70s Sci-Fi Art Blog - Index

70s Sci-Fi Art Blog - Index
Steven Vincent Johnson, 'Red Giant,' 1982 personal work

Last update: April 2025

Rick Sternbach

Interviews

Original interviews I've conducted for my art blog.

Rick Sternbach's Dolphin Suit

Lookcaitlin Is the Coolest Resource of 70s-90s Tech Magazine Illustrations on the Internet

Henri Lievens' 1978 cover to La patrouille du temps, by Poul Anderson

Worlds Beyond Time: Extended Edition

This series covers the artists and themes that I had initially planned to cover in my 2023 art collection Worlds Beyond Time, but that I had to cut for a range of reasons.

Henri Lievens

Wojtek Siudmak

Horacio Salinas Blanch

Roger Dean

Alien Nightfall

Future Sports

Floating Cities

Kirby meets Kubrick

Sea Life out of Water

Richard Bober, c. 1976

Art Mysteries

Occasionally people come to me looking to find a specific book title, piece of art, or artist credit. Some of these are still mysteries!

Solving the 1976 'Wrinkle in Time' Cover Artist Mystery

Spherical Red Aliens

Marius van Boordt

Scene from a 2023 episode of Black Mirror

Books

My notes or reviews of media that features retro science fiction art.

Retro Paperback Art in 'Black Mirror'

Half-Forgotten 70s Sci-Fi: "Fantasy Voyages"

Gold Key's "UFO Flying Saucers"

1980s Maplin Catalogues

The Peter Max Astrologicalendar

Angus McBride

Artists

Collections of art from specific artists that I found interesting, often with a quick, very non-comprehensive biography.

Angus McBride

Virgil Finlay

Giuseppe Festino's 'Robot' Covers

Chris Moore (1947-2025)

Chris Foss depicts Atlantis

Tropes

Visual themes that retro science fiction artists often returned to.

Atlantis

Frankenstein

The legacy of Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”

Self Portraits

Medieval Computers

Gas Masks

Portals

Sci-Fi Vikings

Trains of the Future

Trains of the Past

Cloudscapes

Paul Lehr, 1973

Tropes (Adam's Version)

Visual themes that artists really didn't think about very much, but that I was able to turn into blog post art roundups through sheer force of will.

Very Normal Houses

Giant Teeth

Giant Bees and Wasps

Break Time

Blue Skies

2025

Flasks and Test Tubes

Bug Aliens in Love

Coffee, Tea, and Drinks

1985 John Harris cover art to The Corridors of Time, by Poul Anderson

Art Roundups

These topics were too broad for a term like "trope" to apply to them - sometimes I just want to post beautiful sci-fi art.

'Epic' Sci-Fi Art

Alien Landscapes, Part 2

Colorful Spaceships

Desktop Backgrounds and Phone Wallpapers

Angus McKie

Art Debuts

Very rarely, I'm able to post an artwork online for – to my knowledge, at least – the very first time.

The Adventures of Starbeem and Re-Koil

New-to-me art by Angus McKie

Gunther Radtke, 1974

Grab-bags

Posts that I thought were cool, but don't have a theme.

Pulp adventure tropes, swipes, and surrealist gambling

Hipgnosis, MC Escher, and Spy Vs Spy

Odds and Ends