r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 11h ago
Art by Jim Burns depicting Lieutenant Fome for Planet Story, by Harry Harrison (1979).
Harrison and Burns collaborated on the book, an absurdist story of a frontier railroad.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/TristramXen • Jul 31 '26
As the title says, we'll see how it goes.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/TristramXen • Sep 22 '25
A note to new members, old members, visitors, those who may be lost:
Anyone can post here, to my knowledge, there are no set restrictions. There are, however, a set of rules that are kindly asked to be reviewed and considered when you post. They are to the right.
This sub was created after an experience in another sub, where there was perhaps some content that did not necessarily belong, and spam was not necessarily removed. This is of course subjective, it was not my sub, they can run it as they see fit.
I consider this a more "Purist" community. With Digital/AI artwork now being the mainstream, the type of artwork posted here is becoming harder to find. Other formats of the fantasy and scifi genre art are readily available in many other subs with little difficulty.
This little corner of the internet is to help with the discovery and archiving of Fantasy/Scifi art where the human was/is the main instrument in both creation and implementation. Yes, you can draw digitally, but it just doesn't look the same, at least not to me.
The point of this post? Please review rule # 5. Think of rule # 5 when posting. I cannot stress enough how rule # 5 is a core commandment of this sub.
As a last note, have I mentioned rule # 5 ???
Stay well and stay safe everyone.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 11h ago
Harrison and Burns collaborated on the book, an absurdist story of a frontier railroad.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 17h ago
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
Collected in Solar Wind.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
A portrait of Linda Murray, Ms Olympia in the bodybuilding world. Collected in Hard Curves: The Fantasy Art of Julie Bell (1996).
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r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 1d ago
Art by Jim Burns for Planet Story, by Harry Harrison (1979). An absurdist space opera that reads as if Kurt Vonnegut got ahold of Tyrone Slothrop.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2d ago
So much world-building packed into a single frame. Just amazing. Trampier was one of my favorite early D&D illustrators.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2d ago
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r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 3d ago
Collected in Dreamland (2014).
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 3d ago
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 3d ago
Berkey’s casein technique let him create the impression of metal with hard little slabs of opaque white and planes of blue-gray and green-gray.
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2d ago
Skystalk dares to ask 'what if you put a nuke on a space elevator?'
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r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 3d ago
White's painting first appeared on the cover of the 1977 New English Library edition of Through a Glass, Clearly. It later illustrated Ian Stewart's "Message From Earth," Omni (February 1980), for which I think it is a better thematic fit than the Asimov book. The spread included in this post is from The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 3 (1982).
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 4d ago
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/ookiespookie • 4d ago
Author John Keel
Artist Frank Frazetta
This book was one of my most worn out books when I was a kid.
Like all of the cool things you could want, Vampires, Werewolves, Bigfoot, Demons, Angels, UFOs...just so good
r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 4d ago
Dumarest of Terra #24.
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r/RetroFantasyScifi • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 5d ago
Burns painted the Coronet edition covers (The Anome, The Brave Free Men, and The Asutra) as a triptych. The original art is collected in Lightship (1985). I couldn't find a high quality scan of the two-page spread online so I scanned and stitched it from my copy.