Name: 科幻書籍封面設計的藝術！🪐📚 (The Art Of Sci-Fi Book Covers)
Uploaded: 2026-02-17T17:14:50.000Z
Duration: 6 min 29 s

The first great sci fi cover artist was Frank R. Paul.

第一位偉大的科幻封面藝術家是 Frank R. Paul。

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Discovered by the father of science fiction publisher Hugo GERNS Back in 1914, Paul defined the imagery that came to be associated with sci fi tales.

Frank R. Paul 在 1914 年被科幻之父兼出版商 Hugo Gernsback 發掘，他定義了科幻故事的視覺形象。

His covers of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted solely to this new genre, features spectacular spaceships and spacemen, giant insects, laser guns, and

他為 Amazing Stories 設計的封面，這是第一本專門介紹這種新類型的雜誌，上面有壯觀的宇宙飛船和太空人、巨型昆蟲、雷射槍，

以及許多長相非常奇特的**外星人**。

In those years, the middle 1920s covers were probably among the strangest art that the average American ever got to see on newsstands.

在那些年代，也就是 1920 年代中期，這些封面大概是美國普通民眾在報攤上能看到的最奇特的藝術品了。

These colorful, garish nightmare visions leapt into the imaginations of young readers.

這些色彩鮮豔、俗豔的惡夢般的景象，躍入了年輕讀者的想像中。

Paul is such a towering figure in science fiction because so many influential writers and artists in the field, not to mention readers, can trace their obsession with the genre to the unforgettable experience of seeing his covers for the first time.

Paul 之所以成為科幻領域的重要人物，是因為許多該領域的具影響力的作家和藝術家，更不用說讀者了，都可以追溯他們對這個類型的痴迷，源自於第一次看到他封面時的難忘經歷。

The purpose of a book cover, of course, is to draw you in, to pique your interest enough to read the story behind it.

書籍封面的目的，當然是吸引你，引起你的興趣，讓你想要閱讀封面後的故事。

But on these covers, Paul launched a fascinating genre of painting and design that rarely gets the attention it deserves, in the same way that science fiction and fantasy as genres historically didn't get the attention that they deserved.

但在這些封面上，Paul 開創了一種迷人的繪畫和設計類型，它很少獲得應有的關注，就像科幻和奇幻作為類型，歷史上也沒有獲得應有的關注一樣。

Interestingly, one of the byproducts I think, of this lack of attention was that the COVID art for these pulp books got to explore weirder and more avant garde artistic styles than they would have otherwise.

有趣的是，我認為這種關注度不足的副產品之一是，這些舊雜誌的封面藝術，比它們原本可能的情況，更能探索更奇特、更前衛的藝術風格。

The revolution in sci fi covers came with a revolution in bookselling.

科幻書籍封面的革命，伴隨著書籍銷售的革命而來。

In 1939, Robert de Graff launched Pocketbooks, the first mass market publisher of paperbacks in America.

1939 年，Robert de Graff 創立了 Pocketbooks，這是美國第一家大眾市場的平裝書出版商。

Amazing as it sounds, no one really thought that people would read paperbacks.

聽起來很不可思議，但當時沒有人真的認為大家會去讀平裝書。

But when the pocket version of James Hilton's Lost Horizon sold 2 1/2 million copies, people knew that there was a change in the air.

不過，當 James Hilton 的《消失的地平線》平裝版賣出 250 萬本時，大家就知道情況不一樣了。

As Mark Derry noted in the Daily beast, suddenly the 4.3 by 7 inch format of mass market paperbacks became the canvas for cover artists.

正如 Mark Derry 在 Daily Beast 上所指出的，突然間，大眾市場平裝書 4.3 x 7 英吋的尺寸，變成了書籍封面藝術家的畫布。

with the genre getting its due culturally, publishers looked to artists who could reflect the deep themes that the stories explored.

