Science Fiction Cover Art

[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

 

[Sineva]

This is another one I remember from back in the day,and I still have a copy of it today.
This probably would`ve been one of the first examples of what would become known as the Graphic Novel.

I remember jim steranko did an amazing adaption of the movie Outland in Heavy Metal magazine in 1981,but unlike Alien it never got a release in graphic novel form except for a version that was published in france,naturally in french,and which today is rather expensive to buy second hand.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Hi

 

[Justo Miranda]

post-2

 

[Sineva]

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 there was a series of 14 Battlestar Galactica novels published from 1979-1988
A mixture of adaptions of episodes,including the pilot for Galactica 1980,and original stories[possibly unfilmed scripts or fleshed out story ideas for episodes]

 

[Sineva]

I remember there was a series of 14 Battlestar Galactica novels published from 1979-1988

Strangely tho the Buck rogers tv series only got a couple of tie-in novels....

 

[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

 

[Sineva]

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

I love the title...

 

[sferrin]

I think some had black trim

 

[Sineva]

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

Its from around 1978
Geoff Love and his big disco orchestra did disco versions of a LOT of stuff back in the day...

 

[The K2]

The movie versions were cheesy, but I still enjoyed them.

 

[The K2]

John Berkey’s cover art for the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1970)

 

[Michel Van]

The complete tryptich created by Tony Roberts for 'The Anome Trilogy' by Jack Vance

That artwork ist from Jim Burns

 

[Graham1973]

That artwork ist from Jim Burns

Thanks, I've fixed the posting.

 

[Graham1973]

The Chris Foss triptych created for the 1970s reprinting of Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Trilogy

 

[The K2]

Not the most spectacular…but I did buy a copy.

 

[The K2]

One of the few editions that used an illustration from the Disney movie on the cover. The copy I bought in the 70s had a wrap around illustration. Later, I found that an earlier edition had it all squeezed in on the front cover.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Not a cover but a private commission by Jim Burns. 'Downtime in Alcyone's glow,' 2020.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Mr Burns again. This started as a book cover for an HG Wells-themed anthology and then was the inspiration for a private commission, 'The Lair, Elysium Planitia' 2020-21. That's him standing by the painting.

 

[martinbayer]

A *sharp* line needs to be drawn between unicorn fairy gnome wizard fantasy "artwork" crap and *true* hardcore science fiction depictions.

 

[Rhinocrates]

A *sharp* line needs to be drawn between unicorn fairy gnome wizard fantasy "artwork" crap and *true* hardcore science fiction depictions.

Not necessarily in this thread, surely? I gather that it's for entertainment as much as the 'Furry Avatars of Doom' thread. Still, if I might try a bit for relevance to the 'proper' aerospace stuff, I'll point out that Elon Musk continually makes references to this kind of sf (Iain M Banks' Culture cycle, Spaceballs etc.). It didn't provide him with blueprints but it did inspire him. A lot of people got into space science by being inspired by stuff that was infinitely improbable.

Sorry, I know that your name isn't Shirley.*

* Damn, that doesn't work so well in text.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Anyway, turning towards the harder end of the scale... Manchu, or Philippe Bouchet. The starship Sagan from Arthur C Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth and the Leonora Christine from Poul Anderson's Tau Zero. Remember those days when Bussard ramjets seemed so promising?

 

[martinbayer]

Not necessarily in this thread, surely?

If not in this very thread in this very forum of all places, where else??? Asking for a dear close friend of mine who is an aerospace engineer...

 

[Graham1973]

A Michael Whelan cover for Alan Dean Foster's short story collection 'With Friends Like These..." (1977)

 

[Justo Miranda]

Dr. Prilicla

 

[Graham1973]

Frank Kelly Freas's cover for the first appearance of one of H. Beam Piper's most interesting short stories.

 

[Graham1973]

An unknown artist's clearly 'Star Wars' inspired cover for 'Star Drifter' (1981)

 

[southwestforests]

An unknown artist's clearly 'Star Wars' inspired cover for 'Star Drifter' (1981)

Sure looks like a deliberate effort to get the book noticed by at least momentarily causing people to connect it to that movie.

 

[Graham1973]

Another seemingly 'Star Wars' inspired cover, however this time the artist is known, it's Attila Heja and it also graces the cover of a 1969 novel entitled 'Star Giant'.

I think a little research is in order to sort out just when these books were actually published relative to 1977.

 

[southwestforests]

Attila Heja and it also graces the cover of a 1969 novel entitled 'Star Giant'.

I think a little research is in order to sort out just when these books were actually published relative to 1977.

Correct, a little research is required ...

While the book was written before Star Wars hit the silver screen, see, this particular edition of the book came out in 1979,

Star Giant

Star Giant by Dorothy Skinkle Belmont Tower Books, 1969 Price I paid: 75¢ His name was Ben-oni… Ben-oni was a refugee, a political exile from the planet Liban sentenced to spend his life on E…

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Title: Star Giant
Author Name: Skinkle, Dorothy
Edition: 2nd printing
ISBN Number: 050551267X
ISBN-13: 9780505512673
Location Published: Belmont/Tower: 1978

https://www.diasparbooks.com/product/1260/Star-Giant#details

 

[Michel Van]

I find lack of French Artist disturbing...

So here Phillip Caza cover for John Brunner "The Sheeps Look Up" volume 1 and 2

Cover for I, Robot by Asimov

 

[Graham1973]

Another example of the cultural impact of 'Star Wars' in the form of the 1979 artwork by John Rush which was used on both the 1979 and subsequent reprintings of 'Exiles of the Stars' (1971) by Andre Norton.

 

[Michel Van]

again Phillipe Caza
French cover for one of Frederik Pohl Heechee Saga books.

 

[southwestforests]

again Phillipe Caza
French cover for one of Frederik Pohl Heechee Saga books.

Brings to mind a popular phrase,
"If the seatbelt fits wear it."