Art, Symbol & Imagination
Fire Life on a Fixed Star
Great tongues of flame rise around a small cylindrical form near the centre of the scene. The contrast in scale makes the vessel seem almost swallowed by its environment. The book presents this as an imagined encounter with life in the heat of a fixed star.
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Illustrator not identified. "Fire Life on a Fixed Star" [editorial title]. In Life in a Thousand Worlds, Rev. W. S. Harris. G. Holzapfel, sole manufacturer, Cleona, Pennsylvania; undated title., undated edition, G. Holzapfel. Source scan leaf 115. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0441-0115
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
An illustration of an imagined inhabited world in Harris’s speculative religious narrative. The surrounding photographed book page has been cropped to the original picture.
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Illustrator not identified. Fire Life on a Fixed Star. Life in a Thousand Worlds. Scan leaf 115. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0441-0115