Sadly I missed the Bruce Pennington exhibition, in the autumn of 2013, in Brighton. I have been an admirer of his work since reading the Martian Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which were the very first science fiction books I ever read. Although his cover illustration for A Princess of Mars, the first book in …Read More
Original masters: covers by Chris Foss, Bruce Pennington, Peter Elson, Peter Goodfellow and Bruce Pennington again (I think). Rearranging my book shelves the other day, I became happily distracted by the covers of my science fiction collection. I have always loved the genre’s cover art and from the age of about nine, it wholly …Read More
12/05/14 I was very saddened today to learn of the death of the Swiss artist H R Giger, at the age of 74, due to injuries sustained from a fall in his home. Hans “Ruedi” Giger studied architecture and industrial design in Zurich, before going on to become a surrealist painter. Although childhood nightmares are …Read More