Scifi Art

Concept art by Wayne Barlowe for the film Pacific Rim, 2013

David A. Hardy ‘Planet of Beta Lyrae’ from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David A. Hardy, 1977

Starship Troopers art - John Bolton x 4 for Starship Troopers Dominant Species (Dark Horse, 1998), James Warhola (1986), Denis Beauvais x 2 (1997), Naoyuki Kato and Kazutaka Miyatake (1977)

RIP Tom Skerritt 1933 - 2026 😔

Starship Troopers novel cover art. Artists (not in order) include Paul Lehr, Gordon C. Davies, Danny Flynn, Keith Scaife, Naoyuki Kato, Carl Lundgren and more.

Dune plastic model kits by Revell/Ceji released in 1985 to tie in with David Lynch’s 1984 film.

Art by George Goebel for the Starship Troopers RPG (Avalon Hill, 1976)

Art by Don Ivan Punchatz for Doom (ID Software, 1993)

Space helmet designs for Alien (1979). H.R. Giger, Moebius x 4, Ron Cobb x 2, the actual production helmets mostly based on Moebius’ design, the mysterious other helmet.

Best villain entrance ever. Star Trek First Contact (1996) directed by Jonathan Frakes

Uncredited art for The Mutants by Kris Neville (1966, Belmont Books)

Art by Chris Moore for Clifford D. Simak’s Time Is the Simplest Thing (1977 Methuen edition)

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Pre-Nova Dying Sun’ (2026)

Art by the legendary French artist Philippe ‘Caza’ Cazaumayou

The many covers of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. And this is only a drop in the ocean. Art: Chris Foss (1973), Tim White (1983), Michael Whelan (1986), Hubert de Lartigue (1992), David Kyle (1951), Richard Powers (1962), Ed Valigursky (1962), Roger Zimmerman (1963), Don Punchatz (1966), Fred Gambino

Concept art for Lost in Space (1965-1968). Not sure who the artist is.

Concept art by Peter Lloyd for TRON (Walt Disney, 1982)

Art by Steve Stone circa 1996-98

Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars The Arcade Game (Broderbund, 1987)

Art by Jim Burns for Mechanismo (1978)

Concept art for The Fifth Element by Patrice Garcia (1995)

Art by Roger Garland for the 1984 Tolkien calendar

Chris Moore was a giant of book cover art. Perhaps a bit less well known than the other Chris (Foss), Moore’s covers dominated the sci-fi section of bookshops while I was growing up in the 70s and 80’s

Cinefex issue 9, July 1982, Blade Runner special. An iconic issue of this iconic magazine

Art by Chris Moore for A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak, 1977 Magnum edition

Art by Michael Whelan for The Year’s Best Horror Stories Series III (1975)

Art by Dave Dorman for Aliens: Tribes graphic novel written by Steve Bissette (Dark Horse, 1992).

1990s Shadowrun novels

Art by Peter Andrew Jones, 1979

Shadowrun RPG (FASA 1989). Cover art by Larry Elmore. Not sure who the internal artist is.

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Supernova The Last Fire’ (2026)

Pages from Alien Movie Novel by Richard J Anobile (Futura Publications, 1979). Photo books were really popular in the late 1970s before the rise of home video. Glad I still have my copy.

Art by Angus Mckie for a proposed but never made Dan Dare TV series, 1980

Gerald Brom’s take on Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné

Long before the internet and Audible we had spoken word records and tapes from Caedmon Records, a US based spoken word label founded in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney.

Prints from BattleTech Gallery Set One by Les Dorscheid (1994, S.Q. Productions, Inc)

Art by David B. Mattingly for Manshape by John Brunner (1982)

Art by Patrick Woodroffe for The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1977, Orbit / Futura)

RoboCop art by Frank Miller for Comics Interview magazine issue 82 (Fictioneer Books Ltd, 1990)

The Book of Alien by Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross (1979). When I spotted this on the new releases shelf in my local scifi & fantasy bookshop in 1979 I thought the heavens had opened and couldn’t have slammed down my hard earned newspaper delivery money any faster for a copy.

International poster for Roger Corman’s Alien rip-off (which is a lot of fun) Galaxy of Terror (1981). Art by Kevin Giger, Hans little brother. Seriously though, not sure who the artist is.

Steve R Dodd ‘Gateway: Worlds Without End’ (2019, acrylics on canvas board)

The Bone Demon by Rob Alexander for Magic The Gathering: Kamigawa (2003)