Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986)
Author of The Conquest of Space
About the Author
Works by Chesley Bonestell
Associated Works
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 3rd Series (1954) — Cover artist, some editions — 97 copies, 2 reviews
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (2001) — Cover artist, some editions — 71 copies, 1 review
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976) — Cover artist, some editions — 31 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (1952) — Cover artist, some editions — 30 copies, 1 review
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 2000, Vol. 99, No. 3 (2000) — Contributor — 19 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Cover artist — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1956, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1956) — Cover artist — 9 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1888-01-01
- Date of death
- 1986-06-11
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Columbia University (dropped out)
- Occupations
- painter
illustrator - Awards and honors
- Hugo Nominee (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1951], 2001)
Hugo (Professional Artist, Retro-Hugo, [1954] ∙ 2004)
SF Hall Of Fame (Posthumous Inductee, 2005) - Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco, California, USA (birth)
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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Reviews
This must have been my first "adult" book, given me when I was around 8. It may have set me on the course towards rabid sf fandom and what for a while was a concentration in science and mathematics (later exchanged for languages). The planetary science is horribly obsolete, of course, but the Bonestell illustrations are gorgeous and the book is a very nice publishing job.
This book is just stunning! It's the primer for... The Conquest of Space. And, more than Robert Heinlein's "Rocketship Galileo", this is the inspiration for the film "Destination Moon".
Scores of Chesley Bonestell paintings, more than a dozen in color, depict the Moon and planets of the solar system as they were believed to be in the late '40s and the single-stage-to-orbit atomic rocket (with wings for re-entry), with which we might reach them.
The text by Willy Ley explains it all, lucidly show more and entertainingly. show less
Scores of Chesley Bonestell paintings, more than a dozen in color, depict the Moon and planets of the solar system as they were believed to be in the late '40s and the single-stage-to-orbit atomic rocket (with wings for re-entry), with which we might reach them.
The text by Willy Ley explains it all, lucidly show more and entertainingly. show less
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- Works
- 6
- Also by
- 27
- Members
- 163
- Popularity
- #129,734
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 2