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Phaeton In-Depth
Phaeton Group emblem Explore the breadth and depth of Phaeton Group projects in this gallery. From best-selling popular books to international expeditions, our members are involved in a wide variety of pursuits. To learn more about our organization, please check out "About Us" at left.

This section is presently under construction. Thanks for your patience as we add more information on Team Phaeton projects.

 

Academic & Technical Publications
Professional publications represent the academic side of Phaeton Group endeavors.

Popular Nonfiction
A key part of Phaeton Group's mission is bringing science and exploration to a broad audience through engaging communication. A variety of books and articles represent Team Phaeton's popular work covering subjects from archaeology to space exploration, some of which are seen here.

Popular Fiction
Good popular writing requires more than an academic doctorate, since communication skills are not necessarily emphasized in graduate departments (indeed, they are sometimes discouraged). To learn popular communication from the best people in the business, Phaeton's David West Reynolds took a position in marketing and communications at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch for two years, where he also became a Lucasfilm author. Reynolds continues to write Star Wars books for Lucasfilm, treating the fantasy world of Star Wars as "a culture from another time and place to explore." Reynolds' efforts in this non-academic field gave the archaeologist a New York Times #1 best-seller with the Star Wars Episode I Visual Dictionary. "So I accomplished what I set out to do in that area," Reynolds says. "My first efforts after that book were to turn the skills Lucasfilm had taught me to non-fiction subjects. My APOLLO book [Harcourt, 2002] is the first result of this experiment in cross-pollination." Meanwhile, Reynolds' painstaking yet lively approach to Star Wars arcana has made him a "fan favorite" in the words of Amazon.com.

Expeditions
The pursuit of field science takes Phaeton Group around the world on exciting missions of discovery, from searching for new dinosaur species in Africa to probing the Inca ruins of Peru. We'll have more information here soon.

Photography
Phaeton photographers capture high-quality images for scientific, artistic, and commercial applications, from photos for best-selling books to scientific biological documentation. This section will present a selection of Phaeton Group photographic work, such as Jack Bobo's images of the fantastic ruined city of Gedi in the jungles of East Africa. Images from this unique set first appeared in Archaeology magazine in 2001, and have subsequently been published by World Book Encyclopedia as well.

Art & Fabrications
Phaeton Group members create a great variety of artworks for museums, professionals, and public clients, including everything from academic illustration and museum models to a life-size scientific dinosaur skeleton. Dan Erickson is our most active scientific artist, best known for his monstrous prehistoric fish sculptures, with one sixteen-foot specimen hanging in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. We'll soon offer more information about Phaeton Art and Fabrications here.

 

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