The Friday Face-Off: Classic Science Fiction

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: A classic sci-fi cover


Oh so many choices this week! I decided to select The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, a true classic that was originally published in 1898. As you can imagine, there were plenty of cover choices to compare, over 4,000 editions on Goodreads, in fact! Here is a small selection of those. My focus was on vintage-looking covers, take a look:

1993 Tor Classics | 2012 Atria Books | 1986 Signet Classics

2017 Turkish edition | 2017 Gollancz | 2018 Polish edition

2005 French edition | 2005 Spanish edition | Arabic edition

2014 AD Classic | 2016 Portuguese edition | 2014 Classics to Go

I think these two are my favorite, although this is tough because I love a lot of these. Purely for the artwork, I’m loving the AD Classic, although the title is ridiculously small. And overall I think the Tor Classics edition is very strong.


Which cover is your favorite?

Posted January 29, 2021 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 20 Comments

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20 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Classic Science Fiction

    • Tammy

      Thanks Robin! There were so many covers out there to choose from! I didn’t even have time to see them all. I love that French edition, though, thanks for the link!

  1. This is a really strong collection of covers, Tammy – but my favourite is the top right-hand cover. I love the fact that it features the red weed…

  2. I’m really leaning towards that Tor Classics cover with the great text and that energy beam. It’s interesting to see all the different interpretations, many of which still retain a lot of similarity.

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