A little bit of digging revealed why the 1957 anthology 'Teen-Age Super Science Stories' was republished in 2018. It's apparently fallen into the public domain. Project Gutenberg's copy of the anthology contained the interior illustrations which are presumably by Frank E. Vaughn.
 

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This artwork by Neil McPheeters graced the cover of a 1992 re-issue of Brian Aldis's novel 'Helliconia: Summer', second book in the Helliconia Trilogy.
 

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Artwork by Noriyoshi Ohrai for an unknown edition of Alfred Bester's 'The Stars My Destination' (also published as 'Tiger! Tiger!') (1956)
 

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Artwork by Michael Whelan for an unidentified publication, the search as complicated by the fact that this particular artwork is not mentioned on his website in the gallery section. There is a decided '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) influence on the picture.

Later: A little more digging found that the picture (Entitled: 'Outbound') was hidden on the biography section of Michael Whelan's website. If what is said there is correct it's one of the artists first artworks and apparently the one that got him professional notice. As a consequence I've replaced what I originally posted with a better quality version of the image.
 

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Artwork by April Lawton depicting a space shuttle above one of the rings of Saturn. Possibly a NASA commission.
 

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The artwork by Michael Whelan for an unidentified reprint of Mike Resnick's 1986 novel 'Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future'. The cover for the Arrow Books edition of the novel can be found in Post #777
 

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In 1978 author Robert Sheckley's novel 'Crompton Divided' (In the UK 'The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton'.) was released. The US publisher went with a cover by Carl Lundgren (Sourced from the ISFDB) and the UK publisher went with Peter Elson who clearly had some fun with the artwork (Sourced from the artists memorial website). A careful look at the background shows the entire scene is inside a gigantic dome and then there is where his initials are.... He'd also clearly skimmed the book before starting work, the figure in the foreground is clearly the title character, the woman in the background his assistant, Miss Anachos.
 

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I am fairly certain that someone somewhere on the web, in their blog?, on YouTube?, both? has scratchbuilt a model of that one;

And I do remember seeing it in this 2024 blog post. Blooger is also on Tumblr which my be where I first saw this ship.
https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/1980s-maplin-catalogues/
Found what I was remembering, it is a different ship.
I think you will see how my brain connected them via their generalized planform shapes and their colors.


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This is the cover art by Peter Elson and cover for the 1987 paperback release by Cornet of the year 2000 set science-fiction(ish) detective novel 'Downtime' (1986) by author Peter Fox. Artwork is sourced from both the ISFDB and the artists memorial website. I have to wonder if Elson was thinking of a certain novel by George Orwell when he was working on this.

For comparison the cover by an unidentified artist created for the 1988 US publication by Berkley Books is included. While the author appears to have been planning on a series built around the detective, bad reviews (One is quoted in the wikipedia page on the novel.) put an end to that plan.
 

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A rather familiar looking starship features on the artwork by Trevor Webb for the 1994 single release of the Blur song 'End Of A Century'.
I have not seen that one before.

On art
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-vision-iconic-artworks.html

I'm with Brett in terms of design. I would think sci-fi art would have enjoyed the fruits of curation more than it has.

CT and PET scans are made of mummies all the time.

Let me suggest AMT models get the same love...it is like pulling teeth. Take this for example:
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threa...overed-country-wip.366441/page-2#post-5716516

It took a fan to do this.

Meanwhile, Bezos has THE Refit, and won't allow photography:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/4w5zdf/for_those_who_may_be_wondering_where_the_original/

Sickening.

If I were a Tech-bro, I'd buy it and have it and Datin's side by side....have scans done and make it available freely.

The tech-bros who were inspired by sci-fi have not been kind as to its up keep.

That and art snobs likely look down on such things. Byeman loves to accuse me of throwing things against the wall. People LITERALLY do that with paintings and make millions.

