These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Monday, October 31, 2016
Beep Beep
Have we detected alien civilizations? The jury hasn't been chosen and been seated, let alone decided. Walk with caution.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Twenty-First Century Vehicles
Depictions of crewed vehicles in our current century. Some flight-proven, some under testing or completely hypothetical.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Sketches
A sketch (colored magic marker?) by Robert McCall of a lunar colony. I recall a bunch of these appearing in a magazine (newspaper Sunday supplement?) in the 1970's.
Amalthea
Michael Carroll depicts the Galileo orbiter on approach to Jupiter, passing the small "potato moon" of Amalthea.
Return Journey
Artwork by Pat Rawlings showing private and government space stations in orbit around the Moon and a Earth-bound shuttle heading home.
What's Up in the Solar System?
What's up in the solar system in terms of robotic exploration for October? (More than a few days behind in my posting, like much of my life right now.)
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Quest for the Homeworld
An article talking about E.C. Tubb and his most famous series: Dumarest of Terra. Stretching well over thirty (relatively thin) books, short on character, long on fantastic ideas, the series contributed to GDW's SF-RPG Traveller.