I could not resist posting this about The Codex Seraphinianus. For anyone who does not know it is a very strange book of art... or science fiction, its really tough to say. It appeared on the BookFinder.com report this past year as the 8th most searched for book in the science fiction, fantasy and horror category, and now you can see why it's so popular.
The book is an encyclopedia about an alien world, written in an alien [many say false] language. AbeBooks has written a comprehensive review of this fascinating book, with heaps of photos.
You can check out the whole feature here.
The Codex Seraphinianus is quite rare and expensive but there is a reprint edition published in Italy that is much more affordable.
Not as weird as _Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, but we'll probably have to wait 500 years for an English translation to confirm this!
:-)
Posted by: L. D. Mitchell | April 12, 2009 at 12:56 PM
It probably wouldn't make us book first choice as one of the rare holidays that went wrong was booked through them and they were useless so we
Posted by: ristin | April 13, 2011 at 02:09 AM