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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

Leigh Brackett, “The Beast-Jewel of Mars” in 1948 Planet Stories

12/1/2018

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

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

More Heinlein cover art

6/24/2018

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

More Heinlein art: 1954 Star Beast serial, plus books

11/12/2017

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

Heinlein art: Farnham’s Freehold, with Jack Gaughan

7/22/2017

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

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

7/18/2017

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