Low quality, but a trailer for an aborted L'Incal film:
Or what about Valerian and Laureline? (not the film but the graphic novels?)
We don't mention the movie. Ever.
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We don't mention the movie. Ever.
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We don't mention the movie. Ever.
The visuals were ace though, like if 5th Element was force fed Red Bull and Euros for a few months straight
Just don't mention the rest......
Space-shorts and Space-skirts FTW!I'm so glad you brought up Giraud! Sunday Drive is literally one of my favorite works of all time.
There was also this crazy stuff which makes me think of the Hylics games.
Can't unsee. Possible new obsession inbound.
To think what the world of science fiction would be if Dune had been this and not a Dino De Laurentiis/David Lynch thing...
Big spheres on sticks! It's such a recurring theme.
I'm glad you like the thread. This is the sort of thing I really love about science fiction. It's not the more realistic and "doable" stories that have emerged from it; it's this fantastic and extraordinary and seemingly impossible stuff that really sets my brain on fire.
Don't even get me started on the old EC covers from Weird Science and its ilk. We'll be here until the next century.
Also, I wanna park my Cutter like that.
✌The visuals were ace though, like if 5th Element was force fed Red Bull and Euros for a few months straight
There were a few nods to Christin/Mezieres and perhaps Giraud, granted. But if you really want that, watch 5th Element. That one is pure Valerian et Laureline.
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This whole thread makes me teary-eyed.
We never met in person, still we all share the same or at least similar memories.
Wallowing in nostalgia...that's allowed in our age I guess.
This whole thread makes me teary-eyed.
We never met in person, still we all share the same or at least similar memories.
Wallowing in nostalgia...that's allowed in our age I guess.
One of my favourite manga stores in NYC had a T-shirt with the slogan "Peace through shared popular culture". I loved it.
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...also for me I like the alien worlds with mahoosive ships that hang in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t
I also happen to like alien worlds with mahoosive ships that hang in the sky in much the same way that bricks do
:(that was a very fine piece of TV)
I prefer the more grounded stuff that came as a result of Jodorowskis Dune / Scotts Alien and that 'movement' (not to say any of this is bad, because its all ace)
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Now that's totally my jam! Struts, panels, greeble, greeble everywhere! Stuff like 2001's Discovery, Silent Running's Valley Forge, Space 1999's Eagle shuttles...so many good child memories...
Also, do anyone here remember of this gem?
Campiness galore, but boy some of those models were good for the time.
The jet pack and hands picture was the cover of a Harry Harrison book or collection IIRC. The wonderful ship shown is from the James Blish book Welcome to Mars a well loved book and somewhat unusually cover art that fitted the story and one of my favourites the ship looks so real.That is indeed the picture I was thinking of. Away with you, witch!
I think that was in Great Space Battles which also has one of my fav pics - double page (I think) spread of a jetpack space-chap escaping from loads of zombie hands. Oh, and that hospital ship (I think. Edit: Wrong!) that’s got a front end a bit like the Imperial ships.
Edit: the monitor ship around Mars -
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one of the Stainless Steel Rat books, IIRC...
Just checked it was a collection called Prime Number. At least it was here.
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Ah! Memory failure on my part then
Not surprising after cough number of years though, perhaps Thanks for getting the correct reference!
Ah! Memory failure on my part then
Thanks for getting the correct reference!
No problem I have seen the same images used for different books in different locations or at a much later date which can be annoying.
I also happen to like alien worlds with mahoosive ships that hang in the sky in much the same way that bricks do
Source: https://youtu.be/vAnVlDeFYNs?t=4
(that was a very fine piece of TV)
Now that's totally my jam! Struts, panels, greeble, greeble everywhere! Stuff like 2001's Discovery, Silent Running's Valley Forge, Space 1999's Eagle shuttles...so many good child memories...
Also, do anyone here remember of this gem?
Campiness galore, but boy some of those models were good for the time.
