Science Fiction Cover Art

[Michel Van]

There was another series of similar books published around the same time,I read them all but didnt own any copies myself.
They used some of the same artworks,tho there were many others that I hadnt seen before.
Overal the quality wasnt quite as good as the TTA series.

Steven Caldwell is the pseudonym of Stewart Cowley, also know write under the pseudonym Hubert Venables.
oh by the way
i have them also in my bookshelf

 

[Justo Miranda]

Robots

 

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[southwestforests]

Can't quite make out the signature lower right, but it looks like it could be the guy whose art this has the feel of, at least to me, Berkey, John Berkey, a favorite artist.

(and then my brain goes, "hmm, what would be the story for title, 'I, Reboot' ...?")

Don't forget the others in the series . . .

Ah, still have Spacecraft 2000 to 2100, and Great Space Battles, from way back when.
That Terran Trade Authority setting could have had so much done with it, the ships were interesting and the history was interesting.
But the wrinkles of the fabric of life did not flow that direction ...

I really, really, wanted metal game miniatures of a lot of the ships; and plastic model kits in same miniatures scale of some of the larger ones & 1/72 scale plastic model kits of some of them so they could be placed with 1/72 fighter planes and Space Shuttle models.
(even though I most likely would have given them far simpler paint jobs)

There are now some available as 3D printed miniatures.

My great complaint about the books was that very few ship illustrations showed or stated something which clearly gave their size relative to a person.

 

[Michel Van]

Can't quite make out the signature lower right, but it looks like it could be the guy whose art this has the feel of, at least to me, Berkey, John Berkey, a favorite artist.

According ISFDB
is the artist John Berkey

Link:

Publication: I, Robot

www.isfdb.org

 

[Justo Miranda]

Can anyone identify these projects?

 

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[southwestforests]

According ISFDB

Ohh, I didn't know that website existed, thanks!

 

[southwestforests]

So many of these illustrations are drawing a response of, "Oh! I want a model kit, or game miniature, of that!"

 

[Justo Miranda]

So many of these illustrations are drawing a response of, "Oh! I want a model kit, or game miniature, of that!"

Scratch

 

[publiusr]

Can anyone identify these projects?

The top left saucer of post 58 was by Vincent di Fate IIRC.

 

[southwestforests]

The top left saucer of post 58 was by Vincent di Fate IIRC.

Yes, 3 confirming references follow. Di Fate is a long time favorite along with Berkey.

VINCENT DI FATE ART

the blog about vintage and modern space toys

projectswordtoys.blogspot.com

THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE FICTION NO. 3

Vintage science fiction art, pulps, paperbacks and more

ski-ffy.blogspot.com

Stellar Technician – Vincent Di Fate 1982 from Omni Magazine

Visit the post for more.

simotron.wordpress.com

And while that illustration does not appear on his website, here is his website,

Vincent Di Fate

Official website of American illustrator Vincent Di Fate.

www.vincentdifate.com

 

[publiusr]

His art and that of Cantwell are similar. Lots of straight edges.

Today's art make craft a bit blobby.

 

[Graham1973]

Frank Kelly Freas artwork on the cover of a 1950's reprinted Sci-Fi stories magazine.

 

[Graham1973]

Nova was a science fiction anthology series edited by Harry Harrison (One of his non-SF efforts can be found on the 'List of Fictional Warships' Thread). According to the ISFDB they first published between 1970 and 1974 in the US. In the UK they were republished by Sphere between 1975/76 featuring cover art by Eddie Jones (Nova 1/2), Tony Roberts (attrib.) (Nova 3) and Peter Elson (Nova 4). Here are the covers to 1, 3 & 4. The hunt for a good copy of the illustration used for book two is ongoing.

