Thursday, October 29, 2009

1930s magazine cover art: Harl Vincent's short story “Thia of the Drylands”

Here’s some beautiful cover art from the July 1932 issue of Amazing Stories magazine depicting a scene from “Thia of the Drylands,” a short story written by Harl Vincent in which a former space pilot with a mysterious Martian disease travels to the Red Planet for a cure. Apparently, the scene is: “A secret service man from Earth navigates his ronsal along a street in a Martian city.” According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, the artist is Leo Morey.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Impressive art. Ahead of its time!

Carol