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70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· 26d

"UFO Space Strangers," 1978.

A couple drives a green sports car away from a massive, stylized yellow flying saucer in the air.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· 27d

Ralph McQuarrie

Star Wars concept depicting someone in a tiny one-person crows-nest lookout poking out of a forest on a moon, with a giant whiteish planet overhead.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· 29d

Cora Lee Healy, "A Far Eyrie," used for the cover to "Starship" magazine's Winter 1979-1980 issue.

A smug white bird in jeweled golden armor poses in front of a futuristic island city with a huge purple moon taking up most of the sky overhead.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 13

Stephen Fabian

A big frog-like monster with human-like hands, a single eye and two spider fangs perches on the surface of a lake with a single long bridge in the foreground.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 12

All right, you know the drill: Sign up for my art blog newsletter today, get the next issue tomorrow! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io This one's about reflective surfaces - and, no, it's not ALL Syd Mead. Just these four.

Futuristic scenery and buildings are reflected in the metalic side of a vehicle with a large metal sphere on top.

Two speeding, hovering vehicles are strongly reflected in a floor made of big blue panels, under a blue sky.

A future entertainment deck has a gunmetal surface that reflects a group of friends standing around on the other side of the room near some plants.

Two people in bulky red spacesuits chat next to an odd vehicle that has a single big spherical back tire. The whole scene is reflected by the floor.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 11

It's Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! Here's a 1985 cover by Dana Knutson for the Star Trek Federation Ship Recognition Manual, a supplement to Star Trek: The Role Playing Game.

A cutaway view of a saucer-shaped starship in space shows its living quarters, with planets in the background.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 10

Frank Kelly Freas illustration of a goddess shooting a prince with a lightning bolt that's transforming him into a frog. They're surrounded by other frogs and similar critters, as well as some abandoned crowns.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 10

“Rama,” by Morris Scott Dollens, 1980

Swirling, colorful squares and light beams represent the interior of a massive cylindrical alien space station.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 9

Ralph McQuarrie’s 1986 cover for Eric Frank Russell’s ‘Sinister Barrier’

A screaming white-haired man is bent over, with a blue alien ball of energy over him, sinking its tendrils into him.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 8

Starblazer

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 7

Signe Landon, for the 1976 Star Trek: TOS zine "Beta Niobe Revisited"

A woman relaxes in an outdoor hot spring.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 6

Hiro Isono's work is so good I don't even care about those watermarks

A guy rides a dinosaur across a savanah, with more dinosaurs framed against a red sky and giant yellow sun.

A zebra, elephant, and other animals stand against a lush jungle packed with overlapping green vegetation.

A water nymph clutches her knees while underwater and surrounded by a ton of ocean plant and animal life including a shark, eels, and a ton of golden fish.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 5

Free signups are open for my art blog newsletter! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Subscribers will get a bunch of alien waterfalls in their inbox tomorrow. Tell your friends! Sneak peek here, with art by Chris Foss, Michael Böhme, Marco Patrito, and Roger Dean.

A dozen waterfalls pour from derelict future machinery with odd sigils on it. A spaceship hovers nearby over a foggy landscape with a smoking volcano in the distance.

A green-yellow alien landscape has a huge waterfall in it, with a city built on an outcropping in the middle of it.

An endless ocean has a split-level feature, creating a big winding waterfall. A metal sphere hovers over it, with five tiny spaceships approaching or leaving it.

An elevated lake pours off of a mountain on all sides.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 4

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday, here's an impressive multi-level scene by Günter Radtke.

A helicopter flies over an offshore oil rig, with a supply boat nearby. A cutaway in a submerged structure shows its internal workings and support columns, while cutaways above the water reveal pipes and tanks.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 3

Chris Moore’s 1991 cover illustration for Stephen Baxter’s "Raft"

A sci-fi city on a floating rock hovers over a planet's cloud cover and under a giant blood-red celestial body.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 2

Interior art by Roy G. Scarfo, for "Beyond Tomorrow," by Dandridge M. Cole, 1965

Two low-flying saucers zoom over a lava-filled alien planet, towards a rounded white tower.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 1

Angus McKie

Several spaceships have crashed under a red sky. A face with a gas mask and space helmet is on the lower right-hand side, and another figure lies on the ground.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jul 1

James Rattigan’s March 1957 cover to the Scottish SF magazine "Nebula"

An astronaut lies on an alien planet, with a hole in their helmet. Behind them, white tentacles from out of the ground are wrapped around a silver rocket ship.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 30

Esteban Maroto

A woman wearing a crown, a golden bikini and a red robe manspreads on her throne, below two snakes and a green-faced demon in a big helmet.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 28

Last day to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next free issue's out, all about a fairytale-themed guitar catalog from 1976! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io These are all by Bruce Wolfe.

Goldilocks and the three bears are dancing around while shredding on guitars.

The three little pigs sing together, while the big bad wolf flies up out of a pot of water and into on the air above them, holding the seat of his pants.

Snow White shreds on an electric guitar, surrounded by the seven dwarves, as seen through the witch's magic mirror. The witch is playing a much worse guitar.

Red Riding Hood watches a wolf dressed as her granny shred on a guitar.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 27

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday, here are a couple incredibly cool Shusei Nagaoka illustrations.

Cutaway view of a futuristic spaceship showing off machinery and turbines along with some small, empty living quarters.

Cutaway view of a futuristic flying saucer interior with multiple levels, control panels, and figures.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 26

Science Fiction Monthly

A big golden statue is against a blue background, with a swimmer in scuba gear hovering near its face.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 24

Angus McBride

Three creepy, angry dragons are posed sort of like vultures.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 22

Gray Morrow, “The Road to the Rim,” cover art for the April 1967 issue of Worlds of IF

A man in a green jumpsuit stands next to a woman in a gold jumpsuit who is pointing off screen with a wild expression. A weird sci-fi contraption is behind them.

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart· Jun 21

New free art blog newsletter issue out tomorrow! Sign up for it: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io These three artworks are by John Berkey, but the issue also covers 90s pogs and Chester Gould, so it's a real grab-bag.