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Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy (Hardcover)

by Wayne Douglas Barlowe (Author), Neil Duskis (Author)
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In his classic Guide to Extraterrestials, Wayne Douglas Barlowe brought us science fiction's greatest aliens. Now he does the same for the bizarre and beautiful beings of a thousand years of fantasy and horror.

Here is the Unicorn, still shimmering from the imagination of The Last Unicorn author Peter S. Beagle. Here in all its disgusting glory lurks H. P. Lovecraft's Gug, along with Robert Jordan's Trolloc. Here you will meet Marion Zimmer Bradley's Morgaine from The Mists of Avalon, Conan-creator Robert E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn, Clive Barker's Gek AGek, Drool Rockworm from Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, and many wondrous more.

Fifty fantastic creatures in all. Awesome, incredible, startling, disturbing, these creatures are all rendered with exquisite accuracy and excruciating detail. Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy is the essential companion for anyone who has ever been thrilled by the terrifying and wonderful creatures found in fantastic literature, and wished to see them brought to life by a modern master. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Introduces fifty of the world's most awesome, incredible, startling, disturbing, and bizarre creatures, all rendered with exquisite accuracy and excruciating detail, spanning one thousand years of fantasy and horror literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Primer for the Serious sf art fan, Jan 22 2003
By Henrik "da laffin tlhIngan" (in the Anime aisle) - See all my reviews
Wayne Barlowe kicks butt, plain and simple. In this book, he takes a wide variety of classic and sometimes overlooked aliens and nearly allows them to walk off the edge of his pages (for an especially creepy example, check out The Ting from John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"-- not exactly like either James Arness' or John Carpenter's versions, but possibly more disturbing for its faithfulness to the original).
The accompanying text for each subject describes planet of origin, habits, culture (if any), biology, etc. Since Barlowe is obviously a fan, he avoids the dry, dusty words of the average ordinary critic, making the aliens more solid than mere paint can do alone.
Another benefit of the book is its inclusion of authors and book/story titles, which allow the reader to hunt down and capture the books for further reading (some are, alas, out of print).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, Mar 29 2000
By Shadowfire (College Park, MD) - See all my reviews
Intricate, detailed, well-drawn images of various persons and creatures fill the pages of this incredible work. However, the text is rather slim for some of the latter entries, and I must say that I question the artist's choice of subjects - few creatures in here are truly alien, and far too many are simply human! Nevertheless, unlike some of the other artists, Barlowe manages to offer images which do not disrupt our own imagined images of the characters, but merely improve and clarify them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The incredible artwork, the detail...the man's a genius.", May 23 1999
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The Guide to Fantasy by Wayne Barlowe is a superb look into the minds of authors and one man's ideas of what the character looks like. Full-color illustrations really capture your eyes. I'm in awe of the man.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but not as great...
I anticipated the publishing of this book as I have few others. Any companion volume to Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials would have to be a plus, right? Read more
Published on Oct 13 1998 by driley@cyberramp.net

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