A full-color hardcover guide to the universe of Seth MacFarlane’s beloved sci-fi series—featuring page after page of technical detail, interstellar history, and character biographies!

Explore exotic alien planets, adventure between innumerable stars, and get to know a diverse starship crew as they navigate their thrilling and mysterious universe. Captain Ed Mercer and his brave shipmates guide readers through the decks of the Orville, recounting their voyages through ship logs, and providing insightful commentary on the state of a changing galaxy.

The deluxe edition includes:

• Decorative slipcase
• An exclusive alternate cover treatment
• A folio including four departmental Planetary Union patches
• A 27” x 40” poster featuring the Orville ship in hyper-detailed cutaway by illustrator Matthew Cushman.

Dark Horse presents The Guide to The Orville, a jam-packed lore book collecting everything a new crewmember needs to know about the Planetary Union’s most remarkable ship!

Andre Bormanis was born in Chicago, but grew up in Arizona, where the dark night skies encouraged his love of astronomy and space science. He holds a B.S. in physics, and a Master's in science, technology and space policy, earned under a NASA Space Grant Fellowship at The George Washington University. He became the science consultant for the Star Trek TV and film franchise in 1993, and was soon writing episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. He became a full-time writer and eventually co-producer on Star Trek: Enterprise. He then served as a writer-producer on the CBS TV series Threshold and Eleventh Hour, the syndicated series Legend of the Seeker, and Disney XD's Tron: Uprising. He worked as a writer and consulting producer on the FOX / National Geographic production of Cosmos, and as a writer and co-executive producer of the National Geographic miniseries Mars. He is a writer and co-executive producer on the Hulu series The Orville, and a writer and co-executive producer on the NBCU / Peacock series The End is Nye. He also serves on the board of directors of the Griffith Observatory fund-raising nonprofit organization, Friends Of The Observatory.