Le vrai livre de l'espace

Fiction et réalité

Harry Harrison, Malcolm Edwards (co-author)
French text by Daniel Alibert-Kouraguine, with the collaboration of Yves de Bouard.
Year1980
PublisherLes Éditions La Boétie
PlaceParis
LanguageFR
Pages128
SeriesDeux Coqs d'Or
Rating★★★☆☆ (3/5)
AudienceGeneral, Youth
LevelBeginner
Keywords
proto-astronauticsspace racespace utopiascience fiction
ThemesSpace Imaginaries, Space Race

A large-format illustrated album that sets the spaceflight imagery of science fiction against the reality of space exploration, chapter by chapter. From the lunar voyages of Kepler and Cyrano to the rocket pioneers (Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, von Braun), from the American pulps to Sputnik, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, it juxtaposes magazine covers, artists' illustrations (Bonestell, Frank R. Paul, Chris Foss) and NASA photographs. It closes on science fiction in cinema (2001, Star Wars) and projects for interstellar exploration.

📖 Editorial Review

The French translation of an English album first published in 1979, this large illustrated book makes a simple, appealing wager: to set, page after page, the imagination of science fiction against the real history of astronautics. …