Cuckoo’s Egg

1987

Hal Salive Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, University of Otago Library Special Collections. Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz

London: Methuen

SF and Fantasy artist 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.