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March 2, 2018 8:36 AM

33 of the Weirdest Philip K. Dick Covers We Could Find from Literary Hub
posted by chavenet (8 comments total)

Richard Simons zap
posted by not_the_water at 8:59 AM on March 2, 2018 [2 favorites]

I'm dismayed to find out I only own about a third of those covers (humblebrag)...
posted by pipeski at 9:13 AM on March 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

Hah I have owned the first one for years; there's a bunch of PKD covers from the same publishing house in this vein.
posted by Dr Dracator at 11:01 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Hardly a PKD completist, but I have a bunch of these as well. I want to see an Octavia Butler one; good lord did they make some weird choices with her covers.
posted by aspersioncast at 11:48 AM on March 2, 2018 [2 favorites]

I used to own four of these specific covers, but then I sold my almost complete PKD collection to a friend for $50 because I was moving out of the country.

Probably time to start buying them up again.
posted by 256 at 1:08 PM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Here's 567 more covers, courtesy of the Internet Archive and the sadly defunct philipkdick.com
posted by whir at 2:10 PM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

("Complete" as in I owned one copy of almost all of his novels, not any more completionist definition)
posted by 256 at 2:36 PM on March 2, 2018

Incidentally, if you (like me) want to frame some WTF 60s and 70s covers, Penguin sell a set of 100 postcards featuring covers by many of the same artists as these, for all sorts of SF authors of the time (PKD, Blish, Pohl, Simak, Sturgeon etc.)
posted by pipeski at 9:25 AM on March 3, 2018 [1 favorite]