Exploring the Creative World of John Harris: A Journey Beyond the Horizon

Kindle Customer: It's good to get an artist's commentary along with the art and I also liked the development sketches associated with the main images.

United Kingdom on Feb 22, 2024

Sem dúvida um achado sem igual para qualquer artista.: Do vintage ao futuro… referências para todo artista que como eu ama o estilo

Brazil on Jan 18, 2024

Kannenmann: Tolle Art und eine absolute Bereicherung meiner Sammlung ! Sehr empfehlenswert !

Germany on Nov 09, 2023

ChrisA: I grew up reading books with his cover art and often because of his cover art. His work is inspiring and the book is beautifully printed.

Canada on Sep 07, 2023

Juan Manuel Ochoa: Me ha encantado. No conocía al artista pero sí he visto diseños suyos precisamente en novelas/libros de ciencia ficción. Me he quedado con ganas de más.
La calidad del papel y las imágenes perfectas. La maquetación también es muy buena.
Llegó envuelto en papel celofán de plástico, por tanto mejor protegido.
Para quienes quieran conocer el trabajo del autor, los ejemplares 1 y 2, son una muy buena introducción

Spain on May 22, 2023

Carl V.: John Harris and his iconic paintings have been a part of the science fiction community for nearly four decades. He brings an impressionistic sensibility to his bold, massive space landscapes that make each piece stand out as a distinct work of art. Generations of readers have discovered his work because of the science fiction novels graced with his creations. Harris continues to be a prolific creator whose work resides on the covers of some of the biggest names in SF literature. This new retrospective is a welcome body of work and should be added to your collection the moment it is released.

John Scalzi provides the foreword to this collection of art, which is fitting given the volume of work Harris has created for John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series over the past decade, including 13 original works to go along with each chapter, released weekly in 2013, for The Human Division.

In it, Scalzi touches on the inspirational power of works of art, giving the example of how John Harris’ painting chosen for the cover of The Ghost Brigade, stirred his imagination at a time when he had hit a roadblock in the execution of that very novel.

John Scalzi states,...

United States on Dec 09, 2014

Neil Hepworth: I am not an artist. I’m an English teacher, and I love science fiction, and I love the art of John Harris - I could stare at his paintings for hours.

Imagine my delight then, when last fall, my students and I were given the opportunity to interview John Harris about his career as a science fiction artist. For an hour we picked his brain about his upbringing, his inspiration, his techniques, and his relationships with publishers and writers. Harris told us about growing up in an English countryside littered with the rotting and rusting artifacts of World War II; he told us about how he draws on nature to create images; and he talked at length with us about two pieces in particular, Quiet Night and Cleaning the Ducts (both of which receive full spreads in this book). The conversation was fascinating and insightful, and, of course, left us all wanting more. Would you like more? Then I give you The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon.

While it’s true that a lot of Harris’s artwork can be seen on the internet, or indeed by walking up and down the SF/F aisles at Barnes and Noble, this beautiful and sturdy book provides a wealth of both his most popular artwork,...

United States on Aug 13, 2014