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Today we celebrate the famous warp flight of Dr Zephram Cochrane’s Phoenix ship!! This historic date taking place in the Star Trek universe on April 5th 2063, marks humanity’s “First Contact” with an alien race the Vulcans and the begining of an new era of peace and prosperity on planet earth!! Happy First contact day!! :-)

-The Captain OC

Was just recently introduced to this incredible science fiction artwork book!!! Its an A2 sized book, so it is quite large. 
It’s called Science Fiction Art - “The Fantasies of SF”, and it is compiled and introduced by Brian Aldiss, First President of the British Science Fiction Association; Ditmar Award 1969 for Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction.
 The book covers science fiction art from 1926 to the 1970’s.
Published in 1975 by New English Library. 
It has 115 illustrations in full color, plus 173 in black and white.
 The contents are- 
THE ARTISTS’GALLERY 
GREAT COMIC STRIPS; “Themes in science fiction”
 DELIGHTFUL DOOMSDAYS; “Catastrophes” 
VACUUM-BUSTERS; “Spaceships” 
BEYOND THE BEYOND; “Distant planets”
 HERE BE MONSTERS; “Alien life”
 SPIRES AND SEWERS; “Future cities”
 INTERPLANETARY PETS; “Girls in science fiction” 
HANDS WITHOUT HEADS; “Great machines”
 MEN OF METAL; “Robots” 
IDEAS IN ACTION; “Two SF ideas develop”
 THE MAGAZINE GALLERY 
INDEX OF ARTISTS, INDEX OF MAGAZINES

Was just recently introduced to this incredible science fiction artwork book!!!
Its an A2 sized book, so it is quite large. 
It’s called Science Fiction Art - “The Fantasies of SF”, and it is compiled and introduced by Brian Aldiss, First President of the British Science Fiction Association; Ditmar Award 1969 for Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction.


The book covers science fiction art from 1926 to the 1970’s.
Published in 1975 by New English Library.


It has 115 illustrations in full color, plus 173 in black and white.


The contents are-

THE ARTISTS’GALLERY

GREAT COMIC STRIPS; “Themes in science fiction”

DELIGHTFUL DOOMSDAYS; “Catastrophes”

VACUUM-BUSTERS; “Spaceships”

BEYOND THE BEYOND; “Distant planets”

HERE BE MONSTERS; “Alien life”

SPIRES AND SEWERS; “Future cities”

INTERPLANETARY PETS; “Girls in science fiction”

HANDS WITHOUT HEADS; “Great machines”

MEN OF METAL; “Robots”

IDEAS IN ACTION; “Two SF ideas develop”

THE MAGAZINE GALLERY

INDEX OF ARTISTS, INDEX OF MAGAZINES