| Issue Date |
Cover Artist |
Comments |
| 1957 FEB |
Emsh |
depicts disintegration of a field-force; in 1964, Emsh received a grant from the Ford Foundation to make a short film, titled Relativity(1966); he soon stopped painting SF, except for favors, to concentrate on making experimental & documentary films |
| 1957 OCT |
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cover illustrates "The Big Trek" by Fritz Leiber; Emsh's experimental films incl. Lifelines(1960), Time of the Heathen(1961), Thanatopsis(1962), Totem(1963), Film With Three Dancers(1970), Scape-mates(1972), Sunstone(1979), Skin Matrix(1984), Hungers(1988) |
| 1958 FEB |
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cover illustrates his wife's story "Baby", by Carol Emshwiller; Emsh's experimental film, Carol(1970), stars his wife; see info on it & his other fims at website www.baywebdesigns.com/firstlight/emshwiller.html, & at www.arthouseinc.com/emshwiller.html |
| 1958 MAY |
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cover illustrates "The Prize of Peril" by Robert Sheckley; see information on Emsh's groundbreaking computer film Sunstone(1984) at sunstone.html, & moy.calarts/edu/emshwiller.html; info on short film Hungers(1988) at kultur.aec.at/festival/1988en/hung.html |
| 1958 AUG |
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cover illustrates "Have Spacesuit – Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein; Emsh produced or collab. on a number of multimedia productions at the Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, & the Los Angeles Film Festival |
| 1958 SEP |
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cover illustrates "Have Spacesuit – Will Travel" by Robert A. Heinlein; he taught at Yale, Cornell & UC(Berkeley), & after 1979, Emsh moved to Newhall, CA, to become dean & later provost at the School of Film and Video at the California of the Arts, in Valencia, CA |
| 1958 OCT |
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for the 10th Anniversary Issue; see Emsh's obits, & biographies at the California of the Arts webpage, emsh.calarts.edu/emshwiller.html, at the Spacelight website members.tripod.com/~gwillick/sffobit.html, & in LOC 1990 SEP(#356) |
| 1958 DEC |
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cover illustrates "Dream Girl" by Ron Goulart; see Emsh's entry in Vincent Di Fate's nf book, Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Worlds of Science Fiction Art(1997); see his obit in Locus 1990 SEP(#356) |
| 1959 JAN |
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cover illustrates "The Silver Eggheads" by Fritz Leiber; Emshwiller had pictorial pieces in the men's magazine Escapade, as by Ed Alexander, betw. 1960 FEB-1963 OCT; a typical title was "So-o-o-o Good on a Safari with Busty Sally Douglas" in 1961 FEB |
| 1959 MAR |
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| 1959 APR |
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cover illustrates "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes |
| 1959 JUN |
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cover illustrates "The Alley Man" by Philip Jose Farmer |
| 1959 AUG |
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cover illustrates "Day at the Beach" by Carol Emshwiller |
| 1959 OCT |
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| 1959 NOV |
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cover illustrates "Starship Soldier" by Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1960 JAN |
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cover illustrates "A Little Girl's Xmas in Modernia" by David R. Bunch |
| 1960 FEB |
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cover illustrates "The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl" by Ward Moore |
| 1960 APR |
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cover illustrates "Crazy Maro" by Daniel Keyes |
| 1960 JUN |
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depicts "Emsh's version of a soft landing" |
| 1960 AUG |
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cover illustrates "Callahan and the Wheelies" by Stephen Barr |
| 1960 SEP |
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cover illustrates "The Word to Space" by Winston P. Sanders (ps. for Poul Anderson) |
| 1960 NOV |
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cover illustrates "Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot" by Robert F. Young |
| 1961 JAN |
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cover illustrates "Time Lag" by Poul Anderson |
| 1961 FEB |
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| 1961 APR |
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depicts a partially peeled & eaten banana amongst the galaxies |
| 1961 MAY |
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cover illustrates "Final Muster" by Rick Rubin |
| 1961 JUL |
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cover illustrates "Undergrowth" by Brian W. Aldiss |
| 1961 SEP |
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cover illustrates "The Monster in the Park" by Gerard Klein |
| 1961 NOV |
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cover illustrates "Naked to the Stars" by Gordon R. Dickson |
| 1961 DEC |
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cover illustrates "The First Days of May" by Claude Veillot |
| 1962 FEB |
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cover illustrates "The Garden of Time" by J.G. Ballard |
| 1963 MAR |
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cover illustrates "Hunter, Come Home" by Richard McKenna |
| 1963 JUN |
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cover illustrates "No Truce with Kings" by Poul Anderson |
| 1963 JUL |
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cover illustrates "Glory Road" by Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1963 AUG |
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cover illustrates "Turn Off the Sky" by Ray Nelson |
| 1963 SEP |
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cover illustrates "Glory Road" by Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1966 OCT |
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Special Isaac Asimov & 17th Anniversary Issue, cover depicts Isaac Asimov & some characters and scenes from his most famous stories |
| 1962 APR |
Emsh, Ed |
illus. "The Last Element" by Hugo Correa |
| 1962 MAY |
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cover illustrates "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" by Vance Aandahl |
| 1962 JUN |
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depicts an astronaut, with a beautifully patterned spacesuit, floating in space |
| 1962 AUG |
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cover illustrates "The Secret Songs" by Fritz Leiber |
| 1962 SEP |
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Special Theodore Sturgeon Issue, cover depicts Theodore Sturgeon & characters and scenes from some of his famous stories |
| 1962 OCT |
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cover illustrates "The Journey of Joenes" by Robert Sheckley |
| 1962 NOV |
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in a modernistic style, depicts astronaut and rocket ship on the launch pad |
| 1963 JAN |
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cover illustrates "Speakeasy" by Mack Reynolds |
| 1963 APR |
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cover illustrates "Fast Trip" by James White |
| 1963 DEC |
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cover illustrates "The Tree of Time" by Damon Knight |
| 1964 JAN |
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cover illustrates "The Tree of Time" by Damon Knight |
| 1964 MAY |
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cover illustrates "The Illuminated Man" by J.G. Ballard |
| 1964 JUN |
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cover illustrates "The Triumph of Pegasus" by F.A. Javor |
