{"id":17985,"date":"2016-08-16T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17985"},"modified":"2021-05-09T22:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T21:52:17","slug":"roger-dean-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/08\/16\/roger-dean-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Dean book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The View Over Atlantis (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n

The covers in question are the handful that Roger Dean produced for paperbacks in the 1970s and 80s, rather than those for his own books and the ones he edited. Given the popularity of Dean’s work in the 1970s you’d expect there to be more than this although I’m not sure he would have had the time for any more work than he was doing already.<\/p>\n

The two covers for Pan Science Fiction vexed me for a while since the art is reproduced in Dean’s Views<\/em> collection but with no mention of the book titles. It’s taken some time, but ISFDB has updated its Roger Dean page<\/a> so I can finally sate my curiosity. The Michell cover is an ideal illustration for the author’s theorising about ley lines but the Pan SF paintings are vague enough to be used on other books, or even on album covers.<\/p>\n

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The Puppet Masters (1973).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gold the Man (1973).<\/em><\/p>\n

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The War of the Worlds (1986).<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve not read the Colin Greenland books so I can’t say whether their cover art relates to the novels but the Wells cover certainly does. A rare example of Dean depicting a scene from somebody else’s imagination.<\/p>\n

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The Hour of the Thin Ox (1987).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Other Voices (1988).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Design as virus 17: Boris and Roger Dean<\/a>
\n\u2022 Roger Dean: artist and designer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The View Over Atlantis (1972). The covers in question are the handful that Roger Dean produced for paperbacks in the 1970s and 80s, rather than those for his own books and the ones he edited. Given the popularity of Dean’s work in the 1970s you’d expect there to be more than this although I’m not … Continue reading “Roger Dean book covers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,20],"tags":[8410,264,4293,8409,6121,903],"class_list":["post-17985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-science-fiction","tag-colin-greenland","tag-hg-wells","tag-john-michell","tag-joseph-green","tag-robert-heinlein","tag-roger-dean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4G5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}