The Invisible Death, which expounds the story of America defending itself against a ‘terrific and destructive Invisible Empire’. Wesso painted in oils and provided artwork not only to Astounding Stories but to other pulp and SF magazines such as Amazing Stories, Strange Tales and Clues. Considered to be one of the ‘most influential artists during the 1930s’, Wesso’s figures can sometimes be described as ‘stiff’. The character on the front of this October 1930 Astounding is a case in point – it looks as though both of this man’s eyes are in the same socket. Despite this, Wesso’s style is also described by the online Science Fiction Encyclopaedia as being ‘open’ and having an ‘abstract beauty’.]]> Editor (Harry Bates)]]> Magazine covers]]> Astounding Stories of Super-Science, first published in January 1930 under the editorship of Harry Bates. This periodical remains the most influential, and longest running continuously published magazine in the history of SF fact and fiction. This issue of March 1930 is Salive’s earliest copy. It contains the classic Wesso cover and ‘Brigands of the Moon’ by Ray Cummings (1887-1957). Cummings, at one stage assistant to Thomas Edison, was one of the founding fathers of SF pulp genre and produced some 750 novels and short stories in his career.]]> Editor (Harry Bates)]]> Magazine covers]]> Ron Cobb.]]> Arthur Byron Cover]]> Book covers]]> Beyond Fiction, was short-lived with only ten issues produced between 1953 and 1955. Displayed here is issue 9 with artwork by René Vidmer. Although not a commercial success, the magazine featured some important stories by some SF greats such as Asimov, Philip K. Dick and L. Sprague de Camp.]]> Editor (Horace Leonard Gold)]]> Magazine covers]]> Blacksheep.]]> K. W. Jeter]]> Book covers]]> Phil Kirkland.]]> Poul Anderson]]> Book covers]]> Bug Chase' by Hal Salive.]]> Hal Salive]]> Typescripts]]> Ron Walotsky (1943-2002) painted his first cover for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1967. Over the years he maintained a close working relationship with the magazine, painting some 60 covers for it. Also in the 1960s Walotsky began working for the Avon publishing house more commonly associated with Romance novels and comic books. Avon also published SF like this Piers Anthony title.]]> Piers Anthony]]> 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]]> Ed Valigursky.]]> Clifford D. Simak]]> Book covers]]> Jack Gaughan (1930-85) is described by Vincent di Fate in Infinite Worlds as a ‘great conceptualist’. While his style wasn’t as polished as some SF artists’ work, Gaughan was able to capture the essence of the story within. He was a SF fan from childhood and greatly admired the SF artist, Hannes Bok (1914-64), who later taught him. With the publication of Jack Vance’s novella, The Dragon Masters, in 1962, Gaughan shot to fame for his cover and interior art for the story. He won Hugos for Best Fan Artist and Best Professional Artist in the same year, 1967. Gaughan illustrated covers for some of the greats: John Brunner, Samuel R. Delany, and E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith.]]> Samuel R. Delany]]> Book covers]]> Chris Foss (b. 1946) painted the landscape image for the UK edition of Ursula LeGuin's novel City of Illusions. Foss, the producer of over 1000 mainly SF covers, provided the artwork for Alex Comfort’s 1972 bestseller The Joy of Sex.]]> Ursula LeGuin]]> Book covers]]> Jack Gaughan drew the story’s protagonist, Falk, with the cat-like yellow eyes, for Le Guin's City of Illusions published in the US.]]> Ursula LeGuin]]> Book covers]]> David B. Mattingly.]]> James P. Hogan]]> Book covers]]> Norman Saunders.]]> Robert E. Howard]]> Book covers]]> The Best Rootin’ Tootin’ Shootin’ Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy (1983).]]> Tom Hallman]]> Drawing]]> 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]]> Lou Cameron]]> Book covers]]> Michael Herring.]]> Jack L. Chalker]]> Book covers]]> Boris Vallejo.]]> Edgar Panghorn]]> Book covers]]> Deathbird Stories consists of pieces collected over ten years and is considered one of his best. With a reputation for being difficult, Ellison was fired by the Walt Disney Company for joking about making a Disney ‘porn’ on his first day of work. The cover art for Ellison’s Stories by Diane and Leo Dillon is a great example of the Dillon's 'vibrant’ and ‘sometimes semi-abstract’ work.]]> Harlan Ellison]]> Book covers]]> Michael Whelan.]]> Larry Niven]]> Book covers]]> Earle Bergey.]]> Jack Williamson]]> Book drives]]> Anne McCaffrey]]> Book covers]]> Dune, was first published in 1965 by Chilton Books, a printing firm better known for publishing auto-repair manuals. This is a later British edition with cover artwork by Bruce Pennington.]]> Frank Herbert]]> Book covers]]>