Some of my favourite Slave Leia pics from DeviantArt.. obviously there are thousands.. I saw Return of the Jedi at an impressionable age.. and was never the same again. A beautiful woman kept in chains and almost naked, collared like a dog, her leash held tightly by her disgusting slug-like alien owner??? It utterly blew the lid off my brain..
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Another of my favourite artists: Michael Whelan. His covers for Asimov’s Foundation series are (in my opinion) the best out there. He famously also painted covers for Ursula LeGuin, Larry Niven, H.P. Lovecraft and many other great writers.
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Yes I read the smoke ring and integral trees just because of the Whelan artwork.. they were good, but (for me) not as good as Ringworld (but that’s a real masterpiece)I was always ticked off that Niven didn’t write more books in the Integral Trees series, he said, having only finished a single short story in his entire life. I recall something about stones and glass houses.
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You’re right about Whelan, though. Amazing cover art.
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Yes I read the smoke ring and integral trees just because of the Whelan artwork.. they were good, but (for me) not as good as Ringworld (but that’s a real masterpiece)
Picnic on Tatooine.
Yeah well they’re quite time-consuming to produce.. and I also have to go to work.. (and even when I get time for art, I have a lot of vanilla stuff to do under another name) so I’m not doing too badly, considering.Too bad you're soo parsimonious in your output.
... I have a lot of vanilla stuff to do ...
Odd place to hang-out if partial to vanilla stuff ....