NEW – 50 YEARS IN SPACE
What We Thought Then. . . What We Know Now

In 1954 Patrick Moore and David Hardy planned a book to be called The Challenge of the Stars, but it failed to find a publisher at the time ("too speculative"!), and it was 1972 before a book with this title was finally published, with a revised edition in 1978.

In 2004 a unique book was published by AAPPL. Futures has since received the Sir Arthur Clarke Award (see left) and was nominated for a Hugo, SF's Oscar. It has just (October 2006) been reissued in revised form as 50 YEARS IN SPACE: What We Thought Then. . . What We Know Now.

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View some sample images.
See also individual planet pages.

Read the text of a double-page colour spread which appeared in the GUARDIAN Art Supplement on 15 April 2004 or an online extract.

NEW! Read two reviews on The Alien Online website, and an interview (January 2005) on SFCrowsnest.

NB: Large Giclée prints of several illustrations are available in the USA from Pixibilities Inc.

HARDYWARE: The Art of David A Hardy

Fully illustrated 128-page hardcover book featuring a 'retrospective' of Hardy's work from the early 1950s to the present day. Text by Chris Morgan, foreword by Stephen Baxter.

THIS BOOK IS NOW OUT OF PRINT.

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Read the REVIEW by Ron Miller for InfinityPlus

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* AURORA (September 2003)

Aurora ~ the first NOVEL by David A Hardy. Please click for MORE DETAILS or read a REVIEW for Spaceflight magazine.

from Spaceflight
Aurora is in large paperback format and published in the USA by Cosmos Books/Wildside Press. Available to order from any bookshop.

Price: £8.99 postpaid (signed copies from address below)

" ... Aurora is the first SF novel I have read in a very long time that I thought had an original plot..." (US reader; from Amazon.com)

VISIONS OF SPACE:
Artists Journey Through the Cosmos

Published by Paper Tiger in 1990, this book, written, compiled and designed by David A Hardy, was highly acclaimed in reviews as 'the definitive book on space art' and contains the work of 72 leading space artists, dating back to 1874.

Sorry ~ now OUT OF PRINT. But please e-mail to be placed on list.

* THE CELTIC CALENDAR

A book was recently published by The C.W.Daniel Company Ltd, entitled The Celtic Calendar. This has a cover, and is beautifully illustrated throughout, by David Hardy's daughter, Meraylah Allwood. See Meraylah's website, or buy from Amazon.

Space Musik DVD

An original DVD featuring original work by David Hardy of planets, moons, asteroids, space tourism, galaxies, pulsars, exoplanets and alien worlds ~ examples of just about everything ever painted by Hardy!

The music is by Holst, Tchaikowsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Smetana and more.

Price: £9.50 postpaid

REVIEWS

From the back cover of FUTURES:
"David Hardy's Space Art is unique. He creates his own special kind of virtual reality; through his astounding vision and technique we glimpse landscapes in worlds where Man's foot has never trod.  One of my most treasured possessions is an original painting by David Hardy of a total eclipse in Chile, which we attended together.  It is noticeable that David's painting captures the awesome beauty of the occasion far better than any photograph I have seen.  So it is in these pages, where, through David's visionary art, we clearly 'see' the beginnings of the fulfilment of Man's dreams of Space.

Futures is a fitting testament to David's long standing collaboration with Sir Patrick Moore, who, through his world record-breaking The Sky at Night BBC series, has inspired generations of British astronomers.

In the pages of this wonderful book, these two men take us out to the stars ~ and beyond." ~ Dr Brian May, Queen Guitarist and Astronomer.

Review of AURORA:
I have been a science fiction fan for over 50 years, but recently have found very little science fiction I thought was worth reading. AURORA is the first SF novel I have read in a very long time that I thought had an original plot ~ and one that I did not guess the outcome by the end of the first chapter. (From Amazon.com)