The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

David Stockhoff · 01 Jul 2010, 02:24 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:24:00 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind
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It occurred to me that Wolfe may have been inspired by an SF magazine 
cover rather than by a painting. I searched The Magazine of Fantasy and 
Science Fiction and found a similar image:

http://www.philsp.com/data/images/f/fantasy_and_science_fiction_197702.jpg

At least it has the gold faceplate and earth. Maybe Rudesind's painting 
is a composite?

The entire archive can be found here:

http://www.philsp.com/mags/fsf.html

Are there other pulp magazines that are candidates?

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