11x14 Richard M. Powers original print from the very scarce SpaceTimeWarp portfolio, published by Doubleday in 1983. The portfolio contained prints from Powers' surreal sci fi book cover work. This is one of those prints, sprung from an incomplete set. Powers was a pioneering influence in sci fi art, having painted over 1500 book covers in his career. His unique style helped define the Ballantine brand in the 1950s, and helped usher a new sophistication to the genre of science fiction. His work is highly revered today, and he is cited as an influence by a veritable who's who of SF.

"Haunted moonscapes. Alien cenotaphs whose shadows stretch from here to forever, tracing the geometry of dreams. Emissaries from the unconscious, their features running like melting wax. Cancerous cities a trillion light years from now, the undifferentiated growth of their lumpy, tumorous sprawl now silent, still as a fumigated wasp’s nest. Richard M. Powers’s science-fiction book-jacket landscapes are usually depopulated but not always: sometimes, a splinter of a man—an inch-high relative of one of Giacometti’s stick figures—stands alone in the emptiness, contemplating infinity..."