Meet Mia Kish, the hero of The Well's End, a brand new young-adult novel from debut author Seth Fishman which comes out next February. We've got the exclusive cover reveal, plus one more illustration by Hark! A Vagrant creator Kate Beaton that shows the whole cast.

If you think your dog loves sticking his or her head out the window as you drive, just imagine if you were driving... in space. That's the theory behind Warp Dogs, an amazing set of illustrations by Benjamin Grelle, aka the Frogman.

Tentacles! They are the prehensile, snakelike limbs of our dreams. Their coiled shiny shapes slither through our imaginations. And now, a brand new art show, curated by Star Wars superfan Bonnie Burton, celebrates them like never before. Check out some great images!

Classic science fiction is full of weird imagery and tropes — including the trope of the woman inside the glass tube or case, which The Fifth Element played with a fair bit. And there's a whole blog devoted to "Sci-Fi Women in Tubes." Check out some of the weird and titillating tube art below.

There are many ways to learn the alphabet, but this set of bamboo art wall blocks by Etsy artist Tofufu Studios might be the most fun. What else could "B" be for, other than Batman?

Artist Adam Ryder specializes in taking Earthly artifacts and removing them to another plane of existence, creating a jarring fusion of the weird but real, and the just plain weird.

Right now, everywhere you go in downtown San Francisco, you'll see this poster. Full of pills, with an ominous message about the future, the poster invites you to learn about something called THX-1138. But what kind of medicine is this? I can only imagine the kind of conversations this is sparking around town.

Frank R. Paul did more than almost any other artist to shape the images that light up our collective dreams. He provided the bright, eye-popping imagery for Hugo Gernsback's vision of science fiction, and his art from the 1920s still feels fresher than a lot of the stuff being created today.

Over in The Atlantic, there's a great quick-and-dirty history of the science fiction book cover, courtesy of the folks at SF bookstore Singularity & Co. Starting with the pulpy artwork of artists like Frank R. Paul and others, the covers progressed into some fairly cartoony images of aliens and rocketships in the 1950s, …

A year after their first Star Wars-themed art show, the Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle, which will debut "Who Shot First?" an exhibit of awesome/bizarre/awesome-and-bizarre art inspired by all six Star Wars movies by 40 different artists (but mostly the the original trilogy). The exhibit premieres next Thursday and is…