This extensive index is divided into three categories.
1) Themed SF Cover Art Posts
2) Cover Art posts organized around an artist
3) Adventures in Interior SF Art and Maps
SF Cover Art Posts on a Theme
- Alien Friends
- A Handful of Funny Robots
- A Multiplication of Faces
- The Artists Behind the 1st ed. Cover of John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- Art Mysteries! Help Identify the SF cover artist!
- A Selection of Bleak Alien Landscapes
- A Selection of Elevated Cities Part I
- A Selection of Elevated Cities Part II
- A Handful of French, Italian, and Spanish Editions of Robert Silverberg’s Science Fiction
- A Handful of SF Inspired Album Covers
- A Handful of Tufted Gumby Aliens and Mushroom People
- Body as Landscape
- Chess/Checkers (with people + planets)
- The City as Canvas, Part I
- The City on the Horizon, Part I
- Crashed Spaceships, Part I
- Crashed Spaceships, Part II
- Crashed Spaceships, Part III
- The Composite Cover (illustrating a multiplicity of scenes, stories, thematic elements) Part I
- The Composite Cover (illustrating a multiplicity of scenes, stories, thematic elements) Part II
- Cosmic Fetuses + Other Uterine Spaces (+ levitating baby parts)
- Diagrammatic Wonders (alien sand art + planning invasions + and other more mysterious formulations) , Part I
- Disembodied Brains Part I
- Domed Cities of the Future, Part I
- Domed Cities of the Future, Part II
- Domed Cities of the Future, Part III
- Domed Cities (and Outposts) of the Future, Part IV
- Doomed Cities Part I (post-apocalyptical ruins, war-wrecked landscapes burning winds)
- Doomed Cities Part II (migrating icebergs, firestorms, the horsemen of the apocalypse)
- Doomed Cities Part III (the attack of the metal missile casings, monks among ruins)
- Easter Island Heads
- Encased in a Pillar (of the crystal or ice variety)
- Existential Crisis
- Eye[s] in the Sky
- Eye[s] in the Sky, Part II
- Future Archaeology and Mysterious Artifacts (Alien + Human)
- Futuristic Telescopes and Radar Dishes
- Fractured Bodies (unraveling, decaying, [de]constructing)
- The Hand of God?
- Humanoid Plants and Dendroid Humans
- Human Transformations/Transfigurations
- Ice-Covered Cities
- Ice-Covered Cities Part II
- Infernal Machines
- Inside the Skull (rats + women + sword fights + robotic circuits + space)
- Imprisoned in Glass Vials (of the metaphoric + medical + experimental variety)
- Italian Covers for Philip K. Dick’s Novels and Short Story Collections
- Look, I’m Really a Robot (chest flaps, faux skin, mechanical brains)
- The Maze (literal and metaphoric manifestations)
- Miserable Monday No. I, (pink/yellow striped cat aliens)
- Miserable Monday No. II, (Texas O Texas Triumphant)
- Miserable Monday No. III, (Through the Purple Haze)
- My 15 Favorite Science Fiction Covers
- Models, Dolls, Mannikins/Mannequins
- Nuclear Explosions + Mushroom Clouds!, Part I
- Nuclear Explosions + Mushroom Clouds!, Part II
- Nuclear Explosions + Mushroom Clouds!, Part III
- On the Cross and Other Prophetic Imagery
- On the Doctor’s Table
- Planetary Rovers and Transport Vehicles of the Future
- Plastic Toy Spacemen
- The Power of the Atom!
- Pyramids (spaceships + future earthscapes + alien temples)
- Reusing Cover Art
- Rocket, Field, Figure Part I
- Scenes from the Control Room
- The Skull, Part I
- The Skull, Part II
- Spacewomen of the Future (fixing spaceships + fighting aliens + charging across barren landscapes), Part I
- Spacewomen of the Future (flying spaceships + exploring alien planets + delivering galactic mail), Part II
- The Space Age Family
- Spaceships Under Construction
- Space Elephants!
