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How Michael Whelan's art wound up in Louis Vuitton ads

Plus some sweet Lords of the Rings art and some Lou Feck discourse

Adam Rowe

04 Feb 2020 • 4 min read

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Flasks and Test Tubes

I was just on a Helmut Wenske kick the other day – he's a groovy German surrealist who did a lot of album covers in the 1970s – and this one got me thinking about the humble flask. The "mad scientist" is among the once-popular science fiction tropes

13 Jan 2025 4 min read

Portals

I probably don't have to explain why portals make cool sci-fi covers. They're a fun visual, they invite the reader in with a story hook – what's through that door? – and, like space helmet reflections, they provide a simple way for an artist to depict

06 Jan 2025 3 min read

2025

What year would you pick when writing a science fiction story set in the future? Many writers want a relatively recognizable world, so they only go 30-50 years forward. As a result, we've been passing the dates of 70s/80s/90s-era sci-fi futures consistently for a while: 2015

30 Dec 2024 4 min read

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