Science Fiction Cover Art

[Graham1973]

The cover artist who succeded Paul Alexander as the cover artist for the series 'The Best of Trek' was John Harris who supplied covers for volumes 12 - 16. I believe some of the images created for the series were recycled for other books.

 

[publiusr]

I have finally found images of the physical rotoscoped for the 1980 Filmation FLASH GORDON

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[Graham1973]

The 'Best of Trek' series ended in the mid 1990s with two volumes, 'The Best of Trek' (the unnumbered volume 17) and 'The Best of Trek, Volume 18' both covers were by David Mattingly.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Geoff Taylor for 'The Rituals of Infinity' by Michael Moorcock.

 

[Rhinocrates]

There's an upcoming illustrated edition for David Brin's Sundiver from Phantasia Press. This is Jim Burns' cover art, which he's just posted on his Facebook page.

 

[Graham1973]

From my own collection, the cover by Keith Scaife for the 1996 UK paperback release of 'Shadow Hunter', author Will Baker's 1993 debut science fiction novel.

 

[martinbayer]

GIGO.

 

[martinbayer]

One man's fiction is another woman's nightmare.

 

[Michel Van]

the legendary Chris Foss about his work

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgkSBiUGFzI

 

[Graham1973]

In the 1980s Orbit books reprinted the fiction of James White. John Harris was the artist selected to do the covers. The attached cover is from my collection and is for 'All Judgement Fled' (1969), one of the author's non-Sector General novels.

 

[Graham1973]

Jack McDevitt's 'Alex Benedict' series (1989 - 2023) is a series of science fiction mystery stories. John Harris supplied covers for books 2 - 8. In my own collection I have the fifth ('Echo' (2010)) and sixth ('Firebird' (2011)) volumes in the series.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Dean Ellis to the 1970 American release of 'All Judgement Fled' (1969) by James White. Note that the tagline is different from the one used on the cover of the 1987 Orbit edition.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Original cover.



The one the author really hated because he thought it looked like “Robin Williams in a funny hat”.



Graphic novel adaptation cover.

 

[Graham1973]

Not cover art, but the moment of 'First Contact' in James White's 'All Judgement Fled' (1969), this image by Ed Morrow comes from the 1967/68 serial version published in 'If' (aka 'Worlds Of If') magazine and is an inversion of some classic 'contact' tropes...

 

[martinbayer]

Not cover art, but the moment of 'First Contact' in James White's 'All Judgement Fled' (1969), this image by Ed Morrow comes from the 1967/68 serial version published in 'If' (aka 'Worlds Of If') magazine and is an inversion of some classic 'contact' tropes...

Keep in mind that any aliens looking bizarre or even repulsive to us would most likely have the very same view of us. Look out for intelligence and intellectual openness, peacefulness, and friendliness, not beauty or attractiveness. Behavior is the top criterion, not looks. Also, spiders are (mostly) on team humanity/earth ecology...

 

[Graham1973]

Two more interior illustrations by Ed Morrow from 'If', this time illustrating 'The Hour Before Earthrise' a serial by James Blish, later republished as 'Welcome to Mars', a cover image by Peter Elson for a later edition of that story can be found in this thread.

 

[southwestforests]

Behavior is the top criterion

Thing is, here on this one planet with only the human race we have cultures which will get signals crossed about behaviors,
for instance,
and since I like to use 3 different references to a thing,

https://www.thetravel.com/10-places-where-eye-contact-is-not-recommended-10-places-where-the-locals-are-friendly/

However, eye contact has different meaning in each culture. In some countries, the presence of eye contact conveys confidence and instills trust in the interaction. In other countries, it is incredibly rude to look into the other person’s eyes during conversation. In general, Western cultures tend to value the presence of eye contact while Eastern ones tend to see eye contact as a form of disrespect. However, this is not always the case. For example, Australians greatly value eye contact in communication while native Australian aboriginals consider eye contact to be rude. The below entries include regional variations whenever they occur. Avoid cultural faux pas by avoiding eye contact in these places (and making sure you have it in the others!).

