Science Fiction Cover Art

The covers by an unknown artist (or artists) for the 'Star Wars with the labels scraped off' series 'Fellowship of Light' by Robert E. Mills, all three books were released by Belmont-Tower in 1978. Covers were sourced from the ISFDB and Goodreads.
 

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Graham1973 said:
The covers by an unknown artist (or artists) for the 'Star Wars with the labels scraped off' series 'Fellowship of Light' by Robert E. Mills, all three books were released by Belmont-Tower in 1978. Covers were sourced from the ISFDB and Goodreads.
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Well,I love the Star Fighters cover,you`ve got Han Solo wearing a rebel helmet & Ewen McGregors Obi-wan Kenobi sporting a goatee.
Oh & the bad guy is called "Lord Blorg":cool:
 
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I managed to track down reviews for all three books...

1. Star Quest

https://schlock-value.com/2015/11/29/star-quest/

2. Star Fighters

https://schlock-value.com/2015/12/06/star-fighters/

3. Star Force

https://schlock-value.com/2015/12/12/star-force/
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With a website called "schlock-value" you know its going to be good.

One bit that did give me both a surprise & a chuckle was this from the back cover
star-fighters-back.png

And in 1978 too....:D
 
A picture by David A. Hardy for an unknown publication.
 

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The cover art by Peter Elson for the Dystopian trilogy entitled 'Trauma 2020' by author Peter Beere. The three books that make up the trilogy were 'Urban Prey' (1984), 'The Crucifixion Squad' (1984) & 'Silent Slaughter' (1985) published by Arrow Books. The influence of the film 'Blade Runner' (1982) can be seen in the cover for 'The Crucifixion Squad'.
 

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The cover and artwork by Jim Burns for the 1981 Sphere Books edition of 'The Best of Arthur. C Clarke (1956 - 1972)' by Arthur C. Clarke. The artwork is based off the 1960 story 'Summertime on Icarus'.
 

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The cover art by Boris Vallejo for the 1985 Tor Books edition of Ben Bova's 1985 novel 'Privateers'. This same cover art was used by Tor Books for later editions of the story as far forward as 1993.
 

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Atilla Hejja being a bad John Berkey.....
 

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John Berkey's artwork for an unknown publication.
 

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Chris Moore's artwork for an unidentified edition of H. G. Wells 'The War Of The Worlds' (1897).
 

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A mysterious image of a UFO, stylistically I'd say Peter Elson, but his 'sigil' is missing from the artwork and I've no idea where it appeared.
 

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The cover art by Chris Moore for the 1997 Voyager Books edition of 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?' (1968) by Philip K. Dick the influence of the 1982 film 'Blade Runner' is clear to see even 15 years after that movies release.
 

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Boris Vallejo's cover art for the 1977 Dell Books edition of the novel 'A Place Beyond Man' (Archives of Varok: 1) (1975) by Carey Neeper.
 

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The covers by Eddie Jones for the 'Deathworld Trilogy' by Harry Harrison.
 

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Graham1973 said:
A mysterious image of a UFO, stylistically I'd say Peter Elson
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it cover of The Hynek UFO Report, 1977

more about Peter Elson HERE
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2125
https://www.peterelson.co.uk/

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Chris Moore's artwork for an unidentified edition of H. G. Wells 'The War Of The Worlds' (1897).
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The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds edition from 1999
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?296811

The Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base has vast collection of Authors and Artist all over the World.
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi
 
A cityscape by Angus McKie, widely believed to be a depiction of a portion of Trantor from Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' series.
 

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The cover art by Paul Lehr for the 1971 Pyramid Books edition of 'The Fury From Earth' (1963) by Dean McLaughlin.
 

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NASA commissioned art from 1971 by Roy Gjertson.
 

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British science fiction artist Les Edwards taking a rather 'old fashioned' view of the concept of women in space....
 

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The cover art by John Schoenherr for the November 1962 issue of ANALOG magazine which featured part one of H. Beam Piper's serial 'Space Viking' it was subsequently republished as a 'fix-up' novel of the same title in 1963
 

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Not cover art but has anyone seen any sites that have people's line drawings of the ships from Space Opera Sheldon’s Compendium of StarCraft etc...example of ship below

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The cover art by Chris Foss for the 1973 novel 'Singularity Station' by Brian N. Ball. This work appears to predate the famous monogram as the artist spells out his last name in full.
 

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The cover art by Chris Foss for the 1978 Arrow Books edition of the 1970 anthology 'Anywhen' by James Blish.
 

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John Berkey's cover art to the 1986 Ace Books edition of Michael Scott Rohan's 1982 novel 'Run To The Stars'.
 

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The cover art and cover by Chris Moore for the 1988 Legend/Century Books edition of Bruce Stirling's 1988 novel 'Islands In The Net' . A year later Chris Foss replaced Chris Moore as cover artist for the 1989 reissue of the novel by Legend Books.

Later: I did a Google search trying to find out if anyone had uploaded the full cover of the 1989 edition of 'Islands In The Net' and with the search I used got a AI generated message stating quite clearly that only Chris Moore painted covers for this novel. Clearly the idea that a publisher might use different artists for different editions of a novel has not percolated through to whatever source the chatbot is using.
 

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The cover art by Michael Whelan for Harry Harrison's 1981 novel 'Planet of No Return' (Brian Brandd: 2). While Whelan focused on the apocalyptic for his cover art Peter Elson chose to focus on the two characters at the heart of the story when he created his cover art for the 1985 reprinting of the novel by Sphere books.
 

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John Harris's cover art for the first (1982) edition by Arrow Books of Michael Scott Rohan's novel 'Run To The Stars'
 

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