Showing posts with label Vincent Di Fate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vincent Di Fate. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

PARADOX LOST

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1974. Cover artwork by Vincent Di Fate.

Friday, 2 May 2014

CEMETERY WORLD

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1974. Cover artwork by Vincent Di Fate.

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

NIGHT OF LIGHT

Berkley Medallion paperback, October 1977 - sixth printing. Cover
painting by Vincent Di Fate.

"A WORLD GONE BERSERK 
Every seven years, the placid planet of Dante's Joy becomes a waking nightmare of death, deformity and madness. To escape, the populace has the choice of Sleeping - lying drugged in their tomblike houses - or taking the Chance - staying awake and going abroad while their world goes berserk. They become what their innermost longings dictate, whether it be a beast locked in the vilest bowels of depravity, or a supreme being raised to the flowering serenity of truth and light. Thousands are mutilated, killed, transformed into monstrous things. John Carmody, a conscienceless exile from Earth, arrogantly chooses to take the Chance. 
Reeling, shrieking his fear and despair, Carmody confronts the Night of Light, the unknown and unknowable..."

Friday, 12 November 2010

THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE FICTION NO. 3

The Best Of Omni Science Fiction No. 3, 1982. Painting by R. Bertrand.

Contains How Pro Writers Really Write - Or Try To by Robert SheckleyRent Control by Walter Tevis, Space Witness, pictorial of paintings by Bob T. McCall, Clap Hands And Sing by Orson Scott Card, The Future Lost by Robert Sheckley, The Test by Stanislaw Lem, Tour Of The Universe, pictorial of paintings by Robert Holdstock and Malcolm Edwards, A Hiss Of Dragon by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw, Message From Earth by Ian Stewart, Newton's Gift by Paul J. Nahin, Celestial Visitations, a pictorial of paintings by Gilbert Williams, God Bless Them by Gordon R. Dickson, Adventure Of The Metal Murderer by Fred Saberhagen, The Rocks That Moved by John Keefauver, The Vacuum-Packed Picnic by Rick Gauger, The Man Who Was Married To Space And Time by Fritz Leiber, Stellar Technician, a pictorial of paintings by Vincent Di Fate, Graveside Watch by Edward H. Gandy, The Empath And The Savages by John Morressy, The Thousand Cuts by Ian Watson, Hell Creatures Of The Third Planet by Stephen Robinett, The Madagascar Event by Robert Haisty, The Eyes On Butterflies' Wings by Patrice Duvic, Oil Is Not Gold by Sam NicholsonThe Cure by Lewis Padgett and Orders Of Magnitude, a pictorial of paintings by John Harris.

Painting by Don Maitz that accompanied The Test by Stanislaw Lem.

Painting by Vincent Di Fate, from the pictorial Stellar Technician.

Painting by Vincent Di Fate, from the pictorial Stellar Technician.

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
central penitentiary cell block.

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
artificial meat factory of Carnivoron
(detail showing the immense salt and pepper mills).

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
The Albertus Magnus sets off fireworks.

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
View of the central memory banks of the big computer near Alcindor II.

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
big computer and XX3 information hunting module.

Painting by John Harris, from Orders Of Magnitude - A Survey Of Megastructures In The Universe GG233,
big computer showing data stacks in "open" mode, with XX3 module below.

Friday, 27 August 2010

INFINITE WORLDS

Virgin Books hardback, 1997. Cover painting by Paul Lehr.

Painting by Fred Freeman, from LIFE magazine, July 11th, 1960 illustrating the article
Man Remade To Live In Space.

Painting by John Schoenherr, for John Berryman's The Trouble With Telstar, from Analog magazine,
June 1963.

Trantorian Dream by Michael Whelan. 

Painting for Laurence Manning's The Man Who Awoke by Dean Ellis.

Painting by Paul Lehr for Berkley's The Astounding Science Fiction Reader.

Illustration by Bob Pepper for the New American Library edition of Starburst,
by Alfred Bester.

Painting for Keith Laumer's The Other Side Of Time by Jerome Podwil.
Painting by Richard M. Powers for H. G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds.

Painting by Darrell Sweet for Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile novel
Red Planet.

Painting by Ed Valigursky for C. H. Thames' The Iron Virgin, from Amazing Stories, Vol. 30, #3
March 1956.

Friday, 9 July 2010

THE BEST OF PHILIP K. DICK

Ballantine paperback, first edition, March 1977. Cover artwork
by Vincent Di Fate.

"HERE - IN THE DEFINITIVE PHILIP K. DICK COLLECTION - ARE 19 OF HIS MOST FAMOUS STORIES...STORIES THAT LOOK BEHIND WHAT IS APPARENTLY REAL TO WHAT IS REALLY REAL! 
IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI 
Then it would have been necessary to invent him, because somebody had to be blamed for the state of the world! 
AUTOFAC 
Automation can be a wonderful thing - as long as somebody is always in control! 
HUMAN IS 
There is more to being a human being than looking like one - and when she discovered that, she knew all would be well! 
BREAKFAST AT TWILIGHT 
They knew the end of the world was in sight - but nobody wanted to listen, alas! 
- AND LOTS MORE."

Contents:

Beyond Lies The Wub
Roog
Second Variety
Paycheck
Impostor
Colony
Expendable
The Days Of Perky Pat
Breakfast At Twilight
Foster, You're Dead
The Father-Thing
Service Call
Autofac
Human Is
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
Oh, To Be A Blobel!
Faith Of Our Fathers
The Electric Ant
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts