Look Here: Four more F/SF covers with art by Bob Pepper

8 September 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Freshly scanned, just for you, the long-suffering followers of Ragged Claws Network:

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**ABOVE:** Arthur C. Clarke, *Islands in the Sky* (NY: Signet, 1960), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *Seed of Light* (NY: Ballantine, 1969), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Evangeline Walton, *The Island of the Mighty* (NY: Ballantine 1974), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

**ABOVE:** Michael Moorcock, *Legends from the End of Time* (NY: Daw Books, 1977), with cover art by Bob Pepper.

Sorry I’ve been so slow to post updates. Fact is, as the site has grown, I’ve had to worry more and more about how to reduce RCN’s CPU usage. I’ve already scaled back various bells and whistles on the site, and I’ve reduced my own activity in the admin section to a bare minimum, but I fear the day is coming when I will be forced to upgrade the site to a more expensive hosting package… or shut it down… ugh…

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · John Berkey · Look Here

Look Here: A couple of lovely covers with atypical SF art by John Berkey

24 April 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Scanned by me, as usual:

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**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *The Cloud Walker* (NY: Ballantine, 1973), with wraparound cover art by John Berkey.

**ABOVE:** Stephen Goldin, *And Not Make Dreams Your Master* (NY: Fawcett, 1981), with cover art by John Berkey.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Jim Burns · Look Here

Look Here: The cover of Edmund Cooper’s SEED OF LIGHT, with art by Jim Burns

26 February 201410 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I scanned the front cover of Seed of Light from my personal copy; the JPEG of the artist’s airbrushed artwork sans text is from Paul Hartzog’s Flickr photostream.

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**ABOVE:** Edmund Cooper, *Seed of Light* (Kent: Coronet Books, 1977), with cover art by Jim Burns.

Not sure which of the two images above displays the correct colour, but at this moment, I think I prefer the one with the overall greenish cast and softer focus, i.e. the printed cover.

Finally, yes, the cover of my copy of Seed of Light has a wraparound image. But the fact is, earlier today, when I scanned the front, I simply was not in the mood to scan the spine and the back and piece it all together.

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Richard Powers

Look Here: Moore, Clifton, and Cooper, covered by Powers

4 October 201210 June 2022 RCLeave a comment

Here are three more covers with art by Richard Powers, scanned (as usual) by me from paperbacks in my personal collection:

Book/Magazine Covers (All) · Illustration Art · Look Here · Richard Powers

Look Here: Three SF covers with art by Powers, one with art by Schoenherr

13 June 201210 June 2022 RCLeave a comment

Today RCN has got four freshly scanned selections from my personal archive of disintegrating SF paperback pulp for your viewing pleasure:

I don’t know much about John Schoenherr’s career in illustration, but I must say, Schoenherr’s painting for the 1961 Ace edition of Brunner’s Meeting at Infinity is a surreal stunner that even the universally acknowledged king of surreal SF cover art himself, Richard Powers, must have envied when he first laid eyes on it. For a minute or two. Maybe.

To view all of the scans of covers with art by Richard Powers that I’ve posted here at RCN, click here. And don’t forget to click the “Older posts” link when you get to the bottom of the page.