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Heinlein cover art: old hardcover Assignment in Eternity and The Man Who Sold the Moon!

1/28/2019

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I was on the prowl for some more nifty Heinlein recently, and I picked up a cool 1953 copy of The Man Who Sold the Moon with the classic original Hubert Rogers cover art, plus a first edition Assignment in Eternity with a gorgeous Ric Binkley cover showing the domed lunar hideout of the villainous Mrs. Keithly of “Gulf.”

This has become one of my favorite Heinlein covers, and of course both of these are now posted in the Collections/Anthologies page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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More Heinlein . . . in German!

1/25/2019

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Recently a friend of mine was in Germany, and she kindly picked me up a neat German-language copy of Sixth Column.  Danke, mein fraulein!

Originally the tale was serialized in Astounding Science-Fiction, in January, February, and March of 1941 under the Anson MacDonald byline, of course, and scans of the Hubert Rogers cover art and Schneeman interiors can be seen in the Pulp Magazines page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Afterward the piece was published in book form in 1949, under this title and also as The Day After Tomorrow.  In any event, the cover art for this version of the book, like the others, is posted in my Earlier Adult Works page.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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More Heinlein, including "Sky Lift" reprint

1/7/2019

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Lately I’ve been picking up some stray Heinlein that my collection has lacked, and although I haven’t blogged about all the incoming pieces, here’s a random piece of interest: a reprint of the 1952 story  “Sky Lift” in the August 1958 issue of a semi-girlie magazine called Rogue for Men.  In addition to a number of racy photos, though, there also is a nifty illustration for the Heinlein story by D. Bruce Derry.  This—along with the shots from original appearance in Imagination, of course—can be found in the Pulp Magazines page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

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Rafeeq

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More Heinlein magazine updates

12/26/2018

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In the cataloging project of my personal library, at last I’m through allllllllllllllll of my Heinlein, and thus soon will be moving on to the next authors in the alphabet.  Along the way I’ve discovered some Heinlein art here and there that I didn’t realize I had in certain magazines, and I’ve picked up some more as well...like this nice Fred Ludekens from The Saturday Evening Post.  Now all 825 of these separate images of Heinlein art have been posted to the various pages of Heinlein galleries.

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Rafeeq

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Heinlein cover art updates

12/21/2018

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As I work slowly, so slowly through my library cataloging project, I’ve found a few holes in my Heinlein collection that I wanted to fill...so I did.

I have some interesting things still on the way, but already I’ve received the April-May 1953 issue of Astonishing Stories with “Project Nightmare,” the January and March 1963 issues of F&SF with the last two installments of Podkayne of Mars I was lacking, and, the September through December issues of Boys’ Life with The Rolling Stones serialized as Tramp Space Ship with illustrations by someone named Hal Sherman.

Oh, yes—and I picked up some cool old things that I posted to my “Science Fiction/Science Fact” area as well, including some beautiful art by Chesley Bonestell.

In any event, the Heinlein stuff of course now is posted to to the “Pulp Magazines” and “Serialized Novels” pages as appropriate.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Leigh Brackett, “The Beast-Jewel of Mars” in 1942 Planet Stories

12/1/2018

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Leigh Brackett’s “The Beast-Jewel of Mars” is a neat story about using a sort of reverse-evolution regression an illicit entertainment or drug.  I read in a collection I picked up a year or two ago, but recently I found a copy of the 1942 Planet Stories that originally published the story.  I liked the story, and the flashy 1940s cover was so great that I figured I had to get it.

I opened up a new page in my Other SF Art galleries, specifically Pulp Magazines, so now I have a place to post the illustration at left.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Heinlein art rediscovered--"Common Sense"!

11/27/2018

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Currently I am in the middle--well, more like the first 20%, actually--of a project to catalog my library onto a single Excel.  I've considered this for years, and finally have begun to take the plunge.

In any event, I just discovered that the October 1941 issue of Astounding, which features "By His Bootstraps," actually also contains the Heinlein story "Common Sense," along with five interior drawings.  Great!

How I had missed this previously, I don't know.  Now, however, they are posted to the "Pulp Magazines" page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Two more pieces of Heinlein cover art

8/25/2018

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I stopped into Curious Books in East Lansing yesterday, and I picked up a Signet Assignment in Eternity with Gene Szafran cover art, plus a newer big softcover of The Door into Summer.  Now they are scanned, and posted at the appropriate pages of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

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​Rafeeq

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More Heinlein cover art

6/24/2018

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A few weeks ago I was in Nova Scotia, and I made a point of stopping in to the half-dozen used book joints within driving distance of the lovely cliffside cottage where we were staying.  This Bookapalooza yielded 23 books of many different variety...including a different cover of To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

And then today I stopped in to Curious Books in East Lansing, where I picked an early paperback Double Star in gorgeous purple, another Gene Szafran Puppet Masters with slightly different layout, a movie tie-in Starship Troopers with James Warhola art, and an old anthology from 1951 called Three by Heinlein.

I have scanned these, and now all images are in their appropriate “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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More Heinlein art: 1954 Star Beast serial, plus books

11/12/2017

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A little while ago I found copies of the May, June, and July 1954 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which had The Star Lummox, the first appearance of The Star Beast before being published in unified novel form.  Then I picked up some British paperbacks of Assignment in Eternity, Podkayne of Mars, and Tunnel in the Sky.

All of these additions to my collection have charm of various varieties, and all now are posted at their respective “Serialized Novels,” “Collections/Anthologies,” “Later Works,” or “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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