The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!
This week’s theme: “When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” – A cover that is 60s sci-fi.
And here it is, the last Friday Face-Off of #SciFiMonth 2019! It’s been fun focusing on science fiction, and to cap off the month, we’re highlighting covers with a 60s sci-fi vibe. I decided to choose a book written in 1968, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, the classic that led to the making of the movie Blade Runner (in case you didn’t know, lol). The book is VERY different from the movie, and I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t. I bawled my eyes out!! This week I decided to challenge myself further by trying to stick with only covers that have that 60s vibe to them, although I did throw in some others that I really love. As you can imagine, there are HUNDREDS of different covers. Here is a small selection:
UK Edition 2010 | Phoenix edition 2012 | Polish edition 2011
Gollancz paperback 2007 | French edition 1979 | Signet edition 1969
Bantam Dell edition 2008 | Spanish edition (year?) | Finish edition 1989
Bulgarian edition 1994 | Panther Books edition 1977 | Polish edition 1995
Romanian edition 2017 | Panther Books edition 1972 | Doubleday edition 1968
I believe the last one is the original US cover. There are some weird covers, right? I’m not really in love with any of these, but if I had to choose, I really like the Panther 1972 edition. It’s disturbing yet clever:
This book certainly has some interesting covers! I had to read this one at university and I couldn’t get into it at all, but it seems to be one of those sci-fi books that’s as well-loved today as it was when it was released. I think my favourite is the Phoenix edition – it’s so pretty! I do quite like the French edition as well, though. I think it’s the bright colours.
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The Phoenix edition of 2012 is my favorite. Because owls. I love owls! 😀
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Such strange covers. 🙂 My favorite is the Romanian edition although the owl cover is pretty striking, too.
Oh my goodness – and I thought Chocky had a wide variation… There is certainly a range, here – and what an excellent choice for this week’s theme! My favourite is the SF Masterworks cover, which I think captures a real flavour of the book – along with the Spanish version, too.
It would be difficult to pick a cover this week, because like you I can’t find any that I truly like – the one you picked is truly disturbing, but fits the title well . 🙂
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I’ve never seen that 72 cover – that’s awesome!
Okay, that Polish edition 1995 is just chock full of Buck Rogers era cheese, It gets my vote. 🙂
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I’m impressed you found so many 60s-Ish covers that look so different! It’s hard to pick a favorite since there are things I like about a few of them.
Of course trying to see which is my favorite I picked out all the more modern covers: romanian 2017 and Phoenix 2012. Favorite 60s cover is probably the Doubleday 1968.
I’m embarrassed to say this is a book I’ve yet to read, even though I’ve had it on my shelf for many years and loved both movies. For the covers, I tend to lean most towards the Romanian edition, I like the feel of the cityscape.
I like the Romanian cover. Some of the others were kind of strange.
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Love this book but damn… Talk about odd covers around the world! I can’t even pick one hahahah
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It’s wild how truly different all of these covers are. Scrolling through, I’d never even guess some of them were for the same book. I like the Panther ’72 that you picked and I also like the ’77 Panther.
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I almost went with this one. So many covers and I love your choice. I’ve never seen that one before.
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I have not read much 60’s sci-fi….I think *maybe* one short story. I need to rectify that! I haven’t read Philip K Dick but I do, of course, have some of his books in my tbr including this one. 🙂
I agree there are a lot of weird covers. The only one I like at all is Romanian edition 2017 haha