Scanned from one of my “Space Books.” (Click for much larger images.) Two by Angus McKee (top). (See Octopunk’s TBTBT2 post for two more by the same artist.) Sometimes That Big Thing Back There is leaving you alone, and sometimes it’s really not. Note also that one man’s Big Thing Back There is another man’s […]
March 2010
Here’s the aforementioned Michael Whelan, just fucking going for it in the TBTBT annals with these pictures for Stephen King’s first The Dark Tower volume, called The Gunslinger. (That’s the man himself moping on the beach. Cheer up, pal—you’ve only got 5,600 pages of King to slog through before you get where you’re going…if you […]
Another old paperback, sandwiched between some other sci-fi on a difficult-to-reach bookshelf. Check this out! (You really have to click to see the large version.) When I was ten or eleven years old (as near as I can remember), this book was the coolest thing in the world. What I did not realize at that […]