Alien Grimoire: Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials and the Realistic Imagination Behind Creature Design

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Wayne Barlowe, aided by Beth Meacham and Ian Summers, produced Alien Grimoire as a natural-history style catalog of imagined extraterrestrials rendered with meticulous realism, a blend of technical craft and imaginative vision that even inspired the Power Lords toy line and left a lasting impact on speculative art.

Alien Grimoire: ‘Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials’, 1979
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Alien Grimoire: ‘Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials’, 1979

The work of what its creator called “a hungry youth with something to prove,” Wayne Barlowes 1979 Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials was published amidst a glut of grimoires of imaginary realities...