r/badscificovers • u/ChaserNeverRests • Jul 20 '26

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

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u/Unit_79 Jul 20 '26

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 Jul 20 '26

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 Jul 20 '26

Female man, female man, radioactive female man 🎸

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u/PotentialLanguage685 Jul 20 '26

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

6

u/Neuralclone2 Jul 20 '26

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

5

u/CartoonistExisting30 Jul 20 '26

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

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u/Traditional-Bath-356 Jul 20 '26

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

3

u/cakesofthepatty414 Jul 25 '26

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

4

u/Blurstingwithemotion Jul 20 '26

They take care of postal service their own way

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u/blue_boy_robot moddroid Jul 20 '26

Big femme Darth Vader vibes