This tag cloud, depicting all the words that go into the worst science-fiction book titles, is a thing of absolute beauty. Orbit Books created it out of the 350 submissions for its “worst cover ever” drive. And the finalists are…
https://gizmodo.com/can-you-come-up-with-a-science-fiction-book-cover-worse-5308681
According to Orbit, here are the five titles from which the absolute worst will be chosen:
The Thing with the Glass Buttock
Rise of the Fallen, Book Seven, The Pre-Antepenultimate Battle
A Stain Upon The Vastness
Across a Trembling Sea the Cyborg Fairies Dance
An Old Dragon, A Dead Witch, and a Fat Guy: The Third Book of Stories that Go Nowhere.
I really hope they don’t screw up the Old Dragon, Dead Witch and Fat Guy book — that was one of my favorite series growing up. The winner will go on to have a stunningly terrible cover created for it, and we can’t wait to see the end result. Click the link to vote for your favorite. [Orbit Books]
