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"By Rocket to the Moon" now available
Otto Willi Gail's "By Rocket to the Moon" (1931) is now available. It
includes all of the original illustrations as well as an illustrated afterword about the author and his sources. R |
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"By Rocket to the Moon" now available
Ron Miller wrote: Otto Willi Gail's "By Rocket to the Moon" (1931) is now available. It includes all of the original illustrations as well as an illustrated afterword about the author and his sources. Any new thoughts on the 90 foot wide Martian landing cylinder that hold a max of five Fighting Machines inside of it? Pat |
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"By Rocket to the Moon" now available
Pat Flannery wrote: Ron Miller wrote: Otto Willi Gail's "By Rocket to the Moon" (1931) is now available. It includes all of the original illustrations as well as an illustrated afterword about the author and his sources. Any new thoughts on the 90 foot wide Martian landing cylinder that hold a max of five Fighting Machines inside of it? Pat I hope you've gotten my email by now... I thought the drawings were terrific! I took the liberty of passing them along to my brother, who has also been working up a design based closely on the descriptions in the book---though I know that he is coming up with something quite different. R |
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"By Rocket to the Moon" now available
Ron Miller wrote: I thought the drawings were terrific! I took the liberty of passing them along to my brother, who has also been working up a design based closely on the descriptions in the book---though I know that he is coming up with something quite different. Got the e-mail a couple of days ago. Thanks for the complements! :-) Unlike Verne, whom one suspects had a detailed drawing of the Nautilus' innards before him as he wrote the book "20,000 leagues" I think that Wells was sort of making them up as he went along, or had a rough sketch of one at best. His sketch of a Martian creature in "A Critical Edition Of The War Of The Worlds" doesn't jive with his description of them in the book, as the two bunches of tendrils bordering the mouth are diminutive in size in the sketch. What got me hooked on WOTW as a kid was my brother's copy of this: http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/0027.jpg Which I read years before I knew George Pal had made a movie of it. Surprisingly, the rather over-the-top looking painting of Verne's "Terror" on the cover of Classics Illustrated version of "Master Of The World" seems to agree quite well with the device described in the book: http://cardscomicscoins.com/usrimage/ci163orig.jpg ...although I don't remember the canards...diving planes when she converts into a sub? This one looks like the hybrid mating of a butterfly and a lionfish: http://www.julesverne.ca/images/book...rld_terror.jpg Not all that terrifying. ;-) |
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