267-shivering-world-dixon 267-shivering-world-dixon – Shivering World, cover for Kathy Tyers novel about colonists' efforts to terraform a planet. This dramatic science fiction illustration portrays a highly specialized exploratory aircraft maneuvering low over a frozen, geologically volatile planet. The terrain below is a high-contrast expanse of icy, deep blue craters and fractured glaciers, while active volcanoes on the horizon erupt with massive plumes of dark ash and smoke. A pale, distant sun hangs low in the golden atmosphere, ringed by a faint halo as heavy storm clouds close in from above. Acrylic on illustration board, 1993.
267-shivering-world-dixon – Shivering World, cover for Kathy Tyers novel about colonists' efforts to terraform a planet. This dramatic science fiction illustration portrays a highly specialized exploratory aircraft maneuvering low over a frozen, geologically volatile planet. The terrain below is a high-contrast expanse of icy, deep blue craters and fractured glaciers, while active volcanoes on the horizon erupt with massive plumes of dark ash and smoke. A pale, distant sun hangs low in the golden atmosphere, ringed by a faint halo as heavy storm clouds close in from above. Acrylic on illustration board, 1993.
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