Archive for March 25, 2019
Fragment(s): Monday Maps and Diagrams (Science Fiction) 3/25/19: A French edition of Mark S. Geston’s Lords of the Starship (1967) and Out of the Mouth of the Dragon (1969)
I always a book more, whether fiction or nonfiction, when they have maps.
With maps you can see where the current action in connection with past action.
Today’s installment of Monday Maps and Diagrams returns to the worlds of Mark S. Geston. In 1980 French publisher OPTA released the first two volumes of Geston’s TheWars series,Lords of the Starship (1967) and Out of the Mouth of the Dragon (1969), in a handsome volume with a striking interior map by Claude Fritsch. The series charts the slow climb out of a Dark Age, where the landscape is littered with unusual mutants and the relics of past technologically superior empires and peoples…. I find the map and cover try to evoke more “medieval” imagery than the actual novels (I mean, even in the first one, the technology exists to “construct” a spaceship).
Enjoy! And, as always, comments are welcome and appreciated!
My review of Lords of the Starship (1967).
Citation: Claude Fritsch’s interior map (above) and cover art (below) for the 1st French OPTA edition of Les…
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