Ground Zero

London, England: Paper Tiger, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Gambino, Fred. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 112 p. : Illustrations (many in color). Foreword by Dick Jude. This stunning collection of illustrations is accompanied by short anecdotes on his inspiration and working methods, together with contributions by leading authors and artists. Author's biography excerpted from his website: Fred Gambino was born in Derby in the late 1950 s. He studied graphic design at the Kedleston Road School of Art and Technology (now Derby University). A schoolboy fan of TV science fiction, including the early Doctor Who series and the Gerry Anderson puppet shows, a career involving science fiction in some way seemed inevitable....His first commissioned cover was Beneath the Shattered Moons in the mid seventies. In 1984 a series of covers for Orbit Books (then the SF and Fantasy list of Macdonald Futura, now that of Time Warner UK) kick started his career which has followed a more or less upward trend ever since....He has also made a move into film and TV, producing conceptual designs and backgrounds for the Oscar-nominated film, Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and similar work for a proposed children s science fiction TV series...."