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07 Jun 2025 • 3 min read
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Black and White Sci-Fi

Black and White Sci-Fi

Bold and bright colors are one of the most definitive markers of 1970s and '80s science fiction book covers across the US and UK markets. I'd call them the definitive trait. Going into the decade, publishers and art directors were convinced that the dismal, muddy vibes associated
08 Sep 2025 4 min read
Smoking in Sci-Fi

Smoking in Sci-Fi

Cigarettes are right up there with Coca-Cola as a feat of marketing, manifested into being with the one-two combo of advertisements and addictive ingredients until they hit a critical mass and became a genuine self-perpetuating element of Americana. The tobacco propaganda machine faltered in the 90s, leaving a long, fascinating
01 Sep 2025 6 min read
Weird Horses and Other Steeds

Weird Horses and Other Steeds

I love all the details in Richard Clifton-Dey's 1973 cover art for The Wizard of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The green-yellow gradient sky; those garbled, mist-shrouded buildings in the background. But the creature design is the main attraction: The bug eyes, the endless scream, the dinnerplate feet,
25 Aug 2025 4 min read
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