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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social · 8h
« Jirel de Joiry », 1974 by Philippe Cazaumayou aka Caza (French artist, b. 1941) Cover illustration for French edition of "Jirel of Joiry", by Catherine L. Moore, J'ai Lu SF, April 1974 #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #PhilippeCaza #Caza #jirelofjoiry #CLMoore #swordandsorcery
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unimonsterfanboy.bsky.social @unimonsterfanboy.bsky.social · 15h
Very cool!
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm trying something new with my next art newsletter: Gifs. Here's one based on a 1973 Mike Hinge illustration. Sign up now and you'll get this one in your inbox Monday! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io#/portal/signup
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1967 cover art by Frank Kelly Freas for "The Carnelian Cube," by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
A woman in a gold bikini sits on a big red cube that has mysterious runes carved into one side, which is itself on top of a nonplussed guy in a green futuristic jumpsuit.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Howard V. Brown did a lot of great 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine covers. Nevertheless, his June 1924 cover to "Scientific American" might be my favorite work of his, despite not actually being science fiction. I love the nonchalant surrealism.
Two guys carefully paint a scene of a harbor town surrounded by mountains - a scene which they seem to be existing inside, as giants.
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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Friday newsletter today! Once again, @70sscifiart.bsky.social knows about my weekend plans before I do:
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Moebius, 1986
Three light blue people emerge from a giant parked flying saucer to inspect a small pyramid in a lush field that has a star hovering over it.
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Artist Richard Corben (1940-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1974; R, 1981 #scifi #sciencefiction #art
Cover for The Deathworld Trilogy by Harrison. Man shoots at large vegetal root/vine/limb/soil. Woman puts her hand up about to be crushed by it.Cover for Demons and Daggers, ed. Carter. Large ice monster opens mouth at two people casting a spell with cat.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jael, 1986
A closeup of a woman whose flowing blonde hair is turning into the cosmos, surreal-style. There's also a rocketship nearby.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In 1959, Forrest J Ackerman commissioned famed science fiction artist Frank R Paul to create a parody of Paul's old Oct 1926 issue of "Amazing Stories." Ackerman had Paul change the title to a pun on his nickname "Forries" & add a century to the publication date... making it the October 2026 issue.
An October 2026 issue of "Amazing Forries" features a guy in a red cloak greeting two aliens that look like giant lobsters with beaks, with a silver tube-like spaceship behind them.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art
An exponential curve expressed as a massive wave of green-blue water that climbs to vertical against a sky of puffy lavender clouds. Light breaks through the cloud cover just over the horizon casting a flat glare across rippling water before the wave climbs. Fin-like ridges emerge running up the wall give the water turbulence and dimension.
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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...
Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Robert Adragna’s September 1980 cover painting for Heavy Metal magazine.
A guy with a spacesuit and weird sword holds a woman in a gold bikini. One tentacle is wrapped around her ankle, from a group of tentacles emerging from the left, and they're standing under a trickle of a waterfall.
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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 30/09/2026
Me getting ready for spooky posting in October.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Franco Storchi, 1980
A yellow and black spaceship flies away from a glowing Earth-like planet. Another spaceship below it appears to be getting hit with missles from the planet.
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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
« Riders of Rohan at Helm's Deep », c. 1970 by Tim Kirk (American illustrator, born 1947) Original painting (early works of the artist) #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #TimKirk #jrrtolkien #middleearth #LordOfTheRings #lotr #thetwotowers #helmsdeep #rohan
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New art blog: Looking out of spaceships 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/looking-out-...
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Looking Out of Spaceships
Shusei Nagaoka's cover for the 1978 Deep Purple rock album When We Rock, We Rock And When We Roll, We Roll is a great way to exemplify the microgenre of retro science fiction art I'm taking a look at ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/09/2026
Robert Macintyre, 'The Great Cthulhu', ''Collector's Dream'', Vol. 1, #5, 1978 oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8289218...
