Barlowe, Wayne, Douglas Books

Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV

Wayne Douglas Barlowe

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good artwork...but... 3 out of 5 stars.
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Expedition is about an artist's voyage to Darwin Four, in 2358 A.D. The book is his collection of drawings and sketches made during the first manned mission to the planet. Mr. Barlowe is not just an artist, but also has great knowledge about nature and how it works. He tries to mix the two, showing the aliens and explaining how they lived, mated and, sometimes, died. But he leaves so much out - there is very little background on the planet's natural history. We get hints and clues about what early life was like. For example, most creatures use sonar and have biolights, yet are blind. Being blind, the sonar makes sense, but why have biolights then? The atmosphere must have been thick and murky, allowing animals armed with sonar better chances than those armed with eyes, but could the biolights be something from earlier times, before sonar was developed and all animals used visible light?
The science, in other words, is lacking the details I enjoy. It is a great art book, but Dougal Dixon is better at the science, showing evolution and how it works. This is an alien planet and we barely touched the surface of its wonders!
That is why it only gets three points.

Editorial Review:

In 2358, wildlife artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe joined the first manned flight to Darwin IV, fourth planet in the newly discovered F-Class binary system 6.5 light years from Earth. Now his long-awaited account of that historic journey has been published. More vivid than the holos and more interpretive than the videos, these extraordinary paintings, plus numerous drawings, studies, and sketchbook pages, transport the reader to a wild, beautiful, untouched world-a planet teeming with incredible beasts and exotic vegetation.

Expedition is the most important travel book of the 24th century. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club and the Astronomy Book Club.

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature

Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Ian Summers, Beth Meacham

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Xenophanes 5 out of 5 stars.
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Good book. I have owned this since I was a child. It was a great portal into many of these classic Sci Fi books as I would have never heard about them otherwise. Barlowe has a fantastic nack for bringing life to these aliens. Highly recommended.

Graphic SF Reader 4 out of 5 stars.
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Once I saw that there was a Velantian in this, from E. E. Doc Smith's Lensman series, I was sold, and had to get it. Done as a page by page look at each species the artwork is excellent, and these are the sort of funny looking monster types that kids like too, so it can work on more than one level, most definitely.

Editorial Review:

In this illustrated field guide to extraterrestrials-a 1980 nominee for the ABA and Hugo Awards and named one of the Best Books of Spring 1980 by School Library Journal-Wayne Douglas Barlowe paints 50 denizens of popular science fiction literature. 150 full-color paintings show each character not only in full figure but also in detail highlighting distinctive characteristics. Humanoids, insectoids, reptilians, and more are included. Field notes explain movement, diet, respiration, and reproduction habits. The book also features a pull-out chart showing comparative sizes, and a section devoted to Barlowe's own sketchbook of works in progress. Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. 267,000 copies in print.

Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy

Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Neil Duskis

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

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.

Dragon's Plunder (Dragonflight Series)

Brad Strickland

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great Book! I love it! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dragon's Plunder is great for all sorts of ages who love great books of fantasy, magic, pirates, and dragons. I've read Dragon's Plunder every year ever since two years ago, because it's so great. I'm very disappointed that it's not here. I hope Amazon.Com can find it again!

Not too bad 3 out of 5 stars.
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Well, this book was definately a very good pirate/privateer book. The author apparently had a pirate lingo dictionary on hand while writing the book because there were so many words that were unfamiliar to me, a common landlubber I suppose, that it rather took away from the book, rather than adding to it. I mean, I even looked up many words so I knew some of them, but with all the parts of the ship and such, it got confusing. Guys will most likely love this book. There is adventure, there is fighting and swashbuckling, there is treasure, and there is promotion for the main character Jamie. Girls may not like this book as much, I know I didn't find it awesome, because it is based on plot and what is happening rather than on the characters and their part in it. Though there are two very fun and strong female influences found in Princess Amelia, whom I adored, and Mrs. Llewellen, who can shoot a musket apart while it is in a pirate's hand a fair distance away. I liked the characters, and what a motley crew they were. Overall, the book wasn't bad, very informative on sea life a privateering, but not engrossing enough to get me to read it over again.

Editorial Review:

Kidnapped by pirates who seek to use his magical ability to call up the winds, Jamie embarks on a voyage to a mysterious island, protected by fierce winds and reputed to be the home of a dragon.