Art Guest 
Ron
Miller Ron Miller is an illustrator
and author living in South Boston, Virginia. His primary work entails the creation
of illustrations for books and magazines, specializing in astronomical, astronautical
and science fiction subjects. His work has appeared on scores of book jackets,
book interiors and in magazines such as National Geographic, Reader's Digest,
Scientific American, Smithsonian, Air & Space, Sky & Telescope, Newsweek, Natural
History, Discover, Geo, etc. In
addition to dozens of original magazine articles and professional papers he has
written, he has had some fifty books of his own published, either created wholly
by himself or in collaboration-most often with noted astronomer William K. Hartmann.
These include the Hugo-nominated The Grand Tour, Cycles of Fire, In the Stream
of Stars, and The History of Earth (all published by Workman Publishing Co.).
The Miller-Hartmann series have gone through numerous printings and foreign translations.
All of them have been Book-of-the-Month Club Feature Selections (as well as selections
of the Science, Quality Paperback and Astronomy Book Clubs) and have seen numerous
translations. They have received many commendations and the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific has called The Grand Tour "a modern classic." His most recent books
are Digital Art, published by Lerner, and Cleopatra, published by Chelsea House,
both in early 2008. Considered an
authority on Jules Verne, Miller has translated and illustrated new, definitive
editions of Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unicorn, 1989) and Journey to
the Center of the Earth. A major companion/atlas to Verne's works, Extraordinary
Voyages, was published in 1994. He has acted as a consultant on Verne for Disney
Imagineering and A&E's Biography series. Miller is also considered an authority
on the early history of spaceflight. A book published in July 1993, The Dream
Machines, a comprehensive, quarter-million-word 744-page history of manned spacecraft,
was nominated for the prestigious IAF Manuscript Award and won the Booklist Editor's
Choice Award for 1994. He has also designed a set of ten commemorative stamps
for the U.S. Postal Service. Miller
has also written a trilogy of fantasy novels-Palaces and Prisons, Silk and Steel
and Hearts and Armor-published by Ace in 1991 and 1992, as well as a fourth volume
in the series, Mermaids & Meteors. An heroic fantasy, Bradamant, won the Violet
Crown award in 2001. His hard-boiled detective novel, Velda, was followed by a
series of (to date) six comic books. He
has been a production illustrator for motion pictures, notably Dune and Total
Recall, and has done preproduction concepts, consultation and matte art for David
Lynch, George Miller, John Ellis and James Cameron. He was the art director the
computer-generated showride film, Impact!. He has taken part in numerous international
space art workshops and exhibitions, including seminal sessions held in Iceland
and the Soviet Union, and has lectured on space art and space history in the U.S.,
France, Japan, Italy and Great Britain. Miller has been on the faculty of the
International Space University. His original paintings are in numerous private
and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Pushkin
Museum (Moscow). Before becoming
a free-lance illustrator in 1977, Miller was art director for the National Air
& Space Museum's Albert Einstein Planetarium. Prior to this he was a commercial
advertising illustrator. Miller
is a contributing editor for Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine, a member of the
International Academy of Astronautics, a Life Member and past Trustee of the International
Association for the Astronomical Arts, an Honorary Member of the Sociétè Jules
Verne (Paris), a Member of the North American Jules Verne Society and a Fellow
of the British Interplanetary Society.
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