Science Fiction Cover Art

[Arjen]

The car in front is not an exact match for an Escort Mk3, the one behind has elements of several sixties designs. Both recognisable though as cars that could have graced the landscape of the eighties.
The structure in the background is something different. Which I guess is the point of the image.

 

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[Sineva]

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Getting a bit of a Top Gun vibe from this one.
Is it just me or does the guy standing on top of the aircraft on the left look a bit like Tom Cruise?

 

[starviking]

Well Peter Elson is English, and although the sign for a crossroads is pretty standard worldwide, the general proportions say 'UK sign' to me. So, bearing in mind these two things, to my eye the second car looks like a 'Landcrab' ( Austin / Morris 1800) to me . . .

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Robin.

I was thinking that myself. The only other alternative I can bring to mind is a Hillman Hunter

 

[Michel Van]

Well Peter Elson is English, and although the sign for a crossroads is pretty standard worldwide, the general proportions say 'UK sign' to me.

So far i know play Earthworks in dystopia Britain
for the Car in front it could be a Citroën LN (or really bad painted Ford Fiesta)

 

[Graham1973]

A cover by an unknown artist to Poul Anderson's novel 'The High Crusade'

 

[Charlesferdinand]

So far i know play Earthworks in dystopia Britain
for the Car in front it could be a Citroën LN (or really bad painted Ford Fiesta)

Well, the car does have anti-whiplash headrests, which were still a bit of a novelty in the early 80s, when I learned to drive. It is probably supposed to represent a generic car of the era.

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection. The cover by Paul Alexander to 'Counting The Cost' (1987) the third novel in the 'Hammer's Slammers' military science fiction series by David Drake.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Looks vaguely Disneyesque, at least to me...

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[Justo Miranda]

The cover depicting a burning New York City by Peter Elson, for the 1986 republishing of Algis Budrys's 1961 post apocalyptic novel 'Some Will Not Die'

Ideologically bad science fiction tracing the roadmap of our destruction, pure hatred.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Looks vaguely Disneyesque, at least to me...

True science fiction is many years ahead of social realities, but it's easier to predict the bad than the good

 

[Justo Miranda]

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Weak landing gear for that size... Lightweight materials???

 

[martinbayer]

True science fiction is many years ahead of social realities, but it's easier to predict the bad than the good

True science fiction should focus on hard science(s) and technology, not social speculation.

 

[Justo Miranda]

True science fiction should focus on hard science(s) and technology, not social speculation.

Only the best writers like Heinlein can do both and sell their stories... I must admit that I have not suceeded.

 

[Aubi]

True science fiction should focus on hard science(s) and technology, not social speculation.

That's not true since 1940s, at least. Is Asimov true science fiction? Hell yes. Yet his focus was on the social changes. Not how the positronic brains work (he intentionally used than name as something abstract and vaguely futuristic so he could focus on how would robots fit into society and how would the society change based on this. The Foundation? That something called psychohistory is a base for the whole story is saying it all.
Even back then one of the stuff used for differentiation between various kinds of scifi were the sciences used as a basis. "Hard" scifi was based on engineering, physics and math, and "soft" scifi on social sciences. And both of them frown at space operas. It might even be an essay from or about Asimov where I've saw this definition for the first time.
Of course there's another coupling of hard and soft scifi, which folows different angle - how reality-based the work in question is.

 

[Justo Miranda]

It will be difficult to reverse the nihilistic trend, if a guy decides that in the future it will be forbidden to celebrate Mother's Day, some publisher will publish it.

 

[Graham1973]

The Paul Alexander covers for 'Hammer's Slammer's' (The 1987 Baen Expanded edition of the 1979 anthology.) and 'Hammer's Slammer's: At Any Price' (1985) by David Drake.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover to the 1990 role playing game supplement 'The Flaming Eye' by Thom Gressman, featuring artist Michael Weaver impersonating Chris Foss.

 

[Graham1973]

The CGI artwork by Ian Stead for the role playing game supplement "The Onnesium Quest Vol. 1: Manhunt' (2022) by Philip Athans. This was originally planned to be released in the 1990s but the publisher DGP went out of business.

The result of some impressive digital archaeology, the scenario was considered lost until the author redisovered the floppy drives containing the scenario in 2014. It took several years of patient effort not only to preserve the digital data, but to discover what software had been used to create the files on them, permiting the scenario to finally be published in 2022. It's not clear if there whether any attempt will be made to complete the series as the remaining two volumes never made it out of the 'rough notes' stage.

