Protector by Larry Niven (Orbit, 1975)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Oct 24th, 2022. Artwork published in
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This paperback edition of Larry Niven’s 1973 novel Protector (1973) was published in 1975 by Orbit, then an imprint of the Macdonald Futura publishing company. According to the ISFDB, the same cover art appeared already in 1973 on Ace’s Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, without a visible signature. On Existential Ennui, Nick Jones notes that it “bears no relation to the story whatsoever.”
Streamline Block is paired with Helvetica Black. See Ballantine’s 1969 edition of Dave Van Arnam’s Starmind for an earlier use of this striped variant of Franklin Gothic on a science fiction book cover.
