Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
Cover of the first edition
AuthorsWayne Barlowe, Ian Summers, Beth Meacham
IllustratorWayne Barlowe
Cover artistWayne Barlowe
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherWorkman Publishing Company
Publication date
1979
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages144
ISBN978-0894805004
OCLC5491785
LC ClassNC975.5.B36A4

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979; second edition 1987) is a science fiction-themed book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text). It contains Barlowe's visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals. It was nominated for an American Book Award and for the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.

The second edition has an added foreword by Robert Silverberg.[1]

After the success of the work, in 1996 Barlowe and Neil Duskis wrote a second book, Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy.

  1. ^ Barlowe, Wayne (1987). Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. New York: Workman Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89480-500-2.