Merrick here... ...with an interesting opportunity for AICN readers. We have five (5) copies of a new book from Abrams called STAR WARS ART: VISIONS to put in the hands of lucky participants. In short, the title presents interpretations of the STAR WARS universe by many compelling artists - genre-related and mainstream alike. People like: Alex Ross, William Stout, Moebius, Syd Mead, H.R. Giger, Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo, Michael Grimaldi, Anthony J. Ryder, Eric Joyner, and Gary Carter. This represents a random sampling - there are many more participants offering a number of extraordinarily realized and imaginatively conceived pieces. The book is consistently beautiful, always interesting, and frequently provocative. I've shown it to several friends (all of them "like" STAR WARS but none of them are franchise sycophants) and their response has been unanimously positive, even enthusiastic. One of them said, and I'm paraphrasing slightly here, "I either need to put this down, or stare at it all night." EMBIGGEN this cover art by Masey for a hint of the detail you'll find here.
The folks over Lucasfilm have assembled this nice trailer to tell you more about the book:
175 pages of crisply reproduced artwork presented on high quality paper, STAR WARS ART: VISIONS includes a foreward by George Lucas and an introduction by Lucasland historian J.W. Rinzler. How to attain this fine publication? Please follow the rules below precisely. In the past we've had folks unnecessarily disqualified for deviating from the simple parameters laid out herein, and we hate to see that happen! ** Sometime between the time you read this and 11:59:59 PM CST USA (i.e. one second before midnight CST USA) on Friday November 12, 2010, send an e-mail to me *****via the e-mail link below*****. ** You can enter four (4) times a day for the contest's duration. ** Include your name and mailing address in this e-mail. The address is to expedite prize shipment only and will be summarily discarded once book recipients are chosen and announced. No spam, no mailing lists, etc. ** Be sure to send from an ACTIVE (and frequently checked) E-MAIL ACCOUNT. If I try to reach you & my message bounces back? I'll trash your win and move on to the next closest winning contestant I can reach. Really not trying to be a jerk here, but I've no time to chase folks down. ** I've already pre-selected five (5) times of day between today (Tuesday November 9, 2010) and 11:59:59 PM CST USA on Friday November 12, 2010. The person who e-mails me at (or closest to) these times will receive 1 (one) copy of the STAR WARS ART: VISIONS book. NOTE: I've been asked this before, so...for clarity...I'm using whatever time is stamped on the Yahoo mailing address established for this contest as the determiner. I'm in Central Time USA, so I guess that's a CST time stamp (?) ** The five (5) recipients will be announced on this site 'round Monday November 15, 2010. ** You can only win one copy of this book. ** Contest open to U.S. and Canadian readers only. **Abrams will have have the recipients' contact information in-hand Monday morning and will be generously handling fulfillment in this contest. ** As a general FYI, you should know that...due to the number and frequency of entries...recipients in past contests were sometimes determined by matters of seconds. Literally. And that's it!

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Best of luck to you. And, enjoy! We'd like to thank Abrams for making this contest possible and, as I mentioned, above handling its fulfillment. You can find their official website HERE. STAR WARS ART: VISIONS is now in stores, and is also available at a nice price HERE.
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Hint: one of the pre-selected times falls before noon today.