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Wayne Barlowe (Page 193)

(C) Wayne Barlowe

Barlowe's Daggerwrist is one member of the menagerie of creatures that inhabit the artist's imaginary planet, Darwin. Living exclusively in the dwindling pocket-forests of the planet, these social, arborial creatures — Barlowe tells us — have "piton-like forelimbs, gliding membranes and powerful ricochetal hind-limbs" that make them "perfectly adapted for life in the tree-tops."

Alan Bean (Page 37)

(C) Alan Bean

This 2004 work is by American astronaut-artist Alan Bean, who walked on the moon as part of the Apollo 12 team. This image appeared in "The Art of Space" (Zenith Press, 2014).

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