288-slowyear-dixon –Stopping at Slowyear. cover for Frederick Pohl novel about colony planet whose environment proves fatal to visitors. This vertical science fiction illustration contrasts high technology with pastoral life on an alien world. In the upper portion of the frame, a sleek, white spacecraft with swept-forward wings cruises through the upper atmosphere of a blue planet, framed by a brilliant, multi-pointed star rising or setting over the planetary limb. Below, a pillar of golden light descends through a break in the clouds, illuminating a verdant mountain valley where a lone shepherd tends to a flock of animals along a winding river. acrylic and gouache, 1992
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