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The CD also includes a file named "demon.tif" which is a duplicate of this image.

The drawing features Boris twice!

No date is available for the drawing but the product first appeared in 1970 and it is known that Boris often used himself as a model during that decade.

The painting currently shows the year as 1985 but my comments under The Edge of Tomorrow study also apply here too.

The artwork is now wrongly dated 1985 - a year after the final artwork was completed. See Amazon Queen for an explanation.

The initial concept had a picture of Asimov sitting on a globe of the Earth (see Isaac Asimov) but it evolved into what is probably an illustration of Stranger In Paradise.

This is definitely a personal favourite. My daughter was aware of this and for Christmas one year gave me a wine glass with a replica of this image engraved on it - a treasured glass!

See the commentary above for the preliminary artwork.

If you think the girl's hands look odd here's a closeup:
The story hinges upon a hand bearing seven fingers that was taken from the mummy of an Egyptian queen.

More recently, the painting has been used for a jigsaw and I notice that the two smaller digits have been removed so that the hand now has the correct, albeit unusually elongated, number of fingers

Painting is undated but FABV gives the year as 1976.

Boris modelled for all the male figures in the painting.

This painting was digitally combined with a painted overlay to produce Ferna's Escape: The Queen's Tale for the 2000 Fantasy Calendar.

I have a full-size (27" x 41") copy of the poster, printed in 1996, which I purchased as a decorative item from a retail outlet.

This particular painting depicts a scene towards the end of the film when Han Solo has been frozen in Carbonite prior to being sent to Jabba the Hut.

As can be seen, this painting shows Luke, Yoda and R2D2 on Dagobah.

Needless to say, the model selected for this painting is Julie Bell – Julie returned the compliment by using Boris as her model for The Emperor.

No signature or date are shown – Boris has been quite particular in signing these works, usually around the edge, so my suspicion is that the image has been cropped, losing these details in the process.

In addition to being an author, Leigh Bracket was also a well respected screenwriter, working on many well successful movies including, shortly before her death, The Empire Strikes Back.

Painted 1997.

Boris' comments on this painting: "I wanted to portray an image of the female warrior contemplating in the distance … her thoughts, her dreams, and her ideas of what the future would bring." Quoted from the back of the trading card.

Although it is not signed or dated I think it is safe to say that this was painted in 2017 because the advertisement ran from April 2018.

The right hand half of the painting provided the frontispiece of the book.

So far as the title is concerned, you might want to take a closer look at the moon above the dragon's head – it is a taijitu (yin-yang) symbol.

Sek (Syberian) mythology: Es, the sky god, created the world, and carved the people from the mountains. The newly-created people are clothed, which is presumably a sop to the prurient, but this strikes a jarring note in the image.

The right hand side was used for the month of February in the 2014 Fantasy Calendar.

The artwork is not signed or dated but was probably painted in 2007.

The ad appeared with the tagline Dominate Youe Draft whereby a lucky winner would receive a visit from ESPN frontman Chris Mortensen, the main figure in the painting, when dafting their fantasy (American) football teams.

Though it is unsigned it was probably painted in 2006 since the advertisement would have appeared in late summer of that year.

The model in this case is Boris himself.

Unlike the original painting this one is signed but I suspect this has been added digitally.

Although the painting is unsigned it did have a signature on the advertising hoarding where I first saw it.

The painting was digitally modified to produce Strife in the Sky for the 2005 Fantasy Calendar.

Painting undated.

The right hand side was used for the month of February in the 2014 Fantasy Calendar.

The artwork is not signed or dated but was probably painted in 2007.

My original thought was that was a composite image because the book's back cover features the same artwork without the two figures. I now know this to be incorrect so assume that it is the back cover that is the composite image!

Although it is not dated this was probably painted in 2019.