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Cosplay: The Fantasy World Of Role Play by Lauren Orsini (book review).

From time to time, I like to look around and see what cosplay books are out there.

Many of the current ones offer guidelines on how to make the costumes, but I’m often more interested in the end product. “Cosplay: The Fantasy World Of Role Play” by Lauren Orsini covers five chapters: the history, anime and manga, science fiction and fantasy, video game heroes and heroines, and TV and culture icons, providing enough content to cover all tastes.

Although it must have sold well back in 2015, there are still some cheap copies available if you know where to look, but be careful to get intact copies.

I believe that filmmakers should occasionally look at books like this as a reminder that amateurs and home industry enthusiasts can match fabrics to the original designs, rather than some of the flights of fancy in design and materials that we’ve seen over the past couple of decades.

There is plenty of content in this book to fuel the imagination.

GF Willmetts

March 2023

(pub: Carlton Books, 2015. 256 page squarish softcover. Price: varies but there still some floating around out there. ISBN: 978-1-78097-630-3)

check out website: www.carltonbooks.co.uk

UncleGeoff

Geoff Willmetts has been editor at SFCrowsnest for some 21 plus years now, showing a versatility and knowledge in not only Science Fiction, but also the sciences and arts, all of which has been displayed here through editorials, reviews, articles and stories. With the latter, he has been running a short story series under the title of ‘Psi-Kicks’ If you want to contribute to SFCrowsnest, read the guidelines and show him what you can do. If it isn’t usable, he spends as much time telling you what the problems is as he would with material he accepts. This is largely how he got called an Uncle, as in Dutch Uncle. He’s not actually Dutch but hails from the west country in the UK.

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