Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890), featured in “Sponsus ex Twittera”
Archibald Thorburn – “On the stooks – Blackgame” (1902), featured in Worldbuilding Avian Intelligence”
William-Adolphe Bougereau – “The Motherland” (1883), featured in “Big Families on the High Frontier: Worldbuilding Space Colony Demography” and “A Bride for a Triplet?”
Richard Riemerschmid – “Ghost clouds” (detail) (c. 1897), featured in “To Love a Ghost”
John William Godward – the Priestess (1893), featured in “Indistinguishable from Nature: Toward a ubiquitous Dark Web”
Edward Coley Burne-Jones – “Psyche’s Wedding” (1895), featured in “The Future of Marriage”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1819-20), featured in “My Lunar Program After Wings of Fire”
Adamas Nemesis – “Girls’ Night Out” (2021)
Benes Knüpfer – “Duel of the Tritons” (1848-1910), featured in “Some Thoughts on James Bond”
Joseph Farquharson – “The Blizzard” (1846-1935), featured in “Christmas Blizzard: More Brainstorming”
Jules Joseph Lefebvre – “Servant” (1880), featured in “Third Rome, Viking Tsars, Russian Turan, and Beyond”
Luis Ricardo Falero – The Planet Venus (1882), featured in “The Strange New Worlds of ‘Warp Dawn'”
Wenzel-August Hablik – “Starry Sky” (1909), featured in “The New Star Trek I Would Have Made”
John Reinhard Weguelin – “The Tired Dancer” (1879), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 33”
Peter Nicolai Arbo – “The Wild Hunt of Odin” (1872), featured in “A Wandering Soul in the Wild Hunt?”
Alfred Seifert – “Hypatia” (1850-1901), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 58”
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1790), featured in “Jean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa”
Constance Mayer – The Dream of Happiness (1819), featured in “All My Little Dreamlets”
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait with Her Daughter (1789), featured in “Thoughts on Names for Characters and Babies”
Paul Emile Chabas – “Jeune Naiade” (1869-1937), featured in “Taffy’s Life: A Few Thoughts”
Albert Edelfelt – “At the Piano” (1884), featured in “Academia, Dark and Otherwise”
Charles Dana Gibson – “Serious Business” (1906), featured in “Me, A Spendy Start-Up? Oh No!”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “Capri” (1884), featured in “Pacific Destiny”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Martyr and crucified, son Helios” (1895), featured in “Some Thoughts on Harry Potter”
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – “Napoleon on his Imperial throne” (1806), featured in “Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory”
William-Adolphe Bougeureau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Courtesans and Drugs: All Things in Moderation?” and “A Dance with Death”
Henry Raeburn – “Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry” (c. 1810-1812), featured in “Degree Quest: The Second Leg Looms”
Paul Gustave Fischer – “The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen” (1889), featured in “Interests Too Many, and Never Enough”
Albert Bierstadt – “Storm in the Mountains” (c. 1870), featured in “The Dark Matter of Excellence”
Franz Xaver Winterhalter – “The Cousins (Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours)” (1852), featured in “Tangling Up a Family Tree for Fun and Worldbuilding”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Peter the Great at Krasnaya Gorka” (1846), featured in “The Twilight of Conservatism”
Artur José de Sousa Loureiro – “Spirit of the New Moon” (1888), featured in “To Orbit by Space Gun” and “Worldbuilding the First Moon Landing”
Cesare Maccari – “Cicero Denounces Catiline” (1889), featured in “Presidential Debate Reform: A Radical Proposal”
Heywood Hardy – “Holiday Time” (1908), featured in “A Slice of Life at the Dawn of the Space Age?”
