Every year artists around the globe create thousands of fantasy-themed works for book jackets and advertising, for comics and greeting cards, for posters and game manuals and magazines and collectible figures. Spectrum 3 is a full-color selection of the best.

Chosen by a blue-ribbon jury of artists and designers, Spectrum features over 200 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by more than 100 of today's most gifted creators of fantastic art. Also included in this landmark collection are the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists' Chesley Award-winners, an insightful illustrated look back at the previous year's highlights, and Spectrum's recognition of influential illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz with the second Grand Master Award.

If you want to experience new worlds and altered realities, you'll need a guidebook. This is it.