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Always enjoy a #davidpelham sci-fi cover, but this one really hits. 😍 Plus this book is so so good. Enjoy this inspiring passage from Sirius by Olaf Stapledon (1972) ⠀ “But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture something else. Sirius himself was no exception, of course. Made that way! Nothing was responsible for being by nature predatory on other things, dog on rabbit and Argentine beef, man on nearly everything, bugs and microbes on man, and of course man himself on man. (Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat). Everything desperately struggling to keep its nose above water for a few breaths before its strength inevitably failed and down it went, pressed under by something else. And beyond, those brainless, handless idiotic stars, lazing away so importantly for nothing. Here and there some speck of a planet dominated by some half-awake intelligence like humanity. And here and there on such planets, one or two poor little spirits waking up and wondering what in the hell everything was for, what it was all about, what they could make of themselves; and glimpsing in a muddled way what their potentiality was, and feebly trying to express it, but always failing, always missing fire, and very often feeling themselves breaking up as he himself was doing. Just now and then they might feel the real thing, in some creative work, or in sweet community with another little spirit, or with others. Just now and then they seemed somehow to create or to be gathered up into something lovelier than their individual selves, something which demanded their selves’ sacrifice and yet have their selves new life. But how precariously, torturingly; and only just for a flicker of time! Their whole life-time would only be a flicker in the whole of titanic time. Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold there’ll still be time. Oh God, what for?” ⠀ ― Olaf Stapledon, Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1972) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0UEQjXBMv3/?igshid=1wj961bgvam8n

David Pelham, the king of sci-fi book covers. 

Quoth the Raven, "nevermore." David Pelham's spectacular reimagining of Poe's The Raven is out NOW. Quick, grab your copy before they are gone for evermore. #papercraft #DavidPelham #theraven #bookasart #bookstagram #ACBbooks (at London, United Kingdom)

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is brought to life by a feat of incredible paper engineering. The haunting story takes on a life of its own through artist David Pelham's intricate pop-up design. Coming this August, pre-order yours now. #bookstagram #papercraft #graphic #edgarallanpoe #bookasart #poetry #paperdesign #davidpelham #ACBbooks @abramsbooks (at Clerkenwell London)

Hold on to your hat! Today we're taking part again in the IG challenge #hatsinthelibrary with our friends @sfplbookarts posting hats every Thursday in February. Join in the fun! This is David Pelham's iconic cover for Clockwork Orange, substituting a single cog for the eye, referencing the heavy make up in the film and the dysfunctional setting. Apparently the longest serving Penguin cover. #hatsinthelibrary #davidpelham #clockworkorange #droog #penguinukbooks #penguinbooks