John William Waterhouse – “The Crystal Ball” (1902), featured in “Crystal Cities in Other Galaxies”
Frederick Edwin Church – “Our Banner In The Sky” (1861), featured in “Worldbuilding Flags: Some Thoughts”
Pierre Bouillon – “The Child of Fortune”, (1801), featured in “For Proportional Representation”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau –
“The Nut Harvest” (1883), featured in “Fresh Air, Green Space, and Unsung Paths to Healthy Living”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Solitude” (1851-1913), featured in “Lifestyles in a Fully Globalized Future”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Gatherers” (1882), featured in “Art, Nature, and Freedom: Toward a Better Future for Education”
Joseph-Marius Avy – “White ball” (1903), featured in “Ballroom and Business with ChatGPT”
Rick Guidice – Bernal Sphere “Interior including human powered flight” (1970s), featured in “Our Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts”
Juan Luna – “The Death of Cleopatra” (1881), featured in “Catacombs of Music City”
Elizabeth Keyser – “Resting at Dusk” (1851-98), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 84”
Arthur Hacker – “Temptation of Sir Percival” (1894), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 16”
Tom Roberts – “The Opening of the First Parliament” (1903), featured in “I Joined the Fediverse”
Adamas Nemesis – “Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment” (2021), featured in “Worldbuilding Number Systems”
Albert Bierstadt – “Alaska” (c. 1889), featured in “An Alternate History of Cascadia”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – “Hagar in the Wilderness” (1726-29), featured in “The Palestinians Must Go”
Adamas Nemesis – “Spaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere” (2020)
Maxime Vorobiov;s “Oak fractured by Lightning” (1842), featured in “Operating System What-Ifs”
John Smmons – The Morning Star (1867) (detail), featured in “Worldbuilding the Cool, the Romantic, and the Fantasy into my Space Opera Setting”
Jonas Lie – “Path of Gold” (1914), featured in “Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets”
Antoon van Welie’s portrait of the gorgeous Geneviève Lantelme (1911), featured in “My Dream Relationship”
“Portrait of Emma Hart” by George Romney (c. 1784), featured in “Toward a Libertarian Artistic Movement”
Eduard Büchler – “Classical ruins with a maiden in the foreground” (1915), featured in “Kudzu Among the Ruins”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “The Dedication” (1908), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 4”
Les Bossinas – “Wormhole travel” (1998), featured in “Worldbuilding faster than Light Travel”
Eugène Carrière – “Two Women” (1895), featured in “Hold Fast the Dream”
Gustav Wertheimer – “The Kiss of the Siren” (1882), featuring “Making Diet and Exercise Easy and Fun”
Unknown artist, edited by Albertus Seba – Illustration of squid (circa 1735), featured in “After Thalassa: Squid Brains of Enceladus?”.
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “The Woodland Glade” (1898), featured in “Germanic America’s Strange Dearth”
John Gast – “American Progress” (1872), featured in “One Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?”
Rick Guidice – “Toroidal colonies, cutaway view, exposing the interior” (1970s), featured in “Artificial Gravity in Outer Space: Centrifuges and Beyond”
Bror Lindh – “Northern Light” (1900), featured in “Worldbuilding Seasons on Planets with High Axial Tilts”
Mårten Eskil Winge – “Thor’s Fight with the Giants” (1872), featured in “The Dark Path to Masculine Beauty”
Seymour Millais Stone – “Parsifal and the Holy Grail” (1904), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 88”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Worldbuilding with Parthenogenesis” and “The Real Red Pill?”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Echo” (1874), featured in “Post-Liberalism: An Echo, Not a Choice”
Gustav Dore – “Dante and the River of Lethe” (1880), featured in “Lethe to the Future”
George Romney – “Emma Hart as Circe” (1782), featured in “The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy I Would Have Made”
Winslow Homer – Girl in the Hammock” (1873), featured in “No Solace for the Single?”
NASA – “Blue Rays, New Horizons’ High-Res Farewell to Pluto” (2015), featured in “Worldbuilding the Definition of Planet”
Johann Ender – “From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (1831), featured in “On Etymologies of the Elements”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Birth of Venus” (1879), featured in “One Dominion to Rule Them All?” and “My Newest Makeover Story: Myself”
Frederic Edwin Church – “Aurora Borealis” (1865), featured in “Thalassa, or Proxima Centauri b: The Pale Green Dot”
Witold Pruszkowski – “Falling star” (1884), featured in “Panspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “Sleeping Beauty” (1899), featured in “Fia After Opry Tower”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “A Forest Stream” (1905), featured in “A Vacation Home for Decca?”
