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Leigh Brackett, “The Beast-Jewel of Mars” in 1948 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 as illicit entertainment or drug.  I had read it in a collection I picked up a year or two ago, but recently I found a copy of the 1948 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.

Enjoy!

​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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Heinlein art: Farnham’s Freehold, with Jack Gaughan

7/22/2017

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Farnham’s Freehold originally was serialized in Worlds of If in July, August, and October 1964.  The covers vary, though the first is by Gray Morrow, who also did the interiors for The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress when it was published in the same magazine a year later.  The interior art for this serialized novel, though, is by Jack Gaughan, who later illustrated I Will Fear No Evil when it appeared in Galaxy in 1970.

Today to my Serialized Novels page I have posted all three covers, plus the whopping 10 interior illustrations for the first of three installments.  This, by the way, brings my total distinct images of Heinlein art to over 700.

In any event, I hope in the coming week or so to post the others.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq
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Heinlein cover art: More “Gulf,” with Hubert Rogers art

7/18/2017

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A bit belatedly, I realized that “Gulf” was not a stand-alone story when published in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1949, but instead was serialized across two issues.  I rectified that wee lack in my collection, therefore.  The cover, which is colorful and interesting, is by someone I confess I had never heard of, but the interiors for the Heinlein story still are by the familiar Hubert Rogers.  Almost as soon as the old pulp came in the mail, I scanned the appropriate parts, and they now are posted in the “Pulp Magazines” area of my voluminous Heinlein galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq
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9 Heinlein juvies, including much Darrell K. Sweet!

6/8/2017

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Recently I received a box of 9—nine!—of the so-called “juveniles” Heinlein did for Scribner’s in the 1940s and ’50s.  These included Double Star, Farmer in the Sky, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Red Planet, Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, The Star Beast, Starman Jones, and Time for the Stars.

All of them were in quite decent condition, with most actually appearing to have been unread.  Except for some minor shopwear, the only problem was that there was some old label-type sticky gunk on the back of one, and it peeled up some of the cover of Red Planet, which was indeed exceedingly annoying...

The artwork included 7 nice Darrell K. Sweet covers, one by Lee Rosenblatt—a funky early-1970s-looking Starman Jones—and an uncredited Farmer in the Sky.  Do I have other copies of these books with covers of very close variation?  Yes.  But do I like to maintain a pretty sizable Heinlein collection?  Yeah...

Enjoy!

Rafeeq
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Heinlein art: Irv Docktor Orphans and Farnham’s

6/5/2017

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Well, a couple more Heinlein books came today, mid-1960s Putnam Book Club Edition hardcovers of Orphans of the Sky and Farnham’s Freehold, both of which have nice dust jackets by Irv Docktor.  They are welcome additions to my Heinlein collection, and now they are scanned and posted to the site.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq
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Heinlein art: British Starship Troopers with wraparound cover

6/4/2017

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Another Heinlein for my collection came in the mail a couple days ago, a nice New English Library edition of Starship Troopers, printing circa 1975, with cool wraparound cover art by Gordon C. Davies.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq
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Some more Heinlein cover art

5/31/2017

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Recently I picked up a nifty old Space Cadet with lovely cover and interiors by Clifford N. Geary, plus the two issues of Boys’ Life that serialized the story “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon” in 1949.  These magazines are harder to come by than more usual ones like Astounding, I would say, and the interior illustrations happen to be quite nicely rendered.

Now the art from these pieces all is scanned, and posted to the appropriate pages in my huge Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq
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