I loved the paperback covers of the 1970s. And I loved the artwork of Frank Frazetta, Vincent Di Fate, Chris Foss, Richard Powers, Kelly Freas, Jack Gaughan, and Virgil Finlay, too!
Worlds Beyond Time is a browser’s delight! There are dozens of great paperback covers from the 1970s. Adam Rowe has some of the artwork organized by themes. Looking at these wonderful covers is a walk down Memory Lane!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Foreword / Vincent Di Fate — 6
- Introduction — 9
- The Abstract, Surreal, and Otherworldly — 10
- Richard M. Powers, Surrealist Prankster — 19
- The Unsettling Don Ivan Punchatz — 20
- Chess in Sci-fi — 22
- Paul Kirchner’s Dope Rider — 24
- Douglas Chaffee — 26
- The Swift Rise and Swifter Fall of Galileo Magazine — 28
- Gary Viskupic — 30
- Gary Viskupic’s TV Guide Art — 32
- Leo and Diane Dillon and the “Third Artist” — 34
- Spaceships, Vehicles, and Megastructures — 36
- Chris Foss: The Biggest Brand in Retro Sci-fi Covers — 42
- Stewart Cowley’s Terran Trade Authority Series — 44
- Syd Mead: Visual Futurist — 48
- Ringworld — 50
- Rendezvous With Rama — 52
- Bob Eggleton — 54
- UFOs — 56
- John Berkey — 62
- Space Elevators — 64
- John Harris’s Meditations — 66
- Spaceships and Planets — 68
- Vincent Di Fate — 70
- Sci-fi Cities and Landscapes — 72
- Canals on Mars: The Trope Born of a Misunderstanding — 76
- Underwater Sci-fi — 79
- John Schoenherr’s Compositions — 80
- Skull Planets — 82
- Asimov’s Foundation Series — 84
- Dean Ellis: The Ideal Paperback Artist — 86
- Angus McKie — 88
- Planets, Explorers, and Space Travel — 90
- David A. Hardy — 96
- Robert McCall — 98
- NASA’s Space Colonies — 102
- Explorers and the Unknown — 104
- Jeffrey Catherine Jones — 106
- Cryosleep — 108
- Skeletons in Spacesuits — 110
- Gunfights in Space — 114
- Space Helmet Reflections — 116
- Life in the Future(s) — 118
- Domed Cities — 122
- Paul Lehr — 124
- Peter Elson — 126
- Robots — 129
- Mike Hinge — 130
- Queen and Frank Kelly Freas — 132
- Postapocalypse — 134
- Robert Tinney’s Byte Magazine Covers — 138
- Chris Moore — 140
- Plants, Animals, and Alien Life — 142
- Space Cats — 146
- Wayne Barlowe: Unnatural History Artist — 150
- Giant Worms — 152
- Dinosaurs of the Retro-past — 156
- Birds — 160
- The Eyes Have It — 162
- Close Encounters — 164
- The War of the Worlds — 166
- A Single Flower on An Alien Planet — 168
- Mushrooms — 170
- Forests and Trees — 172
- Fantasy Realms — 174
- Fran Frazetta — 178
- Boris Vallejo — 180
- Rodney Matthews — 182
- Wizards — 184
- Michael Whelan’s Hidden Messages — 184
- Richard Hescox — 188
- Sailing Ships in Space — 190
- Don Maitz — 192
- Star Wars Before Star Wars — 194
- Clyde Caldwell — 196
- Cryptozoology and the Paranormal — 198
- America’s 1970s Bigfoot Obsession — 202
- Monsters — 204
- Ancient Astronaut “theory” — 208
- Creepy and Eerie — 210
- Zombies — 212
- Ghosts — 214
- Bruce Pennington — 216
- Alien Ceremonies — 218
- Cloaked Figures — 220
- Epilogue — 222
- INDEX — 224
- Acknowledgements — 224