The beauty of Trumbull and Probert is worth more to me than any Rothko

Elon's Starship looks a bit like Matt Jeffries' first sketch--6:00 here:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAjyZ9EI_Xc&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/pmomPOc1CHA
 
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The cover art by Chris Foss for the 1989 Grafton Books publication of Philip K. Dick's 1981 novel 'The Divine Invasion', the second of the
'VALIS Trilogy'.
 

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'Starblazer' was a long running action-adventure comic book series. As I noted in Post #1696 sometimes the artists took 'short cuts'. In the third of the interior illustration examples from 'The Sword of Solek', the 109th issue of the comic and one of the 'Hadron Halley Fighting Scientist' series it can be seen that the artist was taking inspiration from the cover art by Chris Foss for the 1974 Panther Books edition of E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 1946 fix-up (The story had originally appeared serial form in the August - October 1928 issues of 'Amazing Stories' magazine.) novel 'The Skylark of Space'.
 

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E. E. 'Doc' Smith gets the anime treatment on this cover by an unidentified artist for a 2003 Japanese edition of his 1946 fix-up novel 'The Skylark of Space'
 

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The full set of covers by Chris Foss (Courtesy of the ISFDB) for E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 'Skylark' series when they were re-issued by Panther Books in 1974. The titling free version of the cover for 'The Skylark of Space' can be seen in Post #1738. Sadly the other books in the series do not appear to have been given the anime treatment given to the first book if the ISFDB is to be believed.
 

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The cover art by Noriyoshi Ohrai for a 2002 Japanese edition of the fix-up novel 'Grey Lensman' (1951) (Originally serialized Astounding Science Fiction magazine 1939-1940), the fourth novel in the 'Lensman' series by E. E. 'Doc' Smith. The site where I found this believed it was a movie poster. It's true identity was confirmed by the ISFDB.
 

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The cover art by Noriyoshi Ohrai for a 2002 Japanese edition of the fix-up novel 'Galactic Patrol' (1950) (Originally serialized Astounding Science Fiction magazine 1937-1938), the third novel in the 'Lensman' series by E. E. 'Doc' Smith.
 

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'Prelude to Space', AC. Clarke book cover artwork ...
 

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'The Mouse on the Moon', book cover & film artwork ...
 

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The covers by Chris Foss to the 1972 - 1973 Panther Books editions of E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 'Lensman' series. Covers are courtesy of the ISFDB
 

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'Prime Number' was a 1970 anthology by Harry Harrison. The US edition by Berkley Books went with a Paul Lehr cover. The first UK edition by Sphere came out in 1975 and used an unidentified artist I believe to be Tony Roberts based on the spacecraft that appears on the cover. The second Sphere edition which came out in 1978 used a Peter Elson cover that gained wider recognition when it was used in one of the TTA books. The covers came from the ISFDB, the titling free version from the Peter Elson memorial website.
 

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The cover art by Josh Kirby for the 1958 Panther Books edition of Isaac Asimov's 1954 novel 'The Caves of Steel'.
 

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there is Animate movie "Lensman Secret of the Lens" And TV series "Lensman Galactic Patrol" in 1984 in Japan based on Lensman Novel

I found a blog posting discussing what happened with those series, seems the Smith estate was not entirely happy with what the Japanese did, seems they mixed 'Star Wars' into Smiths setting.

https://skarohuntingsociety.wordpress.com/2019/01/05/why-is-the-lensman-anime-so-rare/

That said the film 'Lensmen: Secret of the Lens' can be found on YouTube if you know where to look.
 
Courtesy of the ISFDB, the first three covers to the Futura Books editions of the 'Perry Rhodan' series in English translation, the covers for all three were by Chris Foss
 

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Most of the covers for the UK 'Perry Rhodan' books were by the artists, Chris Foss, Peter Jones and Angus McKie. Two other artists stand out, Paul Lehr who's cover for the anthology 'Orbit 11' was reworked for 'Peril on Ice Planet' was the only American cover artist to contribute to the UK series.

The other was Tony Roberts who's artwork for 'The Plague of Oblivion', his only cover for the series, achieved greater fame when it was reused in one of the TTA books. It can be seen without the titling in this threads Post #1644.
 

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