Nov 26
Click for full imageTat Wood Comments: This is by way of adding to the conversation about recycling artwork. Ideally, it should be appended to the comments on ‘The Rod of Light’. No prizes for guessing what it originally covered, but given that Dick’s book has some pretty distinctive visual iconography (mentioned in the title) it’s a stupidly inappropriate choice.
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November 26th, 2012 at 9:40 am
um. the artists couldn’t read… or no excuse really
November 26th, 2012 at 10:08 am
This cover originally for the ‘Dune’ books?
November 26th, 2012 at 10:27 am
That’s the cover art for an edition of Dune.
I know because I have a copy at home in my bookcase..
I don’t understand why it says “The Three Stigmata …” on it. That’s pretty baffling. Printing error? Fake?
November 26th, 2012 at 10:51 am
Was that originally cover of a Dune novel?
November 26th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Pretty sure I have the Dune edition with that cover, somewhere packed in a box.
November 26th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Sure was:
http://balwynbestbooks.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/dune-frank_herbert_08.jpg
November 26th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
That was the first Dune edition I ever read.
I wanted to submit a Dutch cover which I remembered having read from the public library once, but I haven’t been able to find it for real. So here’s the thing as found on the interwebz:
God Emperor of Dune (Dutch translation), with an exciting cover image representing the climactic finale of…?
November 26th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
The Three Stigmata of Paul Atreides?
November 26th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
The Three Stigmata Of Science Fiction Publishing: Artwork, Blurb, Editor.
November 26th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
@THX. If you watch the David Lynch adaptation of the movie, there’s bleeding from the eyes and mouth, if I’m not mistaken. So the Bene Gesserit had some stigmata action going on.
November 26th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Jaouad: that link to the Dutch God Emperor of Dune is something special indeed!
November 26th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
@Gav: the publishers re-used Bruce Pennington’s cover for the UK edition of ‘Dune’ for a reprint of the PKD novel. It’s 1/3 the page-count of ‘Dune’.
@Jaouad: I rushed to get ‘God-Emperor’ when it came out but hurled it across the room in frustration. There was a conversation about yoghurt that finally did for me. Nobody I know can recall a plot of any kind.I dimly remember that Leto had a Gadaffi-like all-girl army*, but unlike Gadaffi, called them his ‘Fish-Speakers’. So for all I know there may well have been a pegasus somewhere towards the end.
(*By which I mean that like the late Libyan dictator, he had a female-only bodyguard, not that Leto’s army were all women who looked like Muammar Gadaffi).
November 26th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
“I rushed to get ‘God-Emperor’ when it came out but hurled it across the room in frustration.”
I got it years later in a second-hand bookshop, but did the same thing with it.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
HE: So, um, what’s a stigmata?
SHE: I don’t know. Perhaps you should draw the Palmer instead.
HE: Or an Eldritch?
SHE: If you like.
HE: OK. So, um, what is an Eldritch?
SHE: Look, just re-use that DUNE cover, OK?
HE: Works for me!
November 26th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
@Phil: here you are, an Eldritch. That’ll be £1.
November 27th, 2012 at 9:20 am
@Tat Wood: I can’t recall much of a plot either, and I stopped reading the McDune stuff after that. However, the pegasus is actually an eagle. Carrying a wizard.
@Adam Roberts: The Soddits in the foreground are what did it for me.
November 28th, 2012 at 5:03 am
Well, almost all the Manor books used other cover earlier pieces of cover art….
February 9th, 2016 at 3:27 pm
Operators watched helplessly as the giant cymbal droid escaped into the horizon.
May 5th, 2022 at 3:30 pm
The three stigmata could transform the world, or end it, or cause sub par service at your favorite restaurant. Really, anything could happen.
*I have a handful of covers to submit. Unfortunately, the treasure trove of a bookstore where I used to find a lot of bad covers has closed it’s doors forever.
May 5th, 2022 at 10:31 pm
Of course, “made for the actual book” isn’t always a plus.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/de/0f/32/de0f3263fa71ffa51b034d18d289981b.jpg
This is the cover of the edition I first read (which, now that I think of it, has a vaguely “Asian racist stereotype” look to it).
https://retrobookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Three-Stigmata-of-Palmer-Eldrich-by-Philip-K.-Dick-Bob-Pepper-600×932.png
Edit: Bruce A Munro, of course. Darn autofill.
May 5th, 2022 at 11:21 pm
I sent in a giant whack of truly terrible covers nearly 3 YEARS AGO and none of them were used! Release the Strategic Cover Stockpile!
Why someone at Manor thought a re-used “Dune” cover was a good idea is lost in the mists of time. Couldn’t someone have done up, I dunno, stigmata for less?
Like most of the above, I thought “God-Emperor of Dune” was crap. Is that the one where he turns into a giant slug? Which led to a cover I’m pretty sure we’ve had here.
I have a later printing of the first American paperback, all brown crunchy paper and the spine entirely replaced with duct tape. It has an honored place on my bookshelf. It sits alone, no other “Dune” books. Let’s hope they don’t become movies, although the low-budget Syfy version of “Messiah/Children” was all right.
None of the endless sequels/prequels are a patch on “DOON”, though. All hail the Kumquat Haagendasz!
@ARY (9): GSS! So true.