Science Fiction and Fantasy Art

Tough one.

I found this: https://www.amazon.com/Possibilities-Collection-Stories-Stephen-Editors/dp/B000AN347I

Possibilities a Collection of Short Stories Paperback – 1973
by Stephen, Henry B. Maloney And Lahna Diskin; Editors. Dunning
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services (1973)
Language: English
ASIN: B000AN347I

No cover though. I also googled the crap out of it and there is not much info to find. However, it was released in 1973 from Scholastic and includes "Possibilities" in the title. I got the impression this was a book you read in school so I thought this might be a possibility :coffee:

Short stories mentioned in that Amazon review are: Includes the classic stories "button, button", "the public hating", "harrison bergeron", and "the chase".

One of the problems is that book covers change so much.

Correction, You hit a homerun, a touchdown, a Yahtzee, a goal.. All of the above, that was it.. Thanks so much!
 
Early 50's artwork for 'The Time Machine' by Lou Cameron:


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'Taker? You rocked the %$&@ out of that.. OMG I've been looking for so long, I used your link, the one you pointed out wasn't the one, but another search led to this.... http://www.librarything.com/work/5023916

I thank all you guys for looking into it! Wow, just wow! Great book by the way.. :) :)

Correction, You hit a homerun, a touchdown, a Yahtzee, a goal.. All of the above, that was it.. Thanks so much!

Excellent. Glad that it worked out, though I am very surprised I did not see the page you linked to.

Here is the cover he was talking about for everyone else:

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I hope it is all you remember it to be. :)
 
There's an online wealth of these re-titled paperbacks, an artform in and of itself, and a cultural treasure

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Here's a little bit of Roger Dean. Obviously a favorite of mine, since his work is shown in my avatar. Others like him too, such as postal officials...

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and several rock&roll artists...

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and possibly James Cameron, director of the film Avatar (although Dean lost the lawsuit for alleged copyright infringement).
 
Some more book covers that I recall:

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Songs From The Stars, by Norman Spinrad, wasn't very good. But his two main characters, Clear Blue Lou and Sunshine Sue, were a lot of fun.

And Retief's War put Jaime Retief into a full-length novel, which isn't Laumer's strong suit. The Retief short-stories, on the other hand, are one of the treasures of SF.
 
And if you want to expand your vocabulary, you can delve into Gene Wolfe.

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I thought this series had some nice cover art.
 
Some of my all-time favorites (and by that I mean books that I read over-and-over-and-over again). The covers shown are not always the covers of the books I had in my collection.

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Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive has cover art from Michael Whalen (mentioned in an earlier post).

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Gary Ruddell did the paperback covers for Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.

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The Gormenghast trilogy had nice artwork.

The books are kind of a slog, at least they were for me.

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