R P V (remotely piloted
vehicle)
(From the book "Solar Wind Volume 2")
By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor
Another piece created
exclusively for The Solar Wind Picture Library, the
copyrights licensing division of the Artist's company
Solar Wind (after which the Solar Wind books were
named).
As mentioned elsewhere
in this book, demand for the Artist's work was so
intense during the 1970s on-wards into the late 1990s
(when the Artist decided to go "self-published" and no
longer concentrate on having "other publishers" publish
his works) that whenever he could fit them into his work
schedule, he'd create extra works that could be licensed
to publishers "from the library" if they found
themselves in tight or indeed otherwise unsolvable
deadline situations.
RPV (remotely piloted
vehicle) was created to satisfy any book cover
requirement for a space hardware image.
Given the not inconsiderable reputation the
artist's space hardware images had gained, and very
quickly from the start of his career, the publisher
could feel secure that, even if the image did not
exactly fit the book's story-line, but was at least a
"near approximation", a deadline crisis could be avoided
and sales flow maintained.
Deborah Susan Jones

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