Masters of Space and Time

Rev. 18-Jul-2000

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Classics of Science Fiction Art: The Chicago Show

The end of the millennium has called up retrospective glances at nearly every aspect of life in the 20th Century, as well as a flurry of new extrapolations of how things will be in the 21st. Not to be outdone by mainstream media, Chicon 2000 will present a special exhibition of vintage science fiction art, surveying the broad range of yesterday's views of the worlds of tomorrow.

Based on the extensive Eisenstein collection, but also drawing on other collections in the Chicago area and the greater Midwest, "The Chicago Show" will spotlight the great SF art of the Fifties and Sixties. This Show will display more than 200 magazine and book covers and significant interior illustrations by the major artists of modern science fiction, including Ed Emshwiller, Frank Kelly Freas, Edd Cartier, John Schoenherr, Ed Valigursky, Richard M. Powers, Mel Hunter, Wallace Wood, H. R. van Dongen, and others of note.

Among the featured attractions: original cover paintings for Martians Go Home, The Stars My Destination, War of the Wing-Men, Big Planet, Wolfbane, City, "Call me Joe," "The Big Front Yard," and "The Miracle Workers," as well as other outstanding works from Ace, Astounding, F&SF, Galaxy, If, Infinity, Lancer, Popular Library, Pyramid, and other sources.

Be sure not to miss this eye-opening look back at our choicest mid-century memories of the future, as rendered by science fiction's preeminent visual masters of space and time.

Classics of Science Fiction Art

This is the preliminary list of art to be exhibited. It is subject to minor changes as the WorldCon draws closer. More information about these pieces will appear on labels at the exhibit.

Frank Kelly Freas - Book and Magazine Covers

• Adjustment -- F&SF 1957
• The Arsenal Out of Time -- Ace Books 1967
• The Big Front Yard -- Astounding 1958
• Budrys Portrait (unpublished)
• Call Me Joe -- Astounding 1957
• Couturier -- Fantastic Universe 1955
• The End of Summer -- Astounding 1954
• Eye in the Sky -- Ace 1968
• The Gentle Earth -- Astounding 1957
• Giant Tripod -- Fantastic Universe 1956
• Hell's Gate -- Lancer 1970
• Judgment Night -- Gnome Press
• Lorelei of the Red Mist -- Tops in SF 1953
• Martians, Go Home! -- Astounding 1954
• The Miracle Workers -- Astounding 1958
• Omnilingual -- Astounding 1957
• Pandora's Planet -- Astounding 1956
• Pipe Dream -- If 1959
• Plus X -- Astounding 1956
• Profession -- Astounding 1957
• Question and Answer -- Astounding 1954
• Secret Weapon -- Analog 1968
• Space Pioneer -- Analog 1965
• They'd Rather Be Right -- Astounding 1954
• Time Crime -- Astounding 1955
• The Turning Wheel -- Original SF Stories 1954
• The Werewolf Principle -- DAW
• Zenya (color sketch) -- DAW 1974
• Frank Kelly Freas: A Portfolio -- Advent 1956

Frank Kelly Freas - Interior Illustrations

• Basic Right -- Astounding 1958
• Beast of Prey -- Astounding 1957
• Beehive -- Analog 1965
• Big Sword -- Astounding 1958
• Birthright -- Analog 1970
• A Bottle of Old Wine -- If 1953
• Call Him Dead -- Astounding 1955
• Call Me Joe -- Astounding 1957
• The Case of the Perjured Planet -- Analog 1967
• Chain Reaction -- Astounding 1957
• Contrast -- Analog 1964
• The Curious Profession -- Astounding 1956
• The Custodian -- If 1953
• Danger - Human! -- Astounding 1957
• Delivered with Feeling -- Analog 1965
• Diabologic -- Astounding 1955
• Field Expedient -- Astounding 1955
• The Gentle Earth -- Astounding 1957
• Grandpa -- Astounding 1955
• The Gulf Between -- Astounding 1953
• Humpty Dumpty -- Astounding 1953
• Immigrant -- Astounding 1954
• In Clouds of Glory -- Astounding 1955
• The King's Legions -- Analog 1967
• The Law Breakers -- Astounding 1959
• Lilliputian army vs Earthmen -- Advent 1956
• Lost Newton -- Analog 1970
• Machine Complex -- Astounding 1956
• Make Mine Homogenized -- Astounding 1960
• Martians, Go Home! -- Astounding 1954
• Middleman -- Astounding 1956
• Millennium -- Astounding 1955
• Mother of Invention -- Astounding 1953
• Nuisance Value -- Astounding 1957
• 1% Inspiration -- Astounding 1957
• Pandora's Planet (working drawing) -- 1956
• Phantasmaplasmagoria -- Analog 1968
• Plus X -- Astounding 1956
• Point of Focus -- Astounding 1958
• The Queen's Messenger -- Astounding 1957
• Question and Answer -- Astounding 1954
• Rat Race -- Analog 1966
• Resident Witch -- Analog 1970
• Risk -- Astounding 1955
• Run of the Mill -- Astounding 1957
• Say It With Flowers -- Analog 1965
• The School -- Astounding 1954
• Scrimshaw -- Astounding 1955
• The Sins of the Fathers -- Analog 1973
• Space Pioneer -- Analog 1965
• The Stainless Steel Rat -- Astounding 1957
• That Sweet Little Old Lady -- Astounding 1959
• They'd Rather Be Right -- Astounding 1954
• Those Hairy Ancestors -- Astounding 1954
• Time Crime -- Astounding 1955
• Training Aid -- Astounding 1954
• What they're Up Against -- Astounding 1956
• The World Menders -- Analog 1971

