Look Here: Two more SF novels with cover art by John Berkey

21 January 201510 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Well, folks, here I am again, poised to post two more covers scanned from my personal stash of SF “classics.” This being the first post of 2015, I probably should have made the effort to dig out something really unusual or rare for your visual delectation, but then again, John Berkey is no slouch, and hey, at least it’s a post, right? Baby steps…

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**ABOVE:** R. W. Mackelworth, *Tiltangle* (NY: Ballantine, 1970), with cover art by John Berkey.

**ABOVE:** Philip K. Dick, *Valis* (NY: Bantam, 1981), with cover art by John Berkey.

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.

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Look Here: Four more SF covers with monumental machines by John Berkey

27 August 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

More covers, freshly scanned and displayed in order of publication:

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Jupiter and Star Science Fiction 4 are wraparound covers, but I’m not in the mood right now to do the scanning and stitching necessary to display the back, spine, and front of each book as a single image. Sorry…

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Look Here: One lovely cover with art by John Berkey

11 July 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Here’s another old paperback that I picked up on our recent trip to Calgary; excellent work here from John Berkey, who is perhaps best known for his lively renderings of impossibly massive spacecraft “screaming” past cities, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, although in his long, productive, successful career in illustration, he actually tackled a wide range of subjects, historical and contemporary, as well as futuristic:

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**ABOVE:** Frederik Pohl, *Drunkard’s Walk* (NY: Ballantine, 1973), with cover art by John Berkey.

Fourth thing I noticed about Dunkard’s Walk, right after the author’s name, the title, and Berkey’s artwork, was the quotation at the top of the cover: “‘Easily Pohl’s most satisfactory effort.’ — N.Y. Herald Tribune.” Ouch! Was that really the best notice that Drunkard’s Walk had received between its original publication in 1960 and the 1973 reprint you see above? And did that lukewarm “cover quote” ever entice anyone to buy the book?