PURSUIT (1982)
Acrylic - 30” x 20”
Occasionally it is fun to do an action-filled scene. This exciting book by Alan Dean Foster afforded the perfect opportunity. 1/4
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DRAGONFLIGHT (1978)
Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30"For the first book in Anne McCaffrey's now legendary Dragonriders of Pern series, I wanted to create a literal visualization of the title. I selected an aerial point-of-view and tilted the horizon to simulate the dizzying sensation of flight. 1/4
#sciencefiction #illustration #annemccaffrey #pern #dragon #delreybooks
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THE MASTER MIND OF MARS (1978)
Acrylic - 21" x 27"The only John Carter cover in which I intentionally deviated from the story. The Master Mind does not appear in the actual scene but Lester del Rey thought the cover should go along with the title, so I took liberty placing the character there. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #martiantales #barsoom #delreybooks
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Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
https://twimom227.com/2026/08/review-a-trade-of-blood-by-robert-jackson-bennett.html
#Mystery #RatingA #Reviews #SciFiOrFantasyFiction #DelReyBooks #RobertJacksonBennett #ShadowOfTheLeviathanSeries #SophiaRoseReview
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THE ADVERSARY (1984)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28" x 18"One of the rare instances when I placed real people into a cover illustration. 1/3
#sciencefiction #illustration #julianmay #plioceneexile #delreybooks
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SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 32” x 24”After experiencing the look of the Plant Men on the second cover of the series, I was hesitant to follow exactly Burroughs' description of the Synthetic Man. 1/2
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #barsoom #johncarter #delreybooks
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LAST LOOK BACK (1989)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 36” x 24”The way to the far horizon can only be made by transcending the red hill...beyond is only sky. 1/4
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ORB (1987)
Acrylic - 28” x 20”As on my other Piers Anthony covers, the focus is the protagonist of the story. But this character appears only briefly in the story as a mother with green hair—usually she is described as an attractive young adult. 1/7
#fantasy #illustration #piersanthony #incarnationsofimmortality #delreybooks
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THE NAKED SUN (1986)
Acrylic - 30” x 18”The “sun” in this story is Isaac Asimov’s symbol of Man’s destiny among the stars, beckoning Earthlings to leave the womb of their home planet. The protagonist, Baley, comes to realize that humanity must go forth into space or face cultural stagnation.
#sciencefiction #illustration #isaacasimov #robots #delreybooks
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THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH (1986)
Acrylic - 20” x 31”After running through several preliminary concepts, I arrived at an approach to this book cover that felt perfect to me. The scene I imagined would be some time before the events described in the book. 1/8
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After years of development and 110 interviews, The Survivor Companion is here. Or, at least ready for presales! Thank you to #RHWorlds #delreybooks, the team at #survivor and everyone who contributed to the book, plus my colleagues at @people who wrote about it today.
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THE SMOKE RING (1986)
Acrylic - 32" x 48"I was already fascinated with Larry Niven's free-fall environment, and then in this book I was especially taken with his descriptions of life in and around the “Clump.” 1/8
#sciencefiction #illustration #larryniven #ringworld #delreybooks
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HARI (1985)
Acrylic on Canvas - 32” x 20”Hari Seldon, the benevolent grand architect of the next millennium is seen here against the splendor of Trantor at the height of its power. It is a world completely sheathed in metal: one gigantic city that is the hub and nerve center of the Empire. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #isaacasimov #foundation #delreybooks
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LLANA OF GATHOL (1979)
Acrylic - 24" x 32"Since I did the eleven Martial Tales books over the course of a year, as time went on some things became less important. This time we did not worry about the title of the book, and Llana herself does not even appear in my painting. 1/4
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #delreybooks
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NIOBE (1985)
Oil on Panel - 29” x 19”Since 1975, I have worked almost exclusively in acrylics, but I still love to paint in oils. Not long before doing this cover, I moved to a new studio that was larger and better organized than my old one. 1/4
#sciencefiction #illustration #piersanthony #incarnationsofimmortality #delreybooks
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JOURNEY BEHIND THE WIND (1986)
Acrylic - 16” x 24”Occasionally, I'll use a model in the course of painting an illustration. In this case I decided to use a photographer who worked about an hour’s drive from my studio. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #patriciawrightson #delreybooks
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NOR CRYSTAL TEARS (1981)
Acrylic - 30" x 19”A favorite theme of mine is the depiction of human-alien interactions. This book deals with the subject so wonderfully that I wanted to make it the focus of attention for the cover painting. 1/4
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THE WARLORD OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 20” x 25”I have had a special fondness for The Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs ever since I first read them in my early teens. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #martiantales #johncarter #barsoom #delreybooks
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FRIDAY (1982)
Acrylic - 30" x 20"Robert Heinlein does create memorable characters! Not even halfway through this book I had a nearly photographic image of Friday in my mind. By the time I finished I felt confident about the substance and approach my painting would have. 1/4
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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE (1977)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 20” x 16”A classic Del Rey cover for the anthology of the same name by Alan Dean Foster. 1/2
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THE CAVES OF STEEL (1986)
Acrylic - 18" x 30"The composition of this painting is dictated by the "caves" metaphor running through the narrative and reflected in the title. The figures of Baley and Daneel are surrounded by the vast metal "cave" of an Earthly city. 1/4
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Review: A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson
https://twimom227.com/2026/03/review-a-widows-charm-by-caitlyn-paxson.html
#RatingA #Reviews #Romance #SciFiOrFantasyFiction #CaitlynPaxson #DelReyBooks #JenReview #standalone
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DRAGONQUEST (1978)
Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30"The primary menace to the planet Pern is "Thread," a corrosive and devastating alien life form which falls from the Red Star and burrows its way into the soil, destroying all life and making the soil unusable. Only the dragons who are able to burn the Thread out of the sky can save the inhabitants. 1/3
#sciencefiction #illustration #annemccaffrey #pern #dragon #delreybooks
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THE MANY-COLORED LAND (1982)
AcrylicI loved Julian May’s “Pliocene Exile” series, but I never felt like I did the books justice. I remember struggling to come up with dramatic concepts for this, but Del Rey didn’t go for them. 1/3
#sciencefiction #illustration #julianmay #plioceneexile #delreybooks
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DAUGHTER OF REGALS (1983)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 31” x 21”A problem in choosing the image for this cover was that the heroine is consistently portrayed as being drab and uninteresting. Yet uninteresting is the last thing a book cover should be! 1/4
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THE NONBORN KING (1983)
Mixed media on Watercolor Board - 28” x 18”Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did here.
