The Stardragons: Extracts From The Memory Files (Paper Tiger) [Hardcover]

Bob Eggleton (Author), John Grant (Author)

Book Description

Series: Paper Tiger | Publication Date: September 1, 2004

The Dragons are back! Award-winning authors John Grant and Bob Eggleton continue the adventure they began in the popular Dragonhenge.

Return to the dragon world. Following on the huge success of Dragonhenge, this stunningly illustrated adventure, written by two multiple-award-winning, leading luminaries in the science fiction universe, takes you on a magical journey through the Cosmos and far, far into the future, many billions of years after humankind and all other forms of life have gone. In this time, the Universe itself is beginning to fall towards its death, and only the Stardragons are left to move across the infinite tracts of space on an epic journey. Readers of all ages, art connoisseurs, and dragon enthusiasts will enter in the magic and be entranced.

BOB EGGLETON is a recipient of six Hugo Awards as Best Professional Artist and one as co-creator with Nigel Suckling of the book Greetings from Earth. He has also received eleven Chesley Awards and the Locus Award.

JOHN GRANT is a recipient of the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, the Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, and the J. Lloyd Eaton Award, as well as a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award.

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About the Author

John Grant is the author of Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters. Technical Editor of the Clute/Nicholls' Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, co-editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and co-author with Ron Tiner of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques. He is also a winner of a Hugo and World Fantasy Award. John Grant lives in New Jersey, USA. Bob Eggleton is among the leading fantasy and science fiction artists of our age and is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and the Chesley awards. He has also worked on motion picture conceptual design, contributing to the Academy Award-nominated animated Paramount Pictures film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Previous books are Greetings From Earth, Alien Horizons, and The Book of Sea Monsters. Bob Eggleton lives in Rhode Island, USA.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Paper Tiger (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843401231
• ISBN-13: 978-1843401230
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,574,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Grant is the author of more than seventy books, including the critically acclaimed Discarded Science, Corrupted Science, and Bogus Science. In addition to his popular science writing, Grant is a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. He coedited with John Clute The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and wrote all three editions of The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Under his real name, Paul Barnett, he has written several books and run the world-famous fantasy-art-book imprint Paper Tiger, for this latter work winning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award. For more on this prolific author, see www.johngrantpaulbarnett.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars another masterpiece, December 22, 2008

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This review is from: The Stardragons: Extracts From The Memory Files (Paper Tiger) (Hardcover)

The fact I know Bob Eggleton doesn't deter from the fact that he is an amazing artist. This, along with Dragonhenge make an astounding 1-2 punch, but it right now or else.