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TTA Books and Galactic Encounters |
TTA Handbooks The Terran Trade Authority handbooks were written by Stewart Cowley in 1979-1980 depicting a fictional near future where man has reached the stars by nations collaborating on joint projects to explore the solar system and nearby stars. The writer has used a huge amount of artwork originally produced by a number of artists (also used for the covers of a number of sci-fi books produced from the mid-seventies to the early eighties) and a background written around the scenes to produce a fairly believeable background. Much of what Cowley has written has already come to pass, for example ion drives are in common use in space probes (though less powerful than those employed in the TTA books!) There are four books in the series - 'Spacecraft 2000-2100AD' covers the first hundred years of Man's exploration in space and the Proxima Wars, 'Great Space Battles' looks at the conflicts the federation has been involved in, including the Laguna Wars in the 23rd century. 'SpaceWreck' looks at incidents when spaceflight takes an unexpected turn and some of the derelicts of space. The final book 'Starliners' looks at spacetravel throughout the federation in the 23rd century and some of the member worlds.
Galactic Encounters Series
How did the TTA books come about?
TTA Links
Philip R. Banks Interview with Stewart Cowley
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