Science Fiction Cover Art

[Graham1973]

An old joke

 

[Graham1973]

Classic Syd Mead.

 

[Graham1973]

John Berkey's poster art for 'Star Wars'

 

[Charlesferdinand]

Another classic pulp scene...

Now there is villain's mustache if I've ever seen one

 

[Charlesferdinand]

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?

If you put them inside, you wouldn't be able to see them, now would you?

 

[Graham1973]

Something I stumbled across on Deviant Arts, for which I need to provide some context.

This video is as good an explanation as any...

View: https://youtu.be/dqyPQ4_1nF0?si=BLZ3Z0ktfJVHVC-i


That chapter in the story has provided inspiration for many artists, but most focus on HMS Thunderchild's deathride. The artist here focuses on what followed as the Channel Fleet arrived in response to Thunderchild's last signal.

As to why, two quotes one from WWII, the other from the Napoleonic Wars give the answer.

"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.", Admiral Andrew Cunningham when ordering RN to assist in the evacuation of Crete in 1941.

"The Hell with it! Up wi' the hel'lem and gang into the middle o't!" Captain John Inglis of HMS Belliquex after trying to decode the series of signals sent out by Admiral Duncan at the Battle of Camperdown, 1797. (HMS Belliquex had not been issued with the latest version of the RN code book...)

 

[Graham1973]

Returning to cover art, the cover by Karl Stephan to the 11th volume in the German Sci-Fi series 'Terra Nova', 'The Threat From Space'.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Johnny Bruck to the 1753rd volume in the long running German Sci-Fi series 'Pherry Rhodan', 1995s 'The Crypers'

 

[Justo Miranda]

Something I stumbled across on Deviant Arts, for which I need to provide some context.

This video is as good an explanation as any...

View: https://youtu.be/dqyPQ4_1nF0?si=BLZ3Z0ktfJVHVC-i


That chapter in the story has provided inspiration for many artists, but most focus on HMS Thunderchild's deathride. The artist here focuses on what followed as the Channel Fleet arrived in response to Thunderchild's last signal.

As to why, two quotes one from WWII, the other from the Napoleonic Wars give the answer.

"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.", Admiral Andrew Cunningham when ordering RN to assist in the evacuation of Crete in 1941.

"The Hell with it! Up wi' the hel'lem and gang into the middle o't!" Captain John Inglis of HMS Belliquex after trying to decode the series of signals sent out by Admiral Duncan at the Battle of Camperdown, 1797. (HMS Belliquex had not been issued with the latest version of the RN code book...)

When I first read this story by Wells I was moved by the Thunderchild's brave action, I wonder if that name has ever been used on a real ship.

"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.", Admiral Andrew Cunningham when ordering RN to assist in the evacuation of Crete in 1941.

Unfortunately, the Royal Navy's courageous tradition of not abandoning its own was not continued by some American naval officers who became presidents.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

When I first read this story by Wells I was moved by the Thunderchild's brave action, I wonder if that name has ever been used on a real ship.

"It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.", Admiral Andrew Cunningham when ordering RN to assist in the evacuation of Crete in 1941.

Unfortunately, the Royal Navy's courageous tradition of not abandoning its own was not continued by some American naval officers who became presidents.

Some? Which ones?

Kennedy was a PT boat commander
Nixon was a supply and administrative officer
Ford was the recreation and morale officer on a CVL
Carter was a nuclear power submarine officer, and had already had a career in surface combatants.
Bush I was a naval aviator
LBJ was sort of a naval officer but never actually did anything

Of the group, the only one I have issues with being a US Navy Chief (ret.) is LBJ.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Some? Which ones?

Kennedy was a PT boat commander
Nixon was a supply and administrative officer
Ford was the recreation and morale officer on a CVL
Carter was a nuclear power submarine officer, and had already had a career in surface combatants.
Bush I was a naval aviator
LBJ was sort of a naval officer but never actually did anything

Of the group, the only one I have issues with being a US Navy Chief (ret.) is LBJ.

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