ABOUT

Stamp design celebrating the imagination and artistic legacy of classic British science fiction.

British authors have been at the forefront of science fiction writing since 1818 when Mary Shelley penned what is arguably the first science fiction novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. With such a vast and complete mix of ideas across the six novels our first task was to decide on the key theme or plot point of each text and decide on the best way to illustrate that on a small canvas. To do this we commissioned six artists and illustrators for the collection, with each stamp featuring a scene from a book that marked a “key evolutionary moment” for the genre.