What book have you bought the most copies of in your life?

This is the cover of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, which I love for the weird transposed profiles in the centre. I can't track down the artist, but isfdb suggests it might be Leo & Diane Dillon (which I kinda doubt).

These two are Ballantine Fantasy titles both with covers painted by Bob Pepper: A voyage to Arcturus and The Queen of Elfland's Daughter.

Next, two covers from M. John Harrison's Viriconium series. The Pastel City features a painted cover by Bruce Pennington, while A Storm of Wings is painted by Michael Whelan!

Another favorite: Octavia E. Butler out-of-print novel Survivor. I love the way the tree is composed out of the two central figures of the novel.

If we want to think about what a good minimalist version of this might look like, we should examine another Delany. This is the hardcover of Nova, featuring an impressionistic composition by the artist Russel Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald also illustrated Delany & Marilyn Hacker's brief journal "Quark."

The next is a Bantam Books copy of Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neveryon. Clearly meant to evoke a kind of Orientalist, sword and sorcery fantasy setting, a ruse for what is actually a very dense exploration of slavery, liberation, and semiotics.

First, these wraparound covers on Le Guin's first three Earthsea books. The cover art by Pauline Ellison effectively summarizes the series through travel!

Davy Byrne's Bar, Guinness, oysters, and good reading courtesy @larapawson.bsky.social (this one and Spent Light, incredible stuff)

the top of Buchanan Tower at UBC is nearly obscured by fog this afternoon

portents from the outside world

Buchanan Tower at UBC, home of the Department of English Languages and Literatures, among other departments.

Maligned by many, loved by me.

edifying to see some new guerilla paste-ups on Commercial Drive after what was a very tiring week

first tin of shortbread for the holiday season—a little soft/pale but in my defense I'm still getting used to the oven in this apartment. still tastes great!

also here's my cat, Corb

attn: @mjohnharrison.bsky.social found this on a can of soft drink

STEM and tech is characterized by an imagination so impoverished that they can imagine a future where having a virtual doppelganger go to meetings for you is normal but they don't imagine a future with fewer pointless meetings

this whole article is so fucking bleak

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