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I remember there was a series of 14 Battlestar Galactica novels published from 1979-1988From 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 love the title...Paul Alexander's cover to 'The Very Slow Time Machine' a collection of short stories by Ian Watson published in 1979
Its from around 1978Which story is the one of the Not-The-Enterprise?
From which year is this?
It looks ...... interesting....
That artwork ist from Jim BurnsThe complete tryptich created by Tony Roberts for 'The Anome Trilogy' by Jack Vance
Thanks, I've fixed the posting.That artwork ist from Jim Burns
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.A *sharp* line needs to be drawn between unicorn fairy gnome wizard fantasy "artwork" crap and *true* hardcore science fiction depictions.
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...Not necessarily in this thread, surely?
Sure looks like a deliberate effort to get the book noticed by at least momentarily causing people to connect it to that movie.An unknown artist's clearly 'Star Wars' inspired cover for 'Star Drifter' (1981)
Correct, a little research is required ...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.
While the book was written before Star Wars hit the silver screen, see, this particular edition of the book came out in 1979,
Title: Star Giant
Author Name: Skinkle, Dorothy
Edition: 2nd printing
ISBN Number: 050551267X
ISBN-13: 9780505512673
Location Published: Belmont/Tower: 1978
Brings to mind a popular phrase,again Phillipe Caza
French cover for one of Frederik Pohl Heechee Saga books.