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This review of Visual Journeys made my day:
The included works are equally impressive, especially Miller’s “Jupiter Cloudscapes.” It’s a marvelous piece, and the story attached, “Jupiter Whispers” by Christopher McKitterick, just seems to have melted in to the page. McKitterick is a writer I know little about, but his story is one of the best in the entire collection, and I think the story offers excellent insight into what’s going on beyond our ability to see.
Here's Miller's piece of art:
Click the image to go to Miller's site.
Yay!
Chris
The included works are equally impressive, especially Miller’s “Jupiter Cloudscapes.” It’s a marvelous piece, and the story attached, “Jupiter Whispers” by Christopher McKitterick, just seems to have melted in to the page. McKitterick is a writer I know little about, but his story is one of the best in the entire collection, and I think the story offers excellent insight into what’s going on beyond our ability to see.
Here's Miller's piece of art:
Click the image to go to Miller's site.
Yay!
Chris
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Visual Journeys: A Tribute to Space Artists, edited by Eric T. Reynolds
Book Review by Christopher J. Garcia
“The picture on the page and the picture in your mind from the writing seldom coincide.”
– Jef Raskin
The idea of writing a story around an image is an old one… a good one, but an old one. Visual Journeys attempts it once more, using the works of variousartists who specialize in space-related pieces. Itis at times magnificent, both in terms of writing and imagery. But as an added bonus, there’s one piecethat’s created the “traditional” way, with the artistneatly wrapping a package around a story (“KronosJazz Quartet” by Delphyne was created to go with “Where We Go,” by Richard Chewdyk. The artist list reads like a genre who’s who of thelast few decades: Bob Eggleton, Ron Miller, FrankWu, Wolf Read, Delphyne, and Chesley Bonestell,among others. That list includes Hugo and Chesleywinners, as well as folks who can flat-out paint! Theincluded works are equally impressive, especiallyMiller’s “Jupiter Cloudscapes.” It’s a marvelouspiece, and the story attached, “JupiterWhispers” byChristopher McKitterick, just seems to have melted in to the page. McKitterick is a writer I know little about, but his story is one of the best in the entire collection, and I think the story offers excellent insight into what’s going on beyond our ability to see. The writer list is also an interesting one. Frank Wu pulls double duty as both an artist and a writer. His story, “Worlds in Collusion: A Planetary Romance,” is a fine little piece of romantic SF. It’s hard to believe that Frank can excel at both art and writing, but I thought this, his third sold short story, was one of the more inventive in the anthology. There’s also Mike Resnick, a personal favorite writer of mine, who is working off a Frank Wu art piece called “AdAstra.” This is the kind of story that just about blows my mind. Who would have thought that basketball could play a role in an SF story? The idea that any planet could define itself through a single moment of basketball triumph says a lot about human glory and what it means. The story, “Monuments of Flesh and Stone” is one of Resnick’s most entertaining stories and one that got me thinking. If you want to get into the head-trip realm of reaction to art, read Jay Lake’s “After Bonestell,” based on Bob Eggleton’s painting of the same name. It’s one of those not-quite-dreamy but not-fully-real stories that Jay Lake is so good at producing. Here a man talks to the Earth, and the resulting conversation is almost religious in nature. To see Eggleton’s piece and create from it a story so far from what the average reader would ever see is part of the reason why anthologies like this work so well. They zig when you expect them to keep going straight.
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