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This Les Edwards album cover for Stormkeep’s 'Tales Of Othertime' is from 2021
A figure with a cloak and staff stands in a snowy mountain pass, looking up at a gothic castle in a lightning storm with a drawbridge guarded by a two-headed dragon and a single tower window lit with an eerie green light.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Marco Patrito, 1986
A six-legged lizard watches as a sci-fi vehicle zooms across a desert, hovering a foot above the sand.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about pastoral scenes in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek: Art by John Harris, John Berkey, David A Hardy, and Manchu
Sheep graze on a bright green crop of grass growing along with side of a massive collapsed spaceship. A few sloppy, blobby white spaceships hover over several houses in a countryside. Lightning strikes a flying saucer during a storm, while sheep in a nearby field watch. A white spaceship hovers near the ground, while a shepard with a small flock inspects it. The ruins of a structure are near them, and in the distance, past a fog, rise the towers of an old, ruined futuristic city.
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Left: Alan Aldridge’s 1967 cover to Clifford D. Simak’s Time and Again. Right: The uncredited cover to a May 1976 issue of the Gold Key Twilight Zone comic book.
A guy with a mustache and a purple cloak appears to be choking as a result of a big clockface that is wrapped around his neck like a collar. He's holding silver handlebars that connect directly to a silver exhaust pipe that he's riding on. A man with a crazed expression wrestles with the floppy arms of a giant, gooey clock face that his neck is caught in. It's a Twilight Zone comic book cover with a blurb reading "Time was the tyrant that had to be stopped!"
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Jack Gaughan, “Medusa,” a planned illustration for 'Cosmo SF' #5 in 1979. (The magazine actually ended after four issues.)
The head and shoulders of a woman seemingly made out of fire are in the foreground, with four Roman columns standing behind her in a sparse forest under a blue sky.
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Richard Bober’s cover to the 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf edition of 'A Wrinkle in Time,' by Madeleine L'Engle. Cool seeing this pop up in Stranger Things!
A disc holding the mask of an impassive green face with red eyes floats over a mountain range, underneath a flying white centaur with reddish wings. The moon is in a green sky behind everything.
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Richard Corben, “Prospecting in the Asteroids,” 1967
Two astronauts in yellow suits drift past a few big green asteroids while tethered to a tiny red-and-white checkered spaceship.
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A page from underground comix artist Nicole Claveloux’s 'The Green Hand,' published in Heavy Metal magazine in 1978
A comic page depicting a woman taking a cryptic phone call in a hallway and then going for a walk, illustrating in searingly bright yellows, blues, and reds.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring some beautiful space art by David A Hardy
A hot air balloon is high in a cloudy sky over several large volcanos on an alien planet. A small silver submarine swims past an underwater volcano that's venting gas while a host of glowing eels swims around it. A big red celestial body is merging with a small blue one in the black sky over an empty alien planet. A lightning storm is in the sky over a red alien planet with shadowy mountains and smoking plains.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Uncredited 1977 cover art for 'A Medicine for Melancholy,' by Ray Bradbury
A cutaway shows a giant red fish with fangs under the water of a lake. Above the lake are the ruins of a house between some trees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about brains in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring Carlos Ochagavia, Bruce Pennington, Jean-Francois Penichoux, and an uncredited artist.
A hairy gray humanoid creature snarls while holding a helmet with a pink brain inside it. The creature is inside a metal sphere on a yellow plain under a red sky. Outside, a troop of short robots with brain helmets walks by, single-file. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride up to a big brain-shaped tree with a spine-shaped trunk. A robot floats underwater, with a yellow light above cutting through the green water to reveal several stalks of a what looks like brain-shaped seaweed, each connected to the sea floor with a single long stalk. Several astronauts float inside a pink building that houses a giant blue exposed brain on a tall pedestal. A starry night sky is visible through a skylight above.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Happy Control Panel Saturday, with this tiny frontal lobe control room from Roger Dean’s 1973 cover art for 'Gold the Man,' by Joseph Green
A cutaway view of a brain from the side, with half of it replaced by two tiny round rooms. One room in the frontal lobe has a chair and an array of controls, with another room behind it that has a small young human figure in it.
