Boooring - Mobstr


AJRMS - The Burning Star Core of Robert Beatty

Robert Beatty, artwork for Burning Star Core, Challenger, front
Robert Beatty, artwork for Burning Star Core, Challenger lp, front

Found on A Journey Round My Skull

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AJRMS - Dedicated to you but you weren't glistening

01 "Your Name? Robot," Soviet children's book, 1979, cover
Illustrations from the 1979 children's book Your Name? Robot.

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Previously in this series of scans from the AJRMS Soviet-era kids' book collection:
--Mummy was a robot, daddy was a small nonstick kitchen utensil
Also see: Smoking Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Source Update: The illustrator's name is Mikhail Romadin, and he was an art director for Tarkovsky's Solaris!

AJRMS - Mummy Was A Robot, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

03 Illus. by E. Benyaminson for "Hello, I'm Robot!" by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russian Kid's Book, 1989)

From A Journey Round My Skull:

Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).
This is the first post of a series featuring my recently-acquired collection of Soviet children's books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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No. 5

SFOR - Werner Rhuner - Der Purpurne Planet



From Sci-Fi-O-Rama:
The above images are taken from the 1971 German Sci-Fi Novella “Der Purpurne Planet” (The Purple Planet) Illustrations are from excellent Werner Ruhner, whom I confess to know little about!
Werner Ruhner born 27 May 1922 in Meerane, Sachsen, Germany – According to the very short entry at Wikipedia, he is or was an assistant at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (where the artists Neo Rauch and Peter Piller teach, for example). In the former East Germany, Ruhner was among the busiest illustrators for a variety of genres, science fiction (Verlag Neues Leben Berlin) among them. He allegedly lives in Borsdorf near Leipzig.
Scans via http://www.houdinination.de/

Blade Runner - 1982

A letter from Phillip K. Dick, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which inspired Blade Runner: Watch the full film after the jump: