70s Sci-Fi Art

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A woman with a mohawk poses in a stylized black garment that looks like a bunch of smoke trying to be a dress. Behind her are two silver women who are both copying her pose. The outline of a tall rocketship is in the background.

This original artwork by Frank Kelly Freas only appeared in print in black and white, as an interior illustration for A. Bertram Chandler’s “The Far Traveller” in the August 1976 issue of 'Analog' magazine. www.blackgate.com/2016/02/04/f...

Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Crawford Award-winning author Jared Pechacek's WHERE FIRE REIGNS, pitched as Firefly with firebenders, in which a crew of fugitives must keep a feral goddess safe from the church who believes her death will bring water back to their dry world, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor, for publication in winter 2027, by Jennifer Azantian at Azantian Literary Agency (NA). Translation: alba@mushens-entertainment.com Film/TV: film@azantianlitagency.com

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A red and black pen-and-ink depiction of a creepy dragon with tattered wings under a glaring sun.

Ian Miller

Two flying saucers fly extremely close to a red truck on a highway at night.

Walter Molino

Cocaine is the true drug of capitalism because every "cool" magazine in the 1970s had a section absolutely fuckin chock full of kitschy coke-accessory crapola

bet it's a bit embarrassing for wizards when they put in their first custom robe order. guy keeps asking if you're sure about those sleeve measurements

professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

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A picture of a microchip (?), with the top dissolving into hand-painted pixelated squares.

A picture of the Earth, with the top dissolving into hand-painted pixelated squares.

Printed pages float up and out of a fax machine that is inside the screen of a desktop computer.

An image of a shattering wine glass, with the bottom dissolving into hand-painted pixelated squares.

A picture of an ear, with the right-hand side dissolving into hand-painted pixelated squares.

A picture of a pair of lips, with the left-hand side dissolving into hand-painted pixelated squares.

More interior illustrations by Robert Tinney, for BYTE magazine's December 1989 issue, accompanying a series about sound and image processing.

Three astronauts on a red alien planet watch the open door of a glowing white sphere, with three other spheres behind it.

Dean Ellis

A vibrant, impressionistic painting depicts a long, thin spacecraft traveling through a colorful nebula toward a bright, glowing star or galaxy.

The Black Hole (1979): USS Cygnus, art by Peter Ellenshaw

David Lawson. Moon Base. From a card set called The Race Into Space, Brooke Bond, 1971. #DavidLawson #BrookeBond #moon

PANEL 1: NARRATOR: "Cultivating the measured NPR cadence and placid deference to the military that characterizes the ideal neoliberal subject, Clark Kent returns to the editorial meeting..." A group of DAILY PLANET reporters are in a meeting, Clark Kent is responding to a question from his boss. CLARK: "Well, chief, the bombing campaign--" PANEL 2: Clark is talking and the other reporters and co-workers look unhappy. CLARK: "Obviously war in the region is not-ah-"ideal," but regime change could ultimately provide socioeconomic benefits that far outweigh the regrettable civilian casualties..." CLARK (thinking): "As Superman, last son of Krypton, these words of course sicken me; however, it's Clark Kent's job to manufacture consent!" PANEL 3: (inset in a larger panel) One reporter is whispering to another. REPORTER: "Kent is such an off-putting sociopath" REPORTER 2: "I hope he kills himself". An arrow points to this inset panel that reads "Thanks to super-hearing" from Clark's ear. Clark is smiling and thinking to himself. CLARK (thinking): "Looks like my secret identity as Clark Kent is safe...FOR NOW!"

the mild manners are job security, baby

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A cutaway view of the interiors of the Discovery, the spaceship from 2001.

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday, Oliver Rennart's art for '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Tatjana Wood R.I.P. What an fabulous colourist she was. To take but her work on Swamp Thing: in what may just be the greatest monthly comic ever, her contribution was every bit the equal as that of her illustrious colleagues. And Swamp Thing was no easy book to colour. My cap is doffed with respect.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

A white human head has been formed out of a string of 0s and 1s, which is unlooping itself at the top of the head.

A gray slab is cracking away at its corner, revealing that its insides are a stack of white 0s and 1s.

A desktop computer composed of white 0s and 1s has a black screen with chalked 0s and 1s on it.

A wall of white 0s and 1s has a pair of lips.

Another set of interior illustrations by Robert Tinney, this time for BYTE magazine's August 1989 issue, for a series about neural networks.

cover of The Terror

Cover of Hyperion

RIP to Dan Simmons, who somehow made frostbite every bit as terrifying as a time-traveling robot covered in razor-sharp spikes

RBmedia | The Tower Listen to the audiobook The Tower, written by David Anaxagoras, narrated by Christopher Gebauer.

Nebula voters, please don't leave the Middle Grade/Andre Norton Award nomination blank on your ballots. MG is often overlooked!

My own book, The Tower by David Anaxagoras, was never migrated from the old SFWA reading list. Pls consider making it one of your noms.

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Minami Taiheiyou Adventure clean artwork used on the cover of the NEC PC-88 release as well as for advertising. Image depicts a man holding a boat paddle, standing in front of a massive stone doorway intricately carved with a demonic motif with claws and large horned statues on both sides. On top a giant octopus can be seen with his tentacles swaying around, one of them being bitten by a giant dark lizard like creature. Some lightning bolts can be seen further back up top.

The artwork of Minami Taiheiyou Adventure used on the cover of the #NEC #PC88 release as well as for advertising. Still a bit cropped on all sides. Removed logos/text, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process. No clue on the artist, any info let me know!

Remember when the computer used to be good and our friend? Cause this is genuinely nostalgic

A highway is full of sleek, domed future cars. In the foreground, we see inside one car, where two men have the auto mode on and are drinking coffee while driving 150 mph with a bunch of tv screens and control panels in front of them.

Closeup of the dashboard, featuring a video screen of the road ahead, and a screen showing a real-time map.

A detail from the first image, showing a car on the right side of the road.

Another detail, featuring a car on the left side of the road.

John Berkey illustration for a 1991 issue of "Popular Mechanics"

Barrington J. Bayley, Collision with Chronos, Fontana, 1979. Cover: Colin Hay. First published as Collision Course, 1973. #BarringtonBayley #ColinHay #TimeTravel

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Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe

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This is a must-have for any Sci-Fi fan (like me, I am a Sci-Fi fan)

Barrington J. Bayley, Annihilation Factor, Allison & Busby, 1979. Cover: John Harris. Expansion of The Patch, as by Peter Woods, New Worlds, 1964. #BarringtonBayley #PeterWoods #JohnHarris