Imagery of the Human Legion Universe
I created this page back in 2015 to properly attribute some of the stock art I was using. Since then I've commissioned a lot of art, notably from Vincent Sammy, some of which I've added at the end.
Most of the images used on the website and on the book covers include licensed stock images, usually modified. As part of the licensing terms, I need to give a copyright attribution. Rather than listing a lot of dry text that few people would ever read, I've decided to showcase the images in their original form, as they were intended by their creators.
If your device has a mouse, you can hover over the images for my personal notes. Tapping or clicking on the images will bring up larger versions.
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- image (c) innovari / fotolia
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- Ian and I like this kind of thing! Iimage (c) innovari/ fotolia
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- In the future, Hugo arguments will be fought out in duels between space fighters.
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- image (c) mik38/ Fotolia
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- Image (c) mik38 – Fotolia.com
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- These Marines aren’t suited up for war, they’ve just had a lunch of ugly foods. Image (c) shutterstock.com/ Algol
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- A Lysander-class shuttle configured with additional port and starboard troop pods. Image (c) Algol – Shutterstock. This ship has featured on 100s of book covers.
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- Image (c) bluecrayola / Shutterstock
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- I’ve used this on blog posts, but not on book covers because the planet is Earth. Well, I have several novels lined up set on Earth, so expect to see more of this picture. (c) iurii/ shutterstock
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- Image (c) TsuneoMP / Shutterstock.com
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- Begin able to eat this vegetation is essential. Image (c) shutterstock.com/ Mike H
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- This is Arun McEwan with his SA-71. Look closely and you’ll see the grenade launcher, which I wrote in to match the image. (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com.
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- I loved the organic look to the ship, so I picked it for the website. Simply gorgeous! (c) Angela Harburn / shutterstock.com.
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- This was a replacement image for War Against the White Knights as some awkward vecks used the first version on their own covers :-) (c) The Life Tre-e Project/ shutterstock.com.
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- I based Beowulf’s deck plans on this image. The name of the ship was a homage to the Traveller RPG (“This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone… Mayday, mayday… we are under attack…”). (c) TsuneoMP/ Shutterstock.com.
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- This is a great image, but has been used in many book covers, including the Human Legion short story published by NewCon Press that I wrote over a decade before publishing Marine Cadet. (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com.
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- A stunning image not done justice until seen in landscape. I used another portion of the same image for the stopgap Revenge Squad cover. (c) Bertrand Benoit/ Shutterstock.com.
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- I like the sense of scale. If you look closely at the soldier, it is the same figure who was on the front cover of the original self-published version of Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos! (c) Algol/ shutterstock.com.
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- Originally I had intended to use this for the Indigo Squad cover. The ship has appeared on literally 1000s of book covers, including the Arthur C Clarke Award winner, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Good book BTW. (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com.
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- I’ve used a close up of this for various social media platforms and as a series logo in the paperback and eBook editions. (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com.
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- Book 5 used this cover for about a year before shifting to the Valiant aircraft that I used with the release edition. This image had simply been used too many times by other authors. When that naughty B. V. Larson used it for ‘Machine World’ I decided to switch :-) (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com.
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- (c) mik38/ Fotolia.com
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- (c) mik38/ Fotolia.com
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- Used in The Sleeping Legion covers. (c) DM7/ Shutterstock.com
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- Used in The Sleeping Legion covers. (c) Algol/ Shutterstock.com
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- (c) mik38/ Fotolia.com
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- The Sleeping Legion cover. The image is aligned to one of the charged walkways of this orbital quarantine platform. (c) F. Schmidt/ Shutterstock.com
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- The vegetation of Serendine. Used in The Sleeping Legion covers. (c) Mike H/ Shutterstock.com
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- Used in The Sleeping Legion covers. (c) DM7/ Shutterstock.com
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- Used in The Sleeping Legion covers. (c) DM7/ Shutterstock.com
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- This isn’t really how the Trogs look, but I used this to convey something of their essence in the novelette: My Extended Death. (c) bluecrayola / Shutterstock.com
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- Backdrop to Sleeping Legion cover. (c) Vadim Sadovski/ Shutterstock.com
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- Season2 poster
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- Vetch Arunsen. Have you read all three prequels?
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- Militia patch
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- Smugglers Guild
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- Joint Sector High Command. Twitter format
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- Season1 poster
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- Joint Sector High Command.
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- Catkins (Phantom crew)
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- Department 9
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- Panhandlers. Pan-Human Progressive Alliance
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- Lily Hjon (Militia)
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- Lily Hjon (Militia)
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- Verlys Sinofar (Phantom crew)
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- Lily Hjon (Militia)
Love the art!!! Lance is looking mighty manly, by the by!!! Making all of the ladies swoon!!
I’m swooning…sorry I couldn’t take all the manly men, I fainted, just too sexy.
Love the art work, Tim.
Cheers, Melissa Bryan
Kind of behind the times…huh.
Melissa Bryan
LOL. Have you read any of JR’s books yet? I think his main character, Lance Scipio, looks so good that he must be basing the character on his publisher 🙂 LOL