Infinite Worlds: Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art

Bol Partner

Science fiction is the form of literature that dares to ask What lf? What if mankind could travel to the stars? What if we could create artificial intelligences? What if we were to meet spacefaring aliens?Since the beginning of this century artists have risen to the challenge of representing What if? in ever more imaginative illustrations and paintings, each generation of artists surpassing its predecessor in creating panoramas of the bizarre that shock the senses and baffle the brain.Art has played a central role in science fiction, defining the icons of the genre—the spaceship, the flying saucer, the alien, the robot, the ray gun—and fixing them in the consciousness of the public at large.Infinite Worlds is the ultimate collection of the best of science fiction art. It contains almost seven hundred colour reproductions of paintings and drawings, along with a detailed authoritative text. It combines a history of the development of science fiction art with a gallery of the work of the most celebrated artists.As we reach the end of the millennium, and the end of the century of science, it is both entertaining and instructive to take a retrospective view of the art of yesterday’s futures. Science fiction always looks ahead; a new century and a new millennium await, and science fiction art is already telling us how they will look.Infinite Worlds contains examples of the greatest visionary art ever conceived.Among the artists included: Frank Frazetta, John Berkey, Michael Whelan, Leo & Diane Dillon, James Bama, Jim Gurney, Marshall Arisman, Boris Vallejo, Richard M. Powers, Wayne Barlowe, Alex Schomburg, Chesley Bonestell, Jim Burns, Paul Lehr, Elliot Dold, Dean Ellis, Virgil Finlay, Frank Kelly Freas, Greg & Tim Hildebrandt, Frank R. Paul, Alex Raymond, J. Allen St. John, Stanley Meltzoff, John Schoenherr, Herb Tauss, and many others.

Bol

With over 500 colour illustrations selected and assembled with text detailing the history and evolution of the genre, this is the most comprehensive book on science fiction art and the diversity of styles and approaches that this art form encompasses.