- Spherical Spaceships, Spherical Aliens, Unidentified Spheres, Part I
- An Assortment of Mysterious Spheres, Part II
- Superminds (giant brains, expanding minds, rampant imagination)
- The Statue of Liberty on Pre-1968 Magazine and Novel Covers, Part I
- The Statue of Liberty on Pre-1968 Magazine and Novel Covers, Part II
- Tentacles and Other Strange Appendages
- Through the View Screen, Through the Window
- The Space Station, Part I
- The Space Station, Part II
- The Space Station, Part III
- Underwater Expeditions (futuristic submarines, unusual sea life, underwater cities) Part I
- Underwater Expeditions (futuristic submarines + underwater labs + sea monsters + cities), Part II
- The Vaguely Defined Looming Man Shape
- Visualizing Time
- Visualizing Time, Part II (time travel + sundials + the decay of eternity + time portals)
Art Posts on a Specific Artist
Alessandri, Ferruccio
Atelier Heinrichs
Atelier Heinrichs and Bachmann
- The Pop Collage of Atelier Heinrichs and Bachmann, Part I
- The Pop Collage of Atelier Heinrichs and Bachmann, Part II
Anderlini, Mariella (aka Allison)
- The Galassia Covers of Allison aka Mariella Anderlini
- Haunting Landscapes and Cityscapes: The 1970s Italian SF Art of Allison aka Mariella Anderlini
- Italian Tanith Lee Covers by Allison
- Mariella Anderlini’s Covers for Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber (Corwin) sequence
Brothers Quay
Cavallari, Alberto
Clerc, Serge
Cordescu, Marcella
Curval, Philippe
D’Achille, Gino
De Luigi, Ludovico
Di Fate, Vincent
Dixon, Don
Ernst, Max
Faucheux, Pierre
Foster, Robert
Freas, Kelly
de Freitas, Lima
Gaughan, Jack
Hinge, Mike
Hoffman, H. Lawrence
Jakubowski, Michel
James, Terry
Jean, Philippe
Johnston, David McCall
Jonas, Ann + Donald Crews
Kirby, Josh
Klarwein, Mati
Lacroix, Claude
Matalon, Luciana Tom
MacGowan, Rodger B.
Ochagavia, Carlos
Pelham, David
Podwil, Jerome
Payne, Michael
Powers, Richard
- Assorted 1970s Surrealistic Faces by Richard Powers
- The 1950s Surrealist Cityscapes of Richard Powers
Reuter, Johann Peter
Schomburg, Alex
Schongut, Emanuel
- The 1960s covers of Emanuel Schongut
- Interview with Emanuel Schongut and a selection of his 1970s covers
Shonberg, Burt
Siegel, Anita
Siudmak, Wojtek
Sussman, Art
Tanguy, Yves
Uzzo, Attilio
von Zitzewitz, Hoot
Adventures in Interior SF Art
Monday Maps and Diagrams Series
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 2/22/21: Cordwainer Smith’s Instrumentality of Mankind Timeline
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 7/25/19: Greg Bear’s Hegira (1979)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 3/25/19: A French edition of Mark Geston’s Lords of the Starship (1967) and Out of the Mouth of the Dragon (1967)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 2/18/19: David Brin’s Sundiver (1980)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 1/21/19: Larry Niven’s The Integral Trees (1984)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 1/14/19: Alan Dean Foster’s Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 12/24/18: C. J. Cherryh’s Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 12/17/18: Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (1980)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 12/10/18: Suzy McKee Charnas’ Walk to the End of the World (1974)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 11/26/18: Mark S. Geston’s The Lords of the Starship (1967)
- Monday Maps and Diagrams 12/3/18: Jack Vance’s Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 
I was looking up an edition of Tucker’s Lincoln Hunters I was offered and realised it was a book club edition with cover art by Cecil Bacon. There wasn’t an image on ISFDB so I started checking out his other covers – to discover that for almost 20 years (from 1954 or so) his covers had been virtually identical, except for th colour used!
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?134963
His obituary (linked from ISFDB) reveals that he was a much in demand artist & illustrator in the UK for decades and his distinctive SF Bookclub covers probably a minor sideline!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cecil-bacon-1542356.html
Anyway, no real point to this post, it just seemed interesting to me.
I find most SF tidbits — this one included — interesting. Thanks for the reminder of his work and the obituary.
Hello, My name is Florence R Foster. I was Robert Foster’s second wife. Your blog was sent to me in July 2025. I regret that it has taken so long for me to respond.
I was happy to see that Bob was remembered and that he has a loyal following as an illustrator. Most of the comments rang true. I especially liked the ones from his family, as I had met his children and siblings. We lived in NYC, his children lived in Ohio, and his brothers and sisters lived in California.
Bob worked in our apartment. I used to read the books to give him ideas for his paintings. I was there for photo shoots and knew some of his models. He sneaked me in on The Poseidon Adventure cover, peering through the porthole.
If you would like to contact me, you have my email. I would be happy to answer questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Florence R Foster