AWESOME Science fiction cover art - REVEALED!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Viewers of this channel have chosen some of their favourite science fiction book cover art, and I gawk at and make inane comments along the way.
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Karel Čapek is Czech, and quite famous in SF circles. His play RUR gave us the word robot.
Ah Czech, I stand corrected! Cheers, and thanks for watching 👀!
@@SciFiScavenger His "Absolute at Large" (1922) is a very unique science fiction story that tackles the absurdity of war among other things but is hardly ever mentioned. I still think about it some 40+ years after reading it.
Great selection!
Joe has shown some exquisite taste as always.
And everyone else too.
In fact I had Nor Crystal Tears as well as the one of Showboat World on my list too - that were twp of the pictures I wanted to send in my follow-up mail. (Which I have obviously forgotten.... :D )
BTW, Der Wüstenplanet translates into The Desert Planet.
The Pip and Flinx books are set in the Humanx Commonwealth (The Iceriggers are also set in the Humanx Commonwealth for example)
Till next time, Jon!
Hi Thorsten, Desert Planet, of course! Thanks for watching 👀!
The New English Library cover art is consistently evocative. It's a pity there is no comprehensive, definitive compendium, an all-encompassing work for the ages, about SF cover art. It's the copyright quagmire of course, that prevents such but still, there's just got to be one coming along someday hopefully. Pretty good narrative for not having a script, Jon! Cheers.
Hi Rick yes i really like the art on the NEL books. I'd settle for a list of those so I could get on with collecting them. Thanks for watching 👀!
I love the Michael Whelan cover for Nor Crystal Tears. I borrowed the book on the beautiful cover alone from the library. First Alan Dean Foster. Highly enjoyable. Wonderful book.
So annoyed when the Kindle version had a horrid cover, that made the protagonist look like a roach. Seriously, do they want to turn people off the book?🙄🙄😖
I have a copy but not that one. Mine is OK too art-wise. Not a Whelan tho. 🤷♂️
I don’t know if you've come across the word *bildungsroman* before but it's a word English borrowed from German to describe a coming-of-age story - *bildung* (forming) and *roman* (novel). So that's where it comes from; you may have come across it in English already 🙂
Yes i knew that, but never made the connection. Thanks for watching 👀!
Very nice cover art, cool video, thanks for showing them.
Hi Gary, thanks for watching 👀!
My favorite cover artists include: Berkey, Frazetta, Foss, Gurney, Whelan, Mead, Lehr, Royo all of whom I have prints framed and hanging on my walls.
Very cool! 👍 thanks for watching 👀!
Some of those German covers were fantastic.* Its interesting to see how other cultures interpret material. I'm a fan of Moomin creator Tove Jansson whose illustrations for the Finnish version of The Hobbit give it a very different feel (her work is always a tad spooky).
*insert superlative here. I feel like I've overused all the ones I know. I originally wrote "awesome" but then cringed and changed it.
awesome, thanks Brian! 😆
Wow, great collection of artworks. And I had no idea that there are so many German followers (like me) around here, so hello everyone! … HARDWIRED is a cyberpunk classic about a female assassin with very interesting killing methods and some kind of tank/battleship pilot. It’s hard to describe, but the story immediately sucks you in and throws a lot of stuff at you that you have to decipher while the story progresses.
I'll look out for it! thanks for watching 👀!
Heck yes I will watch a 15.17 video featuring lovely SF book covers! A visual feast, indeed! Many thanks for your effort and the interesting comments. Regards from across the pond!
Hey Mike, fantastic, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching 👀!
@@SciFiScavenger Yes, very much enjoyed your video! Keep up the good work!!!
There's a few more cover art related videos in this playlist:
Sci Fi Cover Art: th-cam.com/play/PLXv18KNFYD7TDX75tTAnwwIz1rMTqcVFv.html
@@SciFiScavenger Excellent! I am so going to review these videos! Much thanks!!!!!
@@SciFiScavenger Excellent! Just subscribed!!!!!
Yep some interesting images there all the better for the fact that I hadn't seen many of them before - apart from my submissions of course. Do keep this series going because it's fascinating to see other people's idea of good art even though there are some not to my taste But then I'm an old fart so what do I know ?
Hi Kenny, yes it's always good to get some insight to what floats peoples boats. cheers, thanks for your entries, and thanks for watching 👀!
got to be Chris Foss!!!
Hi Hazel Yes I'm partial to Chris Foss too. Thanks for watching 👀!
The Jim Burns starport is (I think) from a large format collaboration he did with Harry Harrison called Planet Story...notice the transparent floor with people walking in corridors below....
Ah ok that's interesting. Cheers, thanks for watching 👀!
Didn´t know that either. Planet Story is on my bucket list for a long time now - but I never found a copy that´s affordable.
Thank you for mentioning it.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Actually, further delving indicates that it appeared in Mechanismo...also by Harrison and Burns
@@smallscalefutures 👀👀👀Huh, I wasn´t aware that Mechanismo was also co-written by Burns and Harrison. Again, Thnak you!
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Must dig out my copies of Planet Story and Mechanismo.
Can you tell me who the artist is you use in many of your vids as backdrops - the one that's quite retro and has a lot of orange and green and white in it.
12:20 That's a big wiener!
Isn't it!! Thanks for watching 👀!
What would Frankie Howerd say? There's you worried about the wormy thing looking like a pianis-t while I was struck by the huge golden derrieres.
Don't blame me, it was all those British comedians I was exposed to in the 70s.
ooh Matron! thanks for watching 👀!
That was an awfully weird spelling of novelette! Great video!
I thought it looked wrong. Thanks for watching 👀!
Just to let you know, Karel Čapek was Czech.
Hi Lee, yes someone else confirmed that too, cheers, and thanks for watching 👀!
#1) Squee Zelazny endorsed it, I would read it for that alone.... not sure the cover WITHOUT Zelazny would do it though.
Krakatit - Lovely cover art... Just don't say the title aloud at work...
The Starport image is great, I would totally hang that on my wall.
Showboat planet disturbed me! Please tell me that image was done by photographing the cover TWICE and pasting the images together and NOT by opening that old Vance book completely out and wrecking the spine...
The dark side of the sun! Nice, mine is a Kidby image though.
Lol, dad joke fungi....
Krakatit! Krakatit! funny word if you say it often enough. I don't know where the image of the flattened cover came from, but I can assure you no books were harmed during the filming of this episode! Cheers Deb, thanks for watching 👀!
@@SciFiScavenger As always - thanks for a fun video!