Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate

Vincent Di Fate, Vincent Di Fate. Paper Tiger (UK), $29.95 (112pp) ISBN 978-1-85585-949-4

In a career spanning some four decades, Vincent Di Fate has painted countless color-drenched scenes of space monsters, sea creatures, alien landscapes and futuristic technologies. In The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate, he reproduces over a hundred of his paintings in a slick coffee-table volume for any fan of the fantastical, dividing them into categories (Gadget Man, Future Real, Fantasy and Horror and Fantasy Imagined) and accompanying them with highly readable essays on UFOs, the Golden Age of SF movies and more.

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