{"id":9016,"date":"2023-07-03T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T04:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2023-07-03T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:52:14","slug":"space-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9016","title":{"rendered":"Space and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Choose Your Own Adventure books – a staple of every 80’s kid’s collection. I loved these books and they definitely got me reading more – but even as a kid I could tell they weren’t the best written things. Seemingly intelligent choices would get you killed while running off against your parents wishes on the family boat across a lake during a thunderstorm would lead to high adventure. <\/p>\n\n\n

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One thing I did love, however, was the amazing illustrations in some of the books. Paul Granger’s illustrations were some of my favorites. Space And Beyond<\/em> was definitely one of those books where the writing was pretty sub-par, but the pictures were fascinating to me as a kid. I remember trying to copy the ships and make my own – to reasonably good effect on the side of my notebooks and test papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time as I was exposed to more sci-fi art; and started seeing some similarities between Space and Beyond<\/em> and other work. I wonder if Paul Granger got some of his inspiration from John Berkey<\/a>. John Berkey was a fabulous sci-fi artist that created many futuristic works in the 70’s – including one of the most iconic Star Wars posters of the era. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think these were ‘heavily inspired’? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Choose Your Own Adventure books – a staple of every 80’s kid’s collection. I loved these books and they definitely got me reading more – but even as a kid I could tell they weren’t the best written things. Seemingly intelligent choices would get you killed while running off against your parents wishes on the family boat across a lake during a thunderstorm would lead to high adventure. One thing I did love, however, was the amazing illustrations in some…<\/p>\n

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