The first one was the one I was most familiar with! There have been many other covers down the years and there’s a progression from “trashy SF” to “serious treatise with a religious aspect” to “Just put the title on there to fool ‘em into buying it” and all the way to “CLASSIC SCI-FI FROM A MASTER!”
I have the book with cover 3 but the first Mayflower cover is wonderful!
The first one was the one I was most familiar with! There have been many other covers down the years and there’s a progression from “trashy SF” to “serious treatise with a religious aspect” to “Just put the title on there to fool ‘em into buying it” and all the way to “CLASSIC SCI-FI FROM A MASTER!”