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Once the pride of the Galactic University, humans held the potential to surpass all other species in growth and prosperity. However, their innate behavior towards destruction, driven by greed, envy, and intolerance, brought about their demise. It is now up to Goddess Sage Altheia to unravel the mysteries that define a harmonious race. 

 With her failed animatronic experiment, Luna was desperate to find a source that would give life to her experiment. Having exhausted everything she could think of, Master Teacher Cato told her the ancient tale of the Crystals of Eternal Life. The crystals had the power to bring life to the lifeless, but it was a tale passed down through the eons and no one knew if it was true.
Luna was determined to find out. So, with her companion Orion, they set out on a dangerous mission, one that was filled

 A mysterious disease is spreading across the worlds of the universe, turning the once lush and vibrant landscapes to withering and rotting waste lands. The gods and goddesses of the Galactic University have worked tirelessly to save their creations, but to no avail. With time running out, Master Teacher Cato Aetheros summons Colton Castellanos, his top student in bioengineering and horticulture, to find the source of the disease and destroy it. 

Illustrated Boards with bright gilt on green cloth. Cover of Astounding Fiction Magazine illustrating Little Green Man from Fredric Brown's Martians Go Home. 

 With 10 Hugos as Best Professional Artist and countless other awards, Kelly Freas is the most popular and prolific science fiction artist today. His gritty, realistic work in the 1950s set a new agenda for magazine and book covers--which artists follow still. But, his painting also can reveal a relaxed humor, with their cheeky scoundrels and personable aliens. More than 24 publications featured his work, including Analog, Astounding Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The art of Boris Vallejo is characterized by beautiful maidens, heroic men and fearsome monsters while the work of his wife Julie Bell is famous for a sense of color and dramatic composition which puts her paintings in a class by themselves.

As two of the most acclaimed fantasy artists working today, Boris and Julie have produced art for album covers, trading cards, posters and calendars for (in Boris' case) 30 years -- and have seen 15 books published celebrating their breathtaking work.

 This new collection by best-selling fantasy artist Boris Vallejo has never before been published in book form and includes a rare selection of Vallejo's private work not yet published in any format. The lavishly illustrated book brings the artist's exotic women, sinewy men, and fantasy worlds to life in over 110 full-color paintings.

The Addams Family: An Evilution is the first book to trace The Addams Family history, presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (American, 1912-1988) throughout his prolific career; many have never been published before. Text by H. Kevin Miserocchi, director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, offers a revealing chronology of each character's evolution, while Addams's own incisive character descriptions, originally penned for the benefit of the television show producers..

The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.

In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with exclusive access to Charles Addams’s private archives.

Featured in Episode One of The Artist and the Author.

This book contains 101 of Hogarth's finest and most important engravings, including all the major series or "progresses": "The South Sea Scheme," A Harlot's Progress, "A Midnight Modern Conversation," A Rake's Progress, Before and After, Marriage à la Mode, Industry and Idleness, "The March to Finchley," The Four Stages of Cruelty, "Time Smoking a Picture," "Tailpiece," and many more 

 Kklak: the Doctor Who Art of Chris Achilléos collects the entirety of Achilléos'' ''Doctor Who'' artwork in chronological order, along with commentary from Achilléos himself – presenting the definitive guide to his seminal work. It also includes a foreword from Achilléos'' long-time friend and collaborator, the late Terrance Dicks. 

The art of acclaimed imaginary realist Patrick Woodroffe is collected in this wonderful volume, revealing the artist as a true master of fantasy. It demonstrates how his paintings are inspired by the mysteries of life and nature. Woodroffe’s immense creativity is displayed through a fantastic array of art, and commentary on context and inspiration is also included. Highlighting an artist who is renowned for his book and album covers, a biography covering his life and times is also included. 

Fantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian paperbacks with Frank Frazetta covers, and the late ’60s emergence of fantasy psychedelia. It went big in the ’70s with the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, the brilliant French magazine Métal Hurlant, and the first Star Wars film. 

Covers the whole history of comic books in America to 1970--the major creations, the major creators, the major comic book lines, the major comic book enemies. Co-authors Les Daniels and The Mad Peck tell the story of how comic books captured the imagination of millions and became an American institution, and whether or not they deserved to.  

As this volume opens we find our hero at age 46, solidly into the midlife crises years. Crumb has lived his entire life in anxious, introspective, self-flagellating crises, however, so the middle years bring only a refinement of his lifelong turmoil and further honing of artistic talent.  

“Silly Fool Comics” fills the final page in this final volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, “YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!” He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who’d tormented his libido since boyhood. 

In this early epic of the hilarious and politically correct Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Freewheelin’ Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy think they’re in the money when they establish their own low-fare one-vehicle bus line in the full-color (painted!) adventure, “The $29.95 SF to NYC Non-Stop Whiteline Cannonball Express. 

A prominent figure in the Victorian art world, Walter Crane not only participated in the late nineteenth century's publishing revolution but also led the way toward the Golden Age of Illustration. Crane was instrumental in the transition from simple black-and-white illustrations for children's books to gallery-quality artwork. This original collection features more than one hundred of the influential artist's brilliant images.  

This stunning treasury features full-page plates of the finest works by the famed English artist, Arthur Rackham (1867–1939). A leading figure in the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration, Rackham interpreted scenes from such diverse material as fairy tales, Wagnerian opera, and Shakespearean comedy. His memorable images, which combine whimsy, romance, and sophistication, continue to enchant children and adults alike. 

In a world torn apart by war and pollution, technologically advanced animals fight for survival. Badgers, fiercely protective of their fertile land, clash with foxes manipulated by humans.

The stage is set for an epic battle of survival. Meet Major, a valiant special forces commander, whose mission to eradicate ruthless raiders takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself stranded on the wrong side of the border.

Featured in Episode One of The Artist and the Author.

FA True Story (Ancient Greek) is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking author of Assyrian descent. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales which had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those which presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interp

 The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum” into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. 

 A downed terraforming ship. An ice planet. A hostile alien race. Delia Kemp has had better expeditions.

Stranded, alone and hunted by the native Skelt for her scientific knowledge, Delia is chased across the undiscovered world of Valinda as its long winter comes to an end and a blistering summer approaches. 

 This The Space Trilogy Series 3 Books Set includes: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength

The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland, standing astride the deep chasm of the Canyon like a malevolent giant, ruled with an iron fist by the First Officer and his Provosts in the name of the semi-mythical Captain.