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Title: Great Space Battles by Stewart Cowley, Charles Herridge ISBN: 0-89009-260-5 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 March, 1979 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $6.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Future Wars Among the Stars
Comment: I received this book as a Christmas gift in 1979. Recently, while going through some of my old things, I came across this book again and I must say that the illustrations and text are just as compelling today as they were 25 years ago. As part of a popular series of "future history" handbooks for juvenile readers in Cowley's Terran Trade Authority series, the premise of the series was quite simple yet inspired - create a collection of "fact-packed" stories based on the scenes depicted in several pieces of sci-fi illustration that previously adorned book or magazine covers and package each story together with its corresponding illustration in an attractive, glossy coffee-table-type book.
This particular edition documents major interplanetary wars between Earthmen and aliens, the struggle of human colonists against the hostile environments of distant planets as well as stories of future law enforcement agencies battling space pirates and pan-galactic organised crime. The writing is picturesque and is phrased in the typically dry and information-rich style of a documentary book meant for a young audience aged 10 years and above. The illustrations featured are some of the most impressive and vivid work I have ever seen from a selection of sci-fi artists who were either some of the most promising talents or the leading lights of their day. Some of these illustrators are still very much active today and have won much praise and many awards for their work.
Being long out of print, this and other books in the same series are now highly sought after collectable items. If you ever come across a copy, don't hesitate to grab it. Besides this title, I also own "Starliners: Commercial Spacetravel in 2200 AD," (also by the same author) which I also highly recommend. They make for such fascinating "idle-time" reading and are such a great feast for the eyes that I don't intend to part with either of these treasures, ever. "Great Space Battles" makes for a great gift for the SF fan who is young or still young at heart.
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Title: Spacecraft 2000-2100, A.D. by Stewart Cowley ISBN: 0890092117 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 October, 1978 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space by Stewart Cowley ISBN: 0896730220 Publisher: Bookthrift Co Pub. Date: February, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.98 |
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Title: Worlds At War by Steven Caldwell ISBN: 0517292270 Publisher: Crescent Pub. Date: 12 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $1.99 |
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Title: Starliners by Cowley ISBN: 0896730700 Publisher: Bookthrift Co Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $2.98 |
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Title: Settlers in space: The fight for survival on distant worlds by Steven Caldwell ISBN: 0517292262 Publisher: Crescent Pub. Date: 1980 List Price(USD): $1.98 |
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