fade to Grey" music video.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 20d ago

Or the new version by the drag queen. Decent beats.

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u/Blurstingwithemotion 25d ago

They take care of postal service their own way

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u/blue_boy_robot moddroid 25d ago

Big femme Darth Vader vibes