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some interior magazine artwork from 'Science Fiction Age', May 1995-May 1996, for authors without a SFE entry: 1. Kandis Elliot, 2. Pete D Manison, 3. Julie A Stevens, 4. Daniel Hood (Artist: Janet Aulisio, David Beck, Bob Eggleton and John Berkey):
Interior magazine artwork for "The Androgyne Murders" by Kandis ElliotInterior magazine artwork for "VR Marsbase 1" by Pete D. ManisonInterior magazine artwork for "Redux" by Julie A Stevens Interior magazine artwork for "On the Golcondar Run" by Daniel Hood
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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
« A Sound of Thunder », 1953 by Frank Kelly Freas (American illustrator, 1922-2005) Cover illustration of the novel by Ray Bradbury, in "Planet Stories", Vol. 6 No. 4, Jan. 1954 #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #frankkellyfreas #KellyFreas #raybradbury #planetstories
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mort Kunstler’s 1972 poster art for "The Poseidon Adventure"
A huge crowd of people runs screaming as a gush of sea water bursts into the rear end of a giant (upside-down?) ballroom on a ship.
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For more on the importance this article and others from the era, see my recent interview with Loïg J. F. Pascual on 1970s-1980s Feminist Science Fiction Fandoms sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/09/16/e...
Frank Kelly Freas’ cover for Algol, ed. Andrew Porter (Winter 1978-79). Woman's face, spaceship, and alien skull on a wood stake.
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We Are the Mutants @wearethemutants.com · 28/09/2026
NEW today! Mike pores through the 1981 Sears Wish Book: Dungeons & Dragons, goldenrod kitchens, disco tables, air hockey, and Merlin: The Electronic Wizard!
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Game Room Challenges and Computer Labyrinths: The Sears Wish Book, 1981
The Sears catalog was, by the outset of the 1980s, an American institution nearly a century in the making, providing an A-to-Z inventory of mail-order household goods for even the most far-flung consu...
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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
David Dvorkin, Shiny Mountain, Magnum, 1978. Cover: Bob Fowke. First published in the USA as The Children of Shiny Mountain, 1977. #DavidDvorkin #BobFowke
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Syd Mead Ultimo", a new massive 320-page artbook dedicated to the late, legendary designer (Star Trek, Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, Star Wars, Gundam...) Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
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Dandy ⭐️ Stardust @dandybones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
⭐️These cockpit views are fantastic!!
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last day to sign up for my email art blog newsletter before the next issue drops! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io I think this one's really fun. See if you can guess the theme based on this sneak peek. Artists: Johnny Bruck, Lee Gibbons, Fred Gambino, and Shusei Nagaoka.
Two astronauts look out of a spaceship cockpit at a colorful handful of planets in outer space.View from a spaceship cockpit depicting a second spaceship ship in a bluish outer space.View from a spaceship cockpit from behind the head and shoulders of a yellow-helmeted pilot looking at an orange asteroid in front of him.A blue spaceship cockpit with many buttons on many control panels, and a view of outer space past some radar dishes.
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Rolf Mohr @rolfmohr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#Lifestory 15 "Hellraiser" Acrylic. One of my early freelance jobs, my first ever video game art! (I did them a cool logo too but they chose to go with this ugly title instead). #Atari #AtariST #retrogaming
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lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tim Finkas #1983 h1.nu/1yCBr
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Peter Glaser @peterglaser.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
• Byte magazine , January 1984 Cover by Robert Tinney
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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Robert Tinney, 1988
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S. Elizabeth @mlleghoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am watching Halloween for the gazillionth time, and I just noticed there's a James Ensor poster hanging over Laurie Strode's dresser. Ensor almost made it into The Art of the Unknown.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jack Gaughan cover art to "Worlds of If," July 1967
A hairy caveman-looking warrior holds a battle ax while standing on the prow of a viking ship, surrounded by other spear-holding warriors. The background is light green.