Mihaly von Zichy – “Romantic Encounter” (1827-1906), featured in “I’m ‘The Most Dangerous Personality Type'” and “Give Me Those ‘Take Me’ Eyes”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “Spring” (1894), featured in “Worldbuilding Near-Future Space Demography”
Arthur John Elsley – “Well on the mend” (1910), featured in “On the ‘We’re So Blessed’ Starter Pack”
NASA – “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept” (2014), featured in “Worldbuilding Cloud Cities on Venus”
Frank Dicksee – “The Crisis” (1891), featured in “The Wonder Drug Scores Again?” and in “The Lives of Georgia and Decca: More Thoughts”
Constantino Brumidi – Sketch, Telegraph (c. 1862-67), featured in “A Telegraph World”
Thomas Cole – “The Course of Empire: The Savage State” (1836), featured in “Worldbuilding with Dunbar’s Number”
Will Longstaff – “Ghosts of Vimy Ridge” (1931), featured in “The Archaism of Donald Trump”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “A Childhood Idyll” (1900), featured in “Life Cycles in my Space Opera’s Far Future”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne” (1904), featured in “Rules of Succession What-Ifs” and “Accident of Birth: A Feature, Not a Bug?” and “You Have More Than One Birthright…”
Henrietta Rae – “Roses of Youth” (1859-1928), featured in “A Not-so-Minor Dream for the Minor Outlying Islands”
Thomas Lawrence – “The Red Boy” (1825), featured in “Page Boys of the Perfect Storm”
Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet – “Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross” (c. 1914), featured in “Therapeutics of my Alternate History”
John Collier – “Lilith” (1889), featured in “Bite the Apple, Escape the Amazon Jungle?”
Pierre-August Cot – “Primavera” (1873), featured in “Pensioners, Aristocrats, and Financial Independence”, and “Reinhardts After Rapunzel”
Frank Lloyd Wright – Sketches for Broadacre City (1932), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, featured in “Thoughts on Futuristic Transportation”
Léon-François Comerre – “Moon” (1850-1916), featured in “Infinite Scattering: The Future of Spacefaring Civilization?”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Question to the Stars” (1901), featured in “To Further the Decentralized Web, Think Bigger”, “Taking My Space Opera into the Really Far Future”, and “A Beloved From the Stars”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “God Speed!” (1900), featured in “The Future of Fashion: After Greige”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Toteninsel” (Isle of the Dead) (1851-1913), featured in “Panpsychism and Beyond”
Adamas Nemesis – “Through the Looking Glass” (2021)
Caspar David Friedrich – “Evening” (1821), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 66”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Not Too Much to Carry” (1895), featured in “The Surprising Path to a Happy Everyday Life”
Domenico Corvi – “Allegory of Painting” (1721-1803), featured in “Artists Exit Stage Left?”
Antonio Sant’Elia – “Casa a gradinata” (1914), featured in “Personal Transportation of the Near Future: Flying Cars and Beyond”
J. Frassanito & Associates for NASA – McDonnell Douglas proposal for X-33 single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane (1996), featured in “Catching a Lift”
Adamas Nemesis – “Fly me to the moons” (2021)
John William Waterhouse – “Hylas and the Nymphs” (1896), featured in “Worldbuilding the Naked Jungle…in Space”
John Martin – “Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still” (1816), featured in “Let Us Move Beyond ‘Convincing Conservatives'”
Harry Wilson Watrous – “Just a Couple of Girls” (1915), featured in “Do My Stories Pass the Bechdel Test?”
John William Godward – Dolce Far Niente (1897), featured in “Idle Geopolitics”
“Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, page 180” by Arthur Rackham (1911), featured in “Starve the Beast: Still the Path to Smaller Government?”
Julius Sergius von Klever – “Moonlight Winter Landscape” (1913), featured in “Housing Crisis: Is the End in Sight?”
“The Death of Dido” – Henry Bone (after Reynolds) (1804), featured in “Delayed Childbearing: I Too Succumb”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Der Rettung entgegen” (1851-1913), featured in “Worldbuilding Immortals in Science Fiction” and “Gleichen and Valentinova: Lost in Space”
NASA – “X-30 NASP” (1990), featured in” The Shapes of Spaceships”
Adamas Nemesis – “Sunset flight to cloud city” (2020)
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Tristan and Isolde” (1902), featured in “My Girlfriend, Unbeknownst to Me”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Ships in a Storm” (1860), featured in “A Pirate Story for Me, Savvy?”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Gibraltar at Night” (1844), featured in “For a Darkness Protection Act”
John Martin – “The Fall of Babylon” (1831), featured in “Twenty Years of Terror”
Henrika Šantel – “The Chemist” (1932), featured in “The Final Frontiers of the Periodic Table”
Joseph DeCamp – “Farewell” (c. 1901-02), featured in “Europe: Should I Just Go?”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “The Baths of Caracalla” (1899), fearured in “Sisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera”
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – “Portrait of Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein” (1793), featured in “A Second Sci-Fi Romance Novel is Coming Soon” and “Dear Future Me: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released”
Józef Chełmoński – “Cross in a Blizzard”, featured in “The Ultimate Storm?”
Thomas Francis Dicksee – “Distant Thoughts” (1886), featured in “A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown”
Frederic Leighton – “The Fisherman and the Siren” (1858), featured in “The Siren Song of Job Security”
Francis Danby – “Shipwreck” (c. 1850), featured in “No Escape for the Cheap”
Jean Delville – “Allegory of Music” (1923), featured in “A Music City for my Alternate History”
James Tissot – “Room Overlooking the Harbor” (c. 1876-78), featured in “The Puzzle of Credentialism”
George Romney – “Study of Emma Hamilton as Miranda” (1780s-90s), featured in “Thoughts on Ariel and the Adamas Nemesis Girls”
François Gérard – “Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children” (1814), featured in “The Secular Shall Inherit the Earth?”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Wave” (1889), featured in “Opry Tower: Going Goth?”
Albert Bierstadt – “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” (1870), featured in “Let’s Build Pacific Coast City!”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Maternal Admiration” (1869), featured in “The Boon of Young Motherhood?”
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Lady Emma Hamilton as either Ariadne or a Bacchante (c. 1790-92), featured in “Feminine Companionship: An Unsung Ideal”
John Martin – “Manfred and the Witch of the Alps” (1837), featured in “Improving the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Ninth Wave” (1850), home page header image
Unknown (but good!) Illustrator – “Sif was Queen of the Fields” (1897), featured in “More Thoughts on my New Calendar”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa” and “Why Don’t You Stay?”
George Spencer Watson – “The Saddler’s Daughter” (1923-24), featured in “Triumph of the Fleece Vest”
Alfons Mucha – An illustration from “Le Pater” (1899), featured in “In Restless Repose”
Karl Bryullov – “Italian Midday” (1827), featured in “Brand New Decca”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “The Fairy Dance” (1895), featured in “The Coming Union of Intelligence and the Cosmos Primeval”, and “Straddling the Shadow of Life”
Rogelio de Egusquiza – “Tristan and Isolde” (1912), featured in “Ever Rending: Another Bond Movie I’d Make”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “The ball or an elegant evening” (c. 1890), featured in “A Social Vision for College Ships”
Alexandre Cabanel – “The Birth of Venus” (1863), featured in “God Bless Filler”
Alfons Mucha – “The Arts: Painting” (1898), featured in “Toward More Visual Storytelling”
Hubble Space Telescope – “The Cosmic Horseshoe” (2011), featured in “The Sun as Gravitational Lens: A Breakthrough Technology?”
“Emma Hamilton as Joan of Arc” (1780s-90s), featured in “Nemesis Among the Machines”
Alfons Mucha – “Spring” (1898), featured in “Ready for Rapunzel”
Millais, John Everett; The Convalescent; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-convalescent-107425
Marie-Denise Villers – “Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes” (1801), featured in “Thinking Outside the ‘FIRE’ Box” and “Normie Bingo? Let’s Play”
George Romney – “Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-1790s), featured in “Lockdown, the Culture of Fear, and the Politics of the Future” and “The Clock is Ticking”
François-Joseph Navez – “Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna” (1823), featured in “Family Formation: I’m Falling Behind…Or Am I?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Travel the Solar System at 1g” (2021)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Les Oreades” (1902), featured in “Counting Bodies”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea)” (1881), featured in “The Lavender Glow of a Radon Sea: Worldbuilding Exotic Oceans”
Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrien (1869), featured in “Constant Acceleration: Across the Solar System and Beyond”
Thomas Moran – “Green River, Wyoming” (1878), featured in “Young, Lonely, and Restless”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Fallen Angel” (1847), featured in “Angelenos, You Know Nothing of Hell”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-90s), featured in “Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition”, “A Romantic Apocalypse: Beyond the Doomsday Shroud”, “The Man Who Was Never Really Good Enough”, and “Justice for Lockdown”
Peder Mønsted – Solen trænger gennem trækronerne over Sæby Å (1922), featured in “Taking Earth into the 23rd Century”
Thomas Le Clear – “Young America” (1863), featured in “Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Graveyard Under Snow” (1825), featured in “A Diamond Baron Goes Green?”
Pierre-Auguste Cot – “Springtime” (1873), featured in “Antifragility in Love and Life”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Off”, featured in “Donald Trump is Disqualified”
Paul DiMare – NASA Study for Manned Mars Mission (1989), featured in “Road Trains of Mars”
Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – “Odalisque” (c. 1861-1897), featured in “Scratch One Tassel”
Marcus Herzberg – “Tall buildings in Dubai at night” (2018), featured in “Gleaming Cities of the Eclipsed”
George Wilson – “Snow Scene” (1848-1890), featured in “Christmas Night, Rocket Night, Magic Night”
Thomas Edwin Mostyn – “Jewels’ (1864-1930), featured in “Materialist, Not Minimalist”
Thomas Cole – “The Ages of Life: Youth” (1842), featured in “Leveraged Stocks for long-term Investing”
Delphin Enjolras – “Portrait of an Elegant Lady Reading” (1910), featured in “New Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel”
Vilhelm Melbye (attrib.) – “Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse” (1824-82), featured in “Worldbuilding Communications with Smoke, Mirrors, and Analog Computers”
Adamas Nemesis – “Glowbugs in flight” (2021), featured in “Double, Double, Stories and Trouble”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Capri III” (1900), featured in “The Rise of Deplatforming and the Decentralized Web”
Leonardo da Vinci – “Study for the Head of Leda” (1503-10), featured in “The Renaissance Man, still the Master”
Albert Lynch – “The Jolly Boat” (1896), featured in “Accelerate! Front-Loading the New Year”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “An Allegory of Lost Love” (1851-1913), featured in “Shadows Never Lie: The Next Bond Movie I’d Make”
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – “Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son” (1780s), featured in “Forget Humanoid Aliens: Try Dinosaur Aliens”
Alfons Mucha – “Dance” (1898), featured in “Toward Nuclearpunk: Solarpunk with a Twist”
Adamas Nemesis – “Charting the Airy Deep” (2020)
Charles Chaplin – Allegory of Science (1891), featured in “R&D and the Great Power Sweepstakes”
Jean-Léon Gérôme – “Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind” (1896), featured in “Of Fediverses and Frustrations”
Wilhelm Kray – “Sea Creatures” (1828-1889), featured in “Upgrading the Life of Linda”, “Fun with Matrilineal Patriarchies”, and “My Future: California Beach Baby”
Fritz Zuber-Bühler – Distant Thoughts (1822-96), featured in “Beginning the Adventure of writing a Novel”, “It’s my Life! Into the Next Year”, and “Great Christmas Blizzard: Now Writing!”
Adamas Nemesis – “A Trip to Starlit Spa” (2021)
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Great Pyramid at Giza” (1871), featured in “Twilight of a Decade”
Luc-Olivier Merson – “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1880), featured in “Welcome to the Desert of the Weird”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1780s-90s), featured in “I Never Went to College…or High School”
Donald Davis – “Endcap view with suspension bridge” (1975), featured in “Worldbuilding Space Megastructures: Beyond Dyson Spheres”
Adamas Nemesis – “Emerald Nebula” (2021)
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson et Amable Louis Pagnest – “Atala au tombeau” (1813), featured in “A Life Not-So-Well-Lived?”
“Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6”, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816), featured in “Cosmic Ley Lines: Space Opera to Space Fantasy”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Nymphe” (1892), featured in “Aquamusicals in Space: Worldbuilding Zero-G Sports”
Herbert James Draper – “A Water Baby” (c. 1895), featured in “Stop Worrying and Love the Birth Dearth?”
Albert Bettannier – “The Black Stain” (1887), featured in “Redrawing the Map of Ukraine”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Sphinx mit Undine” (1902), featured in “The Long Night of Elite Imagination”
George Clausen – “The Student” (c. 1908), featured in “Toward a New Vision for Online Education”
An antique New Year’s postcard in Berlin, Germany (c. 1911), featured in “Beginning the Night of the Calendars”
Frederick Stuart Church – “Knowledge is Power” (1889), featured in “So Much Fear and Doubt For So Small a Paper”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Story Book” (1877), featured in “Orphans of Opry Tower: Now Writing”
George Romney – “Emma, Lady Hamilton” (c. 1785), featured in “Taking my Space Opera into the Far Future”
Albert von Keller – “Melancholy” (c. 1885), featured in “Left Out of Life”
William Gale – “Rocking the Baby” (1867), featured in “Of Single Mothers by Choice”
Albert Bredow – “Romantic Winter Landscape with Gothic Castle” (1899), featured in “The Heir Abides”
Gaston La Touche – “Le Ballet” (1890-1913), featured in “Dancing in Space: Worldbuilding More Zero-G Sports”
Ottilie Roederstein – “Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter” (1887), featured in “Ventures Too Many, or Just Enough?”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Abschied” (1892), featured in “Toward a Generational Division of Labor?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Starburst” (2021)
Unknown author – Reclining young woman with skull, c. 1900, featured in “Folkways From Our Past Return”
Tresca, Salvatore (Graveur), Lafitte, Louis (Dessinateur du modèle) – Vendémaire calendar (1797-98), featured in “Worldbuilding New Calendars”
James Tissot – “Goodbye on the Mersey” (c. 1880), featured in “Industrialization in a World Without Oil”
Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895), featured in “Vampires of the Oort Cloud?”
John William Waterhouse – Consulting the Oracle (1884), featured in “World Religions in Alternate Histories”
Edward Arthur Walton – John George Bartholemew (1911), featured in “Of Map Projections Obscure”
NASA/JSC – “Humans Explore Martian Canyons at Dawn” (1989), featured in “Worldbuilding the First Mars Landing”
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars (1927), featured in “Worldbuilding a Space Opera Setting of My Own”
Jacques-Louis David – “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), featured in “Becoming a Superior Man: Easier than You Think?”
Augustus Leopold Egg – “Past and Present” (1858), featured in “Worldbuilding Motorhomes”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Moonlit Beauties” (1851-1896), featured in “Romantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future”
James Poole – “Donati’s Comet” (1858), featured in “Colonizing the Oort Cloud: The Final Frontier of the Solar System”
SpaceX – “A Performance Inside Starship” (2018), featured in “Interplanetary Travel in the Solar System of the Near Future”
Robert Wilhelm Ekman – “Ilmatar” (1860), featured in “Worldbuilding Exotic Oxygen Atmospheres” and “Letters from the Airy Deep: New Novel Coming Soon”
James Tissot – “Plymouth Dockyard” (1887), featured in “College Ships: A Pathway to Seasteading”
Emma Musselman – “The Sky Pilot” (1918), featured in “2024: My Biggest Year Yet?”
Gabriel Loppé – “Unknown Title” (1882), featured in “Skiing and Space Diving on Other Worlds”
John Martin – “Pandemonium” (1841), featured in “Our Dystopian Moment: The Fruit of Our Dystopian Futures”
Ivan Auvazovsky – “The Wave” (1889), featured in “A Flying-Dutchman Christmas Tree Ship?”