{"id":11813,"date":"2024-02-16T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:30:29","slug":"home-art-sci-fi-book-cover-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11813","title":{"rendered":"HOME\/ART; Sci-Fi Book Cover Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Six up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been trying to gradually make our home look more attractive and at the same time less cluttered. It is quite a difficult balancing act. Putting up pictures, whilst not over cluttering the space visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also a slight irony in the choice of images. I\u2019m not a massive sci-fi, reader\/fan. And most of these postcards are chosen purely on the aesthetics of the postcard book covers. And even then I was actually quite disappointed with the covers that Penguin chose for the set of postcards I bought. 80 or 90% of which I don\u2019t like enough to want to use at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I might reproduce some other book-covers, and frame and hang those? Stuff that better reflects my actual reading habits. Or that I like more on a purely aesthetic level. An example of the latter might be so-and-so\u2019s cover for the 1970sBallantine Books paperback edition of The Worm Ouroboros<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zooming in..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Top row.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I might describe this top row as a slightly psychedelic selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bottom row.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The lower or bottom row, meanwhile, is more in the \u2018classic\u2019 vein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lovely old edition.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Which I don\u2019t own. This cover is from an edition for sale on Oxfam\u2019s website. For \u00a375!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have read some of the old sci-fi classics, like Journey to the Centre of the Earth<\/em> (this one several times, including on a honeymoon in Italy!), and The Time Machine<\/em>. Not sure if I\u2019ve read 20,000 Leagues under the Sea<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been trying to gradually make our home look more attractive and at the same time less cluttered. It is quite a difficult balancing act. Putting up pictures, whilst not over cluttering the space visually. There\u2019s also a slight irony in the choice of images. I\u2019m not a massive sci-fi, reader\/fan. And most of these … <\/p>\n

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