A selection of Illustrations from Norwegian Comics Artist and Illustrator Thore Hansen. These Illustrations date from the 70′s and were produced for a Norwegian SF magazine, great colours!
Images sourced from a larger collection of Thore’s work; again these are via Flickr User gojira2012 who’s amassed a superb collection of Sci-Fi illustration / objet d’arte, definitely worth a look.
Book Cover Art from David Schleinkofer for an unknown Sci-Fi Book cover (he can’t remember the title!).
Image taken from Davids Flickr account wheres he collected together a large selection of his past work – Including some very recognisable work (Transformers/Sim City) http://www.flickr.com/photos/38157193@N05/
As spotted via FFFFound.com these excellent doctored Photo Illustrations from Designer/Illustrator Eric Zelinski aka OBNX MUTE. Original source material for these pictures I believe comes from NASA / NARA – a really classy demonstration of what’s achievable with the right found imagery.
These images are sourced via from the Flickr set “SPACE & MSCED” see the rest of that here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericzelinski/sets/72157614801147240/
OBNX MUTE Portfolio site: http://obnxmute.com/
A second sample from American artist John Berkey (1932-2008). If this images reminds of Starwars – well that’s probably because Berkey was commissioned by Lucas to work on early material for the original trilogy….
A little more on John Berkey here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berkey and further galleries of his work here: http://www.net-cafe.hu/fantasy.php?ct=161
Also an excellent gallery of John’s lesser seen work http://pinkoski.com/content/view/74/26/ – thanks for the link Jim!
A David Pelham Penguin cover for a 1976 edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s Novel “Cat’s Cradle”
Scan via Flickr User: Michael Bojkowski he’s also got a little selection of Illustrated Paperback cover’s here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooski/sets/72157594314437849/
Also of note: check this excellent compendium of Penguin SF Book covers: http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/ Many thanks to Thistle for that link!
Cat’s Cradle by the way is that game you play with string wrapped round your fingers… I couldn’t remember it either!