Friday 27 November 2009

ANALOG FEBRUARY 1964

Cover painting by John Schoenherr.

Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr.
"She sensed a first diminishing of the dark. It began with shadows. Dimensions separated, became new thorns of awareness."
Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr.
 "There was a table. Leto saw the table quite clearly. And a gross fat man on the other side of the table, the remains of a meal in front of him. Leto felt himself sitting in a chair across from the fat man, felt the chains, the straps that held him into the chair."
Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr. 
"She had never before seen the man who entered and stood beside the Baron, but the face was vaguely familiar - narrow and with hawk features."

Wednesday 25 November 2009

ANALOG JANUARY 1964

Analog's first photographic cover: polarized light through a microslice of meteorite
by Ralph A. Hall, M.D.

Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr.
 "The Duke Leto Atreides leaned against a parapet of the landing control tower outside Arrakeen."
Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr.
 "A Solido Tri-D projection appeared on the table surface about a third of the way down from the Duke. Some of the men farther down the table stood up to get a better look at it. Scaled against the tiny projected human figures around it, the machine was about one hundred and twenty meters long and about forty meters wide."
Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr. 
 "You have not earned the right to unsheath that blade," the Fremen said."
Interior illustration from Frank Herbert's Dune World by John Schoenherr.

"As he had approached the solitary figure standing near the Ornithopter, Leto had studied him: tall, thin - dressed for the desert in loose robe, Stillsuit and desert boots."

Tuesday 24 November 2009

ANALOG DECEMBER 1963

Cover painting by John Schoenherr, illustrating Frank Herbert's Dune World.

Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert.
 "Herbert's last great novel was a tale of men under pressure of war and deep water. This is a story of men under pressure of politics and the dehydration of a waterless world..."
Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert.
 "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a near unbearable frenzy, an old crone of a woman came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert.
 "Stamp of strangeness," the old woman breathed, and again she shot a glance at Jessica, returned her attention to Paul. "tell me truly now, Paul, do you often dream a thing and have the dream happen exactly as you dreamed it?"
Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert. 
 "Before I go, however, I've a gift for you, something I came across in packing."
Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert. 
 "The key word was Maker. Maker? Maker. Still, Mapes held the knife as though ready to use it."
Interior illustration by John Schoenherr, for Dune World by Frank Herbert.
 "From the carved headboard slipped a tiny Hunter-Seeker no more than five centimeters long."