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vintagerpg · 3 days
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was well received and won a couple of awards (and a second edition, I think in ’87?). It took a little while for the sequel to emerge: Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy hit shelves in 1996.
Even though I am not super widely read in either fantasy or science fiction, Barlowe’s fantasy book is the one I really vibe on. Maybe because it allows him to do stuff like Grendel from Beowulf and Gorice from The Worm Ouroboros. Wouldn’t have expected Gideon Winter, the antagonist from Peter Straub’s odd novel Floating Dragon to be included, but he was. Other surprises are the Psammead from Five Children and It and the Saw Horse from Oz.
One of the coolest things about these books is the fold-out size comparison charts. I love a good size-comparison (and again, this is a big feature of those Petersen’s Guides for Call of Cthulhu, and I am sure it came directly from here).
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retroscifiart · 6 days
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Art by the legendary Wayne Barlowe
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sandmandaddy69 · 1 year
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tachyonmemories · 2 years
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Paintings and Drawings by Wayne Barlowe for an unrealized project called "Cryptozoo." Barlowe hasn't revealed much about it other than that he's written a screenplay for it and has been shopping it around for years now. Personally I can't imagine how this would work as a movie, but it seems ideal for the Barlowe's Guide format...
Griffin
Phoenix
Manticore
Another sketch for the Griffin design
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ordheist · 7 months
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NEW RELEASE
8 page mini zine (9.5x7cm) in my store. little alien guidebook in an indecipherable language, but within are some human scrawlings to guide the inheritor of this booklet to safety.
only £2.50! check it out https://ordheist.bigcartel.com/product/you-ll-need-this-zine
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vintagegeekculture · 2 years
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Artist Wayne Barlowe’s vision of Hell in Inferno. 
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70sscifiart · 1 year
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antediluvianechoes · 8 months
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Nanotyrannus, Wayne Barlowe, 1995
The juvenile rex prowls the beach for stranded fish and sea things. Alas, the waves provide nothing today, not even a storm-tossed shark. After some steps across the wet sand, he spies a pterosaur skeleton, half buried like hastily abandoned picnic knives, but it has already been scraped clean by crabs and flies. Something else stirs to the rex's left. Not far away stands a morsel of a thing. It does not appear fast, nor does it have horns or scutes or talons or fangs. In fact, it appears to be the most defenseless creature imaginable. With catlike silence, the tyrannosaur zeroes his red eyes on this new prey. It is you he sees, Reader. Run!
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gebo4482 · 1 month
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Hellraiser (Unused) by Wayne Barlowe
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bogleech · 1 year
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UPDATED etsy grab bags now include: -Any two enamel pins from the drop-down options
-Two additional random enamel pins
-Two random Wayne Barlow Alien trading cards
-Two random “weird n’ wild creatures” cards
-Additional random monster cards/halloween stickers
-Rubber bugs! At least three, and at least one glows in the dark!
-TINY GHOST (actually a glow in the dark knockoff soot sprite)
-Tiny Halo Flood Infection Form
-Random “CREEPY FREAKS” figure now with their original stickers! 30 or 40 possible characters, and I’ll make sure it’s one of the interesting or cool ones
-Stretchy squishy worm-tailed eyeball -Cute detailed mini plastic bat $30 + $4.50 domestic shipping, Cheaper “mini” grab bag HERE:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1449551359/mini-grab-bag-pin-of-choice-random-bonus
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retroscifiart · 1 year
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Art by Wayne Barlowe from Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art (1978)
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sandmandaddy69 · 2 months
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nonebinary-leftbeef · 8 months
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I would KILL for a video game set on Darwin IV from Wayne Barlowe's Expedition. Like are you seeing this shit???
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