this is the thread where you help me find evocative/komikal sf cover art

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http://www.frankwu.com/Paul8.522A.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(also: do any of the other gray panthXoRz recall that you used to be able to buy cheap repro pictures, to hang in yr house, of moody ppl-free planetscapes w.space in the background) (maybe the apollo programme sunk this species of decoration: i always wanteds mum and dad to get many of these pix but i wz like 6 and it wz their house not mine)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.frankwu.com/Paul3.2A.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.frankwu.com/Paul2.121A.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.frankwu.com/Paul1.5A.jpg

(these are all by frank r. paul btw, courtesy frank wu's website)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I love these! I have a few old books kicking around somewhere, I'll scan them in if I can find 'em.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dunno if this is what you are looking for:

http://www.imagemagician.com/images/buglebear/stigmata.jpg

It's from the 1966 edition

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that's a great one jel, which i actually own (but i own no scanner): does it say who the artist is (usually it doesn't of course)

actually i also like the totally generic ones, where you just get some elaborately asymmetrical spaceship nothing to do w.what's inside the book

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark it's by Peter Gudynas!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

they're gunna let me post the paul lehr so here is his obit and a link

http://www.tomorrowsf.com/articles/budrys/lehr_obit.html

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

chesley bonestell!!!!

http://www.novaspace.com/LTD/BONESTELL/PIX/Mimas.jpeg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I really love this stuff. I have a big illustrated history of Sci Fi with just this sort of thing in it (including some of these pictures--hmmm).

The cover of the new Sun Ra CD looks a little like this sort of thing (though without figures).

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i prefer the ones w/o figures - i didn't see those little guys till after i posted it... it's (cheapo repro) versions of the bonestell style i wz referring to by "moody ppl-free planetscapes w.space in the background" (i don't know if he invented it)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Music from Tomorrow's World

I don't have this yet. It's not officially out until next week.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not the david kyle book is it, RS? that's the one i have...

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

howard v. brown:

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/images/sfpicts/wnd01502.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

margaret brundage:

http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/Nova/Wt7-36.jpg

(MB did the covers for all nine "conan the barbarian" issues, and each time demonstrated that the deviant amazonian lesb-avenger seed for xena was locked right into the heart of robert e. howard's fiction... )

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.aol.com/weirdtales/wt1033.jpg

ok she says in interview that she used her husband sometimes as the model for the naked guys — which naked guys?!? — but almost never used models for all the girls... so maybe she was just an ordinary married het lady who really really liked doing fabulous lurid pix of fit semi-nude ladies torturing one another: anyway she wz WT's favourite cover artist

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-158.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

roy krenkel: http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-181.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

frank frazetta of course: way to not get yr frock messy!!

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-182.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-222.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-239.jpg

the green brain's cover pic here has zero link w.its contents, which is abt mutant (ordinary sized) insects banding together to challenge mankind for earth's overlordship

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ed emsh:

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-279.jpg

haha i love this guy's expression

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-301.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Turns out that most of my books are buried in the impenetrable fortress of milkcrates stacked in the corner, so no scans after all.

but google unearthed -
http://www.cyberbeach.net/~spirit/books/pics/book13.jpg

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-123.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"e pluribus unicorn" = he tht of the title then decided he had to write a book to fit it!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

actually that probably applies to 80% of this stuff

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! I was cheating with that one. The cover art was incidental.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm trying to get a lead on one of those chunkily potato-shaped 70s spaceships, but the jackets i own never seem to credit the artist (the archetype is on my copy of delany's triton) (of which i guess a small amount does actually happen in space) and the website collectors seem to have been left competely cold by them — in their airfix-kit-of-the-yr-4045 way i think they're as interesting and revealing as the barbarian chiXoRz aliens and angst stuff

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ack. Caught without a scanner right now, but here we go anyway. Some of these are scans I did for the Philip K. Dick web site.

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/scanner.jpg

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/martian.jpg

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/eyeinthesky-jap.jpg

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/oeil.jpg

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/marley/eye1-psm.jpg

http://rad.clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp/RAD/RAD5/RAL/E/cover/covers/MG/FSF71-12CV.jpg

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it is by a David Kyle.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 2 November 2002 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

When are these from mostly, early 60s? I am scannerless but most of the SF books round here seem to be mid-70s, so mostly very different to the ones above, though I'm sure there are some potato-shaped spaceships around here somewhere, there are certainly a load of beige spaceships dressing entirely spaceshipless books up as E E "Doc" Smith cowboys-in-space blasts.

Also not the style you're looking for, but I really hope someone archived on images.google has a scan of the Electric Sheep Escher-style-peeling-sheep->mainsplug art which is (uncredited and on plain light blue background) on my mother's mid-70s paperback copy. That fascinated me as a child, as did the title.

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! It's on the site Chris Barrus was referring to and all. I'll just link to the cover scan and the archive, to save leeching too much of their bandwidth.

http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/dadoesbr.jpg
http://www.philipkdick.com/covers.htm

Nice site, Mr Barrus!

