Monday, July 14, 2014
On the Spacecraft (1968) (Part 2)
Part 2 of my post on this colorfully illustrated book. I find the colors and illustration style of this book really unique.
See part 1 here:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-spacecraft-1968-part-1.html
On the spacecraft. Painted by Stakhursky. Poland: Zaklady Graficzne. 22 cm. 134 p.
The mechanical device see almost surreal and I have never seen a "space dog" anywhere that was as strange as this.
The beautiful weirdness just goes on and on.
I am not sure if these are supposed to be androids or just heavily modified humans.
Exploration of alien worlds seems to include meeting aliens themselves.
The books ends on a realistic note showing some of the actual planned spacecraft on both the Russian and U.S. sides of the space race. I hope you enjoyed these illustrations, I am glad I had a chance to share such great bits of imagination.
Ground Control to Major Tom.
ReplyDeleteI had a Polish friend translate for you:
ReplyDeleteit's Russian issue of Polish book titled "W kosmicznym pojeździe" (In the space vehicle or In the spacecraft), first Polish issue 1966 (http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/194224/w-kosmicznym-pojezdzie). Other interesting books of this author:
- Ludzie z planety Ziemia (People from the Earth planet)
http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/112894/ludzie-z-planety-ziemia
- Ludzie na księżycu (People on the Moon) http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/165041/ludzie-na-ksiezycu
As I know it were translated into Russian and Hungarian only.
Look on http://allegro.pl/ - it has many old schools space books and often for pennies!