#writers #ScienceFiction #scifi It's writer Eric Frank Russell's 120th birth anniversary https://english.netmassimo.com/2015/01/06/eric-frank-russell-was-born-110-years-ago/
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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
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Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
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Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan
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Ace O'Hara by Basil Blackalle and Conrad Frost
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Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1253
L, Hieronymus Bosch and Heinrich Kley, 1959; R, Robert E. Schulz, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #horror #books
Cover for the anthology Time to Come. A rover on a Mars-like surface explores a chasm. A rocket is in the background.
Cover for Hunger and Other Stories. For the Ghoul in You... a collection of violent entertainments. A Bosch painting paired with a squatting bird/human creature with webbed feat and a beak.
Okay, crowdsourcing suggestions of video clips to use for the background video during my dance at Norwescon this year, which has the "First Contact Galactic Gala" theme: First contact scenes in movies/television.
Off the top of my head, some obvious ones:
- Vulcans arriving on Earth in Star Trek: First Contact
- The mirror universe version of that scene from Enterprise
- Many scenes (particularly the end) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The UFO over Mulder in some X-Files episode (and there are probably many other X-Files scenes)
- A few scenes in E.T.
Any suggestions for others? (Bonus points if you can provide episode names or numbers for TV show suggestions.)
#LazyWeb #FirstContact #aliens #UFO #UFOs #StarTrek #CloseEncounters #ScienceFiction #SciFi
Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1253
L, Hieronymus Bosch and Heinrich Kley, 1959; R, Robert E. Schulz, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #horror #books
Cover for the anthology Time to Come. A rover on a Mars-like surface explores a chasm. A rocket is in the background.
Cover for Hunger and Other Stories. For the Ghoul in You... a collection of violent entertainments. A Bosch painting paired with a squatting bird/human creature with webbed feat and a beak.
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It was sad to see a 17-year-old girl in the #RoyalInstitution #ChristmasLectures this year preaching that billionaires have given us access to space and that Elon Musk is a great guy who will take humanity to Mars.
The reality is that it is governments who gave us access to space.
Billionaires, on the other hand, have given us space *pollution*, the shuttering of NASA and NOAA, wasteful vanity projects, and the extension of the category of 'astronaut' to encompass #KatyPerry.
#ElonMusk is meanwhile recycling 20th century boy's fiction sci-fi fantasies about techno-feudal rich-equals-superior inventors-cum-capitalists, not the least of which is E.E. Smith's 'Skylark' series.
In these male fantasies the rich industrialist hero's girlfriend sometimes does indeed get to be a passenger in his rocketship.
Juvenile pulp sci-fi was not supposed to be the roadmap for the future.
It was sad to see a 17-year-old girl in the #RoyalInstitution #ChristmasLectures this year preaching that billionaires have given us access to space and that Elon Musk is a great guy who will take humanity to Mars.
The reality is that it is governments who gave us access to space.
Billionaires, on the other hand, have given us space *pollution*, the shuttering of NASA and NOAA, wasteful vanity projects, and the extension of the category of 'astronaut' to encompass #KatyPerry.
#ElonMusk is meanwhile recycling 20th century boy's fiction sci-fi fantasies about techno-feudal rich-equals-superior inventors-cum-capitalists, not the least of which is E.E. Smith's 'Skylark' series.
In these male fantasies the rich industrialist hero's girlfriend sometimes does indeed get to be a passenger in his rocketship.
Juvenile pulp sci-fi was not supposed to be the roadmap for the future.