Science Fiction Cover Art

[Justo Miranda]

How many different ways can this guy die?

 

[Michel Van]

How many different ways can this guy die?

let me see:
affixation
boiling blood do expose to vacuum
burn by Solar radiation
hit by meteorites

and there something else on this rock
The guy next to him is clean skeleton
do Space Fire-ants ?

 

[Justo Miranda]

let me see:
affixation
boiling blood do expose to vacuum
burn by Solar radiation
hit by meteorites

and there something else on this rock
The guy next to him is clean skeleton
do Space Fire-ants ?

He will also die of cold. The skeleton is atrezzo to add drama.

 

[Rhinocrates]

How many different ways can this guy die?

Ironically, it could be something we can't see. Passive smoking before he was chained to the rock? Massive allergic response because his last meal contained peanuts? Dutch Elm disease?

 

[Justo Miranda]

Ironically, it could be something we can't see. Passive smoking before he was chained to the rock? Massive allergic response because his last meal contained peanuts? Dutch Elm disease?

Maybe he became too close friends with his boss's wife.

 

[Graham1973]

Tim Truman's cover for issue 12 of 'Ares' magazine.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Some Usborne covers. Still kicking myself for selling these.

 

[Graham1973]

I have vague memories of reading one of those and seeing an illustration featuring a recognisable D-7, but with the nacelles 'above' rather than 'below' the main part of the ship. Cannot remember just which volume it was though.

 

[Justo Miranda]

I have vague memories of reading one of those and seeing an illustration featuring a recognisable D-7, but with the nacelles 'above' rather than 'below' the main part of the ship. Cannot remember just which volume it was though.

I had the books represented in images one, three and four, there was also another one dedicated to UFOs, but I don't know where I kept them.

 

[Rhinocrates]

I have vague memories of reading one of those and seeing an illustration featuring a recognisable D-7, but with the nacelles 'above' rather than 'below' the main part of the ship. Cannot remember just which volume it was though.

This? I can't tell you which volume because I now only have individual images without context.

 

[Rhinocrates]

I had the books represented in images one, three and four, there was also another one dedicated to UFOs, but I don't know where I kept them.

Separate but companion series. I'm not sure if the Vampires etc. one was in a full sized edition. The cover scan say's that it's a pocketbook and the proportions of the internal scan look to be the same.

 

[Rhinocrates]

From Star Travel.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Ibid.

 

[Graham1973]

This? I can't tell you which volume because I now only have individual images without context.

No, from what I can remember it looked exactly like a Klingon D-7 apart from the nacelles

 

[Rhinocrates]

No, from what I can remember it looked exactly like a Klingon D-7 appart from the nacells

Sorry, no luck there, I'm afraid.

 

[Rhinocrates]

From the Cities book. Mostly. I think. First, houses.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Cities again, with a wider scope.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Not sure which one these come from.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Just a reminder of where artists get their ideas - each other. One of the Usborne illustrations with an original by Jim Burns. The top one in the Usborne page has a hint of the Liberator from Blake's 7. Of course Burns shows his own influences as an aviation buff (during his National Service, he was in the RAF), so it's a hall of mirrors.

 

[Rhinocrates]

From the robots book, mostly, I think. The Star Wars references are obvious.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Miscellaneous.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Jim Burns, 'Gausi Fighter.' I first saw this in an edition of Omni, way back in the Cambrian. It made a big impression on me then. It first appeared in Mechanismo by Harry Harrison in 1978.

 

[Rhinocrates]

More work by Burns for Robert Charles Wilson, a very intelligent and thoughtful Canadian sf writer. Burns is one of those rare and lucky artists who had time to read the books, so the images accurately reflect incidents in the stories. The attachments don't always appear in consistent order, so rather than naming them left to right, the one with the steamships is Darwinia, the one with the dragonfly-like things is Bios, the one with the huge obelisk is The Chronoliths and the one with the strange creature is Blind Lake.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover of the 9th issue of 'Starlog' magazine spin-off 'Future Life' featuring a cover by Vincent DiFate.

 

[Antonio]

No, from what I can remember it looked exactly like a Klingon D-7 apart from the nacelles

Are you looking for that one?. It's from the UFOI volume in the Mystery series (I own the Spanish edition)

 

[publiusr]

How many different ways can this guy die?

Being an SLS advocate on the internet…

To Antonio—wasn’t there a nuclear ship with a large dish shaped pusher plate in that book.

I liked that painting.

Trek

https://manyworldspress.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F690624459565121536

View: https://www.tumblr.com/manyworldspress/690624459565121536/lou-feck-cover-illustration-for-star-trek

 

[Graham1973]

Another piece of art from the 'Macho women with guns' school, in this case by Ed Emishwiller.

 

[Graham1973]

A not so 'Macho women with a gun' courtesy of Earle Bergely, the artist who may have been responsible for inspiring certain costumes in 'Return of the Jedi'

 

[Graham1973]

Some more classic pulp imagery

 

[Graham1973]

Another classic pulp scene...

 

[Graham1973]

Eddie Jones wraparound cover to John Brunners novel 'Total Eclipse'

 

[Justo Miranda]

Another piece of art from the 'Macho women with guns' school, in this case by Ed Emishwiller.

I don't know what this guy has done wrong but his girlfriend is very furious

 

[Justo Miranda]

Some more classic pulp imagery

It seems that Quasimodo has found another job while they were fixing up the cathedral

 

[Justo Miranda]

Jim Burns, 'Gausi Fighter.' I first saw this in an edition of Omni, way back in the Cambrian. It made a big impression on me then. It first appeared in Mechanismo by Harry Harrison in 1978.

Even if the Phantom dresses in silk…

 

[Graham1973]

Ralph McQuarrie on a 1982 'Star Wars' Christmas Card.

 

[Graham1973]

A few more iconic pulp scenes...

 

[Graham1973]

Ed Emishwiller's cover to Jerry Sohl's 1959 novel 'One Against Herculum'

 

[Graham1973]

Ed Emishwiller creates a 'cry defiance' moment on the cover of the 1962 anthology 'The Celestial Blueprint and Other Stories' by Philip Jose Farmer.

 

[Graham1973]

Chris Moore, on the cover of John Brunner's 'Into The Slave Nebula'.

 

[Justo Miranda]

A few more iconic pulp scenes...

In the pulp magazines of this time, illustrations of women abused by hunchbacks, greenish-skinned types, African savages, gangsters and sinister mandarins were frequent. Possibly because that was a good pretext to motivate the hero or to show some female flesh by circumventing censorship. But what I find fascinating is the SF illustrators' obsessive fixation on launching attractive girls into space inside a rocket or tied up on the outside. Was there a surplus of illustration models at that time?