Nathan Anderson

"Ugh, Benedict Paucemanly is gonna be there? I'm staying home."

David Ohle's Motorman might be the single strangest thing I've ever read.

Gormenghast Steve and Nethescurial Terry are outside on my lawn again, throwing literature of the weird at my house. Get out of here before me and Viriconium Tyler beat your asses

A self portrait with disparate elements peeking in-- a skull, a fish, a sun engraving and a flayed arm.

Self Portrait, 2025

A gaggle of elves

#art #warhammer40k #eldar #drukhari #exodites

The Alzabo from The Book of the New Sun is certainly up there! Frankenstein's monster is also a given.

Full portfolio of images here!

www.nathanandersonart.com/viriconium

An illustration commemorating M. John Harrison's Viriconium novels, showing different elements (a horse's skull, a distorted insect's wing and a sword) coming together in an abstract conglomeration.

More Viriconium!

Figured I'd illustrate a piece that would theoretically be on a boxset containing the four volumes.

The full set of illustrations can be seen in the reply below! 👇

Oh my God, hahaha

Never done this, but curious what y'all think!

Collage bird with scaled legs and an almost mechanical head with human teeth and a human hand.

Carl Smith's cover art detail for the science fiction anthology Spectrum 5, ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (1969)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Somethin' in progress

Well, Alan? I'm waiting.

I also remember his "make a world" drawing book very fondly!

But yeah, the comparison to Shadow of the Beast is very appropriate -- almost too ambitious for their own good at times, haha

Relics has such an incredible aesthetic too.

Also, Dick is dead. Finally.

Oh yeah, I used to check out drawing books of his ALL the time when I was in grade school-- such charming stuff!

I will read that one at some point, haha-- I must!

Gotta get some of that Wrightson Frankenstein action in there.

Whitley Strieber's Communion is hot garbage, but goddamn do I love that cover.

*Finally* able to procure enough shelving to get all my novels out of storage!

Reason I ask is that I tend to associate him with the other New Wave authors, but not sure if that's accurate or not. I've seen him labeled as New Wave and not-New Wave in pretty equal measures.

Just curious. For the Gene Wolfe fans-- do you consider him part of the New Wave or not?

I know his most widely recognized work falls out of that era and into the 80s and beyond, but The Fifth Head of Cerberus and a large swathe of short stories were published in the early 70s, etc.

The poster, Steph (right), and their husband, Nathan (left), posing for a picture in their Halloween costumes. Nathan is wearing glasses, a black shirt, a brown blazer, tan dress pants, and brown shoes. He has dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, and he has a goatee. Steph is wearing glasses, an orange sweater, a red skirt, orange socks, and black loafers. They have light brown hair in a bob.

For Halloween my husband @nathanandersonart.bsky.social and I went as Ben Ravencroft and Velma from Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost

It's genuinely upsetting, but the chapters showcasing the wild animals are amongst the most beautiful passages I've read-- it's jarring, but I think about it a lot!

I've sung the praises of this novel before, but Doctor Rat is a simultaneously unsettling and darkly funny masterpiece, with the eponymous nazi-esque Doctor Rat exposing the horrific ideals and ambitions espoused by nationalists. A diatribe against animal torture, yes, but so much more than that.

An albino rat with a bandaged tail is surrounded by images of wild animals.

“Gimme a B, gimme a U, gimme a B, gimme an O, gimme an N, gimme an I, gimme a C! Bubonic, bubonic, bubonic, go!”

I am now a third of a century old!

Ah! I used to have some of these!

Seeing "To Mary (Shelley) and Bernie (Wrightson), you are the big bang of my soul" in the credits had me crying a little -- beautiful and loving tribute to their work.