
LEGO® Space
Building the Future
No Starch Press
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-59327-521-1 (ISBN)
Description
Come explore an incredible LEGO® universe in LEGO Space: Building the Future. Spaceships, orbital outposts, and new worlds come to life in this unique vision of the future, built completely from LEGO bricks.
A selection of step-by-step building instructions will have you constructing your own cosmic creations to play with at home. Marvel at interstellar battlecruisers, space pirates, charming robots, and other stunning builds from an amazing future!
Reviews / Votes
"Lovingly crafted. Kids still in love with LEGO will be agog."-Kirkus Reviews
"An incredible fantasy universe."
-Space.com
"Every model you see has been beautifully recreated in LEGO, and I love that there are instructions for building some of them. There's adventure, discoveries...all beautifully photographed."
-Mutant Productions
"Nothing could be more awesome."
-Wired Science
"An incredible fantasy universe."
-Space.com
"LEGO, is there nothing it can't do? A bricky final frontier."
-SFX
"Quite simply, one of the best LEGO books ever."
-Brickset
"This is probably the best book I've read about LEGO."
-HispaBrick Magazine
"So great. I cannot imagine how many hours of happy building went into the development of the various LEGO ships and space bases included in this book, but I wish I could have participated."
-Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society
"An unexpected surprise. A beautifully illustrated science fiction story about humanity exploring and working in space."
-National Space Society
"Top-notch."
-Joe Meno, BrickJournal
"An incredibly fun book. It brought me back to my childhood and made me want to pour my LEGO bin out onto my living room floor and start building."
-NerdReactor
"May well be the best LEGO book I've ever read. A must-buy."
-Nerdly
"LEGO Space will send you scrambling to wherever you have stored your LEGO and start building, it may also cause you to usurp your children's LEGO."
-Daily Steampunk
"Stunning photography . . . top-tier building techniques."
-Bricklover18
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
Germany
Target group
LEGO and Sci-Fi fans;
- people shopping for gifts;
- buyers of The Cult of LEGO, The LEGO Adventure Book, and other No Starch LEGO books.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
komplett in Farbe
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59327-521-1 (9781593275211)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
11/2013
No Starch Press
€20.49
Available for download
Persons
Peter Reid has been a fan of LEGO since childhood. He is a contributor to The LEGO Play Book, his work appeared in The LEGO Book, and he has attended design workshops with the LEGO Group in Billund. His incredible LEGO Exo Suit, featured in this book, has been chosen by LEGO for mass production in 2014, as LEGO CUUSOO #006, Exo Suit. He lives near London with his fiancee, Yvonne.
Tim Goddard is a contributor to the New York Times-bestselling The LEGO Ideas Book and The LEGO Play Book. He has also participated in product development with the LEGO Group. He works as a laboratory manager and lives with his wife, Sharon, in the UK.
Content
Chapter 1: The Space Age
Chapter 2: The Federation
Chapter 3: Ships of the Federation
Chapter 4: Inhospitable Climate Engineers
Chapter 5: New Frontiers
Chapter 6: Realm of Shadows
Chapter 7: Army of Darkness
Chapter 8: Star Justice
Chapter 9: Infiltration
Chapter 10: Across the Universe
Chapter 2: The Federation
Chapter 3: Ships of the Federation
Chapter 4: Inhospitable Climate Engineers
Chapter 5: New Frontiers
Chapter 6: Realm of Shadows
Chapter 7: Army of Darkness
Chapter 8: Star Justice
Chapter 9: Infiltration
Chapter 10: Across the Universe