Spacecraft, 2000 to 2100 AD: Terran Trade Authority handbook

by Stewart Cowley

Book Overview

Here at last is the comprehensive, all-color guide to the major spacecraft of the last century, 2,000-2,100 AD, the time of the great advances in space technology that followed the first, hesitant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0600383385
• ISBN13: 9780600383383
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Chartwell
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An original and inspired early look on sci-fi starships

This is a very great book with very detailed paintings of future warships and a good description to go along with each one, a must have for anyone who loves art, sci-fi, Space, war, or new ideas (or any combination of such), or is just interested in seeing what it is. No computer 3d stuff, just pure imagination. There is none of that old sci-fi pulp magazine rockets and UFOs and many of the starships in the book would put many of the spaceships used in movies today to shame (by judging how they looked like).My favorite warhip has to be the Wasp

Future History is Now Coming to Life

This book is one of my all time favorites. I have read it over and over many times in the last fifteen years. The best part is that now some of Cowley's future history is coming true. Not the parts about space ships and intersteller battles, but the TTA (Terran Trade Authority) around which the books are written has now been born. The TTA is the supreme governing body of the 21st century. Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, the WTO (World Trade Organization) has already become more powerful than the United Nations after only five years in existence. As such it is the most powerful international organization in the world! Cowley even got the name right!

excellent science fiction

I read these books as a kid in the early 80's, and I haven't seen them anywhere since. I wish the publisher would reprint them, because, as I recall, the stories and the artwork are better than most of the sci-fi you hear about today (Star Wars & Star Trek included). The stories are basically a future history, but only going forward about one-hundred years or so. Definately worth buying if you can find a copy...

Enjoyed reading many times over the years

I have three of the four books in Mr. Cowley's series (Spacecraft, Spacewrecks & Great Space Battles). I enjoy the photos and short stories. They are written as "historical" stories and I enjoy looking at the future as though it were the past. I wish more books were writen about this unique universe (TTA).

The entire series

Cowley's series was known as the TTA for Terran Trade Authority handbooks. Contrary to some of the above posts the series had four books. Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD, Great Space Battles, Spacewreck (ghostships and derelects of space) and Starliners. The art work in all four which I have is very good, however sometimes the stories don't match the pictures very well. The stories are well done and they give a good sense to an interesting universe I am sorry we did not get to see more of.