JF Ptak Science Books: Little Horizon/Big Sky

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Little Horizon/Big Sky

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I've always been attracted to antique prints showing distant horizons engulfed by a big (and preferably blank) sky, though in a pinch of a human landscape made miniscule by an enormous starry sky will do just fine. In any event the images below are unusual for their depictions of Big Sky--a hard thing to translate on a little piece of paper.