70s Sci-Fi Art

A red spaceship flies close to the ground through the overgrown streets of an ancient city.

A shirtless man wades through a swamp with cobwebs in it, headed towards a futuristic city with trees growing all over it. Tim White's 1979 cover to Lord of the Spiders, by Michael Moorcock.

A decaying red spaceship lies in a blue alien meadow. Tim White's 1974 cover art for Monument, by Lloyd Biggle Jr.

The yellow-lit windows of a sci-fi tower reveal humanoid inhabitants, although the tower is almost completely overgrown with trees and shrubs. Tim White's 1978 cover to Assignment in Eternity Vol 2, by Robert A. Heinlein.

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Here's a sneak peek, featuring four Tim White artworks.

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A red spaceship flies close to the ground through the overgrown streets of an ancient city.

A shirtless man wades through a swamp with cobwebs in it, headed towards a futuristic city with trees growing all over it. Tim White's 1979 cover to Lord of the Spiders, by Michael Moorcock.

A decaying red spaceship lies in a blue alien meadow. Tim White's 1974 cover art for Monument, by Lloyd Biggle Jr.

The yellow-lit windows of a sci-fi tower reveal humanoid inhabitants, although the tower is almost completely overgrown with trees and shrubs. Tim White's 1978 cover to Assignment in Eternity Vol 2, by Robert A. Heinlein.

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about overgrown ruins in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring four Tim White artworks.

A flat yellow moonscape, seen through a glass dome in a vehicle of some sort, with a control panel at the bottom center, complete with lights, buttons, and four gear sticks.

Have a small, uncredited Control Panel Saturday with this illustration from the 1963 kid’s book 'We Land on the Moon.' dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/10/we-l...

David Hardy. The First Lunar Base from The New Challenge of the Stars, Mitchell Beazley, 1977. #DavidHardy #Moon

Oh wow, I love that Faragasso cover!

A shocked guy floats in space without a helmet, near two spaceships in a maroon and blue outer space while orbiting above a sprawling futuristic city.

John Berkey, for "Science Fiction Age," Sept 1994.

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Thank you so much!

Loving today’s delivery from @70sscifiart.bsky.social takes me right back to reading my Dad’s copies of Asimov’s foundation series when I was a kid. Get on it people, it’s fantastic!

I swear I didn't need to see the title to know this was a Cherryh.

When you offend the space doctor, he just picks up his monkey and leaves

comic panel with a guy saying "this is a fine place to have a nervous breakdown" and looking out over a landscape that could be a desert or space i cannot tell. he's got some space stuff going on with his suit though for sure

my husband sent me this but doesn't know the context. is it from a real comic

I interviewed @70sscifiart.bsky.social about his book! You can read it here: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/adam-rowe-wo...

Three greenish skeletons sit in tattered purple suits. One still holds a crank on a big control panel with radar screens and cranks. They're in a big machine room, and three living astronauts in orange spacesuits watch from a doorway.

This Control Panel Saturday, we’re doing skeletons! Here’s Karl Stephan’s 1961 cover to “Utopia Zukunftsroman” #299.

Hirō Isono The Muse of Nature

From this profile of the artist: plantfamily.substack.com/p/hiro-isono

A woman and two men, all in lounge wear, recoil from a long pink rope from offscreen that is digging into the back of one guy's suit. They're in a lush rainforest, with a single owl perched on a long branch overhead.

A wraparound version of the same cover, revealing that the long pink thing is actually the tongue of a giant lizard.

Hirō Isono’s 1977 album art for Hi-Fi Set’s "Hi-Fi Blend Pt. 1"

Amazing! That's awesome, thank you so much!

A runway with a crane-shaped spaceship on the right-hand side, and the futuristic spires and spheres of a city in the background, underneath a blood-red sky and a yellow sun. An astronaut floor buffer is on the lower left.

The full artwork is pretty great too!

Thanks!

An astronaut stands on a big panelled spaceship runway, holding a hovering floor buffer shaped like a big shiny red gumdrop. Cords attached the buffer to a widget that is coming out of a panel on the runway that weirdly has two yellow balls with red spots on it.

Today’s the two-year anniversary of the release of my retro sci-fi art history coffee table book Worlds Beyond Time! linktr.ee/70sscifiart

More importantly, a cool little detail from the book: The whimsical floor buffer on a classic 1978 Angus McKie cover for Promised Land, by Brian M. Stableford

A crowd of onlookers watch futuristic boats in a bay, with a handful of giant futuristic towers in the city in the background, against a pink sky.

Syd Mead, “Tokyo Bay Boat Race,” 1983

Half of a man's head is imposed against a collection of sci-fi elements including an astronaut, two flying creatures, and a troop of beaked bug-like aliens.

Richard Clifton-Dey’s 1983 cover to 'The Book of Philip José Farmer'

A nude guy lies on a cold operating table. He has a third eye high on his forehard, which is being pried open by the gloved hands of an offscreen doctor with a pair of plyers.

Six doctors in medical masks and hair nets stare at a brain in a glass tube in front of them. Behind them is another huge brain, collage-style.

A doctor with a botched face and his bug alien assistent operate on a guy in a room with sci-fi medical equipment including a brain in a vat.

A 50s-era doctor uses a soldering iron on the wire frame of a blonde robot woman, whose skin-like epidermis has been partially removed and lies on the nearby steel table top.

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...including which of these doctors has the death sentence on 12 systems.

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Check out the quoted post for one of the artworks I'm including - that James Warhola Med Series cover!

Three books by Harry Harrison badly photographed. Homeworld, Wheelworld and Starworld.

Here's the set.

Oh wow! That's cool to learn, thanks

A helmet-clad pilot has their back to the viewer, looking through the window of their spaceship. The entire bottom third of the image shows the control panel, with plenty of buttons, dials, and radar screens. Through the window is a cracked alien desert landscape. The red sky has two spaceships and purple planet in it.

Here's a classic Control Panel Saturday: Peter Gudynas’ 1981 cover art for Harry Harrison's 'Wheelworld.'

French title: Les Animaux de la Guerre. A large tank covered with dogs, lions, etc. There is a human at the top in a helmet.

Complete my tagline: "Before Mad Max...."

Uncredited (alas!) cover for the 1976 French edition of Frederik Pohl's Slave Ship (1957)

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Attilio Uzzo’s cover for Mauro Antonio Miglieruolo’s Come ladro di notte (1972) (Galassia #159). A multi-eyed alien-like entity moves a humanoid puppet on a stump. The tree stump is flowering and various other humans run around it.

Attilio Uzzo’s cover for the 1973 edition of Michael Moorcock’s The Ice Schooner (1969) (Galassia 163). A human form, whose feet seem to be turning into tree roots, arches over an open mouth. Various plants grow from their flesh.

Adventures in (Italian) Science Fiction Cover Art: The Flowering Bodies of Attilio Uzzo sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/07/17/a...

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