Cezzar, Juliette & Éditions Aéro-Dynamiques
“Paper Astronaut: The Paper Spacecraft Mission Manual”
Universe Publishing
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-789-31881-7 Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: Go into any hobby shop, and you’ll find plenty of models of airplanes and cars and ships, but rockets? You can have any rocket you want as long as it’s a Space Shuttle. Space interested model builders have adapted to this by promulgating a large number of paper models. The best round-up of links to paper models is over at Hobbyspace, but this book is a terrific introduction to the hobby with an international line-up of spacecraft.
Librarian’s Note: I am beyond impressed with this one. The graphic style makes it appealing to younger audiences, but the story is subtle enough for adults to enjoy. Spanning the years from the 1939 World’s Fair in NYC to beyond the world of tomorrow, this one is clearly a labor of love, but also of genius. It serves as touching testimony to the fact that while yesterday may be forever lost to us, tomorrow never is. There’s no question this one gets a Full Moon at perigee rating. You owe it to yourself to check this one out.
Librarian’s Note: Lots of good entries again this year. The one that really touches me is “We are back” (”Monday Morning” is pretty cool, too), but there are many good ones to appeal to a variety of tastes, and that I wouldn’t mind having in the Lunar Library.
NB: The WJU Center for Educational Technologies is working on a MoonWorld for Second Life, which should be available later this year. 1.5 billion square meters of virtual Moon to explore!
Science Channel
“Essential Space Collection”
Image Entertainment
2009 Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: Includes the up-to-date documentary “Base Camp Moon”, as well as five others, making this one a good educational value for the money.
Librarian’s Note: This is the best documentary I’ve seen on the Moon in a long time, and I’ve seen all of the films in the Lunar Library. The science is strong, the facts are solid. I’m so happy to see a documentary this good and up to date that I’ll give it a Full Moon at perigee.
Young, Amanda
“Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection”
powerHouse Books
2009
ISBN13: 978-1-576-87498-1 Publisher’s Web Site
Bell, Sherry & Langdon Morris (Eds.)
“Living in Space: Cultural and Social Dynamics, Opportunities, and Challenges in Permanent Space Habitats”
Aerospace Technology Working Group
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-578-02137-9 Publisher’s Web Site The Space Show Interview Lulu Preview
Librarian’s Note: This new ATWG title was available early at the 2009 ISDC.
Barrows, Walter A.
“Dark Side of the Moon”
#1 of 100 Artist’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: Once again, the ISDC has space art on display, and I stopped short as soon as I saw this one. The original painting is well beyond the Lunar Library’s acquisition budget (because he doesn’t want to sell it), but Mr. Barrows is going to start making limited-edition high quality prints available of his works, and he was kind enough to let me grab the first one for this painting.
Librarian’s Note: And here I was wondering where I was going to find some astronaut-y type miniatures to use with my Star Tiles from Fat Dragon Games. Not astronaut-y, but I do dig the retro stylings. Requires some assembly, and painting, and a bit of imagination doesn’t hurt, either.
