40 Hilariously Bad Sci-Fi Book Covers We Most Certainly Will Judge Them By

Ah, bad sci-fi book covers—there’s nothing quite like them. As a kid who devoured stacks of weird sci-fi novels, half the fun was judging the wild and wacky cover art. These book covers promised intergalactic adventures but usually delivered more questions than answers.

Today’s post is a tribute to those gloriously awful sci-fi covers, where space helmets are optional, aliens are questionably rendered, and gravity-defying poses are practically a genre requirement.

Let’s dive in and appreciate the bizarre artistry that graced the front of so many questionable paperbacks.

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