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Alien flora and fauna gather around a pink pond on another planet.

Alien flora and fauna gather around a pink pond on another planet.

Hey if everyone wants to keep following me after this website implodes for good, my weekly art blog newsletter is the best way! Check it out here: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a 1990 Wayne Barlowe illustration that sums up what reading it feels like, probably

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Alfred Hitchcock sits in a movie theater packed with oddballs and ghouls, including a skeleton hanging from the ceiling by its neck.

Alfred Hitchcock sits in a movie theater packed with oddballs and ghouls, including a skeleton hanging from the ceiling by its neck.

Richard Bober, “Breaking the Scream Barrier,” cover to the 1976 Dell paperback

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Robert Tinney: 'Byte' Magazine and Beyond Robert Tinney's a big name in retro tech. Here's a collection of lesser-known facts and art from the famed Byte magazine cover artist.

70’s Sci-Fi Art for February 23, 2026: Robert Tinney — “Byte” Magazine and Beyond.

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A vehicle that looks like a zeppelin floats near a giant purple cloud bank.

A vehicle that looks like a zeppelin floats near a giant purple cloud bank.

Art by Ron Miller, depicting a Jupiter aircraft passing through the planet’s dense lower atmosphere to study its chemistry.

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Starlog #043 (Japanese)

Back Cover

Tsurumoto Room (1982)

Japanese edition of the science-fiction oriented magazine. Features an article on Heavy Metal, and reprints the cover from its September 1981 issue.

Starlog #043 (Japanese) Back Cover Tsurumoto Room (1982) Japanese edition of the science-fiction oriented magazine. Features an article on Heavy Metal, and reprints the cover from its September 1981 issue.

Starlog #043 (Japanese)

Back Cover

Tsurumoto Room (1982)

Japanese edition of the science-fiction oriented magazine. Features an article on Heavy Metal, and reprints the cover from its September 1981 issue.

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A beam of light emerges from the bottom of a jungle lake that's surrounded by lush, light green plant life. The light starts out pink, than turns into yellow and then blue.

A beam of light emerges from the bottom of a jungle lake that's surrounded by lush, light green plant life. The light starts out pink, than turns into yellow and then blue.

Another beam of light in the same colors and size emerges from the bottom of another jungle lake. This time the vegetation is a darker green and a few more colorful plants are visible, including a tree with pink flowers and an orange tree.

Another beam of light in the same colors and size emerges from the bottom of another jungle lake. This time the vegetation is a darker green and a few more colorful plants are visible, including a tree with pink flowers and an orange tree.

Another similar beam of light shines out of another another jungle lake. This time, the figure of a nude woman is kneeling on the shore, looking at the light.

Another similar beam of light shines out of another another jungle lake. This time, the figure of a nude woman is kneeling on the shore, looking at the light.

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The artist here is Hiroo Isono.

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Uncredited. From Space Wars: Fact and Fiction, Octopus Books, 1980.

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A cutaway of a flying saucer style spaceship reveals several figures in white standing around control panels and colorful futuristic rooms.

A cutaway of a flying saucer style spaceship reveals several figures in white standing around control panels and colorful futuristic rooms.

Happy Space Cutaway Saturday with this Shusei Nagaoka artwork!

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Brian Stableford, The Face of Heaven, Quartet, 1976. Cover: Patrick Woodroffe. The Realms of Tartarus series no. 1. #BrianStableford #PatrickWoodroffe

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Milton Luros’ cover for Future Science Fiction, ed. Robert W. Lowndes (July 1953). A hollow asteroid or small moon holds an entire station. Various rockets approach. The earth is in the distance.

Milton Luros’ cover for Future Science Fiction, ed. Robert W. Lowndes (July 1953). A hollow asteroid or small moon holds an entire station. Various rockets approach. The earth is in the distance.

Short Story Review: Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953)

A rare unabashedly pro-union 1950s science fiction story. sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/04/17/s...

#scifi #sciencefiction

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A golden knight with a horned helmet sits on a golden unicorn in a field of tall grass. Behind them is a lone tower, and five soldiers with lances are in the sky, riding big pink birds.

A golden knight with a horned helmet sits on a golden unicorn in a field of tall grass. Behind them is a lone tower, and five soldiers with lances are in the sky, riding big pink birds.

Gray Morrow’s 1967 cover art for 'The Jewel in the Skull,' by Michael Moorcock

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TV and vhs tapes

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

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Alien flora and fauna gather around a pink pond on another planet.

Alien flora and fauna gather around a pink pond on another planet.

