The Watertower
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The Watertower is a 1994 children's picture book by the author Gary Crew
and illustrated by Steven Woolman. It takes place in Preston Beach, Western Australia
. The book explores bizarre fantasy. The illustrations for the water tower use a combination of chalk and pencil on black paper, and acrylic paint on textured board.
The book follows the codes and conventions of a subgenre of science fiction, known as gothic science fiction
. It involves a "pleasing hobo sort of terror" related to gothic tradition but also has references to technology corrupting life. This is represented through the illustrations of satellites on several pages.
Gary Crew
-Life:Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him home from school but enabled him to develop an interest in reading adventure stories....
and illustrated by Steven Woolman. It takes place in Preston Beach, Western Australia
Preston Beach, Western Australia
Preston Beach is a small town located in the Peel region of Western Australia just off the Old Coast Road, between Mandurah and Bunbury in the Yalgorup National Park.-History:...
. The book explores bizarre fantasy. The illustrations for the water tower use a combination of chalk and pencil on black paper, and acrylic paint on textured board.
The book follows the codes and conventions of a subgenre of science fiction, known as gothic science fiction
Gothic science fiction
Gothic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that, as the name suggests, also involves gothic conventions.Some of the more obvious examples of the subgenre feature vampires explained in a science fiction context, commonly that vampires are aliens or those infected by a disease as in , or...
. It involves a "pleasing hobo sort of terror" related to gothic tradition but also has references to technology corrupting life. This is represented through the illustrations of satellites on several pages.