I’m pretty pleased with this series of images I generated in MJ lately. Even though “telepathic” apparently meant a concept more like “television” to the AI, they’re still timeless, ethereal and spooky.
Tag: 1950s
1959 [Reading Challenge 2023]
1959 by Fred Kaplan John Wilwy & Sons, Inc., 2009 [ #14 — Article free in ’23: Read a book whose title doesn’t contain “a” “an” or “the.” ] 1959 by Fred Kaplan is a sociopolitical history book about various events of that year that “broke the barriers” and opened up new frontiers in …
She Came from Planet Five
She came from Planet Five I knew it all the time She wore a metal miniskirt As she stood knee-deep in dirt
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/27/22: The Best of Twittersnips (Cocktails)
Cocktail parties still haven’t come back yet. But here’s some that have yet to be concocted, culled from my Twitter feed. Cocktails Smashing Sheila (this originated in Sydney, Australia) Guinness Lemonade Golden Mickey Goose Sucker Glass Slipper Ballbuster Orange Slum Muddy John Juicy Jackson Vengeance from Hong Kong Rocky Surf Sleepy Cobra Pumpkin Nipple …
The Drudgery of Ironing
The alien certainly thinks so.
Atompunk Reading
In the Atompunk Age, manly men read books like this one, accompanied by a dry martini.
Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/31/21: Atompunk Robots
Atompunk robots (those in media from 1945 – 1965) tend to have the same sort of names. Short ones like Gort, cutesy ones like Robbie or Tobor (“Robot” spelled backwards) or functional ones combining scientific terms with letters and numbers. That’s the sort I was after here with this randomly generated list. These names showed …
Getting Around in the Atompunk Age
One of the futurism themes of the post-WWII era was transportation. This makes sense. Innovations in manufacturing and aircraft design, the growth of large cities, and the need for improved highway systems and vehicles all came together in a magic moment, in the Western world at least. Germany had its Autobahn, Britain the M- …
The Hills Have Eyes
And other body parts as well, apparently. Artwork by the great Ed Emshweller.
Worldbuilding Wednesday 6/10/20: Narnia II
C. S. Lewis actually wrote Prince Caspian, the second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, hot on the tail of the first. In it, he explored an idea he had been playing around with for a while: What if King Arthur actually returned to England during the Battle of Britain as prophesied (when England was …