Thread by @70sscifi

Okay I'm doing an orb thread

That first one is the uncredited 1970 cover art to 'A Touch of Strange,' by Theodore Sturgeon. Here's Josh Kirby’s cover art for Keith Laumer's 'The Monitors,' 1971

Frank Kelly Freas’s 1977 LP art for ‘Dune - The Banquet Scene,’ as read by Frank Herbert

Davis Meltzer’s 1972 cover to 'Galactic Derelict,' by Andre Norton

Gene Szafran, 'The Star Fox,' 1971

Tito Salamoni, 'The sex sphere,' 1983

Tom Kidd

Chris Moore

John Schoenherr's cover art for Analog magazine, November 1962 issue

Bob Eggleton

One of my favorites from Paul Lehr, who was a big orb guy. 1971.

John Harris

1967 cover to H. G. Wells's 'The First Men in the Moon,' also by Paul Lehr. See? Big orb guy.

Uncredited 1973 cover to 'Time for the Stars' by Robert Heinlein

Angus McKie, "Floating World"

Two works by Peter Elson. The left is from around 1980 or earlier; the right is for 'Orion Shall Rise,' by Poul Anderson.

Amazing orb here from Bruce Pennington, who's arguably the retro sci-fi artist GOAT. 1971 cover to '3 to the Highest Power,' edited by William F. Nolan

Another Peter Elson, who at this point I have to admit was an orb guy himself.

And you all probably recognize Angus McBride's orb art. It was first used for the 1988 cover to a "Middle-Earth Quest solo game-book" called 'A Spy in Isengard,' by Terry K. Amthor. Later re-used for role-playing game handbook 'Valar and Maiar,' in 1993.

That's it for now! I'll post more if I find any others. Shoutout to @thatsgoodweb for creating the orb meme in the first place and to @retroscifiart for (at least?) one of the scans I've posted in this thread.

Okay, I double-replied to the last tweet and broke the thread. Here's the rest of it:

Rounding up some stray orbs: Here's one from Angus McKie

Richard Cohen, 1985, used in 'Heavy Metal' magazine

Some great surrealist orbs here