Science Fiction Art: the Fantasies of SF

Author: Brian Aldiss.
Published by New English Library, London, England.
Language: English.
Format: folio-sized paperback.
Size: 10,5 x 15 inches (A3).
ISBN: 0450027724.
Page Count: 176.
Print Run: unknown.
Release Date: 1975.

Front of paperback

Virgil Finlay art pages

Cover art - the girl in a bikini with an alien - is from an illustration by Edd Cartier.

The book contains 115 colour illustrations and 173 black and white images, presented as a visual history of science fiction art from 1926 to the early 1970s.

Contents:

1. The Artists' Gallery.
2. Great Comic Strips - Themes in Sciences Fiction.
3. Delightful Domsdays - (Catastrophes).
4. Vacuum-Busters (Spaceships).
5. Beyond the Beyond (Distant Planets).
6. Here Be Monsters (Alien Life).
7. Spires and Sewers (Future Cities).
8. Interplantary Pets (Girls in Science Ficiton).
9. Hands Without Heads (Great Machines).
10. Men of Metal (robots).
11. Ideas in Action (Two SF Ideas Develop).
12. The Magazine Gallery.