Star Wars : Incredible Cross-Sections : The Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Vehicles and Spacecraft - Hardcover

Reynolds, DR David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751370800 ISBN 13: 9780751370805

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections uses DK's acclaimed cross-section artwork techniques to reveal - for the first time ever - the inner workings of the key vehicles and spacecraft from the Star Wars trilogy the most popular films of all time. Given unrestricted access to the famed Lucasfilm archives at Skywalker Ranch in California author David West Reynolds has created the definitive guide to Star Wars vehicles and spacecraft. Fourteen large-scale "exploded artworks"- including a gatefold cutaway of the Death Star - combine with in-depth text and dozens of annotations to present a unique and fascinating reference work. This is the first book ever to illustrate in stunning full-colour artwork just how the machines of Star Wars operate as working systems. No Star Wars fan should be without it! Dr. David West Reynolds has also written five Star Wars books including Dorling Kindersley's best-selling Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections and Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary. Richard Chasemore has worked as an illustrator in the USA and Europe on a great variety of projects including the best-selling Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections. He enjoys perilous sports involving boards and high velocities. Hans Jenssen specializes in technical art and particularly in machines and has illustrated several Dorling Kindersley books including Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections with Richard Chasemore. He lives in England but spends his vacations in Tatooine engaged in moderately disreputable pursuits. (c) 1998 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Used under Authorisation. www.starwars.com

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Review:

The popularity of the Star Wars films seems only to grow with time, and the release of the new "prequel" trilogy is sure to add to that ever-burgeoning fame. Star Wars: Incredible Cross-sections is another in Dorling Kindersley's beautifully produced series of companion books providing interesting background trivia to the all-time classic trilogy. Using the full colour cross-section artwork techniques familiar from previous DK illustrated works, Reynolds, Jenssen and Chasemore collectively reveal the inner workings of 15 of the key vehicles and spacecraft from the original three films. Want to know how the ungainly AT-AT walkers (the metallic behemoths witnessed at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back) manage to move and the ethos behind their unusual design? Or perhaps the combat advantages of a TIE fighter over a T-65 X-wing, or even the modifications made over the years to Han Solo's legendary YT-1300 stock light freighter, better known as the Millennium Falcon? This book will make all clear, illustrating it (almost literally) down to the last screw. To my mind, this is the real strength of the book--the texture and precision of Jenssen and Chasemore's illustrations bears the most minute examination, and even those with no knowledge of or interest in Star Wars would surely marvel at these wonderful examples of sci-fi art. But, of course, this is really a book aimed at the committed fan, and the information David West Reynolds has retrieved from his research into the Lucasfilm archives will leave none of them disappointed. --Alisdair Bowles

Synopsis:

This book explores the inner workings of some of the most famous spacecraft and vehicles in movie history. It shows where everyone was on Princess Leia's Blockade Runner when it was captured in the first scenes of the first film and you can see Boba Fett bring Han Solo's frozen body aboard Slave 1.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0751370800
• ISBN 13: 9780751370805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Jenssen Hans, Chasemore Richard