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  1. 28 Dec


    lookcaitlin:

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    One more Space Crowd Saturday for the road… Ferenc Temesvári, 1991

    (Source: archive.org)

     

  2. 27 Dec


    lookcaitlin:

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    Erik Visser, 1996

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  3. 27 Dec


    A false-color picture of Saturn's northern hemisphere, taken by the Voyager 2 space probe in 1981. It looks liks swirling, seemingly abstract layers of green, blue, yellow, and orange.ALT
    Art by Ichiro Tsuruta, 1989. A spaceship looks tiny next to the giant wheel-like space station above it. The Earth is visible beneath the ship.ALT
    Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars concept art. A figure with a tall rifle on their back looks out over a chasm with a big blue sky and two suns above them. A speeder floats nearby.ALT
    John Harris art. A tiny red spaceship flies through black outer space, nearing an asteroid.ALT
    Ludwig Schwarzer's Der Planet, 1977. A bunch of flowers sits on the top of a wall overlooking a desert planet, under a big crusty moon.ALT
    Moebius artwork. A woman sits cross-legged on a bed surrounded by stuff like toys and snacks. She holds an apple in her left hand and her right hand is open, with a series of red computers hovering in a line above her hand.ALT

    Here, have some good phone lockscreens

     

  4. 26 Dec


    rube-de-leon asked:

    Where’s the link to your book?

    Here’s all the places to buy it!

     

  5. 26 Dec


    Philippe Caza's illustration for volume one of the 1981 French translation of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. A mother, father and daughter sit on a couch in front of a TV and a feast in a nice house, smiling.ALT
    Philippe Caza's illustration for volume two of the 1981 French translation of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up. It's the exact same scene, except the family is in gas masks, and everything nice has been turned into gray ashes and mush in a post-apocalypse.ALT
    Cover art by "Podium II" for the 1973 edition of Philip Wylie’s The End of the Dream. A surreal composition that includes a red shirtless guy in a gas mask and a few shattering buildings, all on a floating bit of dirt.ALT
    Moebius art, featuring a soldier in a gas mask raising their right hand while marching out of green mist.ALT
    Jeffrey Catherine Jones' 1971 cover art to Sargasso of Space, by Andre Norton, featuring a couple astronauts leaving a spaceshipwreck to explore a planet while wearing helmets modeled after gas masks or high altitude masks.ALT
    Sadao Naito artwork. A kid in a gas mask sits on an engine, with a see-through merry-go-round-style horse visible around the engine so that it looks like the kid is riding it, too.ALT
    Tom Barber’s cover art for Galileo's April 1977 issue. An explorer in a gas mask has both hands on either side of a blue rift in outer space, holding it open goatse-style.ALT
    Michael Herring's 1977 cover to Born Under Mars, by John Brunner. A man and woman in white jumpsuits hold hands on Mars under a red monolith. The man has a gas mask and a raygun.ALT
    John Schoenherr's cover for a 1967 edition of Born Under Mars. A man in a gas mask stands at the top of a big sand dune that takes up two thirds of the cover.ALT

    Gas masks in science fiction art

     

  6. 25 Dec


    pizza-hats-of-the-world-1882 asked:

    Yoooo i just got your book last week and didnt even know it was yours! Just saw it in the store and thought it was cool

    Awesome! My decade-long plan to build a legion of retro art lovers on tumblr has finally paid off

     

  7. 25 Dec


    tweedlebean asked:

    Just wanted to let you know my parents LOVED getting your book for Christmas! My dad immediately reminisced about having a subscription to Omni as a kid just to look at the art, and my mom said she'd always wanted to know more about the painters behind those covers. They're hard to get gifts for but they both lit up when they realized what it was :)

    Wow, that’s amazing! Thank you for letting me know, that’s pretty much the exact reaction I would hope for!

     

  8. 25 Dec


    lookcaitlin:

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    (Source: archive.org, via lookcaitlin)

     

  9. 24 Dec


    A green astronaut holds a lever in their spaceship, looking upwards towards a bright sun.ALT
    A silver submarine-like ship sails past a fetus inside a womb.ALT
    Someone humanoid but with wasp-like wings stretches while standing on a mountain peak.ALT
    An outstretched hand holds an orb, while two nude people stand nearby.ALT
    A spaceship flies through a green sky with a sea and a sailing ship beneath it.ALT
    A spaceship flies over a planet with a tiny distant space base on it.ALT
    An astronaut stands on an alien planet looking at an alien that is a big column of green, with three orange spheres on its surface. Another astronaut has remained on board their spaceship, parked in the background.ALT
    Two red submarines swim towards a big domed city on the floor of the ocean.ALT
    A tiny guy tries to fend off a scorpion by using a needle like a spear.ALT
    A little girl walks through a forest, unaware that a bog-monster with yellow eyes is walking up behind her.ALT

    Late 70s cover art by Giuseppe Festino for Robot magazine

     

  10. 24 Dec


    humanoidhistory:

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    Yoda as Santa Claus in Ralph McQuarrie’s art for the 1982 Lucasfilm Christmas card.

    (via oldschoolfrp)

     

  11. 24 Dec

    70sscifiart: “Vincent Di Fate, “Christmas Eve” ”

    70sscifiart:

    Vincent Di Fate, “Christmas Eve”

     

  12. 23 Dec


    lookcaitlin:

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  13. 23 Dec


    sciencefictiongallery:

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    Moriho Tanaka

     

  14. 23 Dec

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  15. 23 Dec


    lookcaitlin:

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