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Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a highly successful science fiction and fantasy and landscape artist.

Bob Eggleton is a recipient of six Hugo Award as Best Professional Artist. He has also received for his art eleven Chelsey Awards and the Locus Award. He is a frequent guest of honor at science fiction conventions all over North America and the world. He also served as Concept Artist on the acclaimed animated movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

He has done countless book covers, for authors such as Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Hal Clement, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov. His magazine credits include Astromony and Sky & Telescope, Science Fiction Age, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has also illustrated many of his own compilations such as Alien Worlds, Alien Horizons, Sea Monsters, Dragonhenge, and Greetings from Earth.

He also appeared as a "fleeing" extra in the 2002 film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.

Bob Eggleton's artworks cover a range of subjects that too many people seem incompatible. They go from "straight" dinosaur portraits, landscapes and astronomically plausible pictures of deep space to the most whimsical realms of fantasy. But to him there is no conflict. His imagination crashes through the boundaries almost without noticing and the different genres lend strength to each other. Straight dinosaurs give credibility to Bob's dragons and aliens. Fantasy feeds back subliminally into the straight pieces to give them an energy often lacking in specialist illustrations.