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Book notes: 'Hardyware'

Featuring volcanoes, shattered Earths, Cadbury's

Adam Rowe

11 Dec 2020 • 6 min read

Detail from "Mountain of Mystery," 1980, by David A Hardy

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Sheep and the Pastorial

I've mentioned before that a lot of what makes the '60s-'80s cross-section of sci-fi art history stand out is how much it focuses on organic life. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I feel like we've focused more on hardware in past decades,

01 Dec 2025 5 min read

Odds and Ends - Nov 2025

Welcome to another grab-bag issue. I'm starting with something particularly fascinating that I stumbled across. It's even about 1870s speculative fiction illustration, so it's technically within my purview here at the increasingly inaccurately named 70s Sci-Fi Art blog. Here's the deal. About

24 Nov 2025 5 min read

Brains

I've been collecting a lot of illustrations of sci-fi control panels this year, and fellow art enthusiast Ranaroth recently shared a great one: Jean-François Pénichoux’s 1981 cover to Robots: Historique de la robotique mobile du XXIeme au XXVeme siecle. It's also a prime example of

17 Nov 2025 5 min read

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