Author: Staley, Michael

Ecpyrosis is an alluring, informative and voluminous publication consisting of sixteen articles drawn from the first five issues of Starfire, together with the best of the artwork.

Also included are two new colour plates: a frontispiece consisting of detail from the cover artwork by Kyle Fite, and an endispiece of the covers of the constituent issues of Starfire.

Printed on a substantial coated paper in order to take the heavy blacks in much of the artwork, Ecpyrosis is a heavyweight volume is every sense of the word.

The first issue of Starfire was published in 1986, and the fifth issue appeared in 1994.

These years encompass Volume One, the constituent issues of which have long been out of print and appear but rarely on the second-hand market.

This selection of articles and artwork from these first five issues is newly typeset, the articles have been lightly edited where necessary, and the artwork has wherever possible been freshly scanned and cleaned to give sharper and clearer reproduction.

The result is an enthralling and substantial collection of articles and artwork that embody the best of Starfire.

The cover reproduced here to the left incorporates beautiful artwork by Kyle Fite.