On the Red Desert, by Masami Fukushima, 1981

Brian Salmon’s 1991 cover for “Keeper of the Isis Light,” by Monica Hughes

Scanned from the Dec. 1977 issue of Contract Interiors Magazine

The trope I'm exploring with Space Crowd Saturday existed before Star Wars, but 'A New Hope' still stands as the biggest popularizer of the concept. Here's Ralph McQuarrie's Mos Eisley Cantina art.

Roger Dean

Vincent Di Fate

Toshio Okazaki, from JCA Annual 5 (1984)

Peter Tybus, 1977

Tony Roberts

Escape from Tarkov - USEC key art - by Nikita Buyanov

Concept art by Rick Sternbach, depicting the construction of a Dyson sphere via ion thrusters nudging astroidal rock into place.

Jim Thompson, 1979

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Uncredited poster art for the 1975 film Mysteries From Beyond Earth

Bob Larkin, 1979