#interstellar queen

Interstellar Queen

This is the White Nova Lines Cygnus class passenger starship the Interstellar Queen, passing Uti Nebula.

This vessel was inspired by the paintings of the "Interstellar Queen" by Angus McKie and from the famous "Terran Trade Authority" books by Stewart Crowley.

Interstellar Queen on Red Sky World by Angus McKie

Angus McKie is my favorite tronpunk era artist, for his renditions of spacecraft with a sense of gravitas and mass, and this particular spaceliner, here named the Interstellar Queen, is my favorite ship, and this is mt favorite of his many renditions of the Interstellar Queen.

This image wasn’t painted for the Terran Trade Authority series of books, but this and many other images of the Interstellar Queen appear in the series’ first book, Spacescraft: 2000 to 2100 AD, where it got its name.  This book has been mentioned already on Blippicrunk and is a milestone book of the 1970s wave British sci-fi artists.

Angus McKie’s image of the ship being fueled and prepped at a station also appears as the cover image of volume 16 of the 25-book anthology: Issac Asimov Presents the Great SF Classics, reprinting year-by-year the best sci-fi stories from 1939 through 1964.