Thursday, 23 September 2010

IF SCIENCE FICTION 103

Cover painting by Richard McKenna for Weapons That Walked.

IF SCIENCE FICTION 102

Cover painting by George Schelling illustrating Silkies In Space.

Wednesday, 22 September 2010

IF SCIENCE FICTION JANUARY 1966

Cover painting by Gray Morrow for Cindy-Me.

Interior illustration by John Giunta for The Moonrakers.

Interior illustration by Gray Morrow for The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

Interior illustration by Gray Morrow for The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

IF SCIENCE FICTION SEPTEMBER 1965

Cover painting by Richard McKenna for Fritz Leiber's Moon Duel.

IF SCIENCE FICTION NOVEMBER 1964

Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller for The Hounds Of Hell.

Interior illustration by Ed Emshwiller from The Hounds Of Hell.

Interior illustration by Ed Emshwiller from The Hounds Of Hell.

IF SCIENCE FICTION MARCH 1962

Cover painting by John Pederson, Jr. from Kings Who Die.

IF SCIENCE FICTION NOVEMBER 1960

Cover painting Combat Between The Stars by Mel Hunter.

AMAZING STORIES NOVEMBER 1960

Cover painting by Ed Emshwiller illustrating And Some Were Savages.

Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Last Vial.

Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Last Vial.

Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for The Last Vial.

Interior illustration by Emsh for And Some Were Savages

Interior illustration by Emsh for And Some Were Savages

AMAZING STORIES JULY 1958

Cover painting by Ed Valigursky, illustrating a scene from No Place To Go.

Interior illustration by John Schoenherr for Report On Sol III.

WORLDS OF TOMORROW FEBRUARY 1964

Cover painting by Richard McKenna for When The Stars Answer.

FANTASTIC STORIES OF IMAGINATION DECEMBER 1962

Cover painting by Robert Adragna illustrating Cocoon.

Interior illustration by Lee Brown Coye for Heritage.

Illustration from the rear cover by Lee Brown Coye, from Heritage.

NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION JULY 1960

Cover painting by Brian Lewis, illustrating The Fatal Fire.

NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION AUGUST 1958

Cover painting by Brian Lewis.

TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO

Granada / Panther SF paperback, 1980. Cover by Joe Petagno
(thanks: Egrove).

"WELCOME TO RIVERWORLD 
It is not like our world - or any world that can be imagined by anyone but Philip José Farmer. It is huge and mysterious. It has a central river, rimmed by mountains, with a hidden source and an unknown end. Reborn there is every last soul who ever lived on earth - from prehistoric apemen to moondwelling future civilizations. Reborn there is Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator of The Arabian Knights, explorer, brawler, scholar, womanizer - adventurer. His quest to discover the end of the river, the meaning of the world's existence - and lovely Alice Hargreaves (the real-life model for Alice In Wonderland) form a science fiction adventure that is already recognized as a classic."

THE SPACE BARBARIANS

Pyramid Books paperback, 1964. Cover painting by
John Schoenherr.

"OUTCASTS OF THE UNIVERSE 
In three bloody years of spacewar, the "barbarians" of the hell-world Ragnarok had destroyed the Gern empire - and freed the "civilized" planets of Earth and Athena from alien domination. 
But the Earthenians feared and hated the men of Ragnarok and resented the superhuman strength and speed which had won the victory. 
And when a new threat from beyond the stars struck at Ragnarok and left it desolate, the "barbarians" were strictly on their own - abandoned to certain destruction by the rest of mankind!"