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70s Sci-Fi Art
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Publishers Weekly says my "obvious love for the form animates the volume." And I'll animate again! I'll never stop animating volumes
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 1d
Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about orange and teal sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Art here is by Davis Meltzer, David Bergen, Frank Kelly Freas, and Jack Gaughan.
A town with a lot of steeples is shadowed in teal colors, beneath a yellow and orange futuristic, curving city with a few weird orbs in it. An astronaut in a bulky orange suit stands in the surf on an ocean beach, with a blue night sky behind him. A bright blue alien smokes a cigarette while looking up at a ghostly angry orange guy in the sky above him. Analog magazine cover. An astronaut pokes through a bright ornange crevice between two splashes of teal that have mushrooms growing within them.
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
The wild box art of some of the lesser-known Psygnosis 'Psyclapse' label releases.

Roger Dean is the most famous artist for many of Psygnosis's covers, but there were also others who created cover art for them, such as Ian Craig, Peter Andrew Jones, and Melvyn Grant.
The box cover for Nevermind, which is a cover that leaves a fair bit to interpretation, with a male figure in ornate clothing in front of a glowing half-orb at the bottom of the screen, fist raised to his mouth, while behind them, shadowy figures gaze through a round window at him. The cover for Anarchy, with a close-up painting of an inhuman eye and mottled skin around it, with what look like circuitry patterns flowing to or fromt it with a splashy text logo spelling ANARCHY above it, Captain Fizz meets the Blaster-Trons, a cool scifiish cover with exotically armoured figures striding through a mustard dust cloud on an alien world, with a bulbous space craft or structure rising above it behind them. It looks like an early 70s pulp sci-fi cover. Stryx's cover has a Robbie The Robot-esque bulbous legged retrofuturustic robot beind blasted above a skin tight body suited figure above which it looks. A distinctly Starfleet logo design is emblazoned on his back. It's all got a desaturated, yellowish green palette that evokes a Boris Vallejo vibe as the buy is quite muscular.
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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mlleghoul.bsky.social
You know, even though I wrote a whole-ass book this year (details forthcoming!), I am not sure it even compares to my greatest achievement of 2024, which involved making a meme from the remnants of a dumb dream I had, wherein someone told me to "do a care bear thing about it."
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Bernie Wrightson
Two travelers in a snowy forest cower from a huge yeti-like creature that crouches in front of a camp fire that looks like it might be a burning corpse.
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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boneyhag.bsky.social
This has been one of my favorite newsletters
70sscifiart.bsky.social 70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 1d
Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about orange and teal sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Art here is by Davis Meltzer, David Bergen, Frank Kelly Freas, and Jack Gaughan.
A town with a lot of steeples is shadowed in teal colors, beneath a yellow and orange futuristic, curving city with a few weird orbs in it. An astronaut in a bulky orange suit stands in the surf on an ocean beach, with a blue night sky behind him. A bright blue alien smokes a cigarette while looking up at a ghostly angry orange guy in the sky above him. Analog magazine cover. An astronaut pokes through a bright ornange crevice between two splashes of teal that have mushrooms growing within them.
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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vghistory.bsky.social
secret of mana, player's guide, back, snes (1994) www.mobygames.com/game/6645/se...
a detailed coloured illustration of a vast landscape of greenery with a line of red birds flying. the greenery of split by a dark window rier and there is a large tree halfway toward the back of the illustration. at th back, the starry night sky can be seen as well as a sliver of the moon.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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What are your favorite image/art accounts on here? I enjoy @dungeonlust.com @brutalismbot.com @crtpixel.bsky.social @ironchefbot.bsky.social @vghistory.bsky.social @im.a.whole.damn.town @bluetomorrows.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue drops tomorrow, all about orange and teal sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Art here is by Davis Meltzer, David Bergen, Frank Kelly Freas, and Jack Gaughan.
A town with a lot of steeples is shadowed in teal colors, beneath a yellow and orange futuristic, curving city with a few weird orbs in it. An astronaut in a bulky orange suit stands in the surf on an ocean beach, with a blue night sky behind him. A bright blue alien smokes a cigarette while looking up at a ghostly angry orange guy in the sky above him. Analog magazine cover. An astronaut pokes through a bright ornange crevice between two splashes of teal that have mushrooms growing within them.
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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queenoliviaiii.com
Time to post the emotionally devastating eastern bloc animation based on the story

