Science Fiction Cover Art

Covers by Jim Burns for novels by Robert Charles Wilson, a Canadian author. All very intelligent sf. The one with dragonfly-like things (they're drones) is Bios, the one with the steamboat in a jungle is Darwinia, the one with the odd creature is Blind Lake, the one with the obelisk is The Chronoliths. Burns reads the books he illustrates, so the covers are honest representations.
 

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For the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. Fantasy rather than sf, but there's no magic or dragons, just weird and twisted people. 'Dickens on crack' as an actor in the BBC adaptation described them. The artist is Ian Miller. Peake's parents were missionaries to China and the ancient castle of Gormenghast and its custom-bound denizens were inspired by the Forbidden City in Beijing.
 

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Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, also known as The Silver Locusts. An illustrated edition also by Ian Miller.
 

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Rhinocrates said:
For the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. Fantasy rather than sf, but there's no magic or dragons, just weird and twisted people. 'Dickens on crack' as an actor in the BBC adaptation described them. The artist is Ian Miller. Peake's parents were missionaries to China and the ancient castle of Gormenghast and its custom-bound denizens were inspired by the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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The tree jutting from the wall was re-used in a later work by Ian Miller called 'Dneiper I'
 

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Graham1973 said:
All fixed.
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Also, the following sci-fi art blogger has attributed the painting to John Berkey a couple days ago in an April 20 post.
To me the sunburst shoulder patch looks more like a design Robert McCall would use.
I went playing in Google and in Tin Eye reverse image search at the time and could find no other reference to this painting than that Tumblr post.
Close examination of the posted image showed no artist signature that I could discern.
Berkey and McCall, not to be confused with Bogie and Bacall, are 2 of my favorite space & sci-fi artists.
And I have been collecting both real and fictional spacesuit images.
So this image is of great interest.

https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F781373336040210432
View: https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/781373336040210432/john-berkey
 
southwestforests said:
Also, the following sci-fi art blogger has attributed the painting to John Berkey a couple days ago in an April 20 post.
To me the sunburst shoulder patch looks more like a design Robert McCall would use.
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Definitely McCall. It's on page 40 of the book Our World in Space by Robert McCall and Isaac Asimov. The art is exclusively by McCall.
 
Rhinocrates said:
It's on page 40 of the book Our World in Space by Robert McCall and Isaac Asimov
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Oddly with as much as I like the art, I've not ever bought any books about the space and sci-fi artists, not Berkey, not Vincent diFate, not McCall.
Always seemed, and still seems, to be another book I wanted more about something else.
 
artwork by Jack Gaughan
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The cover by an unknown artist to one of the many crank books published in the 1970s.
 

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Art by Basil Gogos for an unknown publication, not sure when it was painted, but it's clearly channelling classic pulp imagery, just look at the 'hood ornament' on the male characters helmet...
 

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A selection of covers by Chris Moore for the fiction of Philip. K. Dick found on the Internet Archive.
 

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The artwork by John Schoenherr for the 1963 short story 'The Trouble With Telstar' by John Berryman. Partly sourced from Project Gutenberg.
 

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While Chris Moore seems to have been the artist of choice for Philip K. Dick covers in the UK, Chris Foss also produced at least one cover for this author.
 

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A pulp inspired advert by an artist signing themselves 'Gutridge' for the 1970's wargame 'Starship & Empire'.
 

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Graham1973 said:
The full and wonderfully moody artwork by Chris Moore for 'The Unteleported Man' by Philip K. Dick, the version with the titling on it is posted earlier in the thread.
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Hey, whaddayaknow, I'm an unteleported man myself - what are the odds, eh??? Or is that more like the house that didn't burn down?
 
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