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2002
David "PiperFan" JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted
07-23-2019
00:58 UT
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Piper-autographed original ~Little Fuzzy~ on eBay

This is cool, but beyond my price range:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/163675015751

Once during the Irregulars' Muster we visited the Altoona public library, which had a hardcover edition of ~Four-Day Planet~ signed by Beam just sitting in the shelves. I've offered mused in the years since about contacting the library and offering to purchase that book. I imagine they would be happy to part for it for $1750!

Cheers,

David
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"The Federation Government owns a bigger interest in the Company than the public realizes, too. . . ." - Carlos von Schlichten (H. Beam Piper), ~Uller Uprising~.
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2001
Jon CrockerPerson was signed in when posted
07-11-2019
04:39 UT
Hey, nothing* sez science fiction more than robot dogs with glowing red eyes.

(*At least, not in Mitterrand's France in 1982.)

That's a great addition - actually, even though it's not Whelan, it's still miles ahead of some of the other cover work!

I scrolled down a bit - I have to say that the artist who did the two panel picture of Uller Uprising from Project Gutenburg had a very different take on General Von Schlicten. For some reason the General I pictured looked something more like Sean Connery, that one looks like he was Himmler's stunt double.
2000
David "PiperFan" JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted
07-11-2019
02:16 UT
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Those disk-shaped craft in the cover illustration background are actually ~landing craft~ (note the troopers jumping out of the underside of one) which have descended from the traditional, spherical Viking ships above.

Don't know about that pseudo-canine--and the red-bladed swords are a bit much--but this is definitely the sort of scene one might imagine of Space Vikings raiding your planet!

Cheers,

David
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"Good things in the long run are often tough while they're happening." - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper), ~Space Viking~
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1999
David "PiperFan" JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted
07-11-2019
02:10 UT

~Space Viking~ illustration by Philippe Adamoff and François Allot
Edited 07-11-2019 04:44
1998
David "PiperFan" JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted
07-11-2019
02:09 UT

Temps Futures ~Space Viking~ (1982)
1997
David "PiperFan" JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted
07-11-2019
02:09 UT
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Adamoff and Allot Illustration for ~Space Viking~

Today I added a copy of the 1982 Temps Futurs French translation of ~Space Viking~ to the Zarthani.net hoard. This book appears to have a relatively uninteresting cover illustration by Philippe Adamoff and François Allot.

But much to my surprise the cover illustration is actually a detail from a larger, fold-out illustration in the middle of the book.

(Cover and fold-out illustrations to follow separately.)

Cheers,

David
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"Spaceships, either interplanetary or interstellar, were always spherical with a pseudogravity system at the center." - Walt Boyd (H. Beam Piper), ~Four-Day Planet~
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Edited 07-11-2019 04:43
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