Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons
Written by Steven Eisler with a foreword by Chris Foss, this book is divided into seven headings: Foreword, Space Vehicles, Interplanetary Wars and Weapons, Fantastic Creatures, Fantasy, Worlds Apart, Glossary. There are a large number of images in the 96-page long book, covering the subjects mentioned in the headings. These have a small amount of accompanying text describing the scene, which is based on the authors own future background. The main body of the text is quite different, it discusses different sci-fi and fantasy books detailling a short description of the story. The stories and books discussed (with the authors own interpretation) are by leading SF authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, E. E. 'Doc' Smith and Robert Silverberg, amongst numerous others. The style of Eislers writing is from a more 'grown up' perspective (choosing the word 'adult' may give the wrong impression!) and the text flows from one desription to another without getting bogged down or hard going. There are a number of line drawings which are of a high quality and help to develop the authors own fictional background to the images.
Unfortunately there isn't a contributing artist index but some images are easily recognisable by Angus McKie, Melvyn Grant and Eddie Jones (Jones contributed a large number of scenes to the 'Space Warriors'). Expect to pick up a hardback copy in good condition with the dust jacket for about 5-15 GBP from an online retailer.
Book Details
Artist Book
Publisher - Octupus Books Ltd
Publish Date - 1979
ISBN Number - 0517273446
Contributing Artists and Number of Images - unknown (see above text).
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