My art book Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s is available to buy now! Here’s what people think of it:
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“Journalist Rowe’s captivating debut spotlights bizarre and breathtaking science fiction cover art from the 1970s and ’80s—a “golden age” for the form fueled by increased numbers of titles and a shift from 1960s abstraction to representational art.”
“While the book has no shortage of ray guns and giant worms, it also serves as a reminder that fact and fiction were not so far apart.”
“Settle in for a memorable, well-researched selection of the obscure, bizarre and surreal psychedelic cover art (and artists) of mass-market science-fiction novels, at peak weirdness in that decade.”
“Rowe’s commentary has a pleasingly wry sense of humour.”
“In addition to the full-color reproductions, Rowe’s book contains interviews, critical evaluations and an introduction by legendary science fiction artist Vincent Di Fate. For fans of the genre, this tome offers the perfect yesteryear view of a speculative tomorrow.”
“I have no doubt that Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s will in the not too distant future be one of those publications that become a rare collector’s item fetching a fortune online, and people will kick themselves for not getting it when they had the chance. Don’t be one of those people, pick up your copy.”
“Rowe plays a most amiable tour guide, peppering his brief artists bios and analyses of their styles with good-natured wisecrackery.”
“Adam Rowe’s book is like a superior sequel to Visions of the Future, with miniature biographies for many of the artists, plus a look at the recurrent themes he’s explored on his 70s Sci-fi Art Tumblr. There’s a lot in here I hadn’t seen before.”
“This book has everything,” enthuses author Fred Scharmen. “Floating vertical skyscrapers. Skull planets. Giant worms. Boris Vallejo. Interstellar rivers. Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Cryosleep. There’s a whole entry for Space Cats!”
“Rowe’s knowledge of his subject is encyclopedic, even as he wears his learning lightly. We know from the get-go that we are in the hands of a writer who could have made this book much longer, but at the cost of accessibility.”
“[I]t is written in exactly the way I want to read about art. Well-informed, brimming with details, and powerfully engrossing sure, but Rowe’s voice is chatty, warm, and irreverent–like you’re being regaled by one of your smartest, funniest, nerdiest friends.”
“Wait a minute. Is this book NEW? Like, didn’t exist until recently? I have it on my coffee table and I’ve been telling everybody that I had a copy back when I was in high school and I’m psyched they’ve reprinted it, which I believed. I am not joking and I mean it as a compliment.”
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Also, here are some interviews I’ve given about the book:
Transfer Orbit: Colorful futures: An interview with Adam Rowe, the guy behind 70s Sci-Fi Art project and author of Worlds Beyond Time
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: Interview with Adam Rowe, author of Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s (2023)
Unquiet Things: Come For The Cosmic Awe, Stay For The Skeletons In Spacesuits: Adam Rowe On Sci-Fi Art Of The 1970s
Crime Reads: The Strange, Surreal, Visionary Sci-fi Art Of The 1970s