Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text).
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It contains his 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, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America.
A number of supplemental materials (fake Arkham Advertiser clippings, pictures of the Elder Thing city, and rubbings of the Elder Things' hieroglyphics, with the images of the Elder Things based on their appearance in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials) were included with the CD, to maintain the illusion that is was an actual recording of a real-life event.
TV Guide | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Michelin Guide | Wayne Barlowe | Comics Buyer's Guide | Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide | The Official Razzie Movie Guide | Dungeon Master's Guide | The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) | The Guide | Maine Guide | Guide book | Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | The Lonely Poets' Guide to Belfast | strategy guide | Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower | Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide | guide | Food guide pyramid | Electronic program guide | Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | TV Guide (magazine) | The Insider's Guide To Love | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) | The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association |
Fox Animation had originally planned to create a CGI adaptation of Barlowe's Inferno, but all plans were scrapped with Titan A.E. 's failed release & the subsequent closing of the studio.