ILLUSTRATION

  • Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28" x 18"
    1983

THE NONBORN KING

Once or twice a year, for a change of pace, I work in watercolors as I did in this painting. Sometime later I decided that I should have used acrylics instead. The multihued splendor of the costumes and events in this book might have been more appropriately recreated with the intensity of acrylics than with the subtle tones of watercolors.

There is so much of interest to illustrate in Julian May's “Pliocene Exile” series that I'm amazed at not finding more art derived from her books in science-fiction convention art shows.

  • The Nonborn King
    Julian May (Del Rey)

  • On Earth, six million B.C., two species of alien ruled, the graceful humanoid Tanu and their twisted brethren, the Firvulag. Then men from twenty-second century Earth arrived through a one-way time tunnel — and soon the aliens were locked in a battle to the death, for the humans had upset the precarious balance of power that existed between them.
    But when the tides of combat had receded, no one group held firm control, though Aiken Drum, man of no woman born, had declared himself the Nonborn King . . . .

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