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Book notes: 'The Alien World - The Complete Illustrated Guide'

Book notes: 'The Alien World - The Complete Illustrated Guide'

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If you’re familar with the Terran Trade Authority (TTA) books, you’ll immediately understand what the deal is with The Alien World - The Complete Illustrated Guide, by Steven Eisler, from 1980.

The book collects 90 previously-used book cover illustrations and wraps them up in a fictional alien anthropology of the hundreds of alien species in the entire …

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