{"id":5728,"date":"2009-07-26T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:47:46","slug":"science-fiction-and-fantasy-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/07\/26\/science-fiction-and-fantasy-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction and fantasy covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two samples from a great Flickr set<\/a> of science fiction and fantasy paperback covers. Both these titles were first published in 1976 and, unlike many Flickr postings, this set gives credit to the cover artists where known. The Moorcock book<\/a> is one of his Elric volumes and while it isn’t a favourite of mine, the painting by Michael Whelan<\/a> certainly is. Whelan produced several Elric covers in the 1970s of which this is easily the most successful, and one of the few works by any artist after Jim Cawthorn to capture the weird inhumanity of the Melnibon\u00e9an.<\/p>\n

The Ellison collection<\/a>, on the other hand is one of his finest, with a wraparound cover by the author’s favourite artists Leo & Diane Dillon<\/a>. Just last week I completed the interior design for Tachyon’s forthcoming The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction<\/em> which included among a host of great stories The Deathbird<\/em> by Harlan Ellison, a remarkable piece of writing and one of the best pieces in the entire book. That’s now gone off to the printer so I’ll be posting samples of the pages here shortly.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a>
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Groovy book covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Jim Cawthorn, 1929\u20132008<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth<\/a>
\n\u2022 Revenant volumes: Bob Haberfield, New Worlds and others<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two samples from a great Flickr set of science fiction and fantasy paperback covers. Both these titles were first published in 1976 and, unlike many Flickr postings, this set gives credit to the cover artists where known. The Moorcock book is one of his Elric volumes and while it isn’t a favourite of mine, the … Continue reading “Science fiction and fantasy 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,21,48,20,23],"tags":[2238,591,59,2179,589,65,590,346,383],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-bob-haberfield","tag-elric","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-leo-diane-dillon","tag-leo-and-diane-dillon","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-michael-whelan","tag-new-worlds","tag-tachyon-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","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=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}