It's so weird that you had exactly the same books that we did. Not that there was much else to choose from back then. We even used to go into the city for technical training and walk to the local sci fi bookshop when we had half days. Only difference was that we used to see the "Dark they were and golden eyed" full-page ads in the Mags and not know where it was.
I had this book too when it came out. Ours, however, was a paperback and the block of pages fell out of the cardboard cover. I attempted a repair with Copydex, which wasn't very successful. Peter Elson was my big-sister's favourite of the artists; mine was Angus McKie. There's a very good site in memorial of Peter Elson on the Internet. He always slipped his monogram "PE" into the artwork. Did you notice in the picture you showed at 12:00 that it's incorporated into the serial number on the side of the little blue spaceship? Have a look! That's an Easter egg I haven't thought of in probably forty years. The image at 16:00 is marvellously dynamic: I remember my sister saying that it made her want to duck!
This was my favourite edition by far, hope you've got the trio, I've never seen the space wrecks one 😉👍,and your favourite image is the one I was dying to see, nice one
Good memories! I have never stopped loving the 1970's SCI-FI style of space art. The Heavy Metal magazines illustrations were top tier. I still have an original issue with Hajime Sorayama's "Sexy Robot". There was an older movie named "Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" where I saw a Jim Burns style influence in the movie's vehicles.
My favourite book in the series is the 'Space Wrecks' volume. Tremendously evocative illustrations in that one. I did have all of the TTA books, but sadly, they 'vanished' when we had some work done on the loft, in the late 1980's.
We (well, my brother) had the first one without knowing there was anything else. Until decades, DECADES later I found the first and the second one in a volume titled Spacebase 2000. I'd long sworn my fealty to Angus McKie, but -- oh, that Peter Elson! As to the size of the originals: I have some artist books that give the dimensions of their cover work. One by Vincent Di Fate who mostly dealt with American publishers, and one by Chris Moore who mostly dealt with British ones. They both seem to be mostly in the range of 14 to 24 inches on the long edge. The distressing thing is they both mention that the works aren't painted with concern about long-term stability or durability. It just has to last long enough to get the color plates for printing, which are what is saved.
I’ve got that book, it’s been a big influence on me. I’ve got another one similar called The Space Warriors by Stewart Cowley, it has got the same refined artwork though.
It's so weird that you had exactly the same books that we did. Not that there was much else to choose from back then.
We even used to go into the city for technical training and walk to the local sci fi bookshop when we had half days.
Only difference was that we used to see the "Dark they were and golden eyed" full-page ads in the Mags and not know where it was.
I had this book too when it came out. Ours, however, was a paperback and the block of pages fell out of the cardboard cover. I attempted a repair with Copydex, which wasn't very successful. Peter Elson was my big-sister's favourite of the artists; mine was Angus McKie. There's a very good site in memorial of Peter Elson on the Internet. He always slipped his monogram "PE" into the artwork. Did you notice in the picture you showed at 12:00 that it's incorporated into the serial number on the side of the little blue spaceship? Have a look! That's an Easter egg I haven't thought of in probably forty years. The image at 16:00 is marvellously dynamic: I remember my sister saying that it made her want to duck!
This was my favourite edition by far, hope you've got the trio, I've never seen the space wrecks one
😉👍,and your favourite image is the one I was dying to see, nice one
Good memories! I have never stopped loving the 1970's SCI-FI style of space art.
The Heavy Metal magazines illustrations were top tier. I still have an original issue with Hajime Sorayama's "Sexy Robot".
There was an older movie named "Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" where I saw a Jim Burns style influence in the movie's vehicles.
My favourite book in the series is the 'Space Wrecks' volume. Tremendously evocative illustrations in that one.
I did have all of the TTA books, but sadly, they 'vanished' when we had some work done on the loft, in the late 1980's.
The artwork is great but so is the story. The Laguna wars was very well written and complicated the artwork perfectly.
We (well, my brother) had the first one without knowing there was anything else. Until decades, DECADES later I found the first and the second one in a volume titled Spacebase 2000. I'd long sworn my fealty to Angus McKie, but -- oh, that Peter Elson!
As to the size of the originals: I have some artist books that give the dimensions of their cover work. One by Vincent Di Fate who mostly dealt with American publishers, and one by Chris Moore who mostly dealt with British ones. They both seem to be mostly in the range of 14 to 24 inches on the long edge. The distressing thing is they both mention that the works aren't painted with concern about long-term stability or durability. It just has to last long enough to get the color plates for printing, which are what is saved.
Airfix could make models of these.
Reminds me on Alejandro Jodorowskys movie-Designs DUNE from the 7tees.
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I’ve got that book, it’s been a big influence on me. I’ve got another one similar called The Space Warriors by Stewart Cowley, it has got the same refined artwork though.