 

[Graham1973]

After a bit of internet sluthing I've located a good image of the Eddie Jones cover for Nova 2, unfortunately it's not the full artwork. My source was an online biography of the artist. I've linked it below. Sadly like Tony Roberts he never got a Paper Tiger compilation of his artwork.

https://sfandfantasy.co.uk/php/ej.php

 

[Graham1973]

Not strictly a cover image but it was reproduced in the TTA volume 'Spacewreck', it is one of my favourite Peter Elson images, and there is definitely a story in it, if you look closely you can see XRD-1 'Discovery' in one part of the image, the space shuttle in the foreground may be 'Columbia' herself if a commenter on the Peter Elson fanpage is to be believed and then there is the damaged ship in the background bearing a 'Spaceship and Sun' insignia which suggests she originates in the 'Foundation' universe.

And then there is the nuclear powered ship in the foreground and the three MMU wearing astronauts investigating the space shuttle all of whom presumably came from that ship, one in overwatch, one about to open the shuttles hatch, what will they find? The last is looking into the cockpit, what do they see?

 

[Michel Van]

Peter Elson 1947-1998
Was one finest Sci-fi illustrator in Britain
more here: https://peterelson.co.uk/index.php

one my favourite PE images
Cover for The Long Result by John Bunner.

 

[southwestforests]

the space shuttle in the foreground may be 'Columbia' herself if a commenter on the Peter Elson fanpage is to be believed

Well, Columbia was the only one which had black upper surface on its chines.
Columbia, thrice, then Discovery, once, at angles similar to illustration;

STS-1 Space Shuttle Columbia on Rogers Dry Lakebed - NASA

Space Shuttle Columbia on Rogers Dry lakebed at Edwards AFB after landing to complete its first orbital mission on April 14, 1981.

www.nasa.gov

https://flic.kr/p/28wnn6j

View: https://flic.kr/p/28wnn6j

Shuttle Columbia Post-landing Tow - with Reflection in Water

A rare rain allowed this reflection of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it was towed 16 Nov. 1982, to the Shuttle Processing Area at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (from 1976 to 1981 and after 1994, the Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, following its fifth flight in...

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https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8bCdodXayWkLHCmQEQD2ce.jpg

To borrow a phrase from an NFL advertisement years ago, "You make the call".

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, Ralph McQuarrie's cover to 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' (1978), the novel Alan Dean Foster was asked to write as a sequel to the novelization of 'Star Wars', a mark of just how insanely popular that film was. This novel is still in print, despite it committing to a few things that are somewhat askew to how the series eventually developed.

This one is a bit sun faded, but it's from an early printing which makes it special.

 

[sferrin]

From my collection, Ralph McQuarrie's cover to 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' (1978), the novel Alan Dean Foster was asked to write as a sequel to the novelization of 'Star Wars', a mark of just how insanely popular that film was. This novel is still in print, despite it committing to a few things that are somewhat askew to how the series eventually developed.

This one is a bit sun faded, but it's from an early printing which makes it special.

I remember reading that back in the day. I think I owned a copy at one point.

 

[publiusr]

I think some had black trim

 

[Graham1973]

Another Bruce Pennington flying saucer, this one graced the 1969 edition of 'New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction' (1960), a look at the field by British author Kingsley Amis.

 

[Graham1973]

Ed Emishwiller's cover to Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1954

 

[Justo Miranda]

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[BAROBA]

Which story is the one of the Not-The-Enterprise?
From which year is this?
It looks ...... interesting....

 

[Graham1973]

Richard Power's cover to 'The Explorers', a collection of short stories by C. M. Kornbulth published in 1954.

 

[Graham1973]

Paul Alexander's cover to 'The Very Slow Time Machine' a collection of short stories by Ian Watson published in 1979

 

[Graham1973]

The complete tryptich created by Jim Burns (Thanks to MichaelVan for the correction.) for 'The Anome Trilogy' by Jack Vance

 

[publiusr]

Any art from Tierney's Winds of Zarr?

 

[TsrJoe]

might be worth splicing similar threads ?

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/hypothetical-and-fake-spacecraft.21681/#post-216714