Joel Stainer

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Currently my random interests are post-apocalyptic and disaster fiction, and running. Lots of other things distract me as well.

The front cover of Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg. It features a retrofuturistic looking sled with some supposedly modern men in and around it, with some less modern humans surrounding it.
The front cover of Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold. Features a woman in a space suit, smiling, with a futuristic space station looming in the background.
The front cover of Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold features a woman holding a pointed weapon in an aggressive stance standing on some steps in front of a piece of futuristic machinery.
A graphic showing 29 of 61 Nebula award winning booka having been reas.
The front cover of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury which features a sky full of black and red clouds.
A huddle of yellow baby geese with momma goose in the background keeping watch.
Front cover of All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill. Features a creepy red-faced alien with an open toothy mouth.
The front cover of After Atlas by Emma Newman, featuring the profile of the upper half of an individual constructed by 1's and 0's.
The front cover of Greg Egan's 'Axiomatic' Features a pattern of criss-crossing colored star-like shapes.
Front cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey. A splash of colours and planets.
The front cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It features a smiling skeleton leaning lazily in front of us, while holding a bottle of milk and wearing a bowler hat.
The front cover of Falconer by John Cheever. A purple cover with stylized writing and little else.
Front cover of the book titled The Moon the Sun Forgot. A phallic looking ship is surrounded by colourful lights.
The front cover of The Doloriad by Missouri Williams featuring evergreen trees and simple green writing.
The front cover of War and Peace, translated by Constance Garnett.
The front cover of Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen Features a mushroom cloud on the front cover with little else.
A helmeted figured stands on the moon with the silhouette of a dome covered civilization far in the background on the front cover of Moon Dust in ny Hairnet by J R Creaden.
Joan D Vinge's book 'The Snow Queen' features a woman with a feathered white mask covering her face and the sea in the background behind her.
Front Cover of The Snow Queen by Joan D Vinge. Features a woman with an elaborate white head dress and mask covering her face.
The front cover of The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. Features a downward facing sword surrounded by leaves.
Two boats float on water, on the cover of The Sea and Summer by George Turner.
Photo of a porcupine wandering along a little trail in the back country.
Front cover of Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson and Doomsday Warrior by Ryder Stacey.
The front cover of Fauna by Christiane Vadnais. Features the eye of some sort of creature that is both plant and animal like.
Front cover of John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar. A human being with arms raised above its head is standing inside a test tube. Another line of humans is in the background.
Artist's rendition of Sam encountering Mordor for the first time. Mount Doom erupts in the background.
The front covers of two books - The Moon the Sun Forgot by BJ Wagner and Moon Dust in my Hairnet by JR Creaden.
Front cover of Man Plus by Frederik Pohl. Features a genetically and physically altered human with wings. Set in a dark blue and black colour.
The front cover of The Undefeated by Keith Laumer. Features a robotic looking craft of someone kind, parked inside a spaceship.
The front cover to The Gate To Women's Country by Sheri S Tepper. A brown cover with a carved image on the front.
The front cover of 'The Head'by Robyn Braun. It features a severed doll-like infant head laying on a black surface and staring back at the viewer.
An excerpt from Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi by Dennis Leo Fisher which describes an incident where two Algonquin men were hunting a moose with an axe (to avoid the sound of a rifle) and the axe became buried in the moose's head but it wandered off. When the father was asked what they should do if a warden appeared, the reply was "Tell him it's a fucking unicorn."
The front cover of City by Clifford Simak. Features a robot with two dogs on either side. All three are seated in front of a small fire.
The front covers of Premee Mohamed's trilogy of books. The Annual Migration of Clouds, We Speak Through the Mountain, and The First Thousand Trees. All three feature birds on the front.
The front cover of The End of the World as we know it by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. large red lettering and a picture of a crow in the bottom right.
The cover of The End Of The World As We Know It - New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. Large bright red lettering and a picture of a red eyed crow.
The front cover of the paperback books titled The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke. Two monks stand at the base of a mountain. The outline of a giant tower extending into space highlights the peak.
A picture of a multiuse pathway blocked by a flock of Canada Geese.
A picture of tables surrounded by pinball machines.
Covers of three Edmund Cooper paperback books - Seed of Light, featuring a rocket ship blasting into space, The Last Continent featuring a series of faces surrounding a ship on a planet, and The Cloud Walker, featuring a creepy face on a hot air balloon hovering above ships on the sea.
A collection of post-apocalyptic and disaster books. Plague War, Shiva Descending, As the Curtain Falls, the City and the Sea, Sign of the Labrys and more!
Front cover of Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgreon. A mosaic picture features faces, a landscape, futuristic buildings and a Strange blob like creature or ship.
The front cover of the female man by Joanna russ which features an artistic rendering of a few different women holding up the moon which also features a woman's face on it.
A picture of a black bird of some kind with the tower of London perched on its back is featured on the front of cover of the book Awakened by Laura Elliott.