[This post, created on October 26, 2017 and updated October 31, 2019, is updated once more! (Again, you say?!) When created in October of 2017, it showed only the front and rear covers of the anthology The Worlds of A.E. van Vogt. In October, 2019 it was updated to show the cover art as a “full”, continuous image, via Photoshopification: Front cover, rear cover, and – spine! I’ve now updated the post to include an image of Bart Forbes’ original cover art, which image – without title, logo, or explanatory blurb on the back – naturally gives a much better visual “feel” for his composition, which seem to liquid-like flow from left to right.]
[Here are some comments about this anthology from 2014 (I overlooked this the first time!) at John O’Neill’s Black Gate – Adventures in Fantasy Literature blog.]
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Bart Forbes’ 1974 cover for The Worlds of A.E. van Vogt has something of a Peter-Max-air to it … well, seems to me!
…Bart Forbes’ original art, from Heritage Auctions. The original is described as “watercolor on board,” 19 by 27 inches, signed lower right; from the Estate of Charles Martignette”.
Contents
“The Replicators”, from if – Worlds of Science Fiction, February, 1965
“The First Martian”, from Marvel Science Fiction, August, 1951
“The Purpose”, from Astounding Science Fiction, May, 1945
“The Earth Killers”, from Super Science Stories, April, 1949
“The Cataaaaa”, from Fantasy Book, Volume 1, Number 1, July, 1947
“Automaton”, from Other Worlds Science Stories, September, 1950
“Itself!”, from Gamma 1, July, 1963
“Process”, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December, 1950
“Not The First”, from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1941
“Fulfillment”, from New Tales of Space and Time, November, 1951
“Ship of Darkness”, from Fantasy Book, Volume 1, Number 2, February, 1948
“The Ultra Man“, from Worlds of Tomorrow, May, 1966
“The Storm”, from Astounding Science Fiction, October, 1943
“The Expendables”, from if – Worlds of Science Fiction, September, 1963
“The Reflected Men”, from Galaxy Science Fiction, February, 197
References
The Worlds of A.E. van Vogt, at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
“The Worlds of A. E. van Vogt, paperback cover”, 1974, at Heritage Auctions
Bart Forbes – Contemporary American Painter, at Bart Forbes Gallery
October 26, 2017 and October 31, 2019