Science Fiction Cover Art

[Michel Van]

total radical is cover by Keleck for 1981 french edition of The Stainless Steel Rat
the 1980s were time of minimal esthetic in france

 

[Graham1973]

Bruce Pennington's cover for a 1977 piece by Barry Malzberg entitled 'On a Planet Alien'.

 

[Graham1973]

Looks like this thread may be about to become internet famous, post 206 has just been mentioned on the blog 70s SciFi Art!

 

[Grey Havoc]

Beat to quarters! Batten down the hatches! Arms topside! Prepare to repel boarders!

 

[Grey Havoc]

Make like the Blood Ravens space marines chapter are about to visit!

 

[Graham1973]

A little interspecies dating, by artist Aldo di Gennaro for an unknown publication. Believed to have been created in 2014, but clearly based on 1930s pulp images...

 

[Michel Van]

french edition of Jesus on Mars by Philip Jose Farmer
cover by Keleck

 

[Graham1973]

Some actual pulpy goodness, in the form of the cover by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the January 1945 issue of 'Planet Stories', which also featured a story by the Queen of the Spaceways herself Leigh Brackett...

 

[Graham1973]

Some more pulpy goodness in the form of the cover art by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the February 1942 issue of Spicy Mysteries.

 

[southwestforests]

cover art by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the February 1942 issue of Spicy Mysteries.

That gal brings to mind Jean Rogers in the Flash Gordon serials.

https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F646280466831392768

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[Graham1973]

That gal brings to mind Jean Rogers in the Flash Gordon serials.

https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F646280466831392768

View: https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/646280466831392768/jean-rogers-as-dale-arden-flash-gordon-1936?source=share

Good catch!

 

[Michel Van]

french cover of "consider phlebas" by iain m. banks
artist Manchu

 

[Justo Miranda]

french cover of "consider phlebas" by iain m. banks
artist Manchu

Ringworld

 

[Michel Van]

actually a Banks Orbital
much smaller as Niven Ringworld
A diameter of 3,014,000 km
more here:

Banks' Orbital

A Banks Orbital is an extremely large hoop-shaped artificial habitat that rotates once per day to create artificial gravity along its inner surface. A Banks Orbital can provide natural-seeming and self-maintaining environments over surface areas that are hundreds to thousands of times larger...

www.orionsarm.com

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Paul Lehr for Sir Frederick Hoyle's 1965 science fiction novel 'October the First Is Too Late'.

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Vincent DiFate for the 1992 paper back issue of David Drake's 'Skyripper'

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by an unknown artist for the UK edition of the novel 'Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future' (1986), a work which is essentially a Sci-Fi Western by author Mike Resnick. A belated sequel entitled 'The Return of Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future' appeared in 2003.

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Don Dixon for Michael McCollum's 1992 novel 'The Sails of Tau Ceti'.

 

[Graham1973]

A space docking scene by artist Fred Gambino, just what for, novel or video game is unknown.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Josh Kirby for Ron Goulart's 'The Wicked Cyborg' (1978).

 

[Graham1973]

Artwork for a 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times by Syd Mead.