World of Darkover again, but this time it's art for a reprint of one of MZB's earliest works, "The Planet Savers." In this 1958-dated tale, an Earthman doctor must venture deep within the Darkovan biosphere to find a cure for a plague that is afflicting the returning settlers. He must deal with one of the sentient semi-humanoid races native to the environment, the "Trailmen," as well as his own multiple personality disorder. Instead of character portraits for this one, I drew an alien jungle and forest with glowing eyes peering from the darkness.
Drawing is ink and glued-on photostat, about 7" x 10", October 1978. Click for larger view.
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Reminds me of, this is hard to describe, but in the computer room at TI there were cabinets of long, smooth, vertical black cables with gold connectors at random intervals, like a dark jungle of black vines with golden flowers. I used to go back in there and stare at the cables (when I was supposed to be working). It was peaceful back there. When they made the connectors they dropped the spare pins on the floor. These are coated with real gold, and at the time weren't worth recycling. I picked up a match-box-ful of them and have them around somewhere.
The eyes make the picture, of course.
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