Ed Emshwiller - Covers

• The Answer -- Fantastic Universe 1959
• All-Star Issue -- F&SF 1958
• The Best From F&SF, 3rd Series -- Ace 1960
• Big Planet -- Ace 1958
• (Blonde and robot) Unpublished?
• Boiling Point -- Amazing 1964
• Chamber Music Society of Deneb -- Galaxy 1955
• Christmas Party -- Galaxy 1951
• Crazy Maro -- F&SF 1960
• The Defenders -- Galaxy 1953
• Dome World -- Pyramid 1962
• Dream Girl -- F&SF 1958
• Even Stephen -- Infinity 1957
• Galactic Derelict -- Ace 1961
• Author: Andre Norton
• Gravy Planet -- Galaxy 1952
• The Guests of Chance -- Infinity 1956
• The Hidden Planet -- Ace 1959
• Hostile Reception on Aldebaran 4 -- Galaxy 1955
• Hot Welcome on Mercury -- Galaxy 1956
• Hunter Come Home -- F&SF 1963
• The Hypnoglyph -- F&SF 1953
• The Illuminated Man -- F&SF 1964
• The Incomplete Enchanter -- Pyramid
• It Opens the Sky -- Venture 1957
• Jack of Eagles -- Galaxy Novel 1953
• Lady of Space -- Venture 1958
• The Last Element -- F&SF 1962
• Let's Build an Extraterrestrial -- Galaxy 1956
• Letter to a Tiger -- F&SF 1953
• The Light of Lilith -- Ace 1961
• Living Space -- Original SF Stories 1956
• The Lords of Quarmall -- Fantastic 1964
• Love -- F&SF 1952
• Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars -- Gnome Press 1954
• The Mind Spider -- Ace 1961
• Mission of Gravity . -- Pyramid 1962
• The Monster in the Park -- F&SF 1961
• Mother -- F&SF 1952
• The Naked Sun -- Lancer
• Naked to the Stars -- Pyramid 1961
• Pastoral -- Astounding 1958
• People Minus X -- Ace 1958
• Powder Keg -- If 1958
• The Prize of Peril -- F&SF 1958
• Rat in the Skull -- If 1958
• Romance in a 21st Century Used Car Lot -- F&SF 1960
• The Sea People -- Avalon 1959
• Settlement Out of Court -- Galaxy 1953
• The Silver Eggheads -- F&SF 1959
• The Sky People -- F&SF 1963
• Slave Ship -- Galaxy 1956
• Soft Landing -- F&SF 1960
• Spacerogue -- Infinity 1958
• Spaceship Hydroponics Room -- Galaxy 1954
• Space Station #1 -- Ace 1957
• Spacetime in One Tough Lesson -- Galaxy 1954
• Star Born -- Ace 1958
• The Stars My Destination -- Galaxy 1956
• Strange Nestling -- Galaxy 1956
• Strikebreaker -- Original SF Stories 1957
• They Are Not Robbed -- F&SF 1968
• The Third Coordinate -- F&SF 1964
• 3-in-1 -- Pyramid 1963
• Threshold of Eternity -- Ace 1959
• The Variable Man -- Ace 1957
• Virgin Planet -- Venture 1957
• Warlord of Kor -- Ace 1963
• War of the Wing-Men -- Ace 1958
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed -- F&SF 1962
• When the Sleeper Wakes -- Ace 1959
• The White Spot -- Startling Stories 1955

Ed Emshwiller - Interiors

• Big Ancestor -- Galaxy 1954
• The Caves of Steel -- Galaxy 1953
• The Coffin Ship -- Original SF Stories 1960
• Colony -- Galaxy 1953
• For Your Information -- Galaxy 1953
• Little Orphan Android -- Galaxy 1955
• The Reefs of Space -- If 1963
• The Stars My Destination -- Galaxy 1956
• The Ties of Earth -- Galaxy 1955

John Schoenherr - Covers

• The Best from F&SF, 5th Series -- Ace 1961
• Catch a Falling Star -- Ace 1968
• The Green Rain -- Pyramid 1961
• The Hard Way -- Analog 1963
• Meeting at Infinity -- Ace 1961
• More Macabre -- Ace 1961
• Off the Beaten Orbit -- Pyramid 1961
• Our Friends From Frolix 8 -- Ace 1970
• Stuck -- Analog 1964
• Worlds of When -- Pyramid 1962

