Science Fiction Cover Art

[martinbayer]

Concept art by Mobeius for the 1979 film 'Alien'.

Fabergé egg spawn?

 

[Sineva]

Art by Yuji Kaida.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008183846135898253

 

[Michel Van]

Capt. William "Buck" Rogers : "Have we met, Gordon?."
Brigadier Gordon: "I don't think so, Captain. We're from different times."

Fun fact Brigadier Gordon is play by Actor Buster Crabbe
who was first actor to play Flash Gordon and Buck Roger in 1930s

 

[martinbayer]

Art by Yuji Kaida.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008183846135898253

You have any *hard* engineering science backed info on those concepts, or is that all Disney visual voodoo handwavium imagineering?

 

[Sineva]

You have any *hard* engineering science backed info on those concepts, or is that all Disney visual voodoo handwavium imagineering?

Its pure disney,no hard engineering or science to be found.
Have you ever seen it?,I wouldnt exactly call it a kids movie,theres some surprisingly dark moments,theres a very trippy sequence in it with what is essentially a vision of hell that is pure nightmare fuel.
Its a very impressive looking film tho in terms of its sets & special effects,even the background star field of space looks beautiful

 

[Sineva]

Fun fact Brigadier Gordon is play by Actor Buster Crabbe
who was first actor to play Flash Gordon and Buck Roger in 1930s

I`ve always thought it a little sad that the buck rogers tv show gave buster crabbe a cameo,yet in the flash gordon movie made around the same time he doesnt appear.
Just imagine if they`d had him playing sam jones dad,dropping him off at the airport right at the beginning of the film.

 

[publiusr]

Its pure disney,no hard engineering or science to be found.

The drive system is butter soft, but the structure itself looks as achievable as the Eiffel Tower... mostly empty space... similar construction.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322357627012067329

View: https://x.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1322357627012067329


Now, it'd need thousands of Starship flights to get those girders and I-beams up there...perhaps stlll simpler than some 1970s powersat concepts. Just a lot of bot/man-hours for assembly.

Inflate some tubes inside girder corridors, and you would have something that looks like Cygnus.

No artificial gravity like in the movie, however. Backrooms in orbit, for those into liminal horror.

Maybe atomic powered ion drives that would look like it's blue movie thrust.

I would say it is actually more believable than Discovery or the ring ship from INTERSTELLAR.

Those needed much larger propellant tanks to travel--where the Cygnus replica I describe would just be a fancy chandelier in Earth orbit built with Victorian methods in microgravity.

Palomino was even more realistic...looking more like a water tower than even Starhopper--but it too would have to be assembled in space...

Behind-The-Scenes Pix #8: THE BLACK HOLE

This week's Behind-The-Scenes photo, from The Black Hole, takes us to the effects stage of Walt Disney Studios, circa 1979, and the shootin...

space1970.blogspot.com

Hamill

Images of Mark Hamill as Will Robinson in Lost in Space. | Deep Dream Generator

deepdreamgenerator.com

 

[Graham1973]

A 1978 beer advert that manages to pack a lot of science fiction references into just 30 seconds, see how many you can spot...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfmtEJvxCI

 

[Hicks]

Its pure disney,no hard engineering or science to be found.
Have you ever seen it?,I wouldnt exactly call it a kids movie,theres some surprisingly dark moments,theres a very trippy sequence in it with what is essentially a vision of hell that is pure nightmare fuel.
Its a very impressive looking film tho in terms of its sets & special effects,even the background star field of space looks beautiful

You can see it as an earlier and less gory version (I won't go as far as family friendly) of « Event Horizon ».

 

[scautomoton]

I always enjoyed the film. It gets a lot of bad reviews by people, but for a Sunday afternoon its an entertaining yarn.

 

[martinbayer]

The drive system is butter soft, but the structure itself looks as achievable as the Eiffel Tower... mostly empty space... similar construction.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1322357627012067329

View: https://x.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1322357627012067329


Now, it'd need thousands of Starship flights to get those girders and I-beams up there...perhaps stlll simpler than some 1970s powersat concepts. Just a lot of bot/man-hours for assembly.

Inflate some tubes inside girder corridors, and you would have something that looks like Cygnus.

No artificial gravity like in the movie, however. Backrooms in orbit, for those into liminal horror.

Maybe atomic powered ion drives that would look like it's blue movie thrust.

I would say it is actually more believable than Discovery or the ring ship from INTERSTELLAR.

Those needed much larger propellant tanks to travel--where the Cygnus replica I describe would just be a fancy chandelier in Earth orbit built with Victorian methods in microgravity.

Palomino was even more realistic...looking more like a water tower than even Starhopper--but it too would have to be assembled in space...

Behind-The-Scenes Pix #8: THE BLACK HOLE

This week's Behind-The-Scenes photo, from The Black Hole, takes us to the effects stage of Walt Disney Studios, circa 1979, and the shootin...

space1970.blogspot.com

I always thought that design had a very steampunk 19th century look to it, which I consider utterly lazy and idiotic. But hey, Disney...

 

[Graham1973]

A Frank Kelly Freas image dating from 1996, the site that uploaded it speculated that it had never been used for a cover.

 

[AverageAmmonite]

Cowboy shootout between a Russian Cosmonaut and an American Astronaut. Art by David Schleinkofer.

 

[Brett Davidson]

A 1978 beer advert that manages to pack a lot of science fiction references into just 30 seconds, see how many you can spot...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfmtEJvxCI

Cover your eyes.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNuk_boPD8Q

Flesh Gordon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Michel Van]

The Waters Of Centaurus, by Rosel George Brown.
Lancer SF, 1972. Cover by Gene Szafran.

