Sci Fi encyclopedia or artbook with this Boris Valejo artwork

[Jo Zebedee]

Umm - I wouldn't buy it from a seller that has it listed as edited by J K Rowling (who would have been 14 at the time...)
The editor was Robert Holdstock, who later wrote Mythago Wood..

If you click on the link for all 16 copies of the book you'll see all others are for Holdstock - I'm assuming the Rowling is a bookseller in a hurry doing their listings and forgetting to delete the field.

 

[DigitalRain]

@ digital rain - don't know how far you can enlarge this (I can almost read it on my tablet - with msgnification it might be okay) but this is the page and accompanying text from Aun's

You're really amazing! Thanks Springs, for finding this pic in cyberspace even though you haven't even seen the book. This is probably it. I can barely read anything and part of the caption is truncated, but the keywords are there!

(EDIT) Btw, do you have the link of the original post on the TTA website that referenced that pic?

 

[DigitalRain]

This was the image - I'll have a hunt for my copy tomorrow and try and find the narrative, if you think this may be it

Hi Aun, yes this is indeed it. Would be much appreciated if you could confirm the actual narrative for me.

 

[DigitalRain]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and leads. As it turned out, I did a search on Google Books and found the narrative text in the book Space Wars, Worlds and Weapons by Eisler (see attached).

The funny thing is that from memory, the original text that I read was shorter, and mentioned something about a family spacecraft en route to Mars being intercepted by space pirates.

Of course I could be wrong and it's just time playing tricks with my head.

So question is: does anyone know of any other book published in 1978-1979 with similar text? Possibly the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Holdstock?

 

[HareBrain]

Just to say that Aun Doorback is the friend of which I spake, and the text you attached from Space Wars seems familiar (Kettle's World etc), so that must be the book I remembered (though actually, the title and cover don't seem familiar at all).

So many years on, I guess there has to be a good chance that your memory of the text is just as imperfect.

Do you mind me asking why the interest in that particular caption? I'm intrigued.

 

[DigitalRain]

I'm a fan of Valejo (I guess I was a bigger fan growing up), as well as a sci fi fan and the book I'm after was the one that introduced me to him. So I'd like to get a hold of it if I could. I guess it's about revisiting one's youth.

There are other books with that particular plate (e.g. Boris Valejo's art techniques), but it's not the same book For what it's worth, the caption seems to have little to do with the Gor books (as far as I can tell, maybe Gor experts can shed some light here) - even though Space Wars (1978) came after the Ballantine reprint (1976). So it appears Valejo might have sold rights to Space Wars independently.

 

[Aun Doorback]

Oh good, so all's well that ends well with that particular book. Breathes sigh of relief as I still cannot find it and HareBrain, you possible don't remember the cover because it was long gone, when I used to let you cast your cultured eye across the pretty pictures. I suspect my cat ate it - In fact my cat probably ate the whole thing, which is why I cannot find it now.

 

[tinkerdan]

My information has the 10th printing accomplished in 1976 for which this cover art was used.
The original publication of the book was 1966 though some where along the line someone mistakenly listed it as 67.
but the tenth edition seems to come up as 1976 and not 1978

@springs

No the book I came across was is a reference book of some sort (roughly 8" x 11" or close) with color plates whereas Norman's Gor series are pulp paperback.

The Valejo artwork was apparently commissioned by Ballantine for the the cover of the 10th printing of Tarnsman of Gor in 1978, hence the name.

Thanks for replying though.

Note that the copyright year and the First Edition year (1967) is wrong; it should be 1966. This error first occured in the Tenth Printing of the Ballantine Edition of Tarnsman of Gor.

The front cover artwork by Boris Vallejo was first used in 1976 for the Tenth Printing of the Ballantine Edition of Tarnsman of Gor.

 

[hitmouse]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and leads. As it turned out, I did a search on Google Books and found the narrative text in the book Space Wars, Worlds and Weapons by Eisler (see attached).

The funny thing is that from memory, the original text that I read was shorter, and mentioned something about a family spacecraft en route to Mars being intercepted by space pirates.

Of course I could be wrong and it's just time playing tricks with my head.

So question is: does anyone know of any other book published in 1978-1979 with similar text? Possibly the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Holdstock?

I have yhis encyclopedia and I dont think it has that Vellajio picture. I also have that spacecraft spotters guide. Memories of the 1970s.

 

[ralphkern]

Space Worlds, Wars and Weapons was one of my face books as a kid. Such great art.

 

[pambaddeley]

Been through my copy of the Holdstock Encyclopedia and can confirm that the illustration does NOT appear in it.