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Henry Dunant, Apocalypse Diagram, 1890

Hi! Long time sci-fi fan (read old man). Do you think you could find the original dust cover art for J. G. Ballard's book, The Crystal World," and post it, please? I remember thinking it the most oddly beautiful piece when I first saw it, but it's been decades ago, and it still retains a space in my head. Thanks so much!

Yeah, here it is! It's from 1966, by German surrealist Max Ernst:

I actually indirectly referenced this cover in the opening pages of my book on 70s sci-fi art -- after Richard Powers started the trend of surrealist science fiction cover art in the 50s, a lot of other publishers jumped on it, and some went as far as to get fine artists like Ernst rather than illustrators. Good eye, it's really a standout cover!

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Beautiful abandoned house on the Kerry way (walking route) between Sneem and Kenmare

'There's still life there...' by LeiraEnkai

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Shizuo Matsuda

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Liv Ullmann in “Shame” (Ingmar Bergman, 1968).

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Karajá woman. Brazil 1938 by Mario Baldi

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Alex Colville - New Moon (1980)

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Theosophical Illustrations, ca.1930s - They were printed as a set in Italy in Torino by Vincenzo Bono. artist unknown.

(Source: aliceinparislovesartandtea.blogspot.co.uk)

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David Jien

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An Antarctic scientific station for growing alien plants and investigating their properties. The Russian artist, Boris T. Travkin, entered it in a 1973 futuristic art competition for the magazine Tekhnika Molodezhi (Translated: Technology for the Youth).

Here’s what Boris had to say about it, according to Google Translate:

“Not long is the time when automatic stations will deliver to Earth from other planets of the solar system not only minerals, but also embryos, spores and seeds of strange grasses, flowers, plants. I tried to depict a biological laboratory where a Venusian tree grows under a plastic heat-resistant dome. For him, all the necessary conditions have been created - high pressure and temperature. The leaves of the tree give off toxic fumes, so for safety reasons the laboratory is built on a deserted Antarctic shore.”

First posted to my instagram, seventiesscifiart. Thanks to @FANUC_M420iA for the research behind this.

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Dallol, Ethiopia

“The Dallol is an incredible combination of volcanic activity and hydrology. In the local Afar language, Dallol means ‘disintegration’ or ‘dissolution’, a passing reference to the volcano’s acid hot springs.

This vast desolate area is known for its strange geological formations, including acid hot springs, mountains of sulfur, pillars of salt, small fumaroles and pools of acid isolated by salt ridges and concretions of evaporate, sulfur, chloride acid magnesium, and brine solidified.”

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Justice (detail) by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1499.

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The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

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Head of Anubis, 13th-12th century BC. Anubis was the jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology. This head dates from the 19th Dynasty. Located in the Louvre, Paris.