Expedition

Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV

The book that Discovery Channel's ALIEN PLANET was based upon.
New York, March 24, 2366 Five years to the day after returning to Earth, Wayne Douglas Barlowe had published his collection of paintings, drawings, and sketches made during the first manned expedition to the planet Darwin IV. Now back in print after years secluded in the collections of ardent followers, the public can once again stroll through the exotic images of life on that distant planet. Barlowe's exquisite renderings and detailed notes from the far reaches of time will transport you light years into the future.

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Orbitstar: Expedition to Darwin IV board game

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Orbitstar: Expedition to Darwin IV

A must for fans of the book. Orbitstar: Expedition to Darwin IV brings the creatures and landscapes of Darwin IV to life as a board game. Now live on Kickstarter.

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“Wayne Barlowe’s Inferno is an awesome visual work, taking us into a contorted landscape of the damned which Dante himself could never have imagined.”
—Director James Cameron

Barlowe's Inferno

A Vividly Illustrated Travelogue of a Journey Through Hell  

What explains humankind's fascination with Hell: a fear of punishment, an intuitive sense of divine justice, burning questions about the afterlife? Acclaimed artist and author Wayne Barlowe American Book Award and Hugo nominee, character designer for Galaxy Quest, Hellboy, Avatar, and other films has sought the answers to these eternal questions, daringly undertaking one of the few mortal journeys ever made to the Underworld itself to bear witness to what he calls "the dismal reality of a punished humanity's ultimate fate. 
Deep from the bowels of Hell, Barlowe offers his own vision of the landscapes previously explored by Milton, Dante, and Virgil. His is a study in time and human history, capturing Hellish forms that draw on Judeo-Christian mythology, Medieval grimoires, Egyptian and Assyrian religious traditions, and the works of Romantic writers. Alternating pages of paintings and descriptive accounts catalogue the haunting, horrifying sights that populate the nightmarish terrain of Hell. Somber scenes shrouded in darkness and a confederacy of grotesquely contorted souls are rendered in vivid color as Barlowe travels through Hell's landscape and ultimately to Dis, the Underworld's cancerous capital city. 
Barlowe's Inferno serves simultaneously as searing rumination on the nature of evil and human fate, metaphor for the cruelties and indignities suffered here on Earth, and ultimately as singular testament to the artistic and visionary power of human imagination. 

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Brushfire

A Continuation of the Hellish Studies Undertaken in Inferno

Few mortals could survive a trip to Hell and back. Despite recounting his own journey to the Underworld in his Inferno, artist Wayne Barlowe—American Book Award and Hugo nominee, character designer for Galaxy Quest, Hellboy, Avatar, and other films—was unable to fully exorcise the terrible sights from his mind. In Brushfire he continues the explorations first undertaken in Inferno, presenting unique studies of some of the most significant entities and places encountered during his sojourn in Hell. With brief written introductions and paintings in full color, Barlowe introduces readers to Hell’s terrible figures, with portraits of the demons Sargatanas, Baron Faraii, and the Decurion. He watches flies terrifyingly assemble into Prince Beelzebub, and resists the perverse sensuality of a pelvic-spiked succubus. He encounters the great general Hannibal Barca and the Daughters of Lucifer cult, and visits Mount Grigori, the flesh-and-bone monastery of Azazel, and the enormous stables of Yen Wang. Barlowe’s vivid, richly detailed renderings present the inhumanly contorted bodies, the dark and fiery Hellscape, and the disconcerting details of his own harrowing experience touring the land of the damned. “Many people think of Hell as a place for the dead,” writes Barlowe. “They are sorely wrong. Hell is very much alive.” In these exquisitely disquieting pages the essential truth of his statement grows ever more vibrant.

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WAYNE BARLOWE is a science fiction and fantasy author and artist who has created images for books, film, video games, and galleries and written and illustrated a number of art books, including Expedition, Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy, Barlowe’s Inferno, Brushfire, The Alien Life of Wayne Barlowe, and An Alphabet of Dinosaurs. Expedition aired as the Discovery Channel special, Alien Planet. A board game based on Expedition will be released in 2026. His video game concept work includes Dante’s Inferno, Shadow of Mordor, and Shadow of War.  His film designs can be seen in Blade2, Galaxy Quest, Hellboy 1 and 2, Harry Potter 3 and 4, Avatar, and Pacific Rim. He has written two novels, God’s Demon and its sequel, The Heart of Hell, and is at work on the third and final novel, Lucifer’s Soul. Barlowe is also currently writing and illustrating The Wildlife of Hell: A Natural History for a 2026 release. His artbook, Psychopomp II, accumulating 30 years of his Hell paintings and drawings, was published in 2021.