而且這個類型在文化上也獲得應有的重視，出版商開始尋找能夠反映故事所探討的深刻主題的藝術家。

以英國的書籍銷售商 Penguin 為例。

In the 40s and 50s, they were known for their classic orange and white covers.

在 40 年代和 50 年代，他們以經典的橘色和白色封面聞名。

Then in the 60s, in an effort to raise the sophistication of their science fiction offering, art director Germano Facetti started pairing novels with covers featuring the work of popular modern artists.

接著在 60 年代，為了提升他們科幻書籍的質感，藝術總監 Germano Facetti 開始將小說搭配知名現代藝術家的作品封面。

For example, James Bush's A Case of Conscience takes place on a planet with organic, almost biological shaped buildings.

舉例來說，James Bush 的《A Case of Conscience》故事發生在一顆星球上，那裡的建築物呈現有機、彷彿生物般的造型。

For the COVID Faceti chose a detail from Dadaist and surrealist painter Max Ernst's the Eye of Silence, or JG Ballard's the Drowned World, a post apocalyptic novel set in a bleak, flooded, uninhabitable London.

Faceti 選擇了達達主義和超現實主義畫家 Max Ernst 的《The Eye of Silence》中的一個細節，或是 JG Ballard 的《The Drowned World》，這是一部設定在荒涼、淹水、無法居住的倫敦的末日後小說。

For this, Faceti chose Yves Tanguy's surreal landscape of battered shapes and odd configurations, called the palace of Windowed Rocks after Facetti.

為此，Faceti 選擇了 Yves Tanguy 的超現實風景畫，畫中充滿了破損的形狀和奇特的配置，這幅畫被稱為「窗巖宮殿」，以 Facetti 的名字命名。

A series of art Directors through the 60s and 70s Commissioned original works or did it themselves.

在 60 年代和 70 年代，一系列的藝術總監委託創作原創作品，或是親自動手。

There was Alan Aldridge, who created a series of beautiful psychedelic images over black in the late 1960s.

有 Alan Aldridge，他在 1960 年代末創作了一系列黑色背景上的美麗迷幻圖像。

There was Franco Grignani, who pioneered methods of experimental photography, resulting in monochromatic kaleidoscopic images in 1970.

有 Franco Grignani，他開創了實驗攝影的方法，在 1970 年創造出單色的萬花筒般的圖像。

Then there was David Pelham, who made this iconic cover for A Clockwork Orange in 1972, and

接著是 David Pelham，他在 1972 年為《A Clockwork Orange》製作了這個標誌性的封面，還有

these gorgeous reprints of the Ballard classics a few years later.

幾年後這些精美的 Ballard 經典作品重印版。

Over at Ballantine Books, it was Richard Powers who was really pushing the limits of the form.

在 Ballantine Books，是 Richard Powers 在真正突破這種形式的極限。

The Ballantynes essentially gave Powers free rein to pull from all his modernist and surrealist influences, sometimes pulling completely away from the actual content of the book.

Ballantine 出版社基本上讓 Powers 自由發揮，汲取他所有現代主義和超現實主義的影響，有時完全脫離書本的實際內容。

The result was hundreds of covers that could have easily filled gallery spaces and modern art museums.

結果是數百幅封面，這些封面很容易就能填滿畫廊空間和現代藝術博物館。

And while they were increasingly abstract, Powers covers mind the subconscious and the surreal in the same way that the best science fiction does.

而且，雖然 Powers 的封面越來越抽象，但它們就像最頂尖的科幻小說一樣，關注潛意識和超現實。

They present a world that's warped, often in radical ways, as a reaction to the world.

它們呈現了一個扭曲的世界，經常以激進的方式呈現，作為對現實世界的反應。

That is one of the things I love about sci fi cover art is how accessible it is.

這也是我熱愛科幻小說封面藝術的原因之一，就是它的易得性。

You can walk into any used bookstore anywhere and get five of these old pulp books for a dollar each.

