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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery

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    Though I’ve come across it before, the Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery is one of the unusual galleries featured in the Museum of Online Museums I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Phillip K. Dick was a science fiction writer active in the mid Twentieth Century, noted for his eccentric and um… original viewpoint. Though…

  • Early Star Wars Storyboards

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    Nearly all movies these days, an certainly all movies that involve animation or special effects, are plotted out visually beforehand using storyboards; a comic strip like series of drawings, often done simply in markers, showing the basic on screen composition and sequences of action. There is a nice Flickr set of early storyboards from the…

  • Chris Rahn

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    I love the line in Christopher Rahn’s website bio that goes: “As the son of a hippie and a photographer, I was encouraged to pursue what I loved and see how far I could take it… look what happened.” Look what happened indeed. Rahn is an illustrator with an emphasis on the fantastic and otherworldly,…

  • Björn Hurri

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    Björn Hurri is an artist who, according to the sparse biographical information on his web site, will “soon live in the UK” and work for the gaming company Creative Assembly. Hurri also does freelance illustration, and indulges in imaginative exercises for his own amusement; one of which is his series of steampunk versions of Star…

  • Jaime Jones

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    Illustrator Jaime Jones studied at the Corcoran College of Art and has worked for companies like Arenanet, and currently Bungie, as well as doing freelance work for Wizards of the Coast, Image Comics, Alderac Entertainment and others. Jones works primarily digitally and his online galleries are divided into sections like Digital Paintings, Digital Sketches and…

  • Tor Books

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    Tor Books is a publishing house that specializes in science fiction and fantasy titles. I should probably say outstanding science fiction and fantasy titles; Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year for the last 20 years. Tor also publishes some of the very best science fiction and fantasy…