"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"
More cover scans, from the library of yours truly:
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BONUS IMAGE:
ABOVE: John Michael Wright, Thomas Hobbes (c. 1669 – 1670), oil on canvas, 54.6 x 66.0 cm. Collection of National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. Via Wikimedia Commons.
As promised almost two weeks ago, here are four more covers with art by Kelly Freas, freshly scanned from the collection of yours truly:
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ABOVE: Harry Harrison, ed., Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (NY: Ballantine Books, 1974), with cover art by Kelly Freas).
ABOVE: Kenneth Bulmer, The Wizards of Senchuria (NY: Ace, ©1969), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
ABOVE: Andre Norton, Dread Companion (NY: Ace, ©1970), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
ABOVE: Barrington J. Bayley, The Zen Gun (NY: DAW Books, 1983), with cover art by Kelly Freas.
Older SF fans will no doubt recognize the illustration on the cover of Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology as a reprint of the famous cover of the October 1953 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, which, apparently, was Kelly Freas’s debut as an SF illustrator. Campbell commissioned the cover from Freas as an accompaniment to Tom Godwin’s short story “The Gulf Between” — not included in the memorial anthology — and twenty-four years later, the rock band, Queen, commissioned Freas to created a pastiche of the image for their 1977 album, News of the World.
More cover scans this morning, which I know will come as a big relief to those of you for whom it comes as a big relief:
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ABOVE: Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime (NY: Ace, 1971), 34900, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Andre Norton, Web of the Witch World (NY: Ace, nd), 87871, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Clifford D. Simak, Time and Again (NY: Ace, nd), 81001, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Theodore Sturgeon, The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon (NY: Ace, 1972), 91060, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
ABOVE: Margaret St. Clair, The Dancers of Noyo (NY: Ace, 1973), 13600, with cover art by Davis Meltzer.
The most obvious influence on Melzer’s art in the early 1970s was Kelly Freas. I have more Freas covers to post, so stay tuned for that, if that’s that sort of thing that’s your sort of thing.
Picked up a stack of old paperbacks for cheap at a local book sale last week, including these two:
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BONUS SCAN (added later the same day):
Rescued from an ebay auction:
I’ve been a bit slow with new posts and scans here at RCN… been feeling a bit discouraged about a number of things… although TRANSISTORADIO seems to be doing okay, with 90 followers since 01 August 2013 and 1,732 notes on 368 (!) posts… but never mind all that… the show must go on…
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ABOVE: Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage (NY: Ace, 1968), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
ABOVE: D. G. Compton, Chronocules (NY: Ace, 1970), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
ABOVE: Gordon Eklund, The Eclipse of Dawn (NY: Ace, 1971), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
ABOVE: Suzette Haden Elgin, Furthest (NY: Ace, 1971), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
For more scans of book covers, etc., with art by Leo and Diane Dillon, click here and scroll down.
Again, covers from my collection:
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The main sources of Ochagavia’s Universe 8 cover/pastiche are obvious — Vermeer, Ernst, Tanguy, perhaps de Chirico — but the painting is attractive enough, I guess.
Neither of the following two SF covers from the mid 1970s includes a credit for the cover artist, neither artist signed his work in a spot that couldn’t easily be cropped out, and neither artist has been identified by other means by the folks at isfdb.org or any other reputable site, but based on appearances, I would say that the two covers are, at the very least, very likely by the same hand…
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UPDATE:
Shortly after I posted the above scans, a reader, Cyrille, delurked to say that the artist might be Peter Lloyd. And you know what? I think Cyrille is right!
RELATED LINK (added 06 October 2013):
Look Here: One lovely cover with antiseptic airbrush art by Peter Lloyd — which brings the total number of “Lloyd” covers here at RCN to three (so far).
Time for some more cover scans from the library of yours truly! This time around, I’ve got three SF paperbacks with art by British illustrator Chris Foss, whose airbrushed visions of massive starships, architecture, and hardware spawned a legion of imitators back in the 1970s (and beyond):
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Here are four novels with cover art by Robert Foster that I acquired this spring:
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Unfortunately, the edition of Davy that you see above is not the one I would prefer to own. The edition that I would prefer to own is the one that shows more of Robert Foster’s artwork and thus doesn’t drain all of the surrealism out of it:
You can view a snapshot of Foster’s painting, framed and hanging on somebody’s wall, over on the Illustration Exchange site, where you’ll find the following particulars: 19 x 25 inches, acrylic, 1964.
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