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A hidden trove of Virgil Finlay art

  • Adam Rowe

Adam Rowe

11 Mar 2024 • 5 min read
A hidden trove of Virgil Finlay art

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Strange Dragons

Strange Dragons

Someone on Tumblr recently shared this illustration with me: Kinuko Y. Craft's 1990 cover art for The Malacia Tapestry, by Brian Aldiss (and posted on Tumblr by sweathome). I'm sorry to say that I had to look a second time before I noticed the creature hidden
26 Jan 2026 6 min read
Beams From Flying Saucers

Beams From Flying Saucers

There's something about the old-school "flying saucer" UFO. I've covered a wide range of classic sci-fi spaceship art, but the flying saucer is in a class by itself. It's mysterious, eerie, unknowable, even horrific. Cryptic and a cryptid. There's only
19 Jan 2026 5 min read
Ray Guns

Ray Guns

Science fiction magazine covers of the '30s-'50s loved thinly-reskinned adventure tropes. Skeletons on deserted islands became skeletons on deserted planets; Wild animal attacks became alien monster attacks. The violence inherent to the genre meant that pistols and rifles were naturally the next in line for a revamp.
12 Jan 2026 6 min read
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