You might be interested in this guy, Martin Bower who did a lot of the model work for those films (not BBTS though)
Although its an archive there are huge amounts of information and behind the scenes regards modelmaking and design.
I’ve just rooted out my battered copy of GSB; the jetpack man (Captain Mas Yelwoc (I wonder who’s backwards name that was?)) is part of the story “The Pirate World”. There’s an ace 3-seater Federal Interceptor on the next page which I’d forgotten!
As for Battle Beyond The Stars, I think that’s the only time I’ve sat in a cinema and thought, “does that spaceship have knockers?”
Why am I not surprised that you bookmarked something this weirdly good?
It's not just allowed. It's mandatory.This whole thread makes me teary-eyed.
We never met in person, still we all share the same or at least similar memories.
Wallowing in nostalgia... that's allowed in our age I guess.
People who play a specific game, or type of game, tend to be cut from the same cloth. It doesn't surprise me that so many people around here love this kind of thing. Retro spaceships and science fiction classics are burned into the collective conscious, particularly in the western hemisphere, but a certain kind of person no matter where they're from will naturally gravitate toward them. Our shared aesthetic is one of the key reasons we're here in the first place, let alone posting in this thread.
It's a wonderful thing, really. Well, I think it is. But of course I would. Deep down, I'm a big, floppy turbonerd. No sense denying it, right?
Anyway, I said that I'd be converting the rest of my fleet into cheap, battered paperbacks. So here's my multipurpose pride and joy.
Like its namesake cocktail, it has a nasty habit of getting me into trouble.
Will people like us get our own place in heaven?People who play a specific game, or type of game, tend to be cut from the same cloth. It doesn't surprise me that so many people around here love this kind of thing. Retro spaceships and science fiction classics are burned into the collective conscious, particularly in the western hemisphere, but a certain kind of person no matter where they're from will naturally gravitate toward them. Our shared aesthetic is one of the key reasons we're here in the first place, let alone posting in this thread.
It's a wonderful thing, really. Well, I think it is. But of course I would. Deep down, I'm a big, floppy turbonerd. No sense denying it, right?
I mean, I don’t want to spend all eternity with guys like Chris Gavaler and Dan Johnson from the Lee University.
They made a scientific study with the title “The genre effect”.
They said:
“In comparison to narrative realism readers, science fiction readers reported lower transportation, experience taking, and empathy. Science fiction readers also reported exerting greater effort to understand the world of the story, but less effort to understand the minds of the characters. Science fiction readers scored lower in comprehension, generally, and in the subcategories of theory of mind, world, and plot.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/23/science-fiction-triggers-poorer-reading-study-finds
This has got to be one of the weirdest studies ever conducted.
I could list a whole bunch of issues that I have with it, but I can sum it all up with a simple question that goes to the heart of what's wrong with it - What is a "science fiction reader"? Is it someone who only reads science fiction? Because no one does that. People who read books tend to read more than one genre of book. Overwhelmingly. For example, I read a lot of scientific non-fiction, general fiction/non-fiction short story collections, classics, cultural dives, and so on. The mix might be different for other people, but how they came to the conclusions that they did with 150 test subjects and this many variables is... well, it's bad science is what it is. The outcome of their research depended on how 150 different people reacted to a specific text. Which again, is weird, because how we interpret settings, characters and their dialogue is highly subjective, situational and infinitely diverse, as is the effect that both good and bad writing has on our minds.
From the article: "I think their study has so many problems." Yeah, I agree with that. It seems like a waste of time and money. It was interesting to read the article, I'll give you that, but only because it reinforced my burgeoning conviction that people will do a study about pretty much anything, regardless of how subjective whatever they're testing is, and that the Guardian is a publication that never ceases to miss the mark for me.
Frankie Boyle (on strange research):
‘Shall we try and find a cure for cancer?
<censored>that..Im gonna see how many fruit pastilles it takes to choke a kestrel’
Frankie Boyle:
‘Shall we try and find a cure for cancer?
<censored>that..Im gonna see how many fruit pastilles it takes to choke a kestrel’
Spot on.