70s Sci-Fi Art

Long-term readers might recall that I've ranted both about the debt science fiction owes both to the battles and exploration of adventure stories and to nautical concepts in general, thanks to the many parallels between deep space and the deep sea.

Spectrum was Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner's long-running series of annual "best of" fantastic art collections, and it ran from 1994 until 2013 without missing a year.

When it comes to visually appealing architecture, bridges have a certain sweeping gravitas.

Alice in Wonderland: The 1865 Lewis Carroll story isn't just one of the most well-known kids books ever, it was a trippy inspiration for generations of hippies, stoners, and pop culture icons, to say nothing of Jefferson Airplane.

We're used to seeing Earth from the ground level, and it's easy to picture the pale blue dot version as well.

I mostly picked this theme because I really love the image below.

It's finally time to cover the humble frog's presence in retro speculative fiction art.

I posted these two iterations of the same Chris Foss canvas on Tumblr a while back.

I'm still not entirely sure if Wojtek Siudmak is intentionally making a "wormhole" visual pun with his 1985 cover to a French-language edition of Jack Vance's The Blue World.