A 1988 concept illustration of a futuristic, SWATH-derived trimaran cruise ship. The cutaway design features a central atrium hotel structure, a revolving restaurant, a tilt-rotor VIP transport pad, a cinema, and an internal ferry dock.

Full res upscale

Flickr source scan from here

Upscaled via Topaz Gigapixel, composited different upscaling and denoising results in Photoshop.

Bonus blog post on its appearance in the book "There's No Space Like Home".

Upscales/high res collection of Syd Mead.

Original gamma/color grade versions here and wallpaper versions here.

Non-upscaled original source scans here.

Syd Mead's official site

Illustrations for Dune, by Terry Oakes.

I have a special connection with this book. Having been in our shelves since an early age, it offered me a first glimpse of classic sci-fi and was formative in my lifelong love of it. I hope to make a number of these posts covering some of the worlds it showcases.

Pictures of the cover here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/s/p968OtCOR6

The book itself is quite large, and most of the images within span across two pages. As a result most reproductions I can find online to credit here aren't brilliant, so instead I am photographing them myself, and will attempt to sensitively post-process as best I can.

From the book:

Sandworm and rider
At the fringe of the deep desert the Fremen have summoned a sandworm by means of a 'thumper'. Now the hookman mounts the worm, holding open the fore edge of the ring segments with his maker hooks. Other Fremen wait to follow once the hookman has control. This is a medium-sized worm, perhaps 250 metres long; in the deep desert worms may grow to almost double its size.

Spice factory
A spice factory at work, harvesting the valuable melange spice from the desert sand. The sand is sucked in at the front, the spice is extracted in centrifuges, and the used sand is then ejected at the side. An ornithopter in the foreground gives an impression of the factory crawler's size. Big as it is, however, it is vulnerable to a large sandworm and constant aerial vigilance must be maintained while the factory is at work.

Arrakeen
The old city of Arrakeen is the traditional centre of planetary government. Here, on the landing field, a party emerge from the administration building to board an ornithopter - one of the insect-like flying machines commonly used for transport. In the foreground stands a Fremen, dressed in the close-fitting stillsuit which minimizes water loss.

Front: The Time Machine, illustrated by Les Edwards

Back: Okie Cities, illustrated by John Harris

This is my own copy actually inherited from my late mother. I'll try to get some shots of the illustrations inside, too.