 

[Justo Miranda]

The Waters Of Centaurus, by Rosel George Brown.
Lancer SF, 1972. Cover by Gene Szafran.

After Christmas it's time to moderate your drink, I think I'm going to buy a bottle of mineral water.

 

[Graham1973]

Tim White's cover art to J. G. Ballard's 1981 novel 'Hello America' one of the authors lesser works.

 

[The K2]

You have any *hard* engineering science backed info on those concepts, or is that all Disney visual voodoo handwavium imagineering?

I take these cutaways with a grain of salt. On the Cygnus drawing, the part shown as the “farm” is one of the two power centers for the ship. The crippled Palomino crashed into one, and the second one overloaded and blew up. I don’t think the designers were consulted for accuracy.

 

[Graham1973]

A blog entry that discusses the cultural impact of a certain 1977 movie. Warning: The opening paragraph contains advertising.

You may think this piece is about Westerns but it’s. Not really.

The day the Western died was May 25, 1977. According to John Jakes in his introduction to A Century of Great Western Stories (2000):

Around 4:30, after the curtains parted and the John Williams fanfare blared, there went sliding up the screen the kind of lettering I remembered from Saturday afternoon serials…

https://gwthomas.org/the-day-the-western-died/

 

[Michel Van]

A blog entry that discusses the cultural impact of a certain 1977 movie.

Not quite the Western exchange the Winchester and colt with Laser and Blaster and Horse with Space Jets .
What let to This:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7z_44nGio

 

[publiusr]

Star Wars IS a Western

I think Friedkin lamented that movies like SORCERER were harmed more.

Westerns aren’t as dominant now as in the 1950’s…but Sputnik and Star Trek…and Irwin Allen disasters had more of an impact.

My two favorite years were 1979 and 1982.

Around 1983, things fell flat. Terminator is the first 90’s film in tone.

BTW if you have never seen MANHUNTER, do so.

About time

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/go-behind-the-scenes-as-fourth-doctor-tom-baker-receives-his-mbe

 

[Sineva]

Not quite the Western exchange the Winchester and colt with Laser and Blaster and Horse with Space Jets .
What let to This:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t7z_44nGio

One of roger cormans better efforts,in no small part thanks to the quality of talent he had working at his studio at the time & also the big [by his standards] budget.
I really enjoyed this one as a kid,tho seeing the heroes getting picked off one by one in the battles was a bit shocking for 10 year old me at the time.
Roger reused the special effects footage in several other movies,in fact I can remember some of it showing up in the 1994 soft core porn series Emmanuelle In Space.
James Horner also did the score.

Its funny,I dont remember the guy with 2 heads or the big insectoid dude on the left,maybe their scenes got cut?

 

[jeffb]

Album covers are ok, yes?

 

[Sineva]

Album covers are ok, yes?

I think my favorites of these would be geoff love & his orchestra
I just love that starship Enterprise,oh & the Liberator.....

 

[Brett Davidson]

If anyone is too busy to watch Starfleet Academy because they have something better to do, like combing their hair with a potato peeler and chewing aluminium foil, the hero ship of the series, Athena, is inspired by Santiago Calatrava's UAE pavilion at Dubai Expo City.

 

[Brett Davidson]

Art by Roger Dean so you never, ever have to watch an Avatar film.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover art by Eddie Jones for an unknown German SF Magazine.

 

[publiusr]

I have not seen that one before

 

[Graham1973]

Bruce Pennington in a pulpy mood for the cover art to the 1970 New English Libary edition of Frank Herbert's 1968 novel 'The Heaven Makers'

 

[Graham1973]

Cover art by Eddie Jones that was featured on the cover of 'Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Fact' a commemorative anthology for a 1973 Science Fiction/Space Exploration festival.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover art by Angus McKie for 'New Writings in SF Nº.30' edited by Kenneth Bulmer, this 1977 release was the final volume in a long running anthology series started in 1964 by John Carnell.

 

[Michel Van]

Cover art by Eddie Jones that was featured on the cover of 'Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Fact' a commemorative anthology for a 1973 Science Fiction/Space Exploration festival.

Originally this cover was for German Sci-fi series Raumschiff ORION

 

[Graham1973]

Originally this cover was for German Sci-fi series Raumschiff ORION

Great find.

 

[Graham1973]

Three UK covers to Philip K. Dick's 1974 novel 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'. The Richard Clifton-Dey cover featured on the 1976, 1979 & 1984 editions of the novel. The two versions of the Chris Moore cover appeared on the 1996 edition ('Sunglasses' cover) and the 2001 edition ('Non-Sunglasses' Cover).

 

[Graham1973]

NASA Art by Rick Guidice depicting one of the key concepts behind the Pioneer 10/11 mission.

 

[Sineva]

Originally this cover was for German Sci-fi series Raumschiff ORION

 

[Justo Miranda]

Originally this cover was for German Sci-fi series Raumschiff ORION

The helmet of this guy seems to have been designed by a committee of sociologists.

 

[Michel Van]

I forgot to tell novel series Raumschiff ORION
is based on legendary German TV series Raumpatrouille: Die Phantasiche Abenteuer des Raumschiff Orion

View: https://youtu.be/ftDXbIDfce8

 

[JoeCalPo]

The ELO album reminds me of the electronic memory game Simon.

 

[Graham1973]

The cover by John Harris to 'Beginning Operations' (2001) an anthology containing the first three novels in James White's 'Sector General Series'. A fitting reward for the artist who had redefined the series for readers in the 1980s.