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Partial Review of Visual Journeys
Jul. 16th, 2007 04:28 pmAt Duckon, Richard Chwedyk read his short story "Where We Go," which is in the new anthology Visual Journeys
by Hadley Rille Books.
Well, I ordered the book. I finally got some time last night, so read a few stories. My first reaction was "Wow!" The book's concept is unusual - authors write stories based on pieces of space art they've seen. The art - full color - is printed next to the story that inspired it. It's a very impressive package. I don't have the book in front of me, but a few highlights are:
* Tobias Buckell has the leadoff, with a story about robotic explorers of Io waiting for humans to return. Things get interesting when the humans finally do come.
* Ron Miller, a Hugo award-winning artist, takes a Chesney Bonestell painting, "Funeral on Mars" (American astronauts burying one of their own) and turns in a crackerjack story about another human funeral on Mars.
* Richard Chewdyk's story isn't so much science fiction as about science fiction, notably the history of it in Chicago of the 1940s. It is, however, quite touching.
I'll post a more coherent review in a few days (with actual story titles, even!) but I wanted to share what I've read and seen so far.
by Hadley Rille Books.Well, I ordered the book. I finally got some time last night, so read a few stories. My first reaction was "Wow!" The book's concept is unusual - authors write stories based on pieces of space art they've seen. The art - full color - is printed next to the story that inspired it. It's a very impressive package. I don't have the book in front of me, but a few highlights are:
* Tobias Buckell has the leadoff, with a story about robotic explorers of Io waiting for humans to return. Things get interesting when the humans finally do come.
* Ron Miller, a Hugo award-winning artist, takes a Chesney Bonestell painting, "Funeral on Mars" (American astronauts burying one of their own) and turns in a crackerjack story about another human funeral on Mars.
* Richard Chewdyk's story isn't so much science fiction as about science fiction, notably the history of it in Chicago of the 1940s. It is, however, quite touching.
I'll post a more coherent review in a few days (with actual story titles, even!) but I wanted to share what I've read and seen so far.