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Bruce Pennington
People in robes walk along curved pathways under the green tubes of a bulbous city.
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about master of disaster Walter Molino! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring a few of his best works.
A tiger stares at a little kid sitting in a crib. A man accidentally drives a car into a crowd of schoolkids, crushing them against a gate. A men struggles to pull a woman into an airplane that's in mid-flight. A few men grimly light cigarettes for a bunch of hens and a rooster that are smoking them.
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Jennell Jaquays
The Sep 1980 cover of The Space Gamer. A bearded, barechested man holds a smoking futuristic rifle while looking at a dead, bloody dragon on the ground near a pile of books. Lights of a city grid are visible through a broken wall behind them.
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Uncredited artist depiction of the 1976 Canary Islands UFO: Two tall humanoid beings are seen inside a spherical UFO wearing red clothing and head gear. The UFO flies away at “breakneck speeds.”
A ship at sea, a man standing on the shore near a house, and a car driving on a highway all witness two tall humanoid beings in red clothes inside a bubble-shaped UFO. It's night, with a full moon in the sky.
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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NASA art by Rick Guidice
A stylized scene depicting the sun on the left, followed by a handful of solar system planets including Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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More cubes! Bob Larkin, Paul Lehr, an uncredited one, and Don Dixon.
A college professor stands in a protective glass cube holding a cattle prod. Outside the cube are two ghostly figures, as well as a troop of cops in riot gear. A big cube floats through outer space, surrounded by asteroids. It contains a mountain jungle with a rainbow and an eclipse. A human figure steps out of a big glass cube, in a landscape filled with green glass shapes. A cube hovering above a lagoon contains a galaxy and a human hand emerging from fire.
October 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about cubes in sci-fi cover art! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring John Harris, Ron Walotsky, Moebius, and Paul Lehr.
A tiny spaceship hovers near a big cube-shaped spaceship, with an arch from an even larger structure behind both of them. One side of a surreal orange cube is torn open to reveal a horse and a somber face. The cube is resting on a floor made out of upward-facing human faces. A guy peers over the edge of the orange cube floating in space that he's standing on. Tiny figures are scattered around a sci-fi city, with a giant pink cube encompassing part of it.
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Syd Mead
Several cars pull up at a large dome that's mostly covered in well-trimmed grass. A golf cart is off to one side, and an array of solar panels is on the top of the dome.
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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RIP Drew Struzan
Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones. Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters. Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby. Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about spaceships with clear windshields! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a sneak peek, featuring four Tim White artworks.
A small, golden egg-shaped craft is empty, with windows and an open door. It's hovering a foot above the ground in a pink-purple alien forest. A yellow flying saucer hovers above a small green island in a blue sea. Three figures look out of a clear glass dome in the center. Three figures lounge on a sci-fi couch looking out the green bay window of a big saucer-shaped spaceship, with an entire brown city visible below. The backs of two seated figures are visible through the window of a small silver spaceship as it flies over an island lagoon.
October 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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How I'm posting this month
A hand emerges from a pumpkin, covering in gross innards, to type into an old word processor, c. 1983.
October 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Ed Emshwiller’s 1964 cover art for "The Radio Beasts," by Ralph Milne Farley
A human wearing metal antennae and headphones on his head and riding on a weird vehicle platform helps lead a charge of humanoids with bug wings against an army of giant ants with rifles.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I love this 1978 Don Davis cover art for Carl Sagan’s "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" - anyone have a less blurry version? chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2010/03/vint...
Two ape-like early humans sit under a tree, looking over a lush pastoral landscape dotted with prehistoric animals and dinosaurs.
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM