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Virgil Finlay illustration for the story "Gift Horse" by A. Bertram Chandler from Worlds of If, June 1958.

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Virgil Finlay illustration for “The Spoilers of Lern” by Clee Garson (David Wright O'Brien) from Fantastic Adventures, August 1951.


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Virgil Finlay scratch board illustration for "Under Old Earth" by Cordwainer Smith from Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1966. Dig it.

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Virgil Finlay illustrating Fletcher Pratt's "The Conditioned Captain" from Startling Stories, May 1953. The original page ran vertically but I feel it looks better horizontally.

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Virgil Finlay illustrating A. Merritt's classic novel "The Face in the Abyss" reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1940. See the for more.

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Virgil Finlay cover painting for the November, 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe. Another fine Finlay obscured by excessive text.


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Virgil Finlay cover and interior illustrating Robert A. Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars, November 1962.
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Virgil Finlay served in the US Army during WWII and saw combat in the South West Pacific theater, but also created posters and illustrations for the Morale Services during his three years of service. This is one of those illustrations as it is signed, "Oahu, Hawaii 1945". His editor must have liked it because he commissioned Finlay’s friend and fine writer Catherine L. Moore to create a story based on it.

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When Henry Kuttner (another fine writer) and Moore were married in 1940, Virgil was his Best Man. The resulting story, “Daemon”, was first published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1946 which you can read here:

luminist.org/archives/SF/FFM.h

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Virgil Finlay served in the US Army during WWII and saw combat in the South West Pacific theater, but also created posters and illustrations for the Morale Services during his three years of service. This is one of those illustrations as it is signed, "Oahu, Hawaii 1945". His editor must have liked it because he commissioned Finlay’s friend and fine writer Catherine L. Moore to create a story based on it.

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Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for "Shadow Over Mars" by Leigh Brackett from Fantastic Story Magazine, March 1953.

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Virgil Finlay cover painting for Swords and Sorcery, Pyramid Books, 1963.

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Virgil Finlay cover painting for Swords and Sorcery, Lancer Books, 1963.

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Virgil Finlay interior illustration for "...As Others See Us" by Raymond F. Jones published in Fantastic Adventures, May 1951. Jones is best known for his 1952 novel "This Island Earth" which was adapted into the 1955 film.

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Virgil Finlay cover painting for Fantastic Universe, July, 1957, which I guess is kinda-sorta illustrating August Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos story which was later changed to "The Seal of R'lyeh." I don't remember any mirror-obsessed mermaids from that but part of it does take place in the sea!

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Virgil Finlay preliminary cover design for the July, 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels, which the editor rejected in favor of this basic Lawrence Stevens woman in peril by blue meanie cover. Unbelievable.

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Virgil Finlay illustration for the 1943 Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore story, "Earth's Last Citadel" reprinted in Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950.

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Virgil Finlay illustration for “Jackpot” by Clifford D. Simak, from the October 1956 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Also in this issue is the first part of “The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester.

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Virgil Finlay interior illustration for "Abercrombie Station" by Jack Vance from Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1952.

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