Science Fiction Cover Art

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

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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...
 

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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...
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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.
 

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

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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...
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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)
 

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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'...
 

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It sad to hear that Robert McGinnis has past away in age of 91 years
McGinnis a unique artist how made covers for Pulp and crime novels, Movie posters (like Bond Movies)
he could put with view paint stroke, the tone and starting of novel or movie, and get the buyer interested.

sadly i not found one his rare Sci-fi covers but he made some Sci-Fi poster next his Bond work

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The cover to the fourth issue of the fanzine Altair dating from 1978, the picture was apparently drawn in 1976 by an artist using the pseudonym 'Mowery.

Much more art (of variable quality) from this fertile period can be found in the 'Leah Fisher Science Fiction & Fantasy Fanzine Covers' collection held by the Milwaukee Public Library.

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Interior of a Dyson Megasphere

Science Digest / October, 1982. Lost Tribes of Easter Island; Kids Striking it Rich in Software; Cities of the Sun (Terraforming a Gas Giant); Geodesic Virus Changes Science; Solar Activity and Earthquakes; Primordial Predators; Einstein and Healing;

1st Edition - Soft cover - The Hearst Corporation, New York - 1982 - Condition: Fine - New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1982. The October,1982 issue of Science Digest, Volume 90, Number10. Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 112 pp. Fine. Faint dust at rear cover, else flawless. Modest toning...
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Michel Van said:
It sad to hear that Robert McGinnis has past away in age of 91 years
McGinnis a unique artist how made covers for Pulp and crime novels, Movie posters (like Bond Movies)
he could put with view paint stroke, the tone and starting of novel or movie, and get the buyer interested.

sadly i not found one his rare Sci-fi covers but he made some Sci-Fi poster next his Bond work
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Indeed, a great illustrator who really knew his market. That's not belittling him - I admire professionalism that has flair and he had it in abundance. He didn't excel in his genre - he defined it. Here are a few works I was able to dig up. Barbarella, American Gods, Moonraker. Not his best, though. The best is NSFW (Not Safe For Work - you really don't want it on your monitor when your boss walks by).
 

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A 1960 (The year forms part of the artists signiture) artwork depicting a landing on one of the Martian moons, which one is unknown as is what it was originally commissioned for. By the artist Paul Rossi it was used in a 1963 childrens book about the Moon landings entitled 'We Land On The Moon' written by Raymond John.
 

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Proof once again of the cultural shadow cast by the film 'Star Wars' in the form of the cover by Robert Coady to the Christian Science Fiction novel 'The Doom of Drakon' (1996) by Barry Chant
 

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The cover by Chris Moore for the 1978 release by Magnum Books of Clifford D. Simak's 1976 novel 'Shakespeare's Planet'.
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Ah yes, I've read that. The cover has nothing to do with the story. Rather a melancholy tale - actually Simak is unfairly pigeonholed as a 'pastoralist' (whatever that means) but he was far more than that. Back in the day, I bought several novels by Simak with Moore covers - A Heritage of Stars, Cemetery World, Shakespeare's Planet, Catface (Mastodonia in some markets). Earlier works like Way Station, Time and Again and Time is the Simplest Thing are well worth the read. He had a wonderfully humane sensibility.
 
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