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Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 3 months ago

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Artist Douglas Chaffee (1936-2011) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26145

L, 1970; R, 1983
#artist #art #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for Stableford's The Gates of Eden. Woman transforming into a reptile holds her spacesuit. There's a dome and another spaceman in the distance.

Cover for Satan's world. Astronauts runs across a bleak alien surface. There's a spaceship above him.

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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BDG feature: Living Playfully: Glimpses into a Buddhist Artist’s Training and Practice

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/2s3cs5wu

#buddhism #creativity #art #expression #mindfulness #uk #scotland #nonself #play #playfulness #buddhistpractice

Itamar Reiner @Hamsta180@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

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PERFECTO102: Chouette De L'espace #art #MastoArt #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #Photoshop #Sketch #SpeedPaint #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Vehicle #Spaceship

Digital painting of sci-fi fighter spaceship with heraldic style owl painting on its side

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 3 months ago

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Worlds of IF (November 1965)

I love the Little-Prince/Mario-Galaxy scale of this and the simplicity of it.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1965-11_IF

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

A figure in a space suit site in the middle of a small transparent spherical spaceship, a red planet surface visible below.
Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1965. — A figure in a space suit site in the middle of a small transparent spherical spaceship, a red planet surface visible below. Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1965.

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 3 months ago

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Astounding vol. 45, no. 3 (May 1950)

Be honest, the only thing we care about on this cover is “Dianetics”, a new science of the mind. This must have been one of its first appearances? And it's in a fiction magazine?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v45n03_1950-05_cape1736

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A humanoid figure, its eyes like a cat and its body like an ape, stands with arms crossed in the foreground, wearing fur clothing and a medieval-style belt. A snowy mountainous landscape in the background.
Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1950. — A humanoid figure, its eyes like a cat and its body like an ape, stands with arms crossed in the foreground, wearing fur clothing and a medieval-style belt. A snowy mountainous landscape in the background. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1950.

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 3 months ago

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Astounding vol. 28, no. 3 (November 1941)

I love the angle here, always good to get a shot from below and on a diagonal, adding drama to … I don't know, a guy on his way from one place to another looking serious. He could be going to buy space groceries for all I know.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v28n03_1941-11_cape1736

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A man in a uniform with a gun at his waist is seen from below in motion, a very tall building behind him.
Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1941. — A man in a uniform with a gun at his waist is seen from below in motion, a very tall building behind him. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1941.

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 3 months ago

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A Mars-bound spaceship driven by Orion nuclear pulse propulsion. It must retract all radiators and sensor booms to operate its drive!
#space #art by Paul-Lloyd.
https://www.deviantart.com/paul-lloyd/art/In-orbit-736102483

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 3 months ago

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Science Fiction Quarterly vol. 1, no. 2 - 1951 - Columbia (August 1951)

Going out on a limb here but this is some guy's highly specific J G Ballardesque/Rule 34 fantasy, right? To become a human airplane with a sexy young woman chained to your back?

It's not my kind of thing but hey who am I to judge the author/artist? You do you.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_v01n02_-_1951_-_Columbia

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A woman in a revealing yellow costume, chains around her waist, is riding a man in a suit which turns him into a sort of humanoid aircraft. She is firing a gun ahead of them, and anti-aircraft-type guns are seen in the distance firing upward.
Science Fiction Quarterly magazine cover from 1951. — A woman in a revealing yellow costume, chains around her waist, is riding a man in a suit which turns him into a sort of humanoid aircraft. She is firing a gun ahead of them, and anti-aircraft-type guns are seen in the distance firing upward. Science Fiction Quarterly magazine cover from 1951.

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 3 months ago

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Worlds of IF (March 1962)

My first impression here is that the figure in the foreground is shipwrecked/marooned and is waving hopelessly to that ship in the distance? Pretty sad if so.