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/02/the-impact-of-making-eye-contact-around-the-world/

Cultural Differences to our Gazes

However, any discussion of human behavior must consider the differences that exist across cultures. In many Eastern and some Caribbean cultures, meeting another’s eyes can be perceived as rude or aggressive. In a 2013 study published in PLOS ONE, Asians were more likely than Westerners to regard a person who makes eye contact as angry or unapproachable. The study also suggested that gaze direction (direct vs. averted) could influence perceptions about another person’s disposition. These results suggest that cultural differences in eye contact behavior emerge from differential display rules and cultural norms.

Similarly, in a study published in the Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, the “eye gaze displays of Canadian, Trinidadian, and Japanese participants” were recorded as they answered questions for which they either knew or had to think about the answers. When they knew the answers, Trinidadians maintained the most eye contact while Japanese maintained the least. When contemplating the answers to questions, Canadians and Trinidadians looked up, and Japanese looked down. The study, further suggests that the amount of eye contact in a conversation is at least in part culturally determined.

So, de Salluste was right— the eyes are windows of the soul. However, culture and norms surrounding eye contact influence how eyes are opened or raised and how they communicate to others.

This article was first published by the World Bank’s People, Spaces, Deliberation blog. Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum.

Eye Contact Perception in the West and East: A Cross-Cultural Study - PMC

This study investigated whether eye contact perception differs in people with different cultural backgrounds. Finnish (European) and Japanese (East Asian) participants were asked to determine whether Finnish and Japanese neutral faces with various ...

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Second, eye contact behavior differs among cultures. Maintaining eye contact during social interaction is a more important principle for Western Europeans than for East Asians [26]. While maintaining eye contact is positively evaluated by Western Europeans, it is not the case with people of East Asian cultural backgrounds [27]. In fact, in Japanese culture, people are taught not to maintain eye contact with others because too much eye contact is often considered disrespectful. For example, Japanese children are taught to look at others’ necks because this way, the others’ eyes still fall into their peripheral vision [28]. Consistent with this, previous studies have demonstrated, for example, that the Japanese show less eye contact than Canadians during face-to-face interaction [29,30]. These findings suggest that Western Europeans may be more motivated to search for and detect others’ direct gaze during social interaction, and because of their considerable visual experience in perceiving eye contact, they might be less biased in considering slightly averted gazes to be self-directed. This may hold particularly true for faces from their own cultural background relative to faces from other cultural background (with whom they have less visual experience).

Third, it is possible that cultural differences in discerning information about others emotions might also exert an effect on eye contact perception, even when the face in question does not clearly express any emotion. It has been observed from previous research that the perception of gaze direction is modulated by factors not related to gaze direction.

For a quick note about more factors, see this PDF from the US Department of Health and Human Services,

https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/assets/pdfs/CommunicationStyles.pdf

THINK CULTURAL HEALTH EDUCATION
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Communication Styles
The table below outlines different aspects of communication style and how they tend to vary across cultures. Being aware of how communication styles tend to vary across cultures can help you avoid misunderstandings, but it is also important that you understand your client’s unique cultural identity and individual preferences in order to communicate with them most effectively

 

[siegecrossbow]

Not often do you see alien invaders in the form of baby elephants.

 

[siegecrossbow]

I actually quite enjoyed that one

Swap aliens out for a meteorite and you’ll get this book. I always found the plot lines suspiciously similar.

 

[martinbayer]

Not often do you see alien invaders in the form of baby elephants.

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Clinically, it's called intellectual laziness.

 

[Graham1973]

Bruce Pennington's rather spoilerish cover for the 1969 Corgi edition of 'All Judgement Fled' by James White.

 

[The K2]

Cyborg by Martin Caidin. This cover a tie-in for the TV series. Look closely at the B-25 crashing instead of the M2F2.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Heres one I remember from back in the day,just for its quirkiness

And I came across this one as well in a somewhat similar vein.....

Reminds me of this series.

 

[publiusr]

Sternbach do the dolphin EVA?

 

[Graham1973]

Peter Elson's cover for the 1980 reprinting by Panther of Ian Watson's 1973 novel 'The Embedding' featuring what may be the same ship, or certainly one of the same class as that which appeared on the cover of 'The Long Result' by John Brunner featured in Post #76 of this thread.

 

[siegecrossbow]

The book for you if you want some spaceship to spaceship longbow action.

