Science Fiction Quarterly May 1957 – Spacesuit Explorers on Frozen Alien World

In the tradition of other Science Fiction Quarterly covers from the mid-1950s, this gouache illustration rivals the action-packed vibrancy of contemporaries like Ed Emshwiller and Richard Powers. Two astronauts in bulky pressure suits — one red, one yellow — struggle across a fractured icy alien surface beside a sleek black spacecraft fin. Rocky white spires and a burnt-orange moon dominate the alien sky, while a mysterious face appears frozen beneath the cracked ice below, suggesting a buried alien civilization waiting to be discovered.