Science Fiction Cover Art

[Graham1973]

Frank Kelly Freas for an unknown publication.

 

[Charlesferdinand]

Art by Richard Corben for ‘Warchild’ by Richard Bowes

Santerminator?

 

[Antonio]

Frank Kelly Freas for an unknown publication

Star Wars "cantina" style?

 

[Graham1973]

1930s pulp inspired artwork for an unknown publication by Ken Barr.

 

[Graham1973]

Cover art by Ken Barr for the first issue of 'Queststar' magazine.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover art by Michael Whelan for the 1979 Ace Books anthology 'Four-Day Planet/Lone Star Planet' containing one full novel by H. Beam Piper and a second work that paired Piper with author John J. McGuire. On Michael Whelan's website this image is described as an 'old favourite'. For what it's worth, the image illustrates the first story.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Donato Giancola

 

[Brett Davidson]

More.
One's Joan of Arc (duh) and the others are covers for Brian Stableford's Emortality series. They're a future history series of six novels examining the effects of genetically-endowed immortality on society - but it's only proof against age, not accident or murder. The novels are a follow-on to a collaboration he did with David Langford, The Third Millennium. They're in the mode of 'scientific romance' identified by Stableford in his critical works and deal only with realistic technology - no FTL - with an emphasis on biology and sociology (Stableford was qualified in both these areas). They can be read alone. The art has a kind of Syd Mead-ish feel.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Look at the detail and texture!

 

[Michel Van]

Donato Giancola him self
his secret: large scale canvas and oil paint
yes Oil paint, it dry for ages, but result are pure Magic
(the 1970s work of Jim Burns were also in Oil paint (like Planet Story))

 

[Graham1973]

The artwork by Shusei Nagaoka for the 1978 Deep Purple album 'When We Rock, We Rock And When We Roll, We Roll'.

 

[southwestforests]

The art has a kind of Syd Mead-ish feel.

That first one, with green intermediate structure and yellow background, has a Jim Burns flavor about it to me.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Most AI-produced work is, well, slop. Jonsson's work charms me though and AI is just an initial tool for him.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/t...ng-worlds-of-fredrik-jonsson-and-liam-young_o

 

[southwestforests]

Most AI-produced work is, well, slop. Jonsson's work charms me though and AI is just an initial tool for him.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/t...ng-worlds-of-fredrik-jonsson-and-liam-young_o

I just learned a word, metabolist,

A building that hovers over the ground is somewhere between a spaceship and a brutalist or Metabolist structure that might have been built in the 1970s but is here surrounded by 1950s-vintage cars.

https://architecture-history.org/schools/METABOLISTS.html

The Metabolist movement emerged at the Tokyo meeting of the 1960 World Design Conference (an epilogue to the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne [CIAM, 1927-]), with the proposal that architecture should not only embrace new technologies and the enormous scales of the post-war period but also develop living, self-generating systems that could adapt over time. Founded by a group of ambitious young architects intent on challenging the status quo and thus establishing their own presence among the international congress of leading architects, the movement's core group included the architects Kiyonori Kikutake, Fumihiko Maki, and Kisho Kurokawa, all of whom later enjoyed enduring international reputations. In addition, another architect, Masato Otaka, the critic Noboru Kawazoe, the graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu, and the industrial designer Kenji Ekuan were also involved in the production of the bilingual manifesto published by the group.

Although the Metabolists were a small group, Metabolism as a movement included others, especially Kenzo Tange and his assistant Takashi Asada, who nurtured the founders through a sort of late-night salon. Tange's "City for 10 Million People" (1960), to be built along a series of looped roadways stretching across Tokyo Bay, was a direct response to his proteges' work. Arata Isozaki, working for Tange during the same period, was also identified with the movement, but he took a darker view, reflected in his sketches of brutal concrete towers rising from ruins.

The original Metabolists' relative lack of professional experience was reflected in their audaciously futuristic proposals. In the group's only publication, Metabolism 1960: The Proposals for New Urbanism, Kikutake's sketches were ...

 

[Graham1973]

A depiction of the Martian surface by artist Don Dixon for an unknown publication.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/raf-h-type-oxygen-mask-joe-space-from-spain/

 

[Brett Davidson]

A depiction of the Martian surface by artist Don Dixon for an unknown publication.

I think it might be a red giant with a white dwarf companion over an imaginary planet.

 

[Graham1973]

Concept art by Syd Mead for the 1982 film 'Blade Runner'.

