Year: 1993
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553074474
Content: 204 pages with over 100 colour illustrations
This is probably the most comprehensive collection of multi-time
Bantam started with a new line of artbooks back in 1993 and published this collection together with a retrospective on Robert McCall, but sales must have been bad enough (or production costs too high?) to finish the artbook-project off.
Nevertheless, this huge volume on Michael Whelan was a beautiful collection of both published and private/unpublished work by the US master of the scifi, fantasy and horror illustration.
Michael Whelan started working in the seventies and soon became equivalent with impressive cover art. His aliens were convincing, his landscapes beautiful, so it was no surprise that all the classics from the calibre of Asimov, King, Clarke, Heinlein, McCaffrey etc. wanted Whelan for their covers. This book illustrates profoundly, why he was given 16 Hugos, including the one for this volume as the best non-fiction book of that year.
The huge hardcover is still sometimes available through typical sources (Ebay, Amazon, Abebooks, Barnes&Noble) online, and before you mourn the price, remember, the original publication itself had a tag of 60 Dollars ;)
There has been a deluxe edition around, I saw it on Ebay some years ago for about 500 Dollars, which is quite cheap regarding the fact that even long print runs (of a few Hundred) of Michael´s Lithographs and Prints sold through his own webshop could easily cost more...
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