Science Fiction Cover Art

A Chris Foss mystery, this picture entitled online as 'Downbound Train' is dated to 1969, that can be partially verified by two things, the artists surname is spelled out in full, it clearly predates the authors famous monogram. The style of the art also matches that of the cover of a 1970 non-fiction book entitled 'The Coming Of The Space Age' edited by Arthur C. Clarke.

There is a mention on a private Facebook group that the title given is incorrect, but it does not seem to have spread out to the wider internet. Nor is the correct title given in what can be read from that Facebook Group.
 

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cover for German edition of Destination: Void by Frank Herbert
by Karel Thole 1974
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1969's 'Tales of Time and Space' edited by Ross R. Olney was an anthology of science fiction stories aimed at younger readers. It contained stories by well known names such as Frederick Brown, Arthur C. Clarke & Robert Silverberg, along with lesser known figures such as William C. Gault and Larry Sternig. The cover and interior art for the 1969 edition were by Harvey Kidder. For it's 1977 reprinting the cover art was supplied by Tom Nachreiner but Kidder's interior art from the earlier edition was retained. It's interesting to compare these two covers and see the difference eight years makes.
 

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Two of Harvey Kidder's illustrations from 'Tales of Time and Space' (1969) illustrating one of Keith Laumer's most powerful stories, 'The Last Command'...
 

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Graham1973 said:
A Chris Foss mystery, this picture entitled online as 'Downbound Train' is dated to 1969, that can be partially verified by two things, the artists surname is spelled out in full, it clearly predates the authors famous monogram. The style of the art also matches that of the cover of a 1970 non-fiction book entitled 'The Coming Of The Space Age' edited by Arthur C. Clarke.
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in 21th century Foss and Hardware mention it
'The Coming Of The Space Age' is commission David Larkin in 1970
the Unknow publication was for Sunday times article ESP by Stanley Kubrik in 1969
those were his first work in his Sci-fi style

'The Coming Of The Space Age' was flip left to right and chop for publication.
here how original looks
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Michel Van said:
in 21th century Foss and Hardware mention it
'The Coming Of The Space Age' is commission David Larkin in 1970
the Unknow publication was for Sunday times article ESP by Stanley Kubrik in 1969
those were his first work in his Sci-fi style

'The Coming Of The Space Age' was flip left to right and chop for publication.
here how original looks
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A motie designer who hates symmetry.
 
Let me introduce Niseko Fortress 1986 by Yoshio Aramaki(荒巻義雄). It is a novel in which U.S. forces (along with Japanese forces under U.S. command) and Soviet forces clash on the island of Hokkaido in the Japanese archipelago. The illustrations are by Michiaki Sato(佐藤道明), and I own a fan book for this novel series.

It is sad that there are so many wonderful works of science fiction in the world, yet they remain separated by language barriers. I would like to have a word with the people who built the Tower of Babel.

Even just looking at the cover illustrations everyone posts lets my imagination expand, and I can let my consciousness drift into the depths. メディア (5).jpg
 

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Anime style artwork by Ryoichi Ikegami on the posters for the Japanese release of the almost forgotten David Lynch version of 'Dune' (1984).
 

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Anime style artwork by Ryoichi Ikegami on the posters for the Japanese release of the almost forgotten David Lynch version of 'Dune' (1984).
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I honestly do wish I could actually forget that truly wretched piece of celluloid and get over two utterly wasted hours of my life back, but alas...
 
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Courtesy of the ISFDB, the cover featuring art by Manchu for the 1985 reprinting of the 1974 French science fiction anthology 'Histoires de mutants' edited by Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis & Gérard Klein.
 

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The cover by Philippe Adamov, a French 'School of Foss' artist for the 1987 reprinting of the 1975 French science fiction anthology 'Histoires de voyages dans le temps' edited by Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis & Gérard Klein.
 

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A pair of Eddie Jones artworks, probably created for one of the German SF magazines he did cover art for. The first is clearly dated 1978 and shows definite 'Star Wars' influence, the second lacks a signature and even more remarkably, appears to be 'School of Foss' in style, this latter illustration appeared in the 1980 volume 'The Space Warriors'.
 

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The nature of the business nowadays. Jim Burns on his facebook page:

Today:

This kind of work seems to be my current designated zone…and I’m very pleased to inhabit it. ‘1984’ was followed by ‘IT’ for Folio Society and I’m currently producing 36 big pieces for another Folio tome by a ‘very well-known’ writer. Lips are sealed beyond that! At nearly 78 years old - retirement is not an option!

Bringing up a post from April 3 2021:

... Paul Suntup at Suntup Editions has given me permission to show the full set of illustrations I produced for their new '1984'

He seems to be doing OK with a mixture of private comissions, prints of older work and now illustration.

He has commented that while book covers were the core of his income once, they did impose compositional restrictions that became restrictive - as far as I can tell, the work always ended up lopsided with a concentration of characters and action on the right and then attenuated secondary action on the left for wraparound cover art.
 

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From my collection, the over to the 1990 UK edition of Arthur C. Clarke's '2001: A Space Odyssey' the cover is by an almost unrecognisable Peter Andrew Jones (Compare this with any of his 1970s covers.)
 

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An illustration from the 3rd issue of the 'Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society' for an article describing a science fiction ATV the art is credited to the articles author Tom Smith.

In a possible coincidence the following issue featured the Traveller R-PGs take on the creature from 'Alien' (1979), Tom Smith supplied the illustrations for that article as well.

It is speculated that this ATV was inspired by the Landmaster in the 1977 film 'Damnation Alley'.
 

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Graham1973 said:
An illustration from the 3rd issue of the 'Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society' for an article describing a science fiction ATV the art is credited to the articles author Tom Smith.

In a possible coincidence the following issue featured the Traveller R-PGs take on the creature from 'Alien' (1979), Tom Smith supplied the illustrations for that article as well.

It is speculated that this ATV was inspired by the Landmaster in the 1977 film 'Damnation Alley'.
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Reminds me a lot of the Soviet BAZ-69481M chassis used for their land based SRBM. (though these are from 1987 or so)

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Anyway, are these allowed as SF covers? :D

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Reminds me a lot of the Soviet BAZ-69481M chassis used for their land based SRBM. (though these are from 1987 or so)

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Anyway, are these allowed as SF covers? :D
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I count 'Warhammer 40K' as 'Scicence Fiction Adjacent' so no problems. Regarding the Landmaster, here's a screenshot taken from 'Damnation Alley' (1977) from the Wikipedia article on the vehicle.
 

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