Cover Art

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Passport to the Cosmos

Cover:
Commemorative Edition:
U.S. trade paperback
(October 2008)
Cover art by Kam Wai Yu

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Passport to the Cosmos

Cover:
1st Edition:
U.S. hardcover
(November 1999)

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Abduction

Cover:
1st Edition:
U.S. hardcover
(1994)
Note: Cover used silver foil in title; grey is substituted in this image for easier reproduction.

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Nightmares and Human Conflict

Cover:
Reprint: U.S. trade paperback (1989)

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Nightmares and Human Conflict

Cover:
Reprint:U.S. trade paperback (1974)

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A Prince of Our Disorder:
The Life of T.E. Lawrence

Cover:
Reprint:U.S./UK trade paperback (2001)

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A Prince of Our Disorder:
The Life of T.E. Lawrence

Cover:
First paperback edition similar to the first hardcover edition but featuring the Pulitzer Prize notice.

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The covers pictured above are only a small sampling of Dr. John Mack's books. Different editions tended to feature different cover art. Some of Dr. Mack's books have been printed in foreign editions, which also feature different cover art.

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Cover Art Trivia
Is the figure on the cover of Passport to the Cosmos Joe Firmage?

San Francisco magazine illustrated an article about experiencer Joe Firmage with a photograph by Kevin Kirby (below right) which bears an uncanny resemblance to the cover of Passport to the Cosmos.

Additional Cover Art Trivia
The star at the top of the cover was originally a saucer, in the artwork the publisher came up with. Dr Mack and the staff at PEER (his research organization) felt it would be better to have a strangely luminescent star rather than a saucer, so that viewers of the cover art would be able to decide for themselves what they were looking at.

The similarity was pure chance, and the timing remarkable: Proofs of the cover art of Passport to the Cosmos arrived at author John Mack's office for approval the same week that this issue of San Francisco magazine arrived on newsstands.

Those who are interested in how cover art is created, take a peek at this photo of an aurora, which we believe served as the base layer for the artwork the publisher created for the cover.

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