I found out today that artist John Berkey died at the end of April, When I was young his art work had a strong impact on me ( I'm sure you can guess why), It's not that I followed his work all my life, but it was one of those things that when you find out someone has passed you kinda go "Wow that really sucks ." and you sort of look back and realize how much of what he did had an affect on you in a professional sense.

Apparently he had never even seen Star Wars, although the Death Star was based on his artwork and he didn't even consider Sci-fi a form of literature.