Two retro cover’s for the Hal Clement SF Novel’s “Natives of Space” & “Cycle of Fire” – Cover art by American Artist Dean Ellis (thanks for the tip there Jonathan). Some more information on Dean Ellis here at http://blog.sans-concept.com/?p=197
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The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.org) suggests that the cover artist for both was Dean Ellis:
“Natives of Space, (Jun 1970, Hal Clement, Ballantine, 0-345-01950-4, $0.75, 156pp, pb, coll) Cover: Dean Ellis”
“Cycle of Fire, (Jun 1970, Hal Clement, Ballantine, 0-345-01948-2, $0.75, 185pp, pb) Cover: Dean Ellis”
Comment by Jonathan Heath — November 4, 2008 @ 12:53 am
I’ve always had a love for the cover art on Sci-Fi books, both of these are great examples of why.
The sad thing though… how many times has the “story” in the cover art been better than the actual book?
Comment by SerKevin — November 4, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
Hellow. I am a non-specialist in science-fiction art, but this pictures remember me ones from the book “Cosmos”, by Carl Sagan. There are some images from Rand McNally, very similar to these ones. But they are too old in this case.
Rand McNally. Perhaps a clue?
I like a lot this blog, which I have just discovered. Congratulations! And sorry for my bad English. I´m from Spain.
Bye, and good luck with this mystery.
Comment by Ramón — November 4, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Cheers for the pointers on this…. I’ll will do some research shortly
Comment by admin — November 5, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Dean is great. I have one of his covers on my site: http://bookworship.com/?p=156
The bottom one, “Tomorrow is Too Far” is him…
Comment by Shawn — May 20, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Hey Shawn, yeah I agree on that…. Dean Produced a raft of Sci-FI / Fantasy Book Covers – a few more of them here http://www.skwishmi.com/interests/baf.html
Comment by Kie — May 20, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
الصحوة…
جزاك الله خير…
Trackback by الصحوة — August 5, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Hello to Shawn & Kie – DEAN ELLIS was a close friend of mine and I am sad to say that he passed away on Monday, Columbus Day 10/12/09. I was at his home today with his wife and we are trying to put together a fairly comprehensive Obituary and resume of his works. Unfortunately Dean did not compose one! So we are trying to piece together a list of his works and illustrations in addition to his Museum Collections, etc. If you have any leads where I might find a good source or link to uncover more of Dean’s work, it would be very much appreciated. He continued to work prolifically up until just a few months ago. He died quietly with his best friend Dog Kelsey at his side. He will be missed. Thank you fans of Dean Ellis. With much appreciation, Justine Blair JustineBlair@aol.com
Comment by justine — October 16, 2009 @ 3:40 am
Dean Ellis was first science fiction artist whose work I could immediately identify. I have a copy of this Natives of Space but my Cycle of Fire comes from a later reprint.
Comment by Robert Gurskey — October 27, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Hey Robert,
Cheers for the comment, yeah Dean’s Style is very identifiable, really cool stuff….
Comment by Kie — October 28, 2009 @ 9:02 pm