Hello. I wonder if it's just me who is a fan of this fantastic book.

I read it as a kid and recently I found a copy of it that was sadly incomplete, pages missing. There are other books in the series that should be even better and it is an entire universe it seems, and now even a video game, I found some info here

http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html

Any info about the books or comments? Please pick it up if you find it, it's the best.

Oh yes I had these they were great they used a lot of the classic SF book cover illustrations and reworked them into a massive future history of iirc war between Proxima Centauri, and Earth with flying cities on Alpha Centauri's planets.

Simon BJ

Me! Me!

I love these books - and British "Big Spaceship" art in general. But I'm particularly fond of the TTA books because they were where I first encountered the art of the late Peter Elson.

There's some good examples of his stuff in "Great Space Battles" - page 18/19 ("LG 223 Starraker") and page 45 ("mobile monitor station orbiting Mars") are particular favourites. There's also some excellent work by Angus McKie, Jim Burns, and others.

Here's a site I'm building (slowly) with other examples of Elson's work:

http://mysite.orange.co.uk/peterelsonfan/index.html?0.751849 5260615627

Also, there's a new Terran Trade Authority RPG book out - but (because of rights issues) it uses CGI recreations of the original artwork. (From what I've seen the recreations are very well done, though.)  

I've got the first two of these. The quality of the artwork declined thereafter, the best book covers having been used up. I loved them then and I still do, using them as inspiration for the occasional 3D model and spacescape.

IMP.