470-shaman-dixon

470-shaman-dixon 470-shaman-dixon – Alien shaman attempts to drive away human colonists in this cover for Paul McAuley's novel "Of the Fall". An alien landscape unfolds under a vibrant blue sky featuring a large, heavily cratered moon and a smaller companion satellite in close conjunction. On a hillside covered in red, grass-like vegetation, an indigenous extraterrestrial figure sits beside an gnarled tree, holding a stylized staff near a small skull resting on the ground. In the distance, a coastal shoreline curves toward a dense city featuring prominent observatory domes, while a plume of smoke rises from a wildfire on the forested slopes nearby. acrylic on illustration board, 1989. © 2007 Don Dixon/cosmographica.com — 470-shaman-dixon – Alien shaman attempts to drive away human colonists in this cover for Paul McAuley's novel "Of the Fall". An alien landscape unfolds under a vibrant blue sky featuring a large, heavily cratered moon and a smaller companion satellite in close conjunction. On a hillside covered in red, grass-like vegetation, an indigenous extraterrestrial figure sits beside an gnarled tree, holding a stylized staff near a small skull resting on the ground. In the distance, a coastal shoreline curves toward a dense city featuring prominent observatory domes, while a plume of smoke rises from a wildfire on the forested slopes nearby. acrylic on illustration board, 1989. © 2007 Don Dixon/cosmographica.com
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