Orbit: The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, n°3

by Garry Kilworth, Isaac Asimov, Don Thompson (Adaptation)

Three stories from Isaac Asimov's S.F. magazine adapted into sequential art narrative.

1. Gary Kilworth: "The Lost Garden of Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Lucy Atwell and the Rest of the Lads of the 32nd Parachute Regiment"
->Fred Burke: Adaption
->John Bolton: Art

2. Isaac Asimov: "The Last Question"
->Don Thompson: Adaptation
->John Estes: Art

3. Lucius Shepard: "The End of the World As We Know It"
->Tom Yeates: Adaption + Art

Full Color

6,5" x 10"

$4,95

46 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Garry Douglas Kilworth is a historical novelist who also published sci-fi, fantasy, and juvenile fiction.

Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. He was previously a science fiction author, having published one hundred twenty short stories and seventy novels.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential ArtNarrative · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kilworth's provoked thought on the (non-machine) "mechanics" of time travel that was painted with sexy Garden of Eden by U.K. stud John Bolton.
->Second Best

Asimov's was a repetitive asininity that was sloppily painted.
->Worst

Shepard's was a very interesting take on a fractured marriage in it's death throes that was well rendered but poorly colored by Science Fiction great Tom Yeates.
->Best

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel privileged to be the first person to leave a review of this book. It collects 3 separate short stories adapted into a graphic novel format by various writers and illustrators.

1) The Lost Garden of Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Lucy Atwell and The Rest of the Lads of the 32nd Parachute Regiment.

A humorous tale about a time traveler’s mission to stop Adam & Eve’s banishment from the Garden of Eden. Adeptly adapted from a Garry Kilworth tale by Fred Burke and STUNNINGLY illustrated by the wonderful John Bolton.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2) The Last Question.

A thought provoking story of successive generations of humanity asking their most advanced computer whether entropy can be reversed, or is the universe indeed finite? Expertly adapted from Isaac Asimov’s personal favourite self-penned short story by Don Thompson and beautifully realised by John Estes.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3) The End Of Life As We Know It.

To my mind, a conspicuously incongruous and weak ending to the book. Tom Yeates tries to write AND illustrate an adaptation of a Lucius Shepard story, that lends itself more to mysticism and hocus-pocus than sci-fi, and is found wanting in both disciplines.

⭐️