Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature
$19.50
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature. The book is an illustrated field guide featuring depictions of 50 different extraterrestrial life forms from various science fiction works.
The guide includes full-color paintings of aliens such as the Overlord, Triped, Pnume, and Merseian, with field notes on their biology and behaviors.
The book was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 1980.
From the inside cover:
Wayne Douglas Barlowe is the John James Audubon of otherworld creatures.
He has spent years observing extraterrestrials in their natural habitats, identifying and illustrating entities from the works of science fiction authors Poul Anderson, Stanislaw Lem, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven, and more. Barlowe has documented each et's distinguishing physical characteristics, history, habits, and rituals - from schematics revealing the complex mating behavior of Piers Anthony's Polarian to those showing the life cycle of James Blish's Lithian.
This first guide to extraterrestrials, illustrated by Barlowe and written and produced by lan Summers, is comprehensive and accurate— with 150 full-color portraits and details of the most incredible aliens anyone may ever see. Including:
James White's Cinruss, Alan Dean Foster's Tran, Robert Silverberg's Sulidor, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ath-shean, C.J. Cherryh's Regul, Madeleine L'Engle's Ixchel, A.E. van Vogt's Ixtl. As a special feature, the artist has also contributed thirty pages from his personal sketchbook of close-up studies and works in progress.
B I B L I O G R A P H I C D E T A I L S
Authors: Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers, and Beth Meacham.
Published by Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Copyright © 1979, Foreward © 1987
Second Edition, June 1987
C O N D I T I O N
Great vintage condition with light signs of use and wear, shelf and edge wear to the dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of writing, binding is tight.
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