Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

I became a fan of of science fiction artist Richard Powers without knowing it. As a teenager I read a lot of science fiction and much of it was in the form of inexpensive paperbacks from the 60’s that I would come across in used book stores. While there were a number of cover artists…

So you’re in a friend’s house and you notice this book on the coffee table. More like a magazine, really, with a thick spine and somewhat oversize pages, but there’s this amazing image on the cover of two spacecraft and what appear to be human and non-human figures spacewalking, drifting out toward a meeting over…

The 1950’s was a time when interest in science fiction and fantasy flowered. Pulp science fiction magazines and inexpensively printed books became increasingly popular and along with the stories came an increased demand for illustration. Frank Kelly Freas, who generally didn’t use his first name professionally (and whose last name is pronounced “freeze”), started in…

John Berkey’s name is one of two immediately associated with space art. Unlike the realistic, near-future projections of Chesley Bonestell, Berkey’s images usually portray a far-advanced future, glimmering with high technology ships, space stations and other-worldly constructions portrayed on a grand scale. His paintings can look photorealistic when reduced for publication or viewed in small…