| Issue Date |
Cover Artist |
Comments |
| 1978 OCT |
Hardy, David |
5th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; depicts Bhen on the space telescope, thumbing a ride from a passing space shuttle; Hardy's artwork for F&SF, & Bhen, are discussed in his book Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy(2001) |
| 1978 DEC |
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cover illustrates "Quiet Sea" by Glen Cook; Hardy has worked with Patrick Moore, since 1957, on the longest running TV series in the U.K., still running, the monthly astronomical programme, The Sky at Night |
| 1979 APR |
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see p.41, sequel to 1978 JAN cover, this time depicting Uranus with rings & without Bhen; Uranus was found to have rings a short time ago, which was pointed out by 12-year old Paul Jones in a 1978 AUG letter, who asked for accuracy in cover art |
| 1979 MAY |
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depicts an asteroid-turned-spaceship orbiting a planet |
| 1979 AUG |
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cover illustrates "Out There Where the Big Ships Go" by Richard Cowper |
| 1979 DEC |
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see p.23, depicts a spacecraft undergoing repairs by a robot, on a planetoid near a black hole; from Hardy & Moore: The New Challenge of the Stars(1977) |
| 1980 MAY |
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cover illustrates "The Merry Men of Methane" by Stephen Tall |
| 1980 JUN |
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6th of his Bhen the Green Alien ser. of covers; depicts Bhen riding a satellite in orbit around the Earth; Bhen was 1st conceived by Hardy & friend Anthony Naylor, & was intended to be the central character of a children's book that was never written |
| 1981 APR |
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cover illustrates "Murder on Lupozny Station" by Michael Bishop & Gerald W. Page |
| 1981 OCT |
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see p.69, an artist's depiction of what the Voyager 1 & 2 probes found; painting titled The Volcanoes of Io |
| 1982 FEB |
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cover illustrates "High Steel" by Jack C. Haldeman II & Jack Dann |
| 1982 JUL |
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cover illustrates "The Lion in His Attic" by Larry Niven |
| 1982 OCT |
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depicts a spaceship approaching the Moon & Earth system |
| 1983 MAY |
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7th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; depicts Bhen resting on a satellite's solar panels; Bhen's name comes from 'benevolent', as his wide smile suggests, & is 8 feet tall, as he is drawn to scale in all these covers(from Hardyware) |
| 1983 NOV |
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cover illustrates "The Black Current" by Ian Watson |
| 1983 DEC |
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see p.116, "Terraformed Mars ... from a future base on Phobos ...," from his book, Atlas of the Solar System(1982) |
| 1984 MAY |
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depicts a volcano & molten lava, with a sun appearing in a break in the clouds |
| 1985 MAY |
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cover illustrates "The Tensor of Desire" by Wayne Wightman |
| 1985 JUN |
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8th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; depicts Bhen, with an umbrella, riding a parachuted spacecraft into the clouds of a planet; Bhen became popular, Carl Sagan buying his 1st original, & had many fans among NASA staff |
| 1986 MAR |
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depicts a Stegosaurus interrupted during a swampy meal by a landing spacecraft |
| 1987 JAN |
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cover illustrates "Salvage Rites" by Ian Watson |
| 1987 MAY |
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cover illustrates "Spelling God With the Wrong Blocks" by James Morrow |
| 1988 FEB |
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cover illustrates "Sentry" by Jack Dann & Jack C. Haldeman II |
| 1988 JUN |
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see p.138, titled "Saturn Seen from an Iceteroid," depicts Saturn & its rings as viewed from an ice asteroid or cometary nucleus |
| 1989 JUN |
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9th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; depicts Bhen climbing the rock face of a moon, its ringed planet in the background |
| 1990 AUG |
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cover illustrates "In the Upper Cretaceous With the Summerfire Brigade" by Ian Watson |
| 1992 JAN |
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10th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; depicts Bhen skiingthe icy slopes of a satellite of Jupiter(?) |
