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Genre Speculative science Adaptations Conquest of Space (1955) | 4.2/5 Goodreads Originally published 1949 Illustrator Chesley Bonestell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards International Fantasy Award for Non-fiction Similar Willy Ley books, Astronautics books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Conquest of Space is a 1949 speculative science book written by Willy Ley and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. The book contains a portfolio of paintings by Bonestell depicting the possible future exploration of the solar system, with explanatory text by Ley.
Some of Bonestell's designs inspired the look of George Pal's 1955 science fiction movie Conquest of Space, which also takes its title from the book, but uses it as a framework on which to hang a melodramatic plot. Bonestell's illustrations of the Moon in The Conquest of Space were also used by Hergé as a basis for his illustrations of the lunar surface in The Adventures of Tintin comic, Explorers on the Moon.
Of the 58 illustrations by Bonestell in Conquest, most had been published previously, in color, in magazines.