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i have that book too mr scientist!! (i had a biiger bettah one also but it was stolen by someone at sight and sound)

rebecca, ithink everything so far except maybe the unicorn and some of the dick is pre-1970

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Two great magazine covers by A Sigmond from 1933:
http://monotonous.net/pictures/pulps/amazingfeb33x.JPG http://monotonous.net/pictures/pulps/amazingmay33x.JPG

Those and others from http://www.monotonous.net/interests/pulps.html , which I found by googling Virgil Finlay after seeing this cover of his on an illustrated Cordwainer Smith bibliography:
http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/CSBiblio/Mag2a.gif

I love the internet and I love this thread. I hope more people post to it. Sorry if I'm dragging it off-course.

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 3 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yay gottim: chris foss = potato ship guy

http://www.artistsuk.net/acatalog/mini-ASTEROID_COLLISION.JPG

http://www.artistsuk.net/acatalog/mini-THE_SENTINEL_Foss.JPG

http://www.artistsuk.net/acatalog/mini-ANTARES_DAWN_Foss.JPG

http://www.dreamstone.com.au/artists/chris_foss_pictures/floating%20cities.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 3 November 2002 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

those ones were cool, they look like the ones from the Usborne series that predicted that by the year 2000 we would all be on our way to the stars in city-spaceships constructed around hollowed out asteroids.

― chris (chris), Sunday, 3 November 2002 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

rebecca you are not dragging it off course!!

any more of that talk and these guys are coming to oxford

http://www.robertweinberg.net/gifs/artwork/hall-big.jpg

(this is by virgil finlay)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 3 November 2002 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, especially for mark s - something from my teenaged sci-fi art phase - http://www.imagemagician.com/images/grimstitch/techlove.jpg
it's kind of smudged, but that's cause it's spent the last decade in a garbage bag under my bed.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 3 November 2002 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fantascienza.net/users/femino/PAUL/DUENUOVECITTAPAUL.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.asfa-art.org/Chesleys/1998/images/Rhinoceros.jpg

Cover of The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzshe and the Other Odd Acquaintances by Michael Dashow.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

[sic]

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s HATES my drawing!

Oh, if only I were better than Wesley Crusher I might yet be able to console myself. Alas!

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 4 November 2002 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel just like this poor girl -

http://www.peltorro.com/sf053.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 4 November 2002 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

kim sorry i tht i posted an enthusiastic response except it isn't there so i didn't obv

(response: my love is a liquid!!)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 4 November 2002 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A terrific book chock full of potato ships:

http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Rec/TTABooks/SBttlhalf.jpg

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 4 November 2002 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

HERE WE GO! lots of em still intact also hurrah!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/389640980_7f3fb80f7b_o.jpg

― S-, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago)

Lots more pulps in this one than the others

― kingfish, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 06:14 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

timely!

― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

omg i have a scanner now too!

― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2374808981_19a2cb0423_b.jpg

― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t2042.jpg

― mark s, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

mixed ingredients!

― gff, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Love the very 60s covers/illustrations by the Dillons:

https://raggedclawsnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/leo-diane-dillon_the-palace-of-eternity_ny-ace-1969.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:39 (five years ago)

an underrated thing is when penguin SF (ed.aldiss?) illustrated their books w/surrealist and modernist classics, viz yves tanguy's THE DOUBTER on hal clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V54iILf8_zc/WkF0CIpPx9I/AAAAAAAAbTA/28whEj6i0n4jLbb8VUQ_ELQ_LtHq-3yFgCLcBGAs/s1600/1937%2BThe%2BDoubter.JPG

https://pictures.abebooks.com/GOTSED2900K/md/md22585115076.jpg

― mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:46 (five years ago)

^^^loved this book so much as a kid

― mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:50 (five years ago)

This is an excellent resource for all yr Penguin SF cover needs:

https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org

Adore this one w/ a Klee:

https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/images/1886_FRANK_HERBERT_The_Dragon_in_the_Sea_1963.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 11:58 (five years ago)

I prefer a bit of Klee or Miro to that sub-Dali airbrushed style, though not trying to get into an argument with you Mark!

― calzino, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:00 (five years ago)

oh that is OG Dali!

― calzino, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:02 (five years ago)

Yves Tanguy .. ignore me, I misread the post.

― calzino, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:03 (five years ago)

i liked it (aged 10ish?) bcz i thought of it as a simultaneous portrait of charles lackland (the main human explorer) and barlennan (the main alien he was trying to communicate with and help and be helped by) and of the landscape of the discworld mesklin. everything morphed into everything else and this suited me at the time

(i've kind of only just worked this out actually)

(i had no strong opinions pro or con dali at that age and i don't know much about tanguy now tbh)

― mark s, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:13 (five years ago)

relevant:
https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/08/03/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-the-surreal-cityscape-covers-of-ludovico-de-luigi/#more-18464

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:28 (five years ago)

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