| 1992 MAY |
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cover illustrates "Far-Off Things" by Rob Chilson |
| 1994 SEP |
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11th of his Bhen the Green Alien series of covers; titled, "Bhen on Neptune's Moon Triton" |
| 1996 FEB |
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cover illustrates "Locusts" by Adam-Troy Castro; this cover was produced both digitally & by using a method called gouache; says Hardy, "I'm a technophile. I've always taken advantage of any new technology & will continue to do so"(Hardyware) |
| 1971 JUN |
Hardy, David A. |
(1936- ) see p.74, cover titled "Enigma", depicts astronauts discovering a statue of the Sphinx on Titan, Saturn's 7th moon; also did covers for F&SF as David Hardy, he did 52 covers for F&SF; born in Birmingham, England |
| 1973 MAY |
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see p.134, depicts binary star "Zeta Aurigae casts bi-colored shadows on the surface of a hypothetical planet"; from Hardy & Moore: Challenge of the Stars(1972); Hardy studied at the Margaret Street College of Art, Birmingham, England |
| 1994 JUN |
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cover illustrates "Shepherd Moon" by Allen Steele |
| 1998 OCT/NOV |
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cover illustrates "All the Birds of Hell" by Tanith Lee; this cover was Hardy's 1st cover for F&SF that was completely digitally produced; his 1st digitally produced cover for ANA was for its 2001 JAN issue; great fan of AppleMacs computers |
| 1953 NOV |
Hunter, Mel |
(1929- ) depicts an eclipse of the sun by the earth, as seen from the moon; Hunter did 31 F&SF covers; Hunter had no formal art training, but had a background in advertising copy writing & production engineering |
| 1954 AUG |
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depicts exploring a green star system; Hunter's 1st commission was for the cover of GAL 1953 FEB, & then painted many mag. covers in the 1950s & exclusively for F&SF after 1961 JUN; was art director for IFS 1955 DEC-1957 DEC |
| 1955 OCT |
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1st cover of Last Man, or Robot, series; depicts the robot watering a rose outside of an irradiated city; Hunter was N-1960-1962 HUG, for Best Professional Artist; N-1972 LOC, for Best Magazine Artist |
| 1957 JUL |
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2nd cover of Last Man series; depicts the robot looking thru mail order catalogs; Hunter has book, The Year After Tomorrow(1954); he worked for major magazines such as Life, and National Geographic |
| 1958 JAN |
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depicts Vanguard satellite; Hunter had a short story, "Or Darwin, If You Prefer", in FUN 1954 SEP; see biography, "Appreciation", in Fantasy Reader #2 1974, & in Weinberg: A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists(1988) |
| 1958 MAR |
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depicts Vanguard rocket and satellite; Hunter has illus. Don Herbert's Beginning Science With Mr. Wizard series in the early 1960s; has nf book, The Missilemen(1960), which tells the story of the space race, and launchings from Cape Canaveral |
| 1958 JUN |
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depicts a satellite, third stage of a rocket; Hunter has illus. children's nf book, Barbara Goodheart: A Year on the Desert(1969); has nf series which incl. How the Earth Began(1972), How Plants Began(1972), & How Man Began(1972) |
| 1959 SEP |
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depicts Project Vega, the 2nd stage of the Atlas ICBM; see Hunter's entry in Vincent Di Fate: Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art(1998) |
| 1959 DEC |
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3rd cover of Last Man series; depicts the robot making a grim discovery in the desert |
| 1960 MAR |
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depicts two methods to land on the moon (a wrap-around cover) |
| 1960 MAY |
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4th cover of Last Man series; titled "Music to Watch the Moon Rise" |
| 1960 JUL |
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depicts "Moon landscape" |
| 1960 DEC |
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5th cover in Last Man series; depicts the robot winding up wind-up toy men |
| 1961 MAR |
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depicts astronauts leaving their spaceship & exploring Mars |
| 1961 JUN |
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depicts "a drawing of flight paths in space, showing motion of a lunar probe from Earth to the Moon, ... " |
| 1961 AUG |
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6th cover in Last Man series; depicts the robot coming across a sculpture of a robot by Dali in the ruins of a museum |