 

[pathology_doc]

This is a thread for interesting or unusual science fiction cover art. As a first post here is the cover to 'Beyond The Stars' a 1983 collection by Octopus books that aside from the usual round of short stories included chapters excerpted from the following novels:

'Star Wars' (Alan Dean Foster, pen name: George Lucas)
'Dragonfall 5 and the Super Horse' (Brian Earnshaw)
'Round The Moon' (Jules Verne)
'Citizen of the Galaxy' (Robert A. Heinlein)
'Escape from Splatterbang' (Nicholas Fisk)
'The Keeper of the Isis Light' (Monica Hughes)
'Dr Who and the Monster of Peladon' (Terrence Dicks)

The last of those was a definite surprise, as is the fact that despite what the cover shows, there's nothing relating to 'Battlestar Galactica' in this volume...

Interesting.
The girl on the cover holding the laser pistol doesn't look a day over twelve, which is how old I was when this came out and also the probable age of the target audience. Twelve year old me would have wanted a wall poster of her.

However, I'd have been very disappointed to find the cover art not reflected in the contents.

 

[Rhinocrates]

A recent Facebook post by Jim Burns.

 

[siegecrossbow]

There is a little known movie adaptation of the most famous story of the collection — “Enemy Mine” starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. under heavy makeup. Unfortunately the execs didn’t trust the audience’s intelligence enough and added a physical mine to the story in case they were confused by the title.

 

[F-2]

The General Zapped an Angel

Speculated to have influenced the art of “End of Evangelion”

 

[Rhinocrates]

The General Zapped an Angel

Speculated to have influenced the art of “End of Evangelion”

The art is by Karel Thole and illustrates the story by Fast, 'The Wound.'

 

[Rhinocrates]

Quite a unique artist. More by Thole:

 

[Orionblamblam]

Clinically, it's called intellectual laziness.

In what sense? The Fithp were an interesting antagonist species, and their morphology was important to the plot.

 

[martinbayer]

In what sense? The Fithp were an interesting antagonist species, and their morphology was important to the plot.

I had to google "Fithp". From what I gathered from the search, they apparently resemble baby elephants with multiple prehensile trunks. It's just another classical case of lack of original writing resulting in standard unimaginary hack output.

 

[Orionblamblam]

I had to google "Fithp". From what I gathered from the search, they apparently resemble baby elephants with multiple prehensile trunks. It's just another classical case of lack of original writing resulting in standard unimaginary hack output.

Let's see you do better.

 

[martinbayer]

Let's see you do better.

Professionally, I'm not really in that line of business, but if we can come to a financial agreement that does not infringe in any way, shape, or form on my regular work, I might be amenable to any reasonable pecuniary offer, as long as I can successfully run it past our internal company controls, so go ahead.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Professionally, I'm not really in that line of business, but if we can come to a financial agreement that does not infringe in any way, shape, or form on my regular work, I might be amenable to any reasonable pecuniary offer, as long as I can successfully run it past our internal company controls, so go ahead.

So that would be a "I can't do better, all I can do is whine." Got it.

 

[Arjen]

So that would be a "I can't do better, all I can do is whine." Got it.

Let me guess - Martin is gainfully employed, with most of his time taken by his day job. If the world wishes to see a book written by him, the world should consider financial compensation for Martin giving up his day job. No money, no cookies.

 

[martinbayer]

Let me guess - Martin is gainfully employed, with most of his time taken by his day job. If the world wishes to see a book written by him, the world should consider financial compensation for Martin giving up his day job. No money, no cookies.

Actually, I have one project in the works (since about 2012) as a labour of love that, if I ever finish it in retirement, will be released into the wild on forums such as this without any financial or other strings attached. The first few rough draft pages that I consider mostly done are attached - any criticism is welcome, but note that I will not change my trademark stile of rambling multi line sentences .

 

[southwestforests]

any criticism is welcome, but note that I will not change my trademark stile

Okay, "any" criticism, eh ...

Style vs stile

Style and stile are two words that are pronounced in the same way but are spelled differently and have different meanings, which makes them homophones. We will examine the difference between the definitions of style

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Style and stile are two words that are pronounced in the same way but are spelled differently and have different meanings, which makes them homophones. We will examine the difference between the definitions of style and stile, where these two words came from and some examples of their use in sentences.