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from 1968 with love @from1968.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
* Conan of the Isles by L. Sprague De Camp & Lin Carter, Lancer Books, New York, 1968 Cover by John Duillo (1928-2003) #1968 #from1968 #lspraguedecamp #LinCarter #rehoward #johnduillo #conan #conanthebarbarian #swordandsorcery
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This installment of Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday crosses over with last year's Saturday series on control panels: It's Roger Dean’s 1973 cover art for "Gold the Man," by Joseph Green.
Cross-section of a blue brain reveals a cozy frontal lobe control room full of buttons, with one tiny figure standing in it.
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Moody interior art by Diane and Leo Dillon for Theodore Sturgeon's novella "To Marry Medusa" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1958) #scifi #sciencefiction #art
Man looks at a large construct with spheres and bars. His has a hand raised in awe/worry, There's mist about. Man huddles in some plants. A woman stands in the distance.
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Andy Fix @ajfixer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was introduced to more amazing science fiction and fantasy reads through Waldenbooks’ Otherworlds Club than through any other source. Off the top of my head, Neuromancer, Dune, Horseclans, Ender’s Game, Dragonriders of Pern, ElfQuest, and the Werewolf: the Apocalypse RPG. #booksky
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from 1968 with love @from1968.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
* The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien (1892-2973), Pleasure in Reading Edition 1968, Longmans, London Cover by unknown artist #1968 #from1968 #jrrtolkien #thehobbit #smaug
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PURSUIT (1982) Acrylic - 30” x 20” Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. #art #booksky 🪐📚
In a frantic flight through the woods, a fierce ostrich-like bird bends its sinuous neck as it corners around a massive tree. With a powerful talon, it grips rock and seeks footing with its other leg raised. Mounted on its back gripping reins is a redheaded man in a vibrant blue coat. A serpent coils around his shoulder and down his extended arm. The serpent spreads kaleidoscopic wings and hisses in displeasure. A badger-like creature springs out of their path.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 25/09/2026
it's all this guys fault
vintage illustration of a guy with a floppy's disc for a hard, the old rainbow Apple logo on his tie, several small desktop computers dangling from his belt holding a fanfold printout
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ron Cobb, “Skybox”
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Lark Voorhies @fantaguayaba.com · 05/01/2026
70s Sci-Fi Art 70sscifiart.tumblr.com
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mola 🌱 WORMMAXXING @lowpolygrapes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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70s Sci-Fi Art
Art. Sci-fi art. From the 70s.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026
Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sanjulian, “The Phoenix on the Sword”
Conan the barbarian stands on stone steps with his back to the viewer, while white and red mist swirls around him. He's facing a white-bearded man on a chair who is pointing dramatically past him.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh we have a mighty need (& Taschen's PRs have stopped replying to us, so either please buy some mags so we can buy this big book of dinosaurs or recommend some dinosaur related tabletop games, that aren't Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, so we can gussy up a feature and write this off as an expense 🧐)
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Paleoart. Visions of the Prehistoric Past. 45th Ed. TASCHEN
Despite vanishing from Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs are one of our favorite cultural fascinations. In this volume, writer Zoë Lescaze…
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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“L'attaque des martiens”, original art by Jean Sidobre (aka Georges Lévis, Sainclair, and Sylvia), currently up for auction on @catawikiauctions.bsky.social here: www.catawiki.com/en/l/1068409...
“L'attaque des martiens”, original art by Jean Sidobre (aka Georges Lévis, Sainclair, and Sylvia), currently up for auction on @catawikiauctions.bsky.social here: https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/106840978-sidobre-jean-1-original-cover-l-attaque-des-martiens-gouache-sur-carton
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stephen Fabian, “Rhialto the Marvellous”
Black and white art of a woman shooting lightning from her hand at a cloaked figure on a cliff, while a shadowy dark face hovers over her.
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yoot Saito's The Tower box art by Mamoru Takahashi / 高橋衛. potteryarts.theshop.jp/p/00004
a painting of a skyscraper seen from above
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