Science Fiction Cover Art

[Michel Van]

total radical is cover by Keleck for 1981 french edition of The Stainless Steel Rat
the 1980s were time of minimal esthetic in france

 

[Graham1973]

Bruce Pennington's cover for a 1977 piece by Barry Malzberg entitled 'On a Planet Alien'.

 

[Graham1973]

Looks like this thread may be about to become internet famous, post 206 has just been mentioned on the blog 70s SciFi Art!

 

[Grey Havoc]

Beat to quarters! Batten down the hatches! Arms topside! Prepare to repel boarders!

 

[Grey Havoc]

Make like the Blood Ravens space marines chapter are about to visit!

 

[Graham1973]

A little interspecies dating, by artist Aldo di Gennaro for an unknown publication. Believed to have been created in 2014, but clearly based on 1930s pulp images...

 

[Michel Van]

french edition of Jesus on Mars by Philip Jose Farmer
cover by Keleck

 

[Graham1973]

Some actual pulpy goodness, in the form of the cover by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the January 1945 issue of 'Planet Stories', which also featured a story by the Queen of the Spaceways herself Leigh Brackett...

 

[Graham1973]

Some more pulpy goodness in the form of the cover art by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the February 1942 issue of Spicy Mysteries.

 

[southwestforests]

cover art by Harry Lemon Pankhurst for the February 1942 issue of Spicy Mysteries.

That gal brings to mind Jean Rogers in the Flash Gordon serials.

https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F646280466831392768

View: https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/646280466831392768/jean-rogers-as-dale-arden-flash-gordon-1936?source=share

 

[Graham1973]

That gal brings to mind Jean Rogers in the Flash Gordon serials.

https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F646280466831392768

View: https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/646280466831392768/jean-rogers-as-dale-arden-flash-gordon-1936?source=share

Good catch!

 

[Michel Van]

french cover of "consider phlebas" by iain m. banks
artist Manchu

 

[Justo Miranda]

french cover of "consider phlebas" by iain m. banks
artist Manchu

Ringworld

 

[Michel Van]

actually a Banks Orbital
much smaller as Niven Ringworld
A diameter of 3,014,000 km
more here:

Banks' Orbital

A Banks Orbital is an extremely large hoop-shaped artificial habitat that rotates once per day to create artificial gravity along its inner surface. A Banks Orbital can provide natural-seeming and self-maintaining environments over surface areas that are hundreds to thousands of times larger...

www.orionsarm.com

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Paul Lehr for Sir Frederick Hoyle's 1965 science fiction novel 'October the First Is Too Late'.

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Vincent DiFate for the 1992 paper back issue of David Drake's 'Skyripper'

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by an unknown artist for the UK edition of the novel 'Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future' (1986), a work which is essentially a Sci-Fi Western by author Mike Resnick. A belated sequel entitled 'The Return of Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future' appeared in 2003.

 

[Graham1973]

From my collection, the cover by Don Dixon for Michael McCollum's 1992 novel 'The Sails of Tau Ceti'.

 

[Graham1973]

A space docking scene by artist Fred Gambino, just what for, novel or video game is unknown.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Josh Kirby for Ron Goulart's 'The Wicked Cyborg' (1978).

 

[Graham1973]

Artwork for a 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times by Syd Mead.

 

[Michel Van]

Phillipp Caza cover for Arthur C. Clark Imperial Earth

 

[Graham1973]

The poster by Charles DelMar to the film 'The Last Starfighter' which featured a literal swansong (and scene stealing) performance by actor Robert Preston.

Remember, always trust Centauri...

 

[Graham1973]

Artwork by Boris Vallejo for the Pocket Books Star Trek novel series that I'd completely forgotten about. In this case the cover art for Diane Duane's novel 'The Wounded Sky' (1983)

 

[Graham1973]

Tim Hildebrant's artwork for the cover of the 1987 Signet Books editon of Robert Silverberg's 1967 novel 'Those Who Watch' a first contact story that came out the same year as the authors last sleaze novel 'Those Who Lust'...

 

[Graham1973]

A 1973 picture by Robert McCall for an unknown publication depicting an 'Earth Colony'.

 

[Graham1973]

A 1991 illustration of a 'Floating City' by Robert McCall which seems to have taken some inspiration from Angus McKie's 1976 cover to Anne McCaffrey's novel 'Restoree' (1967) which I posted earlier in the thread.

 

[publiusr]

Fantastic Four​

Any relation to this James Martin?

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.25588

 

[axlzed3301]

Any relation to this James Martin?

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.25588

No

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Herman E. Bischoff for the 1950 Science Fiction (with some Fantasy) Mystery anthology 'Shot In The Dark' edited by Judith Meril.