The Science Fiction Art Thread

[DotCommunist]

nueromancer got some good covers:

 

[hot air baboon]

 

[hot air baboon]

I'd wager a couple of artists on this thread may have been inspired to pick up a pencil by Frank Hampson ...

 

[Idris2002]

 

[DotCommunist]

not the best one from that artist. He did Dune, Messiah and Children of and thats the one I count as an all time fave:

they came as part of a boxed trilogy. I have the books but not the box

 

[Idris2002]

Just to complete the set:

Do publishers still do the 'trilogy in a box' thing?

 

[Borp]

The jodorowsky documentary is brilliant.

Poster's pretty good too.

 

[DotCommunist]

Do publishers still do the 'trilogy in a box' thing?

and boxed series. Shelf downstairs has the boxed roal dahl collection (mine) some boxed harry potter (not mine).

 

[DotCommunist]

The jodorowsky documentary is brilliant.

Poster's pretty good too.

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Jagger was going to be in his version. Instead Lynch gave us sting. What a swizz

 

[hot air baboon]

is that poster by Moebius ?

Zee French have some sublime & extremely influential imaginative artists as showcased in the magazine Metal Hurlant ( cribbed by Heavy Metal & most post 1980 Hollywood sci-fi films )

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[Idaho]

Love the Moebius stuff. Delirious fantasy sf.

 

[lefteri]

Yeah moebius wins this thread, surely

 

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Robert T. McCall

 

[mojo pixy]

I love some of the covers on Ian M Banks' novels. My favourite is the first one, Consider Phlebas. There are some other great covers but the reason I love this one is because when I first picked up the book thinking about reading it, I had no idea what the hell the picture was meant to be. Turned out it's a scene from the story, and the blue thing is an Orbital ring made from superdense material. 14million miles around IIRC.

So then I started to love the picture more from the scale it shows, than from the level of detail.

Anyway:

 

[Idaho]

 

[mojo pixy]

Also, the cover of Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden. They've always had great cover art and I know this isn't a book, but in it there are a few nods to the sci-fi influences...

 

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Josh Kirby

Ascension

Adoration of the Imag

 

[TruXta]

Also, the cover of Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden. They've always had great cover art and I know this isn't a book, but in it there are dozens of nods to sci-fi influences...

No one said it had to be book covers. Derek Hook is a legend. Self taught apparently.

 

[Idris2002]

No one said it had to be book covers. Derek Hook is a legend. Self taught apparently.

Agreed!

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

What?! No Frank Frazetta?

 

[nuffsaid]

Anthony Scime

Ooh - that looks remarkably like an actual deep state drone as per this -

Apparently there is a number printed on the last piece of the thickest 'arm' that when googled went to some obscure NASA archive - wasn't much info -

 

[TruXta]

What?! No Frank Frazetta?

That's not sci-fi is it? I love Frank but...

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

That's not sci-fi is it? I love Frank but...

It's the cover for one of the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars series books.

 

[Pickman's model]