The World of Nulla-A being one of them.]]> A.E. Van Vogt]]> Book covers]]> Slan, was, according to P. Schuyler Miller, the novelist’s ‘first and most famous novel, perhaps his best.’ Salive might not have known that Slan was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction between September and December 1940.]]> A.E. Van Vogt]]> Book covers]]> Gerald Grace.]]> A.E. Van Vogt]]> Book covers]]> Rite of Passage (1968) won the 1969 Nebula Award for SF. The action in this novel focuses on the teenage space-traveller, Mia Havero, remembering her ‘rite of passage’ – a month spent surviving on a colony planet. Eddie Jones (1935-99), a self-taught English artist, who is thought to have ‘defined the look’ of 1970s SF art, painted the spaceship for the 1973 UK Sphere publication.]]> Alexei Panshin]]> Book covers]]> Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009) was responsible cover art for Panshin's Rite of Passage published by Ace Books in the US in 1973. Vincent di Fate, in Infinite Worlds, states that Punchatz’s art is a ‘fascinating neo-primitive type of surrealism …conceptually sophisticated, brightly coloured and uniquely personal.’]]> Alexei Panshin]]> Book covers]]> Michael Whelan.]]> Alfred Bester]]> Book covers]]> Frank Kelly Freas. Note Kelly Freas's signature at the bottom right of the image.]]> Algis Budrys]]> Book covers]]> Writing to the Point by Algis Budrys (1931-2008), himself a successful SF author and editor.]]> Algis Budrys]]> Book covers]]> Ed Valigursky.]]> Andre Norton]]> Book covers]]> Vincent di Fate (b. 1945) illustration for Offutt and Berry’s Genetic Bomb echoes the book’s content, ‘Beautiful girls are going mad – writhing in pain and ecstasy as they live through hallucinations of a world-consuming conflagration…’.]]> Andrew J. Offutt and D. Bruce Berry]]> Book covers]]> Anne McCaffrey]]> Book covers]]> Fred Gambino.]]> Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough]]> Book covers]]> Ron Cobb.]]> Arthur Byron Cover]]> Book covers]]> Diane and Leo Dillon, both born in 1933, are described by di Fate as a ‘divinely gifted couple’. They have worked side by side for over 50 years, illustrating not only SF titles but also many children’s books. They designed covers for A.A. Milne, Algis Budrys, ee cummings, Frederick Pohl, James Blish and most notably Harlan Ellison (b.1934). This is one of their covers for Bob Shaw's The Palace of Eternity.]]> Bob Shaw]]> Book covers]]> Wayne Douglas Barlowe created the artwork for this cover.]]> Brian Daley]]> Book covers]]> Chanur’s Venture is one of five in the Chanur novel series, shortlisted for a Locus Award in 1985.]]> C.J. Cherryh]]> Book covers]]> Michael Whelan (b. 1950) has illustrated covers for some of the greats – Alfred Bester, C.J. Cherryh, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov and Jo Clayton. Voted ‘Best Professional Artist of the Last 50 Years’ at Worldcon in Orlando, Florida in 1992, Whelan produces SF and Fantasy artworks that are colourful and finished to an incredibly high standard. He has not limited himself to books and magazines and has provided album artwork for the Jacksons’ Victory and Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell II. Described by Wikipedia as an ‘artist of imaginative realism’, Whelan has won numerous awards including 15 Hugos.]]> C.J. Cherryh]]> Book covers]]> Michael Mariano.]]> Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean]]> Book covers]]> George Wilson.]]> Charles V. DeVet]]> Book covers]]> Ed Valigursky.]]> Clifford D. Simak]]> Book covers]]> Richard M. Powers.]]> Clifford D. Simak]]> Book covers]]> The Survival Game, describes Colonel Bogaert’s attempt to ‘stay alive on the wildly primitive planet Avida’. On the cover, painted by Henry Richard van Dongen, Bogaert and his colleague fight off the ever advancing ‘crab-rats’ that inundate the planet.]]> Colin Kapp]]> Book covers]]> Project Millennium, with its publisher’s by-line: ‘Let the Game Begin…’. Cover artwork by James Warhola.]]> Curtis H. Hoffman]]> Book covers]]> A Usual Lunacy was illustrated by US artist and comic book historian, Greg Theakston (b. 1953) who is responsible for lending his name to ‘Theakstonising’ – a process used in the restoration of comic books.]]> D.G. Compton]]> Book covers]]> Song of Kali won the World Fantasy Award in 1985. His Phases of Gravity is a quest tale that features astronaut Richard Baedecker searching for his next purpose in life.]]> Dan Simmons]]> Book covers]]>