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Computer Art, Cont'd:

One of the first things I did using a VGA computer graphic art program.

"Sainted Pyramid" © 2000

I like the pleasant shade of pink in the background.....puts me in mind of the 1950s, for some reason.

Again, I am reminded of sci-fi book covers of the fifties and sixties.

Space Art

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Book Covers

Books available at Amazon.com, CreateSpace.com, Mobipocket.com, BooksonBoard.com, LaurieJ Books and Amazon.com-Kindle.



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"The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia" front covers



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"Almagest" front cover

"3700" Front cover, both print and eBook

Done with a wizard program called "Universe"®, this is the book cover for the latest installment of the so-far four book Cassiopeia series, a science fiction saga I'm still expanding on. There will soon be a fifth!

Worlds of the "Cassiopeia" book series:

The center of most of the intrigue in the series, and home to a thriving society that sought to preserve the spirit of the "Good Empire"

"Orion Approaching Jupiter"© 2007

The Cassiopeia's companion ship is right on schedule to rendezvous on Titan

"Misty Titan"© 2007

"Saturn Through the Mist" ©2007 S.T.

"Cassiopeia Landing On Titan"© 2006-07

"Cassiopeia Titan Landing"© 2006-07

"From Dione's Big Crater"© 2002-2006

The third colonization option, promptly bypassed, on the Cassiopeia's mission.

"The Cassiopeia Leaving Saturnspace"© 2006

"Now they won't have any angst...noooo ANGST!"

"Sonsuang, Guonsang & Quonosang"© 2006

In "The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia", Sonsuang and Fahnsoma are supposed to be a wee bit smaller than Neptune and Uranus. Guonsang, Sonsuang's moon, is the size of Mars. As is well known, Quonosang, [Betelgeuse,] has a diameter that is as wide as Saturn's orbit around our sun. "Sonsuang, Guonsang & Quonosang" done in 'Universe'®

"Fahnsoman Oasis"© 2007

"Stragglers"© 2004

Looking inward from Jupiter's orbit.

"Northwestern Guerropolis"© 2000

A surface scene.....

"Titan Under Glass"© 2003

Through Titan's hazy atmosphere and Nova Terra 1's dome at night.

(Color)

(Sepia toned w/Cassiopeia II)

"Kuakala & Centauris w/Nebula"© 2006

The only biospheric world in the three-star Centauri system. No moon, but a year-round suntan!

"Kuakala, Centauris and the Cassiopeia II"© 2006

"Fahnsoma, Autumn"© 2006

The wondrous planet that Ralph finds the troupe Garçon/Thierry on after more than a decade on Sonsuang.

"Cowboy Nearing Asteroid 10 Space Station"© 2007

Whimsical Worlds & Bodies

(These pictures were done primarily for a monthly competition for owners of "Universe™" imaging software.)

Somewhere, in an alternate universe, a gargantuan planet has moons nearly identical to the bodies in our solar system...even our sun!

"CRASH!"© 2004

Kind of self-explanatory, wot?

"The Observer"© 2004

On the edge of the universe, one lone, dead world with a biospheric moon bears witness to colliding galaxies and the phenomena of light.

"SON of Observer"© 2005

On the nebula-rich side of its diurnal. With variations.

"Persistence of Accretion"© 2004

"The Jugglers"© 2005

A ghost planet with a gamboling memory....

"Yin & Yang"© 2005

One galaxy winning the tug of war between two titans!

"Mother-Father-Daughter-Neighbors"© 2005

A Daddy Galaxy, a Mama Galaxy, and a little baby galaxy, with a bunch of cosmic voyeurs looking on....

"Evelyn EverNeverland"© 2005

Space as seen by J. M. Barrie and Bob Montana!

"Eerie Black Hole"© 2005

Nothing like calling a spade a spade, I always say! (Hyuk, yuk, yuk!)

"Eerie Black Hole, Distorted"© 2005

Surrounding space feeling the effects of the dense body.

"Binary Biosphere, Ancient & Future"© 2005

"The One Large Enough To Swallow Galaxies"© 2005

"The Dying Star Anomaly"© 2005

A VERY creative black hole!

"Phasing Biosphere I & II"© 2005

A little more impressive than this dim thumbnail makes it look here.

"The Vortex"© 2007 S.T.

An Earth-like planet caught up in an electromagnetic whirlwind....shown in stroboscopic stages.

"Gargantua And Pentegruel"© 2007

A binary so big, the main star actually has a small spiral galaxy orbiting it!

"The Throwers"© 2007

"Death Throes"© 2007

An Io-Mars type world about to split apart due to a shock-weakened crust and explosive core...

"Joe Lifeless"© 2007

"Joe Lifeless, Daytime"© 2009

A dead world with one large moon, a biospheric moon and one like Io.

"Crosstown Traffic"© 2007

Hey! How'd that MarsShield warship get into this Deep Space Nine episode?

"Astronimé Autumnus"© 2007

"Taurus Pulls A Brigadoon"© 2007

Yessiree, BOB! Imagine waking up to THAT on your birthday!

Our Solar System

"Boss Moon"© 2005