 

[Graham1973]

Paul Alexander's covers for 'Rolling Hot' (1989) & 'The Warrior' (1991) by David Drake. Following these two novels Larry Elmore took over duties as cover artist for the 'Hammer's Slammer's' novels.

 

[Graham1973]

The covers by Larry Elmore for the final two volumes of the 'Hammers Slammers' series. 1993's 'The Sharp End' and 2002's 'Paying The Piper' by David Drake.

The cover for 'The Sharp End' was recycled for the 1997 Avalon Hill game 'Princess Ryan's Star Marines' (aka 'Saving Princess Ryan'.) which has been posted earlier in the thread.

 

[Graham1973]

The CGI cover by Marc Lee to 'Magnificent Bastards' (2023) by Ryan W. Aslesen. The novel is the sixth in a series of standalone novels built around a mercenary Armoured unit that is definitely inspired by David Drake's earlier 'Hammer's Slammer's' series.

 

[Graham1973]

In my posting for the Larry Elmore covers for the 'Hammer's Slammer's' series I mentioned that about four years after the novel 'The Sharp End' (1993) came out the cover was recycled for 'Princess Ryan's Star Marines' (aka 'Saving Princess Ryan'.).

I've found another example of a cover being recycled from the 'Hammer's Slammer's' series. In this case Paul Alexander's cover for 'Hammer's Slammer's: At Any Price' (1985) was recycled in 1990 for the scenario book 'Knightfall' by Joe D. Fugate Sr created for the Traveller role-playing setting.

 

[TJDougherty01]

These covers are all in my personal Larry Niven collection. They are all 50+ years old, and the Ringworld cover has taken a beating.
Many are from Niven's "Known Space" series of books. Neutron Star features a No. 2 General Products Hull on the cover.

 

[axlzed3301]

F7A Hornet Mk II​

 

[axlzed3301]

F7A Hornet Mk II​

 

[martinbayer]

It will be difficult to reverse the nihilistic trend, if a guy decides that in the future it will be forbidden to celebrate Mother's Day, some publisher will publish it.

Anyone in particular as to who in your mind that nihilistic trend guy might be?

 

[Justo Miranda]

Anyone in particular as to who in your mind that nihilistic trend guy might be?

Martin, Martin, you know perfectly well that if I tell you the names of the politicians who are destroying Europe, they will close the thread again. You know as well as I do that in Igor's country the government has not liked the result of the last elections and has ordered the constitutional court to annul them, you know that the government of your country is trying to outlaw a totally legal political party because it is number two in the polls and has forced another major party to promise that it will never make a pact with the right again. This is what the Mandarins in Brussels call "our democratic values". That is nihilism and it is also the worst possible example for young people who no longer even consider the possibility of voting and only think about being civil servants and living off state aid.

 

[Arjen]

that the government of your country is trying to outlaw a totally legal political party because it is number two in the polls and has forced another major party to promise that it will never make a pact with the right again.

Codswallop.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Codswallop.

Haddock

 

[Arjen]

You are making it up as you go along, right?

 

[Antonio]

Martin, Martin, you know perfectly well that if I tell you the names of the politicians who are destroying Europe, they will close the thread again

The thread will be closed by the forum moderators.
Please gentlemen, focus on topic and continue with political conversation via email

 

[Justo Miranda]

The thread will be closed by the forum moderators.
Please gentlemen, focus on topic and continue with political conversation via email

 

[Justo Miranda]

For believers only

 

[Rhinocrates]

On that note, by Murray Groat.

 

[Graham1973]

The covers by A. C Farley (Vol. 1) and Dell Harris (Vol.2) to what had been planned by DGP as a full update to the 'Races' sourcebooks issued by GDW for Traveller when it first came out. The collapse of both GDW and DGP aborted the plan.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover art by Colin Hay (an artist who's work has been confused with that of both Chris Foss and Tony Roberts.) for 'Tjata Grimm's World' (1987) by Vernor Vinge. The novel itself was a 'fix-up' combining several stories set on the same world published between 1968 and 1986.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by artist Gino D'Achille for the 1977 UK reprinting of Clifford D. Simak's novel 'Why Call Them Back From Heaven?' (1967), it's clear that the artist must have watched the film 'Silent Running' (1972) at some point.

 

[Graham1973]

Peter Elson's covers for the Sphere Books edtion of Harry Harrison's 'Deathworld' Trilogy.

 

[Rhinocrates]

For believers only

Hmm, maybe just a coincidence, but there's a similarity with a lander proposed by Lockheed to service their 'Mars Base Camp.'

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/lockheed-martin-adds-lander-picture-future-journeys-mars/