Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy .   This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers.  The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite.   Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:

‘A little soil to make it grow’ – a cover featuring seeds/spores

I had two books that immediately sprang to mind with this one and I’ve chosen to go with a science fiction novel about alien seeds that grow into perfect human replications:  Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney:

To be frank I’m not overly keen on any of these covers.  The top two are depictions of the seed pods where replicate human bodies are grown – they’re not the nicest covers I’ve ever seen.  The final cover I think is showing the seeds falling to earth whilst people sleep unaware of the terrible change that is about to take place – I quite like that cover.  I think my favourite will have to be the original cover just purely because of the retro feel:

Which is your favourite?

Next week – a cover featuring a family

Future themes:

6th April –  “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family

13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ –  a cover featuring a panorama

20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke

27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval 

4th May-  ‘A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister.’ – a cover featuring a hand/hands

11th May – ‘Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth’ – a cover featuring a dinosaur/s

18th May – ‘Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;’ – a cover featuring a gravestone

25th May – Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap – a cover featuring footsteps

1st June – clinging and invasive – a cover featuring creeping vines

8th June – Raining Cats and Dogs – a cover featuring a stormy sky