Hey if everyone wants to keep following me after this website implodes for good, my weekly art blog newsletter is the best way! Check it out here: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's a 1990 Wayne Barlowe illustration that sums up what reading it feels like, probably

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GAMES Magazine #51 : Playboy Enterprises : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive GAMES Magazine #51Vol. 8 No. 5May 1984

True! I found the link to the article: archive.org/details/game...

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GAMES Magazine #51 : Playboy Enterprises : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive GAMES Magazine #51Vol. 8 No. 5May 1984

Very cool! Looks like it was done as interior art for a May 1984 Games magazine article about playing RPGs through the mail archive.org/details/game...

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Here's a fun one! Justin Carroll's artwork for the 1983 Atari 2600 game Demolition Herby was "swiped," ahem blatantly ripped off, for the 1989 Italian movie poster art for Cannonball Run III

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It was found by @radactspacemud.bsky.social ! Everyman by Vallejo

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Two men and a woman play a tabletop RPG, while ghostly images above them reveal which characters they're playing - a wizard, a dragon, and a knight.

Two men and a woman play a tabletop RPG, while ghostly images above them reveal which characters they're playing - a wizard, a dragon, and a knight.

I don't recall that one, sorry! The only one that I'm reminded of is this one by Victoria Poyser, but it's too different to be the one you're thinking of.

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Could it be this Joe Jusko painting? It is a clear homage to the Rockwell piece, right down to the signature. Not Conan in the boy's dream image, but John Carter of Mars.

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Oh, it's literally called Everyman (1984) by Vallejo.

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Does anyone know what illustration this might be? I don't know it, sadly

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Two men and a woman play a tabletop RPG, while ghostly images above them reveal which characters they're playing - a wizard, a dragon, and a knight.

Two men and a woman play a tabletop RPG, while ghostly images above them reveal which characters they're playing - a wizard, a dragon, and a knight.

I don't recall that one, sorry! The only one that I'm reminded of is this one by Victoria Poyser, but it's too different to be the one you're thinking of.

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Poster art for Orgasmic Bliss '99, it's an anime style cyber Faerie surrounded by sigils and vectors

Poster art for Orgasmic Bliss '99, it's an anime style cyber Faerie surrounded by sigils and vectors

A poster for Natural High 4 that appears to just be a spattering of old men trapped in bubbles

A poster for Natural High 4 that appears to just be a spattering of old men trapped in bubbles

A poster for Trance-Mission Party in which a femme shape danced on top of a tentacled orb

A poster for Trance-Mission Party in which a femme shape danced on top of a tentacled orb

A small thread of rave flyers I've found from scrolling through forums and old flickr accounts

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Sleek black future cars pack a big ocean of concrete roads, with some electronic signs above them citing cities with the vowels taken out for space, so "BSTN" and "NYRK."

Sleek black future cars pack a big ocean of concrete roads, with some electronic signs above them citing cities with the vowels taken out for space, so "BSTN" and "NYRK."

Syd Mead's depiction of a future highway interchange, 1961

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An orange person with a blue fin on their head sits at a stone table in a shell-shaped chair, looking at a small light blue orb in their hand. A little six-inch tall figure stands in the foreground, watching them from across the table.

An orange person with a blue fin on their head sits at a stone table in a shell-shaped chair, looking at a small light blue orb in their hand. A little six-inch tall figure stands in the foreground, watching them from across the table.

'Starwatcher III,' by Moebius. There's no larger story behind this one - it's from a series of three original silkscreen prints Moebius did for the French art publisher Aedena in 1986.

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Frank Kelly Freas, “Legends of Arzach” a tribute to Moebius, 1991

Frank Kelly Freas, “Legends of Arzach” a tribute to Moebius, 1991

Frank Kelly Freas, “Legends of Arzach” a tribute to Moebius, 1991

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Wayne D. Barlowe

Wayne D. Barlowe

Wayne D. Barlowe

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The top of a desktop computer has opened up to reveal a toolkit of computer engineer stuff, including a mouse, floppy disk, and computer parts. A caption reads "Engineer's Toolbox."

The top of a desktop computer has opened up to reveal a toolkit of computer engineer stuff, including a mouse, floppy disk, and computer parts. A caption reads "Engineer's Toolbox."

Robert Tinney's cover art for 'Byte' magazine, July 1986

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« Yragaël, ou, La Fin des Temps », c. 1973

by Philippe Druillet (French comics artist, b. 1944)
Cover illustration for French magazine "Pilote" n° 965, Demuth & Dom, March 1973

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #psychedelicFantasy #darkFantasy #PhilippeDruillet #Yragael #UrmLeFou

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Ned Dameron. From Robert E. Howard, Kull, Donald M. Grant, 1985. #NedDameron

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