John Schoenherr - Interiors

• The Ancient Gods -- Analog 1966
• Black Man's Burden -- Analog 1961
• Border, Breed Nor Birth -- Analog 1962
• The Captive Djinn -- Analog 1965
• Dune World -- Analog 1964
• Identification -- Analog 1961
• A Life for the Stars -- Analog 1962
• The Lost Kafoozalum -- Analog 1960
• The Misplaced Battleship -- Astounding 1960
• Pro -- Analog 1975
• A Slave Is a Slave -- Analog 1962
• Space Viking -- Analog 1962
• A Taste of Poison -- Analog 1960
• The Time-Machined Saga -- Analog 1967
• Too Many Magicians -- Analog 1966
• Trouble Tide -- Analog 1965
• Wet Blanket -- Analog 1974

Wallace Wood - Covers

• One Down, One Up -- Galaxy 1959
• Someone to Watch Over Me-- Galaxy 1959
• Wallace Wood

Wallace Wood - Interiors

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths -- Galaxy 1962
• First Man -- Galaxy 1958
• The Good Neighbors -- Galaxy 1960
• Insidekick -- Galaxy 1959
• I Plinglot, Who You? -- Galaxy 1959
• Installment Plan -- Galaxy 1959
• The Iron Chancellor -- Galaxy 1958
• Author: Robert Silverberg
• My Fair Planet -- Galaxy 1958
• Payload -- Galaxy 1957
• The Pod in the Barrier -- Galaxy 1957
• Success Story -- Galaxy 1960
• Thing of Beauty -- Galaxy 1958
• Time Killer -- Galaxy 1958
• The Wizard of Pung's Corners -- Galaxy 1958

Other Covers

• Paul Alexander: House of Zeor - Berkley 1985
• Harry Borgman: Dr. Futurity -- Ace 1972
• David Egge: Uranus from Moon -- Omni 1979
• Virgil Finlay: The Sand Painters -- Fantastic Universe
• Virgil Finlay: The Stars Are Ours! -- World Pub. Co. 1954
• Jack Gaughan: The Dragon Masters -- Galaxy 1962
• Jack Gaughan: Limbo -- Ace 1963
• Jack Gaughan: The Maker of Universes -- Ace 1965
• Mel Hunter: Derelict in the Void -- Galaxy 1961
• Mel Hunter: Flight Over Mercury -- Galaxy 1954
• Mel Hunter: Flying Saucer Landing (unpublished)
• Mel Hunter: Rescue Above the Moon -- Galaxy 1953
• Davis Meltzer: Worlds of the Imperium -- Ace 1962
• Gray Morrow: The Dictator -- (source unknown)
• Jerome Podwil: Before Adam -- Ace 1971
• Richard Powers: All Flesh is Grass -- Berkley 1966
• Richard Powers: The Big Book of SF -- Berkley 1956
• Richard Powers: (Sculpted Figures) -- (source unknown)
• Richard Powers: The War of the Worlds -- Popular Library 1962
• Bill Rose: Hellflower -- Pyramid 1957
• George Schelling: Ice Moons -- Worlds of Tomorrow 1965
• Ed Valigursky: Android Avenger -- Ace 1965
• Ed Valigursky: Exploring Titan -- If
• Ed Valigursky: The Lunar Eye -- Ace 1964
• Ed Valigursky: Mercury -- If 1953
• Ed Valigursky: The Rim of Space -- Ace 1962
• Ed Valigursky: (Rocket in Fist) -- Amazing
• Ed Valigursky: World of the Masterminds -- Ace 1960
• H.R. Van Dongen: Christmas 1953 -- Astounding 1954
• H.R. Van Dongen: Firewater -- Astounding 1952
• H.R. Van Dongen: Null-ABC -- Astounding 1953

Other Interiors

• Balbalis: For Your Information -- Galaxy 1957
• Edd Cartier: Devil - unfinished -- Unknown 1940s?
• Edd Cartier: Dreams Are Sacred -- Astounding 1948
• Edd Cartier: The Inspector's Teeth -- Astounding 1950
• Edd Cartier: Spring -- Gnome Press Calendar 1949
• Edd Cartier: Travelers of Space -- Gnome Press 1951
• Virgil Finlay: Illustrations from The Complete Book of Space Travel -- World Pub. Co. 1956
• Virgil Finlay: Planeteer -- Galaxy 1961
• Jack Gaughan: The Dragon Masters -- Galaxy 1962
• Jack Gaughan: A Rain of Pebbles -- Analog 1977
• George Schelling: A Matter of Protocol -- Galaxy 1962
• Don Sibley: The Demolished Man -- Galaxy 1952
• Don Sibley: The Puppet Masters -- Galaxy 1951

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