Dick/Dune Boondoggle: Mind Boggles
Think publishers don't give sci-fi classics the respect they deserve? Maybe you'll change your tune when you see the lavish cover art on this copy of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick. They really went all-out! See those majestic, winged ornithopters? The eerie blue eyes and moisture-retaining costumes of the natives crossing the dunes? It's the desert planet Arrakis, just as Dick describes it in the novel!
Waiiiit a minute. I'm starting to think this should be the cover of another science fiction classic. And indeed it is!
Jump with me now.
That's right! They recycled the cover art from Frank Herbert's Dune, apparently figuring no one would notice.
I'm not exactly sure whether the notion that even geniuses Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick got this kind of treatment from the publishing industry should be discouraging or encouraging to today's frustrated writers. Maybe both...?
DannysNotHere
Posted to Books on 29 January 2008
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Whuuuuhh??O_o
They recycled the covers during the original publications?
This is a little window into how far the SciFi genre has come over the years - back then you were probably lucky to get a full-color cover at all!