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David Hardy
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He studied at the Margaret Street College of Art in Birmingham, and was soon painting for the British Interplanetary Society.
Career
April 1936 in Bournville, United Kingdom. He started his career as an employee in the Design Office of Cadbury"s, where he created packaging and advertising art for the company"s confectionery. His first science fiction art was published in 1970, but he has gone on to illustrate hundreds of covers for books, and for magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. His work also appears regularly in magazines such as Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Now and Popular Astronomy, for which he also writes articles
Jon Gustafson and Peter Nicholls write that he is "known as much for his astronomical paintings in the accurate tradition of Chesley Bonestell as for his sf work.
Some of his best early work was to illustrate a nonfiction book by Patrick Moore, Sun, Myth. Paper Tiger United Kingdom/Sterling United States 2001) Aurora: A Child of Two Worlds (novel.
Cosmos Books, 2003), (Updated and revised edition, August 2012. Wildside Press) Futures: 50 Years in Space (text by Sir Patrick Moore, AAPPL/HarperCollins 2004), (Paperback 50 Years in Space AAPPL 2006).
Achievements
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1979 Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. 1987 Won "Best European San Francisco Artist" award. 2001 Won the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Best cover art, readers award, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. 2005 FUTURES was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Book. 2005 FUTURES received the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for "Best Written Presentation". Asteroid 13329 Davidhardy, discovered 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak has been named after him.
