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Here are some recent non-astronomical commissions, both private and for book/cover use, from 2001–2008.
| ‘Technology is Magic’ In 2001, SFX magazine asked several prominent SF artists to illustrate a 'fake' story, to compare the different styles and approaches. This is David Hardy's version. |
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‘Test Flight’ Originally painted (digitally) as a cover for The Human Front by Ken MacLeod (PS Books, 2001), this was later used as a cover for Analog magazine in May 2003. | ) |
‘Dancer in the Dark’ Cover for story by David Gerrold, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), April 2004. |
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| 'The Space Eater' (revised) Hardy produced a new cover for The Space Eater by David Langford, published by Cosmos Books in 2005. The version used has no astronaut, though the artist (and the author) prefer this version! | ) |
‘Dragons of Taban’ A digital composite, produced as a cover for 42 magazine in 2001. It uses the background from 'Towers of Taban' from Galactic Tours (1981), which was painted in gouache, combined with a dragon scanned from an acrylic painting done as a private commission. | ) |
| Based on the 'Spiral' trilogy A recent private commission (August 2005): an oil painting on canvas, based on Mike Scott Rohan’s ‘Spiral’ trilogy – Chase the Morning, Gates of Noon and Cloud Castles. These are favourites of SF fan and collector Susan Peak. | ) |
| 'The Cathedral of Universal Biodiversity' by Gary W. Shockley is the subject of this latest cover artwork for F&SF, for February 2006. "It is a story about the power of the mind, and imagination, so appealed to me," says Hardy. (Unfortunately this cover has printed very pale and looks washed-out and insipid ~click to see how it should appear!) | ) |
| 'Balance of Power' by Richard A. Lovett was published on the June 2007 cover of Analog magazine. It tells the story of an astronaut stranded on Titan, alone ~ except for his 'female' AI companion.
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