The 1960s marked a new, more-mature era for sci-fi novel art. Then-director of Penguin Books' cover art, Germano Facetti, moved away from cartoonish images of rocket ships and space men by using ...

Penguin has been publishing high-quality paperbacks of classic science fiction since the late 1950s. As times change, you can see how the book covers move from stately red and black (above) to ...

You’ve probably seen some of the colorful, abstract book cover art of Richard Powers before, and marveled at how far it pushes the envelope of representational art. How alien it looks. Over at ...

Unlike traditional science fiction books that attempt illustrations of unfamiliar worlds on their covers, the Penguin Classics Science Fiction Series shifts these books towards a more literary genre, ...

After creating the covers for Ballantine Books' STAR series in the 1970s, John Berkey's work was in great demand for science-fiction book covers. This painting, End of the Run, is typical of the ...

After he illustrated the covers for Ballantine Books’ STAR series in the 1970s, John Berkey was in demand for science-fiction book covers. This painting, End of the Run , is typical of the work ...

He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13 ...

One of the best-known writers of hard science fiction is Kim Stanley Robinson. He wrote an acclaimed series of Mars novels in the 1990s, and he's just come out with a new book called Aurora.Unlike ...

“The Dimensions of a Cave,” by Greg Jackson Designed by Jamie Keenan. This book has two back covers and the spine is inside out. The design (used solely on the British edition) feels like a ...