Science Fiction Cover Art

[Graham1973]

What appears to be Tony Roberts 'Op.1' the epic cover to Robert A. Heinlen's 'Double Star' (1956) in it's 1973 reprinting. And it's a picture with an interesting subsequent history. As recounted on Tony Roberts website the picture was one of several science fiction covers 'reimaged' (copied in a different colour scheme) by an 'artist' called Glen Brown.

Tony Roberts sued resulting in an out of court settlement.

http://www.tonyrobertsart.co.uk/TONY_ROBERTS_ART_-_THE_SCIENCE_FICTION_YEARS/double_star_print.html

 

[Michel Van]

'artist' called Glen Brown.

This forger also copy work of Chris Foss, Francis Bacon and others.
Even won price money for his double star rip-off in New Zealand
Chris Foss sued him too, like other victims of his fraud.

 

[Graham1973]

Moving onto lighter things for a moment. A 1988 'Popular Mechanics' cover by John Berkey.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Hi

 

[Justo Miranda]

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[Michel Van]

Again Phillippe Druillet

 

[Justo Miranda]

Again Phillippe Druillet

Do you have any Metal Hurlant covers?

 

[Justo Miranda]

The best Jack Vance

 

[martinbayer]

Again Phillippe Druillet

"Magic" should have no place in any way, shape, or form in this science and technology focused forum whatsoever.

 

[Graham1973]

When artist Tim White was comissioned to create the covers for the 1980's reprinting of Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Trilogy chose to create three individual pictures rather than the tryptich approach Chris Foss took in the 1970's. All three images were thematically linked which stood the artist in good stead when 'Foundation's Edge' the first volume of what became the Second 'Foundation' Trilogy appeared in 1982.

 

[Michel Van]

"Magic" should have no place in any way, shape, or form in this science and technology focused forum whatsoever.

Un monde magique is french title of The dying Earth
and the magic here is of far advanced technology origin

 

[Michel Van]

Do you have any Metal Hurlant covers?

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Philippe Druillet

site de l'artiste Philippe Druillet

www.philippedruillet.com

 

[Justo Miranda]

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Philippe Druillet

site de l'artiste Philippe Druillet

www.philippedruillet.com

WOW¡

 

[publiusr]

I love the novelizations of the TOS Star Trek episodes by James Blish. The cover art of the earlier editions showed stuff not seen in the series. This is my favorite cover. Two of my favorite ships from TOS:

That’s one of my favorite covers—I’d like to see those two iterations as models:

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The individual here has replicated the look of that era of paperback art:

The new UESPA Series of books thread

Hard to believe, but this year marks the 20th anniversary of my UESPA series! I'm pressed for time, so I have to be brief. Some of you may remember that I created a fictional series of books set in a universe where Star Trek never existed as a tv show, but did exist as a series of books...

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Some recent finds about the recovered 3 foot model

Shaw's recent art/research projects

Many of us wholeheartedly approved of his work... I know I did :)

www.trekbbs.com

Trek World on YouTube and at the RPF has updates

 

[TMA1]

Frank Herbert's other works imo are hit and miss but this was surprisingly good. Some might be turned off by the terrible technological predictions but I love it and the aesthetic that it gave. Interstellar craft with telltales, toggle switches and paper readouts. Very cool. I picked it up because the cover is very cool looking like nearly all of them from the mid 20th century.

Very neat story and probably one of the best treatments of how potentially incomprehensible first contact could be. The cover image is from Tarkovsky film very loosely based on this novella. It is hard to overstate how lovely his movies are. Imagine Dostoevsky and somehow translate his spirit into a motion picture.

 

[Graham1973]

The Frank Herbert cover is by Paul Alexander, you can see his signiture in the bottom right corner of the cover.

 

[Graham1973]

The covers by Tim White for the final two volumes in the Second 'Foundation' Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. 'Foundation and Earth' (1986) and 'Prelude To Foundation' (1988). The artist used some elements from the covers he did for the First 'Foundation' Trilogy and 'Foundations Edge' (1982) in the covers for the later volumes, but does not repeat them exactly.

 

[Graham1973]

Peter Elson's cover art for 'The Best of Robert Heinlein (1947 - 1959)' (1975) edited by British author Angus Wells.

 

[Graham1973]

Peter Elson's cover art for 'The Early Williamson' (1978) containing stories by legendary SF author Jack Williamson (1908 - 2006). I've always felt this was a 1970s take on classic pulp imagery.

 

[Graham1973]

Peter Elson's cover for author Patricia Anthony's debut novel 'Cold Allies' (1993) when it was published in the UK.

 

[southwestforests]

Peter Elson's cover art for 'The Best of Robert Heinlein (1947 - 1959)' (1975) edited by British author Angus Wells.

Where I first saw that illustration was in a volume from the TTA, Terran Trade Federation, setting which was titled Great Space Battles of History. My copy is currently buried in a stack of books in the other room, so I'm not going to get up from supper here at the PC desk and go look, but I think book dates from around same time as that cover, late 1970s maybe right at beginning of 1980s.

Shape of ship has always brought to mind a violin.
Decades ago I started to scratchbuild a gaming miniature of the design but at this point on the calendar, whether it was ever completed is not remembered.

 

[Graham1973]

When Fred Gambino was commissioned for the artwork for the 1990s edition of the First 'Foundation' Trilogy, he took the approach that Chris Foss did in the 1970s and created a tryptich that was broken up for the covers of the three novels, rather than the individual covers Tim White created in the 1980s.

 

[Graham1973]

The tryptich created by Fred Gambino for 1990s re-issue of the Second 'Foundation' Trilogy. This image can be combined with the image used for the First 'Foundation' Trilogy to create a stunning panorama of what I am taking to be Trantor capital of the Galactic Empire.

 

[publiusr]

When Fred Gambino was commissioned for the artwork for the 1990s edition of the First 'Foundation' Trilogy, he created a tryptich

The spaceplane there looks a bit like a line drawing from SPACE WAR: WORLDS AND WEAPONS.

 

[Aubi]

That's diptych. I feel cheated.

 

[Charlesferdinand]

This Argentinian edition of War of the Worlds had an original take on the matter

 

[Graham1973]

Ralph McQuarries cover art for the 1978 DelRey Books volume entitled 'The Best of Jack Williamson'.

 

[Graham1973]

Ralph McQuarries cover art for 'Golden Sunlands' by Christopher Rowley.

Dating from 1987, the book was an attempt to create a Pulp era 'Barsoom-like' environment. The novel was also clearly intended as the first book in a series as it ends with multiple unanswered plot threads. I've heard that follow on volumes never materialised due to poor sales.