David M. Barry

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Human. Husband. Step-dad. Dog and cat lover, mental health therapist, speculative fiction writer. Lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Words in @DailyScienceFiction, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashpointsf.bsky.social Odyssey online grad. #Codex #SFWA

“Hands Off” poster for the national day of protest on April 5th.
Book cover for the book “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr., and E. B. White. The authors names appear at the top of the book in large red block letters over a yellow background. The book title appears below in the center of the cover.
Book cover for the short story collection “The Paper Menagerie and other stories” by Ken Lui. The author’s name appears at the very top with the book title directly below. All text appears in black block letters over an all white background. Below the author and title stands a tiger made of paper mache.
Book cover for the novel, “Mrs. Dalloway“ by Virginia Woolf. The name of the author appears at the top of the book cover with the title of the book directly underneath. Below that appears the colored etching of a middle-aged woman in a multicolored hat and a red V-neck sweater. The titular Mrs. Dalloway.
Book cover for the space opera novel, “Leviathan Wakes” by James S. A. Corey. The authors pseudonym name appears at the top in large, white, block letters above the title which appears in smaller fuscia block letters. All this appears over a background of outer space with a large space vessel navigating close to a large asteroid.
Book cover for the novel “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The title appears in large white block letters at the top of the cover with the byline at the bottom in smaller white block letters. All this appears over a background of outer space with a smallish vessel orbiting a planet and a sun setting behind the planet.
Book cover for the novel “Perdido Street Station” by China Mieville. The title appears at the top in thin black block letters and the author byline appears at the bottom in white block letters. All this sandwiched between the image of a large butterfly in the center of the cover. Off in the distant background looms the small buildings of a city.
Book cover for the novel “Native Son” by Richard Wright. The book title appears at the top over a red background in white block letters. The author byline appears at the bottom in the same color, size, and font. Between the title and byline there is etched the shadowy and unusual smooth figure of a man staring thoughtfully at his hands.
Book cover for the National Book Award winning non-fiction work by Ibram X. Kendi. The author byline appears at the bottom of the cover in red block letters below the subtitle of the book written in black italics "The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America". The title appears prominently in the center of the book in tan block letters over a shadowy face that is covered in blood red horizontal streaks of varying lengths and widths.
Book cover for Octavia Butler's novel "Wild Seed". The author's name appears prominently at the top of the cover in large white block letters over a dark blue background. The book title appears at the bottom of the cover in gold block letters above the series declaration "A Patternist Novel". The center of the cover is dominated by a shadowy female figure sporting golden wing and a gold headdress. Off to the lower right Viola Davis offers her testimonial for the novel being "Epic! Game Changing. Moving and Effluent."
Book cover for the novel “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman. The author’s name appears in gold block letters above the title which is written in larger and darker gold letters. There is also a golden compass directly next to the title. This all appears against a gray green sky background of a snowy arctic tundra over which a large polar bear is racing along carrying a passenger on his neck.
Book cover for “Beloved” by Toni Morrison. The title appears in the center of the cover in large black block letters with a slight red tinge. The author by line appears directly below the title. All this appears over a remarkable and uncanny image of a woman in a white dress and a white hat over the ghostly image of a young and delicate face. A gold medal identifying the novel as the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner appears next to the ghost face. At the bottom of the cover a testimonial from Newsweek declares the novel to be a “masterpiece”.
The picturesque scene of a tabby cat stretch out on an ottoman before a crackling fire within a brick fireplace.
Book cover for “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”. The poet herself appears on the cover standing in a park behind a flowering tree with white cup-shaped flowers. Ms. Millay is dressed all in brown — a modest button down top with a matching long skirt. She is looking off to the side and appears to be reaching out to the branches of the tree. To the right of this the title of the book is written in black block letters on a gold background. The book editors appear below the title in a slightly smaller but otherwise identical font.
Book cover for the novel “the Alienist” by Caleb Carr. The title of the novel appears at the top in large gold block letters with the name of the author directly below all contained within a black frame with gold edges. Below the title and the author by line, there is a thin black framing device on which the words ”A Novel” are written in the same gold block letters used for the title and the authors name. All of this appears over a rather blurry, gold-tinted scene with horse-drawn carriages traveling through the streets and one unidentifiable person walking down the middle of the street dressed all in black.
Book cover for the novel, “The Plague” by Albert Camus. The authors name appears at the very top in white block letters over a black backdrop. The book title appear directly below in much larger white block letters against the backdrop of a yellow tiled floor stained in what appears to be blood flowing into a drain in the floor. At the very bottom the testimonial for the novel as “A Perfect Achievement”.
Paperback book cover for the novel “The Stand” by Stephen King (original version). The authors name appears in gray block letters against a darkening sky background with dark hills off in the distant horizon above the title. Below the title in smaller block letters appears the words “A Novel of Ultimate Horror”. In the near center of the cover a massive sinister opaque face with menacing and diseased looking eyes stares straight at you. Overlaying the face (and seeming to share one of the terrible eyes) is the face of a raven. This is the most chilling and unnerving book cover I’ve ever seen.
Book cover for “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” by Robert Pirsig. 3/4 of the cover is taken up by the title of the book in quite large black bold letters with the authors name written modestly below. The top third of the cover is reserve for testimonials of the novel and below that what looks like a flower from which a wrench is oddly growing.
A book cover for the novel “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut”. The background of the cover is a striking red on which the authors name is written at the top in yellow block letters. The title is written at the very bottom of the cover in black, slightly slanted letters. Displayed prominently and menacingly in the middle of the book cover is a skull and crossbones penned in yellow. To the left of the skull is a testimonial from the Boston Globe written in yellow italics praising the novel as being “poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion, and behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”
Book cover for the short story collection “Strange Wine” by Harlan Ellison. The author’s name appears in white block letters at the top with the title below appearing in decorative tan block letters. All this appears above a rather elegant looking long red-haired female elf holding a large glass of red wine in one hand. Next to the elf there are two testimonials written in white italics. At the very bottom of cover appears the heads of a lioness, a man, and a sinister goat.
Book cover for “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes. The title is displayed prominently at the top in black bold block letters with the author by line modestly below. Additional text is included on lines below that declaring the novel to be “widely acclaimed”, “strikingly original”, “the daring novel of a startling human experiment!” The picture taking up most of the remaining cover space shows a man and a woman crouching near the edge of a still body of water each gently tossing a flower onto the water surface. Above this image the name “Charly” is written in a childlike scrawl.
An old paperback book cover of J.R.R Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring. At the very top of the cover, the book series title “The Lord of the Rings” is written in black block capital letters over a light tan background, directly below this, in lower case italics, reads “Book One” and below this, the book title. Then there is a decorative swirling line below which in large block, bold letters, the author’s name is most prominently displayed. All that takes up a third of the cover. The remaining two thirds displays the panoramic view of an idyllic small farming village and a dirt road winding away from the village off into a distant hill presumably inviting the reader to travel on a quest.
A brown and white older dog resting on a white fuzzy blanket, falling asleep with a tennis ball by her snout.
The original cover for the short story collection, “Night Shift” by Stephen King. The authors name is displayed prominently in white block letters atop with the title directly below in light purple. The center displays a bandaged human hand covered creepily with several tiny human eyes. All this on a black background.
Sad looking dog curled up on comfy chair (work headphones in charging cradle in the background)