The images of the book covers featured on this website are reproduced by kind permission of Penguin Books and the first-class stamp is used by permission of The Royal Mail. Likewise The Penguin Collector covers are used with the consent of the Penguin Collectors Society. All other images, where subject to copyright, are used purely for illustrative purposes and on the assumption that their reproduction at a lower resolution than the originals satisfies the requirements for fair use and neither competes nor conflicts with the copyright holder's use of the original material. No reproduction, copying or downloading of any image on this website is allowed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

The help and support of many people have been invaluable, including Tim Graham, Steve Hare, Jo Lunt and Martin Yates at the Penguin Collectors Society; Rachel Hassall, Jamie Carstairs, Hannah Lowery and Michael Richardson at the Univer- sity of Bristol Penguin Archive; and George Donaldson, John Lyon and Markland Starkie at the Penguin Archive Project. Particular thanks to Tim for the Take Time Out booklet and Rachel for cover scans and other material from the archive.

Many thanks also to Brian Aldiss for sharing insights into, and reflections on, his time as editor of the Penguin sf series in 1963-64, and to Alan Aldridge and David Pelham for taking time to discuss their sf covers within the wider context of their roles as art director at Penguin. Likewise to Paul Sidey for shedding light on his years as Penguin's sf editor, to Harry Willock and Peter Lord for describing the background to their John Wyndham covers, and to Adrian Chesterman for infor-mation on his Penguin sf covers in 1979-82.

The kind words written about The Art of Penguin Science Fiction by John Coulthart at {Feuilleton}, James Morrison at Caustic Cover Critic, Ben Terrett at Noisy Decent Graphics and Richard Weston at Ace Jet 170 are greatly appreciated, as is the induction of The Art of Penguin Science Fiction into The Collectors Weekly Hall of Fame by Dave Margulius et al.

Also gratefully acknowledged is the help of Hal Hall at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database; Rachel Atkinson, Mary Fox and Jessica Price at Penguin; Kirstie Meehan and Helen Muir at the National Galleries of Scotland; and David Mosley for providing some of the John Wyndham covers by Peter Lord.

Al von Ruff's Internet Speculative Fiction Database has proven to be an excellent source of bibliographic information.

Finally, heartfelt thanks to Laura Mason whose continued support and encouragement has made this website possible.


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