"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
Another parky morning on the Canadian Prairies, another pair of imperfect picks from the paperback pile:
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ABOVE: Rod Serling, Night Gallery (NY: Bantam, 1971), with cover art by David Blossom.
ABOVE: Luke Short, The Stalkers (NY: Bantam, 1979), with cover art by David Blossom.
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More cover scans, courtesy of yours truly:
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ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, Enchanted Pilgrimage (NY: Berkley, 1975), Z2987, with cover art by Paul Lehr.
ABOVE: Stephen Tall, The Ramsgate Paradox (NY: Berkley, c1976), Z3186, with cover art by Paul Lehr.
ABOVE: Anders Bodelsen, Freezing Down (NY: Berkley, 1972), S2186, with cover art by Paul Lehr.
ABOVE: Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss, eds., Best SF 73 (NY: Berkley, 1974), with cover art by Paul Lehr.
The art on the cover of Freezing Down is uncredited, and no signature is visible, but I’m going to go ahead and attribute it to Paul Lehr. If you know better, you are welcome to post a comment and set the record straight.
Only a day after I almost apologized for not posting more often since the summer, and I’m back with two more covers scanned from the magnificent mouldering heap that I laughingly refer to as my personal library:
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ABOVE: John Jakes, On Wheels (NY: Warner, 1973), 75-123, with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz.
ABOVE: Mike Resnick, The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer (NY: Signet, 1983), 451-AE2082, with cover art by Don Ivan Punchatz.
To view all of the covers with art by Don Ivan Punchatz (1936 – 2009) that I’ve posted so far, click here and scroll down.
Since I started TRANSISTORADIO back in August, I have been even slower to post new stuff here at RCN than I used to be, but this evening, I found the time to scan and process four covers with airbrush art by Stanislaw Fernandes, whose work has been featured once before here at RCN. Enjoy!
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ABOVE: Arthur C. Clarke, Reach for Tomorrow (NY: Ballantine, 1972), 29474, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.
ABOVE: Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End (NY: Ballantine, 1974), 29730, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.
ABOVE: Michael Moorcock, The Cornelius Chronicles (NY: Avon, 1977), 31468, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.
ABOVE: Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat (NY: Avon, 1977), 34611, with cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes.
Here at RCN, we are unaccountably proud of our unsung power to distract an uncommunicative coterie of unwashed hipsters from the unbounded corruption of the uncaring world with an unsteady stream of unprofessional scans of unsound books from the unkempt collection of RCN’s undistinguished doofus-in-chief, yours truly. Like these, for instance:
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ABOVE: John Crowley, The Deep (NY: Berkley, 1976), D3163, with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, The Goblin Reservation (NY: Berkley, 1969), S1671, with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: Zach Hughes, The Stork Factor (NY: Berkley, 1975), N2781, with cover art by Richard Powers.
I have all sorts of used books in my personal library that I purchased I can’t remember when for maybe a quarter or fifty cents a piece just for the cover art, including these, which I just scanned for display here at RCN:
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ABOVE: Madonna Kolbenschlag, Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye (NY: Bantam, 1981), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
ABOVE: Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization (NY: Bantam, 1985), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Shakti Gawain? Of course, Shakti Gawain! Would anyone in the 1980s have purchased new-age claptrap like Creative Visualization had it been penned by Mike Smith from Canmore, Alberta? Not bloody likely!
And will you look at that: both the copyright page and the author’s acknowledgement credit the Creative Visualization cover art to Rainbow Canyon… wait, what? Rainbow Canyon? Of course, Rainbow Canyon! It’s perfect!
The other cover is uncredited, but you and I both know that the art for both Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye and Creative Visualization is by the Dillons, right?
Powers didn’t produce many covers with collage elements that are as obvious as the mechanical building blocks of his art for Lester del Rey’s Mortals and Monsters, but he makes it work, splendidly, as usual. The dotted line and black dot on the left-hand side give the collage a sardonic twist: all that complex machinery, and the result is what? a pop gun?
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ABOVE: Lester del Rey, Mortals and Monsters (NY: Ballantine, c. 1965), with cover art by Richard Powers.
ABOVE: John Wyndham, Out of the Deeps (NY: Ballantine, 1969), with cover art by Richard Powers.
A couple of really ratty old SF paperbacks, from the collection of yours truly:
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To view three Heinlein paperbacks with cover art by Szafran that are from the same reprint series as the above titles but are are in very good condition, click here and scroll down. To view all of the covers with art by Szafran that I’ve posted so far, start here.
Scanned from a paperback in my personal collection, as usual; the artist is Don Crowley:
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ABOVE: John Chrisopher, The Possessors (NY: Avon, 1966), with cover art by Don Crowley.
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