 

[Graham1973]

Don Davis' 1975 attempt to imagine what it would look like inside an orbiting colony.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Art by Fred Freeman for Werner von Braun's First Men to the Moon, 1960. Von Braun had already collaborated with Chesley Bonestel for Collier's in 1954 and this dates from when Mercury was already well under way, but is obviously divergent from the eventual Apollo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_to_the_Moon

 

[Brett Davidson]

More, b&w. Escaneer (sorry, is that a handle or a file name?) has already posted these but I thought that I might as well compile the lot together with the colour ones I have so there's a complete set in one place.

 

[Brett Davidson]

The spacecraft.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover art by Chris Foss for author J. T. McIntosh's penultimate novel 'Norman Conquest 2066' (1977)

A rather scathing review of the novel itself can be read at the site linked below.

https://mporcius.blogspot.com/2016/02/norman-conquest-2066-by-j-t-mcintosh.html

 

[Brett Davidson]

Suits.

 

[Brett Davidson]

More by Freeman. A cyborg adapted to life in space, a habitat in a crevasse (the sort of thing we'd propose for a lava tube today), a Mars rover with a spherical inflated habitat, and a centrifugal space station.

 

[southwestforests]

Art by Fred Freeman for Werner von Braun's First Men to the Moon, 1960. Von Braun had already collaborated with Chesley Bonestel for Collier's in 1954 and this dates from when Mercury was already well under way, but is obviously divergent from the eventual Apollo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_to_the_Moon

That from Wikipedia,

Reviewing the book in Amazing Stories, S. E. Cotts wrote that while it appears to target young adults, the technical details of the voyage will appeal to older readers. He felt that where von Braun adds science to the story, the characters tend to become "experimental robots", but when he discusses the science separately in the book's copious margins, the author brings the tale "alive with authority and interest".[8] Science fiction writer and critic, P. Schuyler Miller described the book as a "thin hybrid" of science and fiction. In a review in Analog Science Fact & Fiction, Miller said the book is "[t]echnically impeccable", but felt it is school library material and "offers very little to adult readers who have any knowledge of science fiction". Miller did, however, compliment the technical discussions and diagrams in the wide margins, adding that it made the book "unusual and interesting."[15]

Brings to mind that I sometimes, and especially since my health has declined, like to read something which is simply an enjoyable light read which asks no extra effort of me.

(hmm, don't recall anyone ever describing me as impeccable, is that a thing I should wish to happen or not?)

 

[Brett Davidson]

That perennial of futurism, the domed city (still Freeman).

 

[southwestforests]

a habitat in a crevasse (the sort of thing we'd propose for a lava tube today), a Mars rover with a spherical inflated habitat, and a centrifugal space station.

Oh where are the plastic model kits with transparent parts to show the interior details and crew figures?

 

[Brett Davidson]

Now here, I think FF is illustrating Project Plowshare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

 

[Brett Davidson]

Finally, I think I first saw these in one of a series by TIME/LIFE. Illustrations of hypothetical but intended to be realistic or plausible aliens from high gravity, low gravity and aquatic environments.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Oh where are the plastic model kits with transparent parts to show the interior details and crew figures?

Not to mention the plastic model kits of the people with the transparent parts to show the interior organs. Remember those?

 

[southwestforests]

That perennial of futurism, the domed city (still Freeman).

Better domed than doomed.

 

[Graham1973]

A 1975 artwork by an unknown artist, depicting what the night sky would have looked like had a serious Orbital Solar Power programme been carried out.

 

[publiusr]

That's better than Starlink--here, you know what is a golden apple of the Sun...easier for astronomers to work around.

They could be over the Pacific in geosynch, and perhaps relay power elsewhere. The western-most powersats beams towards a facility miles out to sea off California's coast.

 

[Antonio]

Escaneer (sorry, is that a handle or a file name?)

Spanish word for scanner, since that Images are coming from Justo Miranda

 

[Graham1973]

Two hypothetical orbital colony interiors by Don Davis, both dating from around 1975.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover of the September 1969 issue of Analog magazine featuring artwork by Frank Kelly Freas operating in a more serious mode than usual.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Spanish word for scanner, since that Images are coming from Justo Miranda

Thank you for posting these earlier, Justo!

 

[Brett Davidson]

Two hypothetical orbital colony interiors by Don Davis, both dating from around 1975.

Foundation, for all its faults, looks gorgeous. An O'Neill-type colony appears in this season.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by Eddie Jones for the 1973 Sphere Books edition of Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' (1970)