Science Fiction Cover Art

The G-Tex 'Challenge' series - which included the Space Watch I posted earlier began with No.2725 Gladiator Challenge in 1994.
The premise was that war was outlawed and international disputes were fought by 'Gladiators', highly trained Special Forces who fought simulated battles from history. Gladiator Challenge was set during the drive to Moscow in late 1941.

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Another was No.2738 Roman Challenge:
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No.2746 was Rouge Challenge, the battle was the Western Front in 1915 but hackers put a bug into it literally!
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My personal favourite was No.2802, Satan Challenge. It had a great mix of whimsical humour when an evil electronic poltergeist tries to take over. Note the faux pas on the cover....
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This is a Japanese science fiction magazine from the 1970s. What I like most about these covers is the depiction of mysterious structures whose purpose is hard to understand. In particular, my favorite is the illustration of enormous, slender, conical pillars rising in a line from the ocean like a power grid. The eerie, inorganic structures whose purpose is completely unknown stimulate my imagination every time I see them.
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The cover by Jim Burns, for Gene Wolfe's 1972 anthology 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus', while several other artists who provided covers for this book based their Cerberus on a Doberman, Burns chose to base his take on the legendary creature on a Great Dane....
 

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Covers by unnamed artists for the Japanese editions of the first two novels ('Starwolf 1: The Weapon From Beyond' & 'Starwolf 2: The Closed Worlds') in Edmond Hamilton's 'Starwolves Trilogy'. Both images were sourced from the ISFBD which currently does not have a cover image for the Japanese translation of book three in the series 'World of the Starwolves'.
 

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Courtesy of the ISFDB.

In the late 1980/early 1990s author Thorarinn Gunnarsson more well known for his work supporting TSR's 'Dungeons & Dragons' line of game fiction wrote a four book series entitled 'Starwolves' unrelated to Edmond Hamilton's earlier three book series. Covers for the books were by John Harris.
 

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Graham1973 said:
Covers by unnamed artists for the Japanese editions of the first two novels ('Starwolf 1: The Weapon From Beyond' & 'Starwolf 2: The Closed Worlds') in Edmond Hamilton's 'Starwolves Trilogy'. Both images were sourced from the ISFBD which currently does not have a cover image for the Japanese translation of book three in the series 'World of the Starwolves'.
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Here you go.

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The CGI cover by Marc Lee, to 'Nothing Personal' (2025) the tenth volume in the 'Wars Edge Berserkers' series by Ryan W. Aslesen. While the other novels, such as 'Magnificent Bastards' (2023) who's cover is posted earlier in the thread, have focussed on hovertanks, this is the first volume in the series to feature Mecha units.
 

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Art by Peter Elson from Science Fiction Monthly, Nov 1975
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southwestforests said:
Wonder if society who own the sphere ship also own the wrecked plane/spaceship that's on the ground?
Several stories can arise from this image.
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The illustration depicts a rescue expedition of the lost tribe sent several generations after the loss of the original ship.
 
'The Chaos Weapon' (1977) was the sequel to Colin Kapp's 1972 novel 'Patterns of Chaos', two covers from ISDB are featured, the 1974 Panther editon, which features a Chris Foss cover that may have been partial inspiration for the cover to the role playing supplement 'Flaming Eye' (Post #698 and the 1978 Ace Books editon which featured a Paul Alexander cover.
 

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Graham1973 said:
The Eddie Jones covers to 1976's 'Star Trek: The New Voyages' and 1978's 'Star Trek: The New Voyages 2' edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath.
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In terms of Trek—a new book drops this coming Tuesday:
https://daviddoylebooks.com/toys/in...unity-helped-launch-star-trek-hardcover-2weey
Many remember the old Trek Photonovels
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Fotonovels
Perhaps they can make a return as Photicular Books like these:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/series/dan-kainen/photicular/
ID4
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threa...n-mothership-build.361436/page-4#post-5650770
I miss the Terran Trade Authority compilations of cover art.

If one were to show a timeline of spacecraft advancement—how would you go from least to most advanced?

McCall, Di Fate…ending with the most lavish of recent art?
 
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A trio of pictures that flirt with NSFW and are all of the, '...if their clothes move the right way...' school of art.

1. Fantastic Adventures, August 1942 (Robert Gibson Jones) (Ilustrating Edmond Hamilton's 'Daughter of Thor')

2. Worlds of If, December 1972 (Brian Boyle) (Ilustrating Colin Kapp's 'The Wizard of Anharitte')

3. Yolanda (1975) by Jimmy Guieu (Pen name Dominique Verseau) by Franco Accornero
 

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Michael Whelan's cover art to Robert A. Heinlein's 1982 novel 'Friday' another work that skirts NSFW in the '...if their clothes move the right way...' school of art.
 

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Graham1973 said:
Michael Whelan's cover art to Robert A. Heinlein's 1982 novel 'Friday' another work that skirts NSFW in the '...if their clothes move the right way...' school of art.
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A venerable tradition, following 'the wind just happened to catch this strip of silk in the split second that Titian painted it.'
 
Michel Van said:
Art by Peter Elson from Science Fiction Monthly, Nov 1975
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Another very similar one by Elson - according to my file, it's the cover for The Embedding by Ian Watson. No wreck in this one though. Very spoilery review for the book here: https://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2006/04/the_embedding_b.html

The art seems only vaguely related to a section of the novel but then it's generally the norm for the artist not to have time to read thoroughly or even to be given the manuscript.

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Gino D'Achille cover art, presumably for '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' by Jules Verne. The influence of the Walt Disney version of the Nautilus is clear to see.
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That being mentioned, do indulge me in the liberty of a slight tangent via posting a link to,
The Catalog of Nautilus Designs

When I first established this page, I had only a small collection of designs to feature. Since then, the list has grown and grown, as has the popularity of the page. Examination of the many designs reveals relationships between them. Cross-pollination has occurred when designers who viewed the page produced new boats incorporating features they saw here. What began as a passive collection has become an active inspiration. (Ken Anslow records some interesting thoughts about creative cross-pollination and differing visions evoked by a writer's words. ...
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https://www.vernianera.com/Nautilus/Catalog/
 
And as a result of looking through the 'Catalog of Nautilius Designs', two different takes on the Nautilus, both dating from the 1980s by Vincent DiFate, both images came from the artists website.
 

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Rondò Veneziano, was a 1980s Italian Techno-Baroque group who had Angus McKie create some of their album covers. This is the art for one of them but I could not identify the album on discogs.

Later:I've identified the artwork, it's from an album entitled 'Venice In Peril'.
 

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Poor Robby!

He simply had no idea what was waiting for him in the Warhammer Universe.

As for the attack on Nemo's modified U-boat, the Squid was jealous of something with bigger eyes than it had.

Marty Feldman being at the wheel didn't help.
 
Artwork by Tony Roberts, pointing out the link between 'Star Wars' (1977) and 'Metropolis' (1927). As to the actual title 'Mother and Son"? Or, given the pose of the two robots, 'You're nicked!' ;)
 

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