WTF Bad Science Fiction Covers is having “Cats in Space” week, showing a number of paperback SF book covers featuring – you probably guessed it – Cats In Space. There’s some amusing stuff here. Along with a lot of Really, Really Awful SF Cover Art. I mean… just bad. I mean, the one with the copyrightly-dubious image of the Robot from Lost in Space… yeeesh.

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Cats In Space, or Space Cats, or Cat Aliens, or Alien Cats have long been a popular sci-fi trope. For some reason we just sort of accept the idea of aliens that look and act like cats, apparently far more so than we do Space Dogs. On the surface this seems an odd notion, since we have gone much further towards turning dogs into the mutant critters we want them to be. You’d kinda think science fiction writers would be littering the spacelanes  with Space Dogs, or even Space Monkeys… but, nope, it seems the Space Cats have conquered the universe.