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Beth Meacham

Autor(a) de Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

6+ Works 1,409 Membros 23 Críticas

About the Author

Includes the name: Beth edited by Meacham

Image credit: Beth Meachem (center) with Avedon Carol and Lois McMaster Bujold at Wiscon 30, 2006 [credit: Patrick Nielsen Hayden from Brooklyn, NY]

Séries

Obras por Beth Meacham

Reader's Guide to Fantasy (1982) — Autor — 133 exemplares
Terry's Universe (1987) — Editor — 72 exemplares
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition (2016) — Editor — 60 exemplares

Associated Works

Jumper: Griffin's Story (2007) — Editor, algumas edições485 exemplares
Sisters in Fantasy 2 (1996) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Alternate Warriors (1993) — Contribuidor — 128 exemplares
Witch Fantastic (1995) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
Dinosaur Fantastic (1993) — Contribuidor — 120 exemplares
Nebula Awards 33 (1999) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Alternate Outlaws (1994) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
Aladdin: Master of the Lamp (1992) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
More Whatdunits (1993) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #16 (1987) — Editor's Note, algumas edições50 exemplares
By Any Other Fame (1994) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Glass Bead Games — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Membros

Críticas

Dnf, too many horrible people doing horrible things.
 
Assinalado
Malaraa | Apr 26, 2022 |
collection dedicated to Terry Carr
 
Assinalado
ritaer | Apr 22, 2020 |
Wayne Douglas Barlowe illustrates some amazing alien creatures from some choice (albeit 'his' choice) science fiction literature: reptilians such as James Blish's Lithian, James White's insectoids the Cinruss, the sphinx like Ishtarians created by Poul Anderson, or the Czill plant intelligence of Jack L. Chalker, and Frederik Pohl's tentacled Sirian. Speaking of tentacles, it is always nice to discover a new rendering of something from the Cthulhu mythos, and the Old Ones (responsible for the evolution of the Shoggoth - which lead to their eventual downfall) was a most welcome find.
This little book has become somewhat of an inspiration to sci-fi creators ever since it's publication, and shows such as Babylon 5 borrowed more than a few ideas from within these pages (as admitted in one of the DVD extras); not directly, but more as an example of how to imagine life-forms that were not simply 'humanoid men in a masks' - although a fair bit of this obviously does still exist in both.
There is also a nice fold-out comparative size chart in the middle of the book, and a 30 page folio of pencil drawings, at the back, taken directly from Wayne Douglas Barlowe's sketch book from 1979, which I found to be a lot more dynamic than his finished pieces which could often appear a little too posed.

I have created a helpful list by [Creature (book title) - author] which I hope will be well received by readers.

A
Sirian (The Age of the Pussyfoot) - Frederik Pohl
Rumi (The Alien Way) - Gordon R. Dickson
B
Black Cloud (The Black Cloud) - Fred Hoyle
C
Demu (Cage a Man) - F. M. Busby
Lithian (A Case of Conscience) - James Blish
Overloord (Childhood's End) - Arthur C. Clarke
Velantian (Children of the Lens) - E. E. "Doc" Smith
Master (The City of Gold and Lead) - John Christopher
Polarian (Cluster) - Piers Anthony
Cryer (Conscience Interplanetary) - Joseph Green
Abyormenite (Cycle of Fire) - Hal Clement
D
Dirdir (The Dirdir) - Jack Vance
Gowachin (The Dosadi Experiment) - Frank Herbert
Sulidor (Downward to the Earth) - Robert Silverberg
Guild Steersman (Dune Messiah) - Frank Herbert
E
Merseian (Ensign Flandry) - Poul Anderson
Uchjinian (Exiles at the Well of Sould) - Jack L. Chalker
F
Regul (The Faded Sun: Kesrith) - C. J. Cherryh
Ishtarian (Fire Time) - Poul Anderson
G
Soft One (The Gods Themselves) - Isaac Asimov
H
Vegan (Have Spacesuit Will Travel) - Robert A. Heinlein
Cinruss (Hospital Station Star Surgeon) - James White
I
Tran (Icerigger) - Alan Dean Foster
J
Cygnan (The Jupiter Theft) - Donald Moffitt
K
Slash (Kirlian Quest) - Piers Anthony
L
Old Galactic (Legacy) - James H. Schmitz
Medusan (The Legion of Space) - Jack Williamson
Cygnostik (A Little Knowledge) - Michael Bishop
M
Chulpex (Masters of the Maze) - Avram Davidson
Radiate (Memoirs of a Spacewoman) - Naomi Mitchison
Czill (Midnight at the Well of Soals) - Jack L. Chalker
Mesklinite (Mission of Gravity) - Hal Clement
Old One (At the Mountains of Madness) - H. P. Lovecraft
N
Puppeteer (Neutron Star) - Larry Niven
O
P
Demon (A Plague of Demons) - Keeith Laumer
Pnume (The Pnume) - Jack Vance
Master (The Pool of Fire) - John Christopher
Q
R
Dextran (The Right Hand of Dextra) - David J. Lake
Puppeteer (Ringworld) - Larry Niven
Triped (Rule Golden) - Damon Knight
S
Solaris (Solaris) - Stanislaw Lem
Dilbian (Spacial Delivery Spacepaw) - Gordon R. Dickson
Garnishee (Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers) - Harry Harrison
Mother (Strange Relations) - Philip José Farmer
T
U
Tyreean (Up the Walls of the World) - James Tiptree, Jr.
V
Ixtl (The Voyage of the Space Beagle) - A. E. van Vogt
Riim (The Voyage of the Space Beagle) - A. E. van Vogt
W
Master (The White Mountains) - John Christopher
The Thing ("Who Goes There?") - John W. Camobell aka Don A. Stuart
Salaman (Wildeblood's Empire) - Brian M. Stableford
Athshean (The World for World is Forest) - Ursula K. Le Guin
Thrint (World of Ptavvs) - Larry Niven
Ixchel (A Wrinkle in Time) - Madeleine L'Engle
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Y
Z
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Sylak | 8 outras críticas | Nov 26, 2018 |
The writing here isn't spectacular, but the illustrations are great. A great pile of imagination fuel for kids and adult character designers alike.
 
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mrgan | 8 outras críticas | Oct 30, 2017 |

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Fritz Leiber Contributor
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Michael Swanwick Contributor
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Gregory Benford Contributor
Michael Livingston Contributor
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David Herter Contributor
Ray Wood Contributor
Veronica Schanoes Contributor
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Rudy Nebres Illustrator
Charles Kreloff Cover designer
Stanislaw Fernandes Cover designer
Mike Presley Cover artist
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Estatísticas

Obras
6
Also by
13
Membros
1,409
Popularidade
#18,236
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
23
ISBN
18

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