Starting with his first appearance on Ballantine's paperbacks in the 1950s, Richard Powers's career spanned over four decades in which he produced jacket illustrations for over 1,200 sf novels. Now widely regarded as the single most influential artist in the history of paperback illustrative art, he is also considered a figure of towering stature in American twentieth-century fine art. Richard Powers died in 1995. 

Illustrated throughout with over 120 of the artist's powerfully evocative and dreamlike paintings, this dramatic and colourful book reveals the full diversity of Powers's distinctive art.

Includes an inside look at his life by his son Richard Gid Powers, interviews with the innovative artist himself and a foreword by Vincent Di Fate.

Jane Frank founded Worlds of Wonder, the well-known international sf and fantasy art agency, in 1991. With her husband Howard she has built up the largest collection of sf and fantasy art in the world. She also co-wrote The Frank Collection, a tour of her treasure-house of art, published by Paper Tiger in 1999.