Category: Robert A. Heinlein - RafeeqMcGiveron.com

“The Black Pits of Luna” art from Saturday Evening Post

6/4/2020

Although a jillion copies of The Saturday Evening Post have been printed, it can be strangely difficult to find a 1947 or 1948 copy with certain Heinlein stories. “The Black Pits of Luna” is one for which I had been keeping my eye peeled for quite some time, but I just never encountered one...until a couple days ago.

Shipping was astoundingly swift, and the magazine is good-looking. Now the cover and the lovely Fred Ludekens interior painting both are scanned to the “Pulp Magazines” page of my “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

Steele Savage “cover” art

5/24/2020

Every now and then I’ll run across an auction with some realllllllly nice SF art, but the popular stuff always ends up being really pricey, doesn’t it? I mean, when you see the original Frank R. Paul painting for “The Asteroid of Death” or one of the original Ed Emshwiller paintings for Have Space Suit—Will Travel when first serialized in F&SF...well, it’s gonna cost. The bidding just goes up and up and up, and one can only watch with a vague longing.

Well, recently I came across the original Steele Savage painting that was used as the cover for the 1971 Ace printing of Heinlein’s 1956 Scribner’s juvie, Time for the Stars. The piece is stylized and bold, as his work from that period tends to be, and it’s rather pretty in its own way. I had a couple extra shekels in my pouch from that coronavirus stimulus check, and I really wanted to help out the economy by keeping everything in flow, so...win-win, especially when bidding wasn’t too deadly.

In any event, I finally received this nifty piece, and its image now is scanned to the “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

More Heinlein art, including pulps!

3/17/2019

In the past couple of months I’ve picked up a number of nifty pieces for my “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries.

At the wonderful Dawn Treader bookshop of Ann Arbor I got a quaint Steele Savage cover for Red Planet—a painting that unfortunately does not catch the three-leggedness of Heinlein’s Martians as Darrell K. Sweet of course does—and a few more things. On ye olde internet I also at last found the March 1959 F&SF with “ --‘All You Zombies’.”

In addition, I was able to pick up even rarer things like the April 1941 Astonishing Stories with “Beyond Doubt,” the May 1940 Super Science Stories with “Let There Be Light” (pictured here), the November 1941 Super Science Stories with “Lost Legacy,” the March 1942 Astonishing Stories with “Pied Piper”…and a few more paperbacks I can’t quite recall. I also finally got my own copy of the June 1952 Popular Mechanics showcasing Heinlein’s then-futuristic house.

Oh, yes—and I posted some gorgeous Frank Frazetta art from Edgar R. Burroughs’ Barsoom novels in my “Paperbacks, Etc.” gallery.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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

1/28/2019

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

More Heinlein . . . in German!

1/25/2019

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

More Heinlein, including "Sky Lift" reprint

1/7/2019

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.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

More Heinlein magazine updates

12/26/2018

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.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

Heinlein cover art updates

12/21/2018

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

Heinlein art rediscovered--"Common Sense"!

11/27/2018

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

Two more pieces of Heinlein cover art

8/25/2018

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.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq