Virgil Finlay (1914–1971)

Author of Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages

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Includes the name: Virgil Finlay

Image credit: Photo of Birgil Finlay, taken by Gerry de la Ree, July 23, 1969

Works by Virgil Finlay

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Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages (1992) 70 copies

Virgil Finlay's Strange Science (1992) 55 copies

Virgil Finlay's phantasms (1993) 34 copies

Book of Virgil Finlay (1976) 32 copies

Virgil Finlay's far beyond (1994) 22 copies

The Second Book of Virgil Finlay (1978) 13 copies

Virgil Finlay An Astrology Sketch Book (1975) 10 copies

The Third Book of Virgil Finlay (1979) 7 copies

The Sixth Book of Virgil Finlay (1980) 6 copies

The Fifth Book of Virgil Finlay (1979) 6 copies

Virgil Finlay: In the American Weekly (1977) 6 copies

The Fourth Book of Virgil Finlay (1979) 6 copies

Finlay's Illustrations for Weird Tales (1976) 5 copies

Finlay's Lost Drawings For Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Niight's Dream" (1975) 4 copies

Virgil Finlay (1971) 4 copies

The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works 4 copies

The Stars, My Brothers 3 copies

Finlay's Femmes (1976) 3 copies

Virgil Finlay Remembered (1981) 3 copies

Virgil Finlay Portfolio 2 copies

The Big Time 2 copies

The Kid from Mars 1 copy

Lease to Doomsday 1 copy

Before the Moon; The Road to 1 copy

Beside Still Waters 1 copy

A Choice of Miracles 1 copy

The Best Of Virgil Finlay (1973) 1 copy

The Star Hyacinths 1 copy

A PORTFOLIO OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1 copy

Virgil Finlay: Selected Illustrations (1971) 1 copy

It Could Be Anything 1 copy

Heist Job on Thizar 1 copy

VIRGIL FINLAY.A PORTFOLIO OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Time Traders (1958) — Cover artist, some editions — 784 copies

Star Born (1957) — Cover artist, some editions — 557 copies

The Stars Are Ours! (1954) — Cover artist, some editions — 415 copies

After London: Or, Wild England (1885) — Cover artist, some editions — 360 copies

Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors (1988) — Illustrator — 143 copies

The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture (1886) — Illustrator — 103 copies

The Spell of Seven (1965) — Cover artist, some editions; Illustrator, some editions — 96 copies

Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1705) — Illustrator — 88 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries (1991) — Cover artist, some editions — 66 copies

The Sky is Falling / Badge of Infamy (1963) — Cover artist, some editions — 64 copies

Swords & Sorcery (1963) — Illustrator, some editions — 62 copies

Worlds of Weird (1965) — Illustrator, some editions — 62 copies

A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (2008) — Illustrator — 37 copies

Sjambak (2010) — Illustrator, some editions — 33 copies

Wolf in the Garden (1931) — Cover artist, some editions — 28 copies

Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (all new 2016 edition) (2015) — Illustrator — 28 copies

Swordsmen and Supermen (1972) — Cover artist, some editions — 27 copies

Space Pioneers (1954) — Cover artist, some editions — 16 copies

Space Service (1953) — Cover artist, some editions — 13 copies

Worlds of Tomorrow No. 01, April 1963 (1963) — Illustrator — 11 copies

Galaxy Science Fiction 1956 December, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1956) — Cover artist — 9 copies

Startling Stories, Summer 1955 (1955) — Illustrator, some editions — 8 copies

Worlds of Tomorrow No. 02, June 1963 (1963) — Illustrator — 8 copies

Space Police (1956) — Cover artist — 7 copies

Startling Stories, September 1951 (1951) — Illustrator — 7 copies

Galaxy Science Fiction 1957 September, Vol. 14, No. 5 (1957) — Cover artist — 7 copies

Galaxy Science Fiction 1965 February, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1965) — Illustrator — 6 copies

Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1939 (1939) — Cover artist — 6 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 03, No. 4, October 1941 (1941) — Cover artist — 4 copies

Startling Stories, July 1952 (1952) — Illustrator — 4 copies

Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 5, May 1938 (1938) — Illustrator — 4 copies

Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 1, January 1938 (1938) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 6, December 1937 (2016) — Cover artist, some editions — 3 copies

Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 6, June 1938 — Illustrator — 3 copies

Tchériapin (2010) — Illustrator, some editions — 3 copies

Thrilling Science Fiction, April 1974 (1974) — Contributor — 3 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 08, No. 5, June 1947 (1947) — Cover artist — 3 copies

Startling Stories, January 1954 (1954) — Illustrator — 2 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 09, No. 3, February 1948 (1948) — Cover artist — 2 copies

Fantastic Story Magazine, July 1953 (1953) — Illustrator — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 4, April 1938 — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries [1953-02] — Illustrator — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 32 Number 1, July 1938 — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 47 Number 1, Summer 1973 (1973) — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 33 Number 4, April 1939 — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 31 Number 2, February 1938 — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Weird Tales Volume 30 Number 1, July 1937 — Cover artist, some editions — 2 copies

Fantastic Novels Magazine, Volume 2, No. 4, November 1948 (1948) — Cover artist — 2 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 04, No. 3, July 1942 (1942) — Cover artist — 2 copies

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 11, No. 3, February 1950 (1950) — Illustrator — 2 copies

Amazing Stories Vol. 31, No. 12 [December 1957] — Cover artist — 2 copies

Fantastic Novels Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, July 1940 (1940) — Illustrator; Cover artist — 1 copy

Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 03, No. 5, December 1941 (1941) — Cover artist — 1 copy

The 3-D Zone #11, April 1988 (1988) — Contributor — 1 copy

Great Science Fiction from Fantastic No. 4 (1966) — Illustrator — 1 copy

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 09, No. 6, August 1948 — Illustrator — 1 copy

Fantastic Novels Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, November 1940 (1940) — Cover artist; Illustrator — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Finlay, Virgil
Birthdate: 1914-07-23
Date of death: 1971-01-18
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, USA
Places of residence: Rochester, New York, USA
Occupations: illustrator (Pulp fantasy, science fiction, horror, astrology)
Awards and honors: Hugo (Interior Illustrator, 1953)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, 1959)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, 1960)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, 1961)
Hugo (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1946], 1996)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1951], 2001) (show all 9)
Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1954], 2004)
SF Hall Of Fame (2012)
Hugo (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1939], 2014)
Short biography: In the 1940s & 50s, Finlay was the most popular and saleable artist in science fiction. When the pulp market died, he illustrated for astrology magazines.

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It Could Be Anything by Virgil Finlay

This book feels like it should have been a horror story, but the suspense and stuff just isn't there.
As science fiction I found it uninteresting, it's a neat concept, but the author doesn't do anything with it. The philosophy doesn't go very deep or far, I found the book pretty dull in general.
I feel like I could've gotten the same experience from a sentence or two: "Hey dude, wouldn't it be cool if there was like a city but all the people were robots, oh and btw not everything we believe is true is true."… (more)

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