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70s sci fi art 70s sci fi art home about index social media buy my book check out a dolphin in a spacesuit sign in subscribe 70s sci fi art let s look at a bunch of retro science fiction cover art odds and ends april 2026 star trek historian extraordinaire jörg hillebrand has written a fascinating thread on blue sky about the denebian slime devil the alien beast was made up for a throw away insult in the classic trouble with tribbles episode before getting a few different representations in manuals and guidebooks 20 apr 2026 4 min read spot the difference today we re seeing double with a big wide ranging list of various times that artists did very similar artworks for one reason or another we ll start with my favorite example of an artist playing a spot the difference game mass cathedral 1 and 13 apr 2026 5 min read angus mcbride s legendary beasts several years ago i wrote a post showcasing the fantasy art of angus mcbride i d already devoted most of it to his terrific middle earth role playing game art so by the time i got around to mentioning his 1966 series on mythical creatures i didn t give 06 apr 2026 4 min read space trash and future junkyards the early iconography of science fiction was largely built in the 1930s by frank r paul and a handful of other science fiction magazine cover and interior artists sleek gleaming spaceships bug eyed monster aliens world ending apocalypses and stark art deco cities decades later a new crop of artists raised on those 30 mar 2026 4 min read sea monsters i ve talked before about the genre debt that science fiction owes to adventure fiction and the sea is a big example it s the outer space from before outer space became outer space unknowable endless and inhospitable enough to kill you fast if you don 23 mar 2026 5 min read space shuttles i almost called this post strange shuttles as a spiritual follow up to my post dedicated to only the most offbeat types of dragons in retro speculative fiction art however even though i m mostly interested in the inventive sci fi style version of what a shuttle esque spacecraft can 16 mar 2026 5 min read angus mckie s modular future angus mckie s an elusive artist he had a flurry of stellar science fiction paperback covers across the mid to late 70s before slowing down across the 80s and 90s while working across a variety of other mediums including his own graphic novels the 1981 heavy metal film 09 mar 2026 6 min read odds and ends march 2026 featuring a protesting genie model hauntology and artwork from the temple of love 02 mar 2026 6 min read deep dive robert tinney byte magazine and beyond robert tinney s a big name in retro tech here s a collection of lesser known facts and art from the famed byte magazine cover artist 23 feb 2026 13 min read 80s unicorns by sue dawe and andy mack featuring the retro fantasy art of sue dawe and andy mack with a cameo from lisa frank 16 feb 2026 5 min read robots in love happy valentine s day week last year i flew pretty close to the getting too specific sun with a post centered on bug aliens in love with humans this year we re dropping the requirement that humans be involved and swapping out the proboscis for transistors 09 feb 2026 4 min read cool spaceships spaceships the first frontier across the 70s and 80s complex and colorful spaceships were the primary element that publishers everywhere thought to shoehorn onto any science fiction book cover the diverse visual style of all that spacecraft is impossibly to fully sum up but in this post we 02 feb 2026 5 min read strange dragons someone on tumblr recently shared this illustration with me kinuko y craft s 1990 cover art for the malacia tapestry by brian aldiss and posted on tumblr by sweathome i m sorry to say that i had to look a second time before i noticed the creature hidden 26 jan 2026 6 min read beams from flying saucers there s something about the old school flying saucer ufo i ve covered a wide range of classic sci fi spaceship art but the flying saucer is in a class by itself it s mysterious eerie unknowable even horrific cryptic and a cryptid there s only 19 jan 2026 5 min read ray guns science fiction magazine covers of the 30s 50s loved thinly reskinned adventure tropes skeletons on deserted islands became skeletons on deserted planets wild animal attacks became alien monster attacks the violence inherent to the genre meant that pistols and rifles were naturally the next in line for a revamp 12 jan 2026 6 min read polar bear drawn sleighs next month is the tenth anniversary of a blog post i wrote for the barnes and noble sci fi and fantasy blog like many cool art blogs owned by corporations it is no longer online so i don t feel too bad about scavenging that particular post off of the 05 jan 2026 5 min read 70s influences on fantasy film here s a shot from the 1978 animated lord of the rings movie directed by ralph bakshi here s a john howe illustration howe worked as a chief conceptual designer on the live action 2000s trilogy and here s a shot from the 2001 fellowship of the 29 dec 2025 6 min read ed emshwiller s four armed santa claus for the first decade of galaxy science fiction s 30 year run ed emshwiller illustrated a total of eight christmas themed issues featuring the same character the version of santa claus on these 1950s era covers had an appearance exactly in line with mid century america s expectations but for one big difference he 22 dec 2025 6 min read orange and teal if you were a movie nerd on the internet in the late 2000s early 2010s you re familar with orange and teal the two colors are opposed to each other on the color contrast wheel so they look good together and since orange roughly translates to the fleshy skin 15 dec 2025 5 min read time machines everyone knows more or less what a spaceship looks like the exact shape varies sure but if it travels through space it needs a hull and some thrusters but what about a time machine what does moving through time look like no one knows in his classic novel the time 08 dec 2025 6 min read sheep and the pastorial i ve mentioned before that a lot of what makes the 60s 80s cross section of sci fi art history stand out is how much it focuses on organic life perhaps i m wrong but i feel like we ve focused more on hardware in past decades 01 dec 2025 5 min read odds and ends nov 2025 welcome to another grab bag issue i m starting with something particularly fascinating that i stumbled across it s even about 1870s speculative fiction illustration so it s technically within my purview here at the increasingly inaccurately named 70s sci fi art blog here s the deal about 24 nov 2025 5 min read brains i ve been collecting a lot of illustrations of sci fi control panels this year and fellow art enthusiast ranaroth recently shared a great one jean françois pénichoux s 1981 cover to robots historique de la robotique mobile du xxieme au xxveme siecle it s also a prime example of 17 nov 2025 5 min read walter molino master of disaster the action packed pulp art of italian artist walter molino 1915 1997 is unmistakable catastrophic rubber necker heaven trapped in a molino illustration the first thing to know is that modern conveniences are death traps here are a few classic molinos that deliver the standard thrills with impeccably immediate danger don t 03 nov 2025 6 min read a very 70s sci fi art halloween today i m on the search for the most halloweeny retro science fiction art you might think this 1983 tech magazine illustration would be in the running the simplicity really makes it pop ultimately though it s not about halloween at all the french language article it s 27 oct 2025 4 min read page 1 of 13 older posts 70s sci fi art 2026 sign up powered by ghost