I also love the art style that was common. The first image reminds of this. So let’s pay homage to these incredible visionaries who insist on making us judge a book by its cover—in the best way possible.

Some of the Nicest Vintage Science Fiction Covers We've Seen in Ages

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. After years of spreading the images through his site and social media, rowe has recently compiled the innovative book worlds beyond time: One that does its job effectively gives the first impression of what you are about to get into (chip kidd, 2012 ted talk).

Gorgeous vistas on alien worlds, space men challenging the boundaries of

The shadow of the torturer, gene wolfe, 1980. In the course of forty or fifty years, we’ve moved away from book covers of full illustrations, painstakingly painted by hands by leading artists in the genre. The early 80s were the high water mark of incredible literature by fantasy legend gene wolfe, and the. Lewis) art sussman produced a remarkable corpus of sf and other pulp covers (mysteries, crime, etc). Illustrated by some of the most talented pop artists of the day, they depicted thrilling space adventures. God emperor (my personal favorite) is a great example of this. Science fiction cover art has a bad reputation. Much of it is pulpy, overly brash, or just plain scary — it’s kind of the name of the game.