Sometimes I have a hard time predicting which retro sci-fi images will rise to the surface.
This 1976 cover by D. A. Daily for The Gryb, by A. E. van Vogt, for instance: It’s a great image, but doesn’t stand out to me as that much greater than half the stuff I post.
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But I found it in my tour through my Tumblr’s most popular images, so there was something…