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Artwork for Nebula Science Fiction Part 1/2

Harry Turner wrote in March 1991: I lost all interest in doing artwork for struggling publishers who couldn't pay the rates, and kept no record of what I'd done. Philip dug out his files of Nebula, and I was surprised at the amount of stuff I illustrated for Pete Hamilton - some of it I can recall with a certain amount of pleasure; a lot of it I'd like to forget! I suppose it all depended on how tight the deadline was, and whether I actually was free to work from the typescript or had to follow instructions at second- hand as to what was needed. Not yet started to investigate Science-Fantasy... Andy [Robson?] tells me that according to Alan Hunter, I did the cover of the second issue, but I have no memory of it, and suspect Alan is thinking of something else. I'll believe it when I see it. I suspect that most of the illustrative work I turned out in the 1950s was pot-boiling; I fancy I put my heart and soul into the amateur publications. Certainly, I seem to have wiped the memory banks pretty clean of my involvement with the pro sf mags of the period; there seemed a general assumption on the part of the editors that seeing your work in print was reward enough! I wonder where I stand after all the overhauling of the copyright laws? "Fly-Away Peter" by Eric Frank Russell [8, April 1954] As I recall, I was just asked for artwork, and received a cheque looong long after delivery, with no written contract, stipulations about copyright, or whatever. Hmmm. I got very few of the originals back; in the case of Pete Hamilton I heard rumours, long after Nebula folded, that he'd been auctioning artwork at several cons...

1. & 2. "By Needle And Thread" by Richard P. Ennis [10, Oct. 1954] / 3. & 4. "Boomerang" by Eric Frank Russell [11, Dec. 1954]

1 "Talent" by John Christopher [11, Dec. 1954] / 2. "Decision Deferred" by David S. Gardner [12, Apr. 1955] / 3. "Planetbound" by E.C. Tubb [13, Sep. 1955] / 4. "Mansion Of Love" by William F. Temple [13, Sep. 1955]

1. "Decision Deferred" by David S. Gardner [12, Apr. 1955] / 2. "Planetbound" by E.C. Tubb [13, Sep. 1955] / 3. "This Night No More" by F. G. Rayer [13, Sep. 1955]

1 "Down, Rover, Down" by Eric Frank Russell [14, Nov. 1955] / 2. & 3. "Sounds In The Dawn" by Bob Shaw [15, Jan. 1956] / 4. "Dying To Live" by E.C. Tubb [16, Mar. 1956]

1. & 2. "Sunset" by Kenneth Bulmer [14, Nov. 1955] / 3. "Beacon Green" by F.G. Rayer [20, Mar. 1957]

1. "Dying To Live" by E.C. Tubb [16, Mar. 1956] / 2. "The Moron" by John Seabright [16, Mar. 1956] / 3. & 4. "Beacon Green" by F.G. Rayer [20, Mar. 1957]

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