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[Meta] Is there a sci-fi art community across the Fediverse? (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* by to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I tried my hand at searching and couldn't seem to find anything, but then I'm not necessarily the best at finding things here, anyway.

Meanwhile, I'm currently working my way through a massive media archive I'd collected a few years ago, and have found a fair amount of sci-fi art to be shared somewhere, if possible.

There's also a reasonable amount of such art appearing in Euro comics, which I'm collecting here: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels?flair=Sci-Fi

So, any advice on where to look?
Oh, whoops, and the piece above is by Peter Elson, in 1980!

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[–] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I adore this kind of art...the sort of old painted and airbrushed sci-fi art that would appear in magazines and on the covers of books. Sometimes I buy old sci-fi books just for the cover art. Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages lol. Just a pattern I've noticed :p

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages

    Really? And which ones would that be? Just so I don't actually buy them. Takes out a notepad and dons his glasses

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don’t know about invariably, but I’ve definitely had that experience picking up a cool looking old 70s sci-fi book and then it’s a book about lesbian sex communes in the future.

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    • [–] 20 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Here's a link to Elson's website where the colors aren't quite as saturated and there isn't that small crease running down from the upper-left.

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    • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Maybe !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world ?

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    • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    This one covers more than just sci-fi, but this sort of general medium and style will be familiar there:

    !conceptartanddesign@lemmy.world

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The closest i can think of are:

    !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world

    !imaginary@reddthat.com

    !imaginarylandscapes@lemmy.world

    !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io

    !liminalspace@lemmy.world

    !cosmichorror@piefed.social

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    [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    That thing is way out of scale.

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