HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's "Alien". In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best Achievement for Visual Effects" for his designs of the film's title creature and its otherworldly environment. His other celebrated film projects include "Poltergeist II", "Alien 3" and "Species", for which he designed a deadly but beautiful half-extraterrestrial female creature and a fantastic nightmare train. Giger's album covers for Debbie Harry and Emerson, Lake and Palmer were voted as being among the top hundred in music history by music journalists, while furniture designed by Giger graces a bar in Chur, Switzerland. This book was designed by the artist himself, and features detailed commentaries in which Giger describes his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s; the authentic voice of the master.

1940出生於瑞士的H. R. Giger，自孩提時代對於超現實與陰晦的事物相當有興趣，他透過他的作品表達他內藏心中的鮮活想法，，因此吸引他投入視覺藝術之中。他最知名的創作就是知名導演Ridley Scott在福斯電影公司開拍至今已經四集的異形（Alien）系列電影。在1980年，當時的製片看過了H.R.Giger的畫冊《Necronomicon》之後，讓H. R. Giger的異形造型與陰森的後工業場景，讓他名利雙收，甚至獲得奧斯卡最佳視覺效果的獎項。之後除了幫《Poltergeist II》、《Species》等電影作造型設計之外，也幫Debbie Harry、Emerson等歌手設計專輯封面，甚至還在瑞士參與了酒吧的相關設計，甚至這本有關於自己作品《Www HR Giger Com》的書籍設計都不假他人之手。當中蒐集了從以前到現在的作品全集，提供給喜愛H. R. Giger的讀者參考。