This could be because I watched “All Is Lost”, an amazing movie ever. Please watch it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/1962-03_IF_modified

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A figure in a space suit holds its arms up, standing on an indeterminate structure, looking out at a space ship travelling perpendicular to us across a nebula, or possibly explosion.
Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1962. — A figure in a space suit holds its arms up, standing on an indeterminate structure, looking out at a space ship travelling perpendicular to us across a nebula, or possibly explosion. Worlds of IF magazine cover from 1962.

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 4 months ago

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The Geodyne G26 Series Modular spaceship, fitted out to prospect asteroids atop its DHe3 fusion engine.
#space #art by Josheua (@Josheua13)
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8BB4eG

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 4 months ago

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The Vesta-class patrol corvette showing off its radiators and putting its point defences to work; part of @voyager212's EMEZ setting, which is an excellent example of hard-SF worldbuilding.
#space #art
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZaYA1w

Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 4 months ago

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Karl Stephan's cover art detail for the 1970 German edition of Men and Machines, ed. Robert Silverberg (1968)

It illustrates Fritz Leiber's "A Bad Day for Sales" (1953)

#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #artist

Robot trying to sell magazines while walking across a destroyed landscape filled with dead human bodies.

Fred Gambino @FredGambino@mastodon.world · 4 months ago

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2024 was the year that I went back to working traditionally in a big way after decades of digital. Some of it was personal, some of it for my Dark Shepherd project and debut novel. I have been lucky in that I sold every piece of art I created. So here are my nine picks of the year, both digital and traditional, none are AI.

Happy New Year to you all and all the best for 2025.

#DarkShepherd #book #writing #concept #SciFi #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev

Nine details from images produced this year, some are oils, some digital. Happy New Year and all the best for 2025

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 4 months ago

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A tether-equipped spacecraft over Europa, using electrodynamic forces to accelerate or brake without propellant.
#space #art by Pat Rawlings.
https://www.patrawlings.com/art-gallery/planets#gallery-9

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 4 months ago

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A rare scientifically-accurate depiction of a mag-sail spacecraft, that can use a plasma magnet to ride stellar winds for free up to 400-800 km/s, then brake into planetary magnetospheres.
#space #art by @cazillustration

ToughSF @toughsf@bird.makeup · 4 months ago

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The "Imperial Interstellar Scout Service Type-S Scout/Courier" from Traveler (thanks @gabrielbfonseca !)
#space #art by Thomas-Peters.
https://www.deviantart.com/thomas-peters/art/Through-Alien-Skies-321962059

Old Book Illustrations @oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

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...A fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from "La Guerre des Mondes" by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906 #illustration #art #ScienceFiction https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/looking-down/

A small crowd dances and frolics in the street at night, illuminated by the light of a single storefront, while a towering, robot-like figure watches from the darkness.

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us · 4 months ago

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Astounding vol. 46, no. 4 (December 1950)

I guess that thing is landing, not taking off, or the stereotyped Indian guy wouldn't be so interested in it/apprehensive about it? Good setup for a story, would read.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v46n04_1950-12_MadMaxAU

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A figure with clichéd Native American appearance, seen from the back, looks out through foliage at a scene in which a transparent globe is rising or falling on rocket engines, a cityscape visible within it.
Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1950. — A figure with clichéd Native American appearance, seen from the back, looks out through foliage at a scene in which a transparent globe is rising or falling on rocket engines, a cityscape visible within it. Astounding Stories magazine cover from 1950.

Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 4 months ago

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Artist Dean Ellis (1920-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25663

L, 1970; R, 1972
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Cover for Silverberg's The World Inside. Massive high rises loom over the ocean and land below them.

Cover for White's All Judgement Fled. There's a large spaceship with a small spaceship next to it in the bleak emptiness of space.

Joachim Boaz @SFRuminations@wandering.shop · 4 months ago

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SF author Alan Dean Foster sent me a photo (left) of Dean Ellis' original canvas for the 1st edition of his book Icerigger (1974)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

the Icerigger cover. A crashed spaceship surrounded by various humanoids, some with what look like wings. Ice and mountains surround the wrecked ship.

Canvas of the Icerigger cover. A crashed spaceship surrounded by various humanoids, some with what look like wings. Ice and mountains surround the wrecked ship.