你可以在任何地方走進任何一家二手書店，花一塊錢買到五本這些舊的紙漿書。

I can own a Vincent de Fate and a Bob Pepper and Ian Miller's insane cover for Bradbury's Long After Midnight.

我可以擁有一本 Vincent de Fate、一本 Bob Pepper，以及 Ian Miller 為 Bradbury 的《Long After Midnight》所繪製的瘋狂封面。

然後，這些藝術品就與你同在。

It's in your home as you read the stories.

在你閱讀故事時，它們就在你的家中。

它是你可以用手拿著的藝術品。

它被折彎、摺疊、壓出了痕跡。

Sci fi and fantasy covers had the chance to be weird, not only because of the weird things going on in the stories, but

科幻和奇幻的封面有機會變得怪異，不只是因為故事裡有怪異的情節，

because the genre was categorized as pulp.

也因為這個類型被歸類為紙漿雜誌。

And weird imagery sort of came with the territory.

而怪異的意象似乎是這個領域的特色。

There are hundreds of artists and thousands upon thousands of books in this tradition.

在這個傳統裡有數百位藝術家和成千上萬本書籍。

I can't possibly cover it all here, partly because a good amount of it is forgotten, hiding away in crates at the back of bookstores.

我不可能在這裡全部講完，部分原因是很多作品已經被遺忘了，藏在書店後面的箱子裡。

Next time you're at one, pull some of those crates out and see if you can't find a lost chapter in this eclectic and underappreciated subgenre of art history.

下次你去那裡時，不妨把那些箱子搬出來看看，也許能找到這個被低估的藝術史次類型裡，被遺忘的篇章。

Hey, everybody, thank you so much for watching and indulging me.

嘿，各位，非常謝謝你們收看，也謝謝你們陪我聊這麼多。

In this passion I have for sci fi book covers.

在我對科幻書籍封面這份熱情裡。

I've been wanting to do this video for a while, so I'm really, really glad that I finally did it.

我一直想拍這個影片很久了，所以能終於拍出來，我真的、真的很開心。

If you don't know, VRV is a service that pulls together a lot of great content channels like Rooster Teeth, Mondo, Crunchyroll and Funimation all into one place, so you can watch some of the best anime there.

如果你不知道的話，VRV 是一個匯集了許多很棒內容頻道的服務，像是 Rooster Teeth、Mondo、Crunchyroll 和 Funimation，全部整合在一個地方，讓你可以在那裡觀看最棒的動漫。

But they've also added a lot of new channels like MUBI, which hosts a rotating roster of 30 indie movies, something that I really love.

但他們也加入了很多新頻道，像是 MUBI，裡面有 30 部輪播的獨立電影，這是我非常喜歡的。

One other show that I personally like to point out is the Director's Chair, where director Robert Rodriguez interviews other directors like Coppola, George Miller, Guillermo del Toro.

另外一個我個人很想推薦的節目是 Director's Chair，導演 Robert Rodriguez 會訪問 Coppola、George Miller、Guillermo del Toro 等其他導演。

Also Gary and His Demons is a really funny anime.

還有 Gary and His Demons 是一部非常有趣的動漫。

If you're into kind of like Rick and Morty and that style of humor, you can only watch those shows with VRV Premium, which gives you ad free access to everything, all the channels, and

如果你喜歡 Rick and Morty 那種風格的幽默，你只能透過 VRV Premium 觀看這些節目，它讓你無廣告暢享所有內容、所有頻道，而且

for a limited time you can use the first link in the description to get a 30 day free trial of VRV.

限時內，你可以在說明的第一個連結獲得 30 天的 VRV 免費試用。

they have offline mode now too, so you can watch all that awesome stuff on the go without an Internet connection and that's pretty cool.

他們現在也有離線模式了，所以你可以在外面沒有網路的時候看所有很棒的內容，這真的很讚。

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