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Spectrum #8

Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

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The latest edition of the only annual anthology of fantasy art includes 250 illustrations spanning the globe and representing artists throughout this exciting genre, including such notables as James Gurney, Anita Kunz, and Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Original. 20,000 first printing.

176 pages, Unknown Binding

First published October 17, 2001

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234 reviews10 followers
December 23, 2007
The first "Spectrum" book for me. Yes, this is where my addiction started.
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218 reviews7 followers
August 6, 2011
Fantastic compilation of fantasy art. Comes out yearly (every Novemeber). Awesome series!!!!
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3,036 reviews154 followers
March 1, 2019
i remember first coming across the Spectrum art books in my twenties, when i would buy books simply for their dust jackets and hope the story inside wasn't too awful... the art in these books is amazing, creative, imaginary, dreamlike, fascinating, and ultimately full of life and the love of wonder and wondrous things... i would own them all if i could... extremely highly recommended...
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83 reviews
July 17, 2014
This is such a spectacular compilation in high quality printing of the vanguard of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative art. After gazing on all the works presented, the reader is instilled with a sense of wonder, as if they have been touched with a drop of magic. So many images, the paintings, the illustrations, the brilliant ideas, will stay with the reader. Go seek this if you are a science fiction and fantasy reader--it's the visual counterpart to the fiction, and the worlds of the imagination that cannot be depicted in mere photographs. This book will give a permanent sense of wonder. One of the best art books I've ever encountered! Wow.
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7,351 reviews59 followers
January 25, 2016
If you love fantasy and SiFi art of any type; paintings, drawings, sculpture, cartoons then this is the book for you. Fantastic selection of the years art. You can't help but find something you like inside. Highly recommended
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