youtu.be/4oxP3TyuQx0
Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]
YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл
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December 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The first occasion when Science Fiction Monthly decided to do Christmas in space, November 1974.
Plum Duff in Outer Space by Ray Winder. A moon-sized Christmas pudding, complete with a colossal sprig of holly, floating in the sky above a frozen, crater-strewn planet.
December 21, 2024 at 1:30 PM
70sscifiart.bsky.social
Last couple of weeks to repost this one while it's still topical! Sadly, I haven't been able to turn up any 2026-themed retro sci-fi art
70sscifiart.bsky.social 70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · Dec 29
Top two times the year "2025" turned up on retro sci-fi covers
The cover to "NYPD 2025" by Hal Stryker, featuring art by John Berkey of a blue futuristic NYC, complete with a flying car. The cover to "The Running Man," by Richard Bachman, featuring art by Don Brautigam of a red screen of a yelling guy, which is visible on a ball being held in both hands by someone.
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Patrick Woodroffe
An alien landscape is mostly white, with some very tall mushrooms scattered around, and a large moon on the horizon.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Tim White depicts a group of astronauts in Santa-themed spacesuits boarding a giant Christmas cracker from their green holly leaf-branded spaceship. The "C75" on the ship is likely a reference to the year, since this was the Nov 1975 cover to 'Science Fiction Monthly'
A giant christmas cracker floats in space with Santa's face on it's side. The Earth is to the left and explorers are floating through space towards the cracker from their green spaceship on the right.
December 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
FLANDRY OF TERRA (1979)
Acrylic on Board - 27 ½" x 16"

This illustration differed from others at the time in that I used models. 1/3
A dark haired woman wearing polar gear and holding a rifle crouches in the snow. Behind her, a blonde man with mustache stands with air raised and a rifle gripped in hand. He aims a laser pistol at a hovering octopoidal alien, one of a group that approaches from behind. Pink sky gives way to a baby blue spacescape. A moon with its craggy surface highlighted in crescent looms huge in the sky, intersected by the white rings of the planet.
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ranaroth.bsky.social
Anne McCaffrey, Wings of Pegasus, GuildAmerica Books, 1991. Cover: Dean Morrissey. Omnibus of To Ride Pegasus (1973) and Pegasus in Flight (1990). Book Club edition. Would this count as a Control Panel @70sscifiart.bsky.social ? #AnneMcCaffrey #BookClub #pegasus #DeanMorrissey
December 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Once Upon a Time (1976)

An obscure, but key, moment in fantasy art of the 1970s. Read more here: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2025/12/once-upon-a-time-1976/ #TTRPG
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
One of our most popular holiday gifts, The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, is back in stock. mzs.press/The-Fantasti...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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ranaroth.bsky.social
Ed Valigursky. #EdValigursky
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Moebius, "Nighthawks"
The cafe from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting has been transported to a mostly empty desert, and the four people in the cafe have gathered at the front to look out at a floating blue blob of an alien with weird tentacles and a halo.
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Art by US artist and illustrator Paul Alexander (1937 - 2021)
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
WINTERSTAR (2025)
Acrylic - 12 ½” x 16”

As the long night of solstice draws near, Winter calls on the wonder of starlight and frost to illuminate a path to the new year. 1/3

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In profile, an elegant woman in close fitting bodice and flowing skirts saunters through a snow flurry with long red hair trailing as if swept up in the winter breeze. In the palm of one hand, she holds a star-shaped snowflake flaring with light. The details of her gown are accented with a myriad of snowflake designs. In the near foreground, a black cat strides ahead of her while a white owl glides on wings spread wide behind her. In the background snow, a black cat with white bib sits quietly, a distant observer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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70scomix.bsky.social
This panel will be relevant in 7 months. I wonder if I’ll remember to post it in July
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

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URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW! We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support. Goal: $50,000 https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent Venmo: carta-monir Cashapp: $cartamonir Send donations with a red heart emoji to ensure funds are redirected to this SWER We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser. Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case. To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen. Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support. In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.
October 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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@70sscifiart.bsky.social is really fueling my obsession with do-overs today:
70sscifiart.bsky.social 70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 8d
We all know what spaceships look like. But how do artists depict time machines? Sign up for my art blog newsletter and you'll find out in tomorrow's issue: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's the sneak peek: Josh Kirby, Trevor Webb, Karel Thole, and Richard Powers
A handful of figures in strange red spacesuits ignore gravity to walk along a twisted yellow path that hangs in outer space. At the end is a doorway portal, with a string of other, increasingly smaller doors behind it stretching into the distance. A blue spherical ship flies through a red vortext with gold stars in it. An old guy sits in a mechanical chair built on a floor made out of a clock face, with a globe hooked up to it. The background is four different scenes or time periods, including one that's a Roman city. A man sits in the center of a dark machine built like a jungle gym with lights on it. The background is a foggy dark red, and the shadow of a dinosaur is to the right.
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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wiredandteary.bsky.social
My copy of @70sscifiart.bsky.social ‘s “Worlds beyond time” arrived. Beautifully put together, it’s full of classic covers and illustrations.
A large hardcover book is open on a table. One page is a colour illustration of a barren planet, the facing page is a heading in classic computer font’ - “Explorers and Space Travel”.
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The BBC adaptation is not only one of my favourite adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, it also has some of my favourite music and favourite illustrations for Middle-earth, as well.

An all-round brilliant version and if you haven't, you should.
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM