Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The Spectral Visions of Terry James, Part I

(The 1967 edition of Mindswap (1966), Robert Sheckley) A few weeks ago I reviewed Clifford D. Simak’s The Werewolf Principle (1967) and came across Terry James’ cover (below) for the 19…

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Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Existential Crisis

(Uncredited cover for the 1968 edition of Operation Terror (1962), Murray Leinster) Barry N. Malzberg’s depressed/depraved astronauts have inspired me to make a post! (unfortunately, the cove…

Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: The 1960s covers of Emanuel Schongut

(Cover for the 1965 edition of All Flesh is Grass (1965), Clifford D. Simak) On twitter I like to highlight the birthdays of often lesser known SF artists and authors—and today is Emanuel Sch…

Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

This amazing (see what we did there?) cover art is by Edward Valigursky, who had a long history of creating covers for pulp-fiction magazines. In fact, we’ve featured some of his art before — the cover for Amazing Science Fiction Stories from October of 1958.

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Amazing Science Fiction Stories – January, 1960 – Retro Book Covers

This beat-up old paperback is the January, 1960, issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. The main event in this book is the story Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber Jr.

The mind-bending cover art is by Don Ivan Punchatz. Punchatz did a lot of magazine work, having done covers for Heavy Metal, Playboy, National Geographic, and TIME. He also create the cover (and logo) for the hyper-violent 1993 video game Doom. In 2012, video game site GameSpy called the box art for Doom the second best video game box art of all time. Punchatz was clearly an illustrator with an immense amount of talent.
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Avon, 1966) – Retro Book Covers

Isaac Asimov is one of the essential names in the field of science fiction, and the Foundation trilogy is one of his most important works.

Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick – Retro Book Covers

Clans of the Alphane Moon is a Philip K. Dick novel that was originally published in 1964. The book is an expanded version of his short story Shell Game, which was published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1954.

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Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916). The title of this lithograph is L’oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers L’INFINI, which means “The eye like a strange balloon mounts toward INFINITY.”
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