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LEGO Space: Building the Future Hardcover – November 1, 2013

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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!
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"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

About the Author

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1593275218
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1593275211
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.55 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.31 x 0.72 x 11.13 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Received As Described
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024
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Seller made sure to note book as missing a few pages, was reflected on price. Fortunately pages were not “critical” ones, and overall was satisfied with purchase. Five star rating is for much needed honesty.
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Clay A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
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Great book!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Cool book, but not all the build instructions are available.
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2021
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Cool book, but not all the build instructions are available.

It kicks butt with greebling, but plans are not included for all the MOCs in the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Super fun graphic novel of exploration, with a brilliant view of the future of humanity!
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This is such a neat book on so many levels. I read it the first night it arrived, then lent it to a friend who is into space physics. I'll retrieve it soon for a reread!

The book is a fairly hefty full-color hardback which starts with a brief history of space exploration. It begins with Sputnik, and moves forward through some other major accomplishments like Voyager and Apollo. What a start! What a basis for a story! This is followed by a fun fiction story of the near future, when humanity awakens and steps out into the beyond all around us. The format is somewhat like a comic book or graphic novel, but with actual pictures of LEGO sculptures instead of drawings. Space ships of course, but also tense scenes of minifigures working or confronting problems, space colonies on distant worlds, and lots of robots, and a tiny bit of violence and sci-fi horror. The artist uses an absolute minimal amount of touch ups to the pictures, such as adding rocket plumes from engine nozzles, and some planetary and space images as backgrounds. It is mostly just beautiful images of actual physical LEGO creations, put together with an enthralling story.

I found out about this book thanks to the author's successful and awesome LEGO Ideas "Exo Suit 21109" LEGO set (which comes with a pair of unique green suited space minifigs!). A slightly modified version of his Exo Suit features prominently in some parts of this story -- it's a shame more of the ships, vehicles, and sets are not available as LEGO sets. The book is interspersed with standard-style instructions for building select models (like Sputnik!), and showcases a large variety of building techniques and styles. Again, I would love to be able to click a button on the computer and purchase all the required parts. Come on LEGO Group -- let us order any parts in any quantity!

The story itself is a stand-alone science fiction short about near future exploration and colonization of the solar system. Wonderful and welcome view point on the proper future of genetics and robotics and AI. So often, in fiction, these are demonized by traditionalist Luddites (whom I take as hacks seeking populist sales, instead of contributing anything new). It is so refreshing to see science fiction embracing the hopes of scientists and engineers like myself. Yet not everything in the story is a bright and carefree utopia -- danger lurks and threatens in the blackness of space, and not just technical hurdles...

There is a secret sub-story, which someone who has grown up with LEGO from the 1970s/1980s might recognize. It is a delightful twist, like revealing an unknown unexpected backstory to my entire childhood. Thank you Peter -- I didn't know the epochs fit together like that.

Finally, I sincerely hope there are sequels or spinoffs. A detailed, full LEGO implementation of all of the existing space probes would be a good study. Our real space exploration has revealed so many exciting new places. Pluto is at last resolved beyond a blurry smudge, into ice mountains and fresh nitrogen glaciers. Enceladus and Titan beckon: the first with perpetually fresh snow from geysers spawned in subsurface oceans, and the latter with methane/ethane rivers and seas. We've started to "feel" when distant black holes merge. Psyche will be in close orbit of a giant iron-nickel asteroid, and SPP will graze the sun itself. And there are a lot of unclimbed and unskied peaks and walls on Mars and elsewhere.

This is a new age of exploration, and books like this inspire, while showcasing a unique art.
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Nathan M
5.0 out of 5 stars All the Elements of a Brick-Built Universe
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2019
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LEGO Space ties the reader into the story within the first few pages by presenting a LEGO version of humankind's current reach toward the stars. Within a century or so that "small step for a man" has led to orderly space stations within our solar system and a professional Federation at the helm of a golden age of Space Exploration. The story arc brings forth nostalgia of the now-classic Stewart Cowley era; think Great Space Battles with a historically-minded LEGO flavor.

The plot is occasionally sprinkled with short building instructions for the smaller models featured in the book, allowing readers with a decent collection to make their own copies of the impressive and compact builds that grace the pages. Edge-to-edge full color pictures allow the characters and spaceships to come to life, brick-built landscaping used where possible and expansive star fields offering the perfect backdrop to the larger structures.

Much LEGO design and storytelling effort has gone into this work of optimistic fiction, providing a short but fulfilling read for a rainy day. The intersection of LEGO and space exploration opens an endless platform for any who care to write within it; Reid and Goddard have provided a volume that covers lightyears and paves the way for your very own minifigure cadets to find their place in the cosmos.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia + amazing Lego skills = One great book
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2014
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I grew up on Lego Space, and this book both manages to capture that nostalgia and "update" it to my adult sensibilities. Its funny, but I think the "narrative" woven here between the old Lego "series" echoes much of what was going on in my head and at playtime all those years ago.

And then there are the builds. First thought: Where do they get so many Legos?! But then: Wow, these guys are good. True, I'd seen some of these online before, but this is a great pictorial of amazing builds that both push the envelope of what can be done with Lego, and stay true to the themes of yesteryear.

Will it be for everyone? No. Your enjoyment of this book will depend heavily on nostalgia. But if you felt like Benny from the Lego Movie was basically speaking to you directly, then you probably want to pick this up. You know who you are.
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Freeman
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but lacks instructions.
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024
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The book is good, I like the story lines they came up for lego classic space but if you want instructions for the larger more impressive builds you'll be disappointed like me. They have a few plans for micro versions of the ships and a few robots, wish they could spent a few pages on at least one or two of the larger ships instead.
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Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible chronicle of LEGO Classic Space history!
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014
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This book is just an amazingly satisfying read from cover to cover. If you are a child of the 70s or 80s that ever played with a LEGO Space set, this book is most definitely for you. It ties together the themes of the first 10 to 15 years of LEGO Space into one cohesive and incredibly satisfying timeline, and the photography is out of this world. As an added bonus there are build instructions for at least a half dozen models, including Peter Reid's iconic Turtle Mech (a version of which was included in the recently released Exo Suit set). An essential tome for any self respecting LEGO Space fan.
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Pierre A Cournoyer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great imagination, fun story
Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2023
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Better than expected, fun to read
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Jasmin
5.0 out of 5 stars Schnelle Lieferung.
Reviewed in Germany on January 3, 2024
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Alles gut. War ein Geburtstagsgeschenk.
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Josh Moreno
4.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro
Reviewed in Mexico on January 12, 2019
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Es un buen libro, quizá algunas ideas más hubieran estado bien, pero en general es muy interesante
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Jackaz79
4.0 out of 5 stars Item was as expected.
Reviewed in Australia on June 6, 2019
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Andrea Allione
5.0 out of 5 stars Se siete appassionati del genete è ottimo per passare tante ore insieme
Reviewed in Italy on May 19, 2015
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Se non avete problemi con l'inglese...bella storia che parte dalle prime esplorazioni spaziali (ci sono le istruzioni per costruire lo Sputnik) fino ad un remoto futuro.
La storia da raccontare/leggere a un bambino.

Ci sono le istruzioni per costruire 6/7 mezzi anche se sono utilizzati molti pezzi particolari.

Con mio figlio prendiamo l'ispirazione e, in piena filosofia Lego, adattiamo con i pezzi che abbiamo.
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