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more about #illustrations MarlboroTestMonkey7: +1 awesome if populated with lego minifigs. more » Geekmansworld: Without judging the names, take one guess to find the Soviet-built reactor from the people who brought you Chernobyl. (Hint: its the one with the fli... more » dukeofurl01: I don't suppose these are available any bigger, so that you can, you know, read the text? more » PossibleCabbage: I wish I could get prints of these, I want to hang them on my wall. more » ManchuCandidate: Whohoo, Canada City represent! Candu 3 and Douglas Point! My now retired nuke engineer father worked on both. I remember a tour I did as a kid of a... more » EdificeComplex: These remind of a book I got when I was a kid. It was a series of axonometric sections of things like the Titanic, a castle, the space shuttle and the... more » John Hazard: Where's the break room with the donuts? more » Soupytwist: I love how Pia Guerra did William Gibson... but, then again, I love how she does everything. more » Grey_Area: Just comin' off my semi-self-imposed internet hiatus to mention how lovely these are. more » Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Oh hell... I just found Anne Rice cute (in an Aubrey Beardsley kind of way)... I feel dirty. more » Illogic: No PKD? more » UlisesHz: I thought #5 was Larry King in a spaceman suit more » Jeriba: I adore the drawing of Rod Serling. The artist captured his body language perfectly and I love his cute-creepy accessories (minions?) What's great ab... more » Lassus: I'm not sure if it's scary or awesome that I can recognize a lot of these without even opening up the thumbnails. more » AdoraBelle: No Terry Pratchett? more » Rusty626: No Ursula LeGuin? more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Hrmm... Asimov's sideburns aren't epic enough. Needs more crazy! more » Ruthless, If you let me: While it is no sharks with lasers, the first guy does have his own laser beam attached to his head. Hard to beat that. more » -
#reactorporn
Know Your Nuclear Reactors with Illustrated Wall Charts
Nuclear reactors are an unlikely source of art, but the complex workings of these machines have a strange, industrial beauty to them. These incredibly detailed wall charts explain the inner workings of the machines and display them in cutaways. More » -
#writers
Artists' Portraits of Science Fiction's Greatest Writers
Steven Gettis' website Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!! collects artists' portraits of great writers from a variety of genres, creating diverse images of authors from William Gibson and Arthur C. Clarke to Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. More » -
#medicalart
The Art That Lives Inside of Us
Vesna Jovanovic's illustrations are inspired by the natural world and the tools science uses to explore it, creating often surreal images of human innards, often combined with twisting lab equipment and machinery. More » -
#sciencefictionart
Revenge Of The Giant Space Tentacle
I've found myself admiring John Picacio's art a bunch of times without knowing his name. His images have appeared on the cover of a bunch of books from Pyr, Tachyon and several other publishers, including this wrap-around cover illustration for Son Of Man by Robert Silverberg. His work has a grand kinetic sweep that helps put the "opera" in "space opera." There's a gallery of some of his covers, including his newly completed cover for Dan Simmon's Muse Of Fire, below. More »