A number of paintings I’ve done—including SNOWFALL and SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC—began with an overall wash of color and maybe some background elements painted in acrylic. After that layer had dried and set, I’d paint over that with gouache—which allows for excellent detail rendering. 1/4
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JOHN CARTER OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 22” x 28”I’ve had a special fondness for The Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs even since I first read them in my early teens. This was the last of 11 covers, so it seemed fitting to have John Carter and Dejah Thoris ride off into the sunset. 1/3
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #barsoom #delreybooks
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A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30" x 20"Most readers will remember my work with Piers Anthony on the Incarnations of Immortality, but covers for a couple of Xanth novels came first. 1/3
#fantasy #illustration #piersanthony #xanth #bookcover #delreybooks
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BLACK STAR RISING (1984)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 22"My first cover for Frederik Pohl came with this satirical, post-apocalyptic space opera. 1/3
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DRAGONSDAWN (1987)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 25” x 36”This was the first cover in the Dragonriders of Pern series to feature the beloved fire lizards and I really enjoyed painting them. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #bookcover #pern #annemccaffrey #delreybooks
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THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic - 20” x 25”“As Gahan entered his square, U-dor leaped toward him with drawn sword with such fury as might have overborne a less skilled and powerful swordsman.” 1/4
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #johncarter #barsoom #delreybooks
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MYM (1986)
Oil on Panel - 32” x 20”My fourth cover for Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. Following the formula of the other books, a mortal is called upon to serve as a supernatural force. 1/3
#sciencefiction #fantasy #illustration #piersanthony #incarnationsofimmortality #delreybooks
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THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (1979)
Acrylic and Gouache on Illustration Board - 20” x 25”Here was another one of the Barsoomian beasts that was basically an Earthly one with more legs. 1/5
#sciencefiction #illustration #edgarriceburroughs #barsoom #delreybooks
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I read most of the science fiction books shown in this article when I was a teenager! So wonderful to learn more about the people, who were obviously passionate about their jobs, behind the stories...
"How Judy-Lynn del Rey shaped science fiction as we know it today"
https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM#ScienceFiction #Books #Reading #DelReyBooks #BookEditors #BookPublishers
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I just read this comprehensive roundup of the absolutely wild saga how #CaitCorrain tried to sabotage their fellow debut authors, when I saw on Twitter that her publisher #DelReyBooks cancelled her book #CrownofStars.
#bookstodon @bookstodonhttps://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/
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LOVECRAFT'S NIGHTMARE (1981) - Panels A + B
Acrylic on Masonite - 17" X 28"Del Rey Books asked me to do 2 paintings of horrific images they could use on 7 volumes of H.P. LOVECRAFT stories. I didn't have to illustrate the stories, just create images that conveyed the mood. 1/3
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#book 1 in 2023: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. Out this month from #DelReyBooks
Light fantasy set in an alternative Western world. A Cambridge scholar travels to Scandinavia to conduct fieldwork on the Ice Fae.
Story lines involve personal growth & human-fae encounters. Entertaining (3.5 stars). Solid #audiobook
My thoughts are on #StoryGraph if you care to look
#Fantasy #FairyTale @bookstodon @audiobooks #Bookstodon #fiction
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0ad1623b-ef17-457e-b666-8defa53860ed
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#Book 102 of the year: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch, from #DelReyBooks
The 2nd entry in this fabulous fantasy/mystery series set in an alternative contemporary London has Constable Peter Grant solving a series of gruesome murders tied to the city's jazz scene. These are very adult books w/ good humor & lots of action. Outstanding #audiobooks
More thoughts on GoodReads
#reading #bookthoughts #bookreview #audiobook @audiobooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon