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Bad Sci-Fi Covers

Here you can post cheesy, bizarre, ugly, shitty, or just downright awful science fiction book covers. Then we all make fun of them in the comments. Everyone's a winner! (Fantasy and horror also welcome!)

77k subscribers67 posts / mo in Sep 202632 authors / mosince 2015

r/badscificovers has 77k members (+17% over the last 12 months). It gets about 67 posts a month from 32 people. Top topics: Science Fiction Book Covers, Jules Verne & Alien Adventures and Witches and Fallen Kingdoms.

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Size and growth

How r/badscificovers has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+17%in 12 months · +4.1% in 3 months · +1.2% in 1 month
Oct 202677k
Growing77k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+4.7%vs Sep 2025 · −2.9% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202667
BusierPeaked at 153 in Nov 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/badscificovers

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Science Fiction Book Covers16%
  2. Jules Verne & Alien Adventures6.7%
  3. Witches and Fallen Kingdoms4.3%
  4. Capitalism and Literature2.6%
  5. Space Stations1.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Goodreads
  2. IMDb
  3. Reactor
  4. Wikimedia
  5. AbeBooks

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research