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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 4d
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This one's all about '80s unicorn art! These are by Sue Dawe.
Three unicorns gallop along a seashore path during a lighting storm at night, past several stonehenge-like rocks. A unicorn rears on its hind feet, while standing on a grid-like plain in a lighting storm. A majestic white unicorn poses on a boulder in a forest, with beams of light coming in through the trees. A unicorn with a pink and blue mane and zebra stripes on its legs stands in a pink and blue room.
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Terry Oakes' 1971 album cover for "The Dragon" by Vangelis
A big green Cthulhu emerges from the ocean.
February 19, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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been subscribing to @70sscifiart.bsky.social for a while, the latest newsletter of kickass unicorn art is the sort of treasure they bring on the regular 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/80s-unicorns/
'80s Unicorns by Sue Dawe and Andy Mack
Featuring the retro fantasy art of Sue Dawe and Andy Mack, with a cameo from Lisa Frank.
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February 19, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Robert Duvall in “The Time Tunnel,” 1967. Just five years later, he would appear in “The Godfather.”
February 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.
February 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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An early 1970s sample illustration by David Schleinkofer
A host of large cloaked skeletons rise above a snowy hillside cemetary. One grave is open, and a woman and two children stand with their backs to the viewer, looking at it and the figures.
February 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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'80s Unicorns. Featuring the retro fantasy art of Sue Dawe and Andy Mack, with a cameo from Lisa Frank. Hosted by the ace @70sscifiart.bsky.social. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/80s-unicorns/
'80s Unicorns by Sue Dawe and Andy Mack
Featuring the retro fantasy art of Sue Dawe and Andy Mack, with a cameo from Lisa Frank.
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February 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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🧵 if you're my kind of sicko.

In this way. I'm a lot of different kinds of sicko.
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1970s/80s fantasy black light posters, artists uncredited
A knight on a white horse stabs a lance into a green dragon's chest while it breaths fire. A yelling wizard holds a psychedelic orb. A barbarian stands at the foot of a path winding up into a mountain cave, while a winged humanoid stands against the moon at the mountain top. A knight's horses rears back, away from a green humanoid dragon that appears to be pointing a weapon at it.
February 7, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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Syd Mead, drawing of a future highway interchange, 1961
Sleek black future cars pack a big ocean of concrete roads, with some electronic signs above them citing cities with the vowels taken out for space, so "BSTN" and "NYRK."
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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i won the bottom left one from a carnival as a child and it is a prized possession
70sscifiart.bsky.social 70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 4d
Last day to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

This one's all about '80s unicorn art! These are by Sue Dawe.
Three unicorns gallop along a seashore path during a lighting storm at night, past several stonehenge-like rocks. A unicorn rears on its hind feet, while standing on a grid-like plain in a lighting storm. A majestic white unicorn poses on a boulder in a forest, with beams of light coming in through the trees. A unicorn with a pink and blue mane and zebra stripes on its legs stands in a pink and blue room.
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Art by Angus McKie for The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer (Sphere, 1983 edition)
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Last day to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

This one's all about '80s unicorn art! These are by Sue Dawe.
Three unicorns gallop along a seashore path during a lighting storm at night, past several stonehenge-like rocks. A unicorn rears on its hind feet, while standing on a grid-like plain in a lighting storm. A majestic white unicorn poses on a boulder in a forest, with beams of light coming in through the trees. A unicorn with a pink and blue mane and zebra stripes on its legs stands in a pink and blue room.
February 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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James Gurney's canvas for the 1st edition of John Dalmas' Homecoming (1984)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
A spaceship descends into a glade filled with medieval-esque knights and foot soldiers.
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Fred Gambino. Killer Planets: A Deadly Eden. From Stewart Cowley, Spacewreck. #FredGambino #StewartCowley #TerranTradeAuthority #spacewreck
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Titan's Sky' by Fred Gambino
September 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Ned Dameron, “Kull of Atlantis: The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune,” 1985
A muscular guy in sandals on an ornate throne broods and looks into a swirling portal in a mirror in front of him, while a creepy wizard next to him points into the mirror.
February 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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20 years of John Coulthart's extraordinary blog { feuilleton } — a remarkable feat providing us with a cornucopia of wondrous art, writing, history, and weirdness. Truly, a gift to us all.
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Moebius, 1986
A figure sits in the center of a round desk built on the top of four hydraulic robot legs. He's writing with a pen, and is lit with yellow light coming from the desk or paper itself.
February 13, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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art by Jim Burns
retro sci-fi art of a woman in a spacesuit beside some wading bonds with a metal bird
April 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Ludovico De Luigi's cover art detail for the 1972 Italian edition of World's Best Science Fiction: 1968, ed. Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim (1968)

Italian title: Il computer sotto il mondo
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Man with jousting equipment on a motorcycle. He is dressed as a medieval knight.
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Jack Coggin, 1954
Jack Coggin, 1954
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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retrohistories.bsky.social
Extreme long shot, but does anyone out there have a copy of a Mintel market research report from 1983 titled "Home Computers"? I think it may have some hard-to-come-by statistics on early UK computer sales.
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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Robert Tinney, cover art for Robotics Age, 1983
November 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Happy 50th anniversary to BYTE magazine, which a young version of me happily devoured or at least stared at, trying to understand it (I was 8 or 9 or 10…)

Much of its cover art also stuck with me as interesting visions of computing. Here's all of 1977–1986, my favorite decade of the bunch.
All BYTE magazine covers for a decade-long span, shown in a grid.
September 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM