70s Sci-Fi Art

A sketch of a giant saucer-shaped object floating sideways, near some people and a few futuristic towers.

John Harris

AI didn't start the race to the bottom, but it is taking gold

dolphin with electronics attached swimming in an undersea world

art by Hisaki Yasuda

Walt Simonson's title card for the ALIEN comics adaptation

Thinking about Walt Simonson's title card for the ALIEN comics adaptation

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Angus McKie's Modular Future Angus McKie's an elusive artist. He had a flurry of stellar science fiction paperback covers across the mid-to-late '70s, before slowing down across the '80s and '90s while working across a variety of...

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Cop Shoot Cop poster by Derek Hess for an October 21, 1994 Jesus Lizard show at the Euclid Tavern in Cleveland. Two cops shoot it out over the last donut. It ends well for the donut.

Was just reminded of one of the best gig posters of all time.

*One* work? I have no idea. Not trying to duck the question, but I’m at a loss to say.

It depends on “when” and “where” and “what genre” I think. 1/4

Nice! Yeah, doing the alt text for this account is a real mental workout haha

A skeleton in a purple and green spacesuit lies half-buried in a desert, with a massive crashed spaceship behind it.

A city is built on a saucer-like base on a rocky alien planet.

A big UFO with a bunch of doohickys on it hovers over a green field.

A big bulbous spaceship floats through space, packed with greebles and modular design details.

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Three desktop computer are on top of a giant floppy disk that's serving as a desktop.

Six white spheres float around near a spiral.

A beam of light is refracted through a glass prism with a computer screen shape on it, and the light surreally turns into a computer print-out after passing through.

Four keyboards are all connected to a stack of four floppy disks.

The articles in this issue are all about groupware, a collaborative software for people working on a common task together. Tinney's illustrating different aspects of that concept with each image.

Every key on a white desktop keyboard is itself an entire keyboard of incredibly tiny keys.

A tiny group of mountain climbers scale a desktop computer.

A desktop computer has different paths formed by arrows pointing out in a handful of different directions, with pairs of tiny people travelling along some of them.

A container holding a bunch of floppy disks has a pull-out keyboard along its side.

One last set of interior art by Robert Tinney, for BYTE's December 1988 issue. This is the biggest one yet, with a total of eight illustrations.

Three desktop computer are on top of a giant floppy disk that's serving as a desktop.

Six white spheres float around near a spiral.

A beam of light is refracted through a glass prism with a computer screen shape on it, and the light surreally turns into a computer print-out after passing through.

Four keyboards are all connected to a stack of four floppy disks.

The articles in this issue are all about groupware, a collaborative software for people working on a common task together. Tinney's illustrating different aspects of that concept with each image.

Every key on a white desktop keyboard is itself an entire keyboard of incredibly tiny keys.

A tiny group of mountain climbers scale a desktop computer.

A desktop computer has different paths formed by arrows pointing out in a handful of different directions, with pairs of tiny people travelling along some of them.

A container holding a bunch of floppy disks has a pull-out keyboard along its side.

One last set of interior art by Robert Tinney, for BYTE's December 1988 issue. This is the biggest one yet, with a total of eight illustrations.

Three astronauts in blue jumpsuits float through or work in the cramped quarters of a space station with CCCP on its side. A blue Earth is below and to the right of them.

Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! Here's a crossection of the Mir space station, by Pierre Mion.

Jonathan Graves #1984 rb.gy/n74bhe

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wait is "reigns" a pun here

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...

@70sscifiart.bsky.social Your latest newsletter had me giggling. Paintings really do have a life of their own! Keep up the good work ❤️ I look forward to it every instalment!

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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.