ILLUSTRATION

A man with spiky blonde hair raises a fist clutching a crumpled wanted poster. He wears a bandolier strapped over his shoulder and a pistol pointed down an away in his other hand. Behind him, a ship raises up as if at attention. Its multiple landing struts resemble legs and its overall rounded shape with large front viewport give it an insectile quality. Yellow and orange dominate the color palette.
  • Acrylic on watercolor board - 29" x 18"
    1985

SANTIAGO

For the cover of the novel Santiago, by Mike Resnick, the essential challenge was to give the ship behind the central character a sentient, living quality. I was thinking of insects, especially fleas and bees, when I conceived the shape of the thing. The window in the front of the ship is deliberately colored and shaped to recall the eye of a bee.
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  • Santiago
    Mike Resnick (TOR)

  • Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none…has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen world? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.

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