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technicallyclassyperfection · 2 months

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orbital power plant by alexei leonov & andrei sokolov

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luzzarm · 1 month

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Jerry Lewis ₊ ⊹₊ ⊹🪐

Jerry Lewis as Kreton during the filming of Visit to a Small Planet

1959

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featherglum · 11 days

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‼️DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT HATING ON THE 1984 ANIMATED SHORT!! I love that big clunky robot and its deep voice, UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE. I am that guy's biggest apologist!! If it weren't for that adaptation, I'd still have no idea how tf I can make fanart of that story because I wouldn't have thought that you could just. Give the house a main robot body that hangs out on the ceiling Glados style and get silly with it!!

I just thought it'd be funny to compare my more whimsical version with a darker take. Ok rant over‼️

So yeah, don't mind me, just giving everyone whiplash by making a dang smart house from one of the saddest sci-fi short stories into a silly little guy.

Mr Ray Bradbury, I am kinda glad you're already dead, because it means you can't beat me to death for completely ignoring the whole point of your story :-]

Yeah uhh since you're already here, take these stills

#featherglum art #old scifi #retro scifi #there will come soft rains #ray bradbury #robot character #book fanart #featherglum videos

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stuckasmain · 11 days

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Found at the thrift store today. Do I already have copies of 2010 and 2061? Yes. But these are hard back it’s different… also found cradle… need whoever donated these to keep at it because there was good sci fi selection

#I think someone must’ve taken 2001 and 3001 or maybe these were just it idk #2001 a space odyssey #2001 aso #space odyssey series #thrifting #arthur c clarke #old scifi

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marvelousmovies · 2 months

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The Phantom Planet (1961) Full Sci-Fi Movie Starring Dean Fredericks

#youtube #Sci fi #old movies #horror #nerdy #funny horror #old scifi

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tuulikannel · 6 months

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Yesterday on the train I heard two middle school aged boys talking. They were on their way to the book fair, with their school class. "Maybe there's something cool you can buy," one said. "There's nothing cool there, it's a book fair!" the other replied. I snort-laughed so loud they noticed. Oh you young fools…

Anyway, anyway, I went there today, and as usual, dug my way through the antiquarian side. ^^ Here's my haul!

The first thing that caught my attention was an old book, from 1919… Finnish scifi! (from 1919! seriously!) Damn I wanted it, but it cost 120€. >_> Then I found another book from the same author, this one from 1922, and it was only 25€, so I got it. (Maybe it's so much cheaper cause there are also later editions available? That other one… you can't get it from anywhere. Even the library failed me. ;;)

At the Last Moment, is the title in English. It begins from the moment someone dies/has just died.

Then I found one Simak that I don't yet have! 💜 And damn I love these old covers! (I showed this to my friend, and she said, imagine cosplaying like that. Yep. XD)

Another favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin. A short story collection.

And Leena Krohn is also among my favorites. I'd never even heard of this book though, and it came out in 1987. (So apparently it's not among her most popular ones, but whatever!)

And then, this. It was the author's name that caught my attention (a Finnish name). And it's something so utterly weird and random I just had to get it. XD

Seriously. Kalevala scifi? What the hell XD

And last but not least (or, umm, I guess it was the first thing I bought?) I got this badge XD Fits both the Covid times and my current RE obsession. ^^

#books #books books books #books!#old scifi

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mikkachu3d · 1 year

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#heavy metal #eugene levy #heavy metal 1981 #heavy metal eugene levy #aninmation #retro #1981 #old aninmation #gif #scifi #old scifi

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60zcowboy · 26 days

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Pairan posting bc they’re so silly ⭐️ 👁️

#70zcowboyposting #pairan #warning from space #warning from space (1956)#koji shima #spacemen appear in tokyo #japan #japanese film #science fiction #old scifi

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tara-of-helium · 2 years

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Patterns of Chaos. Colin Kapp, 1972.

#patterns of chaos #colin kapp #1970s #science fiction #book #vintage #sci fi art #scifi art #paperback #old scifi

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thegreatshono · 9 months

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12 Hour Twitch Stream!

Hey! We reached 1000 followers on Twitch. That's pretty cool right? We're celebrating with a 12 hour stream tomorrow starting at 10am eastern time. I'll be drawing your requests and other fun stuff! Twitch.tv/thegreatshono

There will secret content too which may or may not include tin foil hats, power point presentations, and music from a band I was in during college...

If you'd like to request an original character for me to draw, make sure you leave a reference image of your OC here in the comments so I can find it quickly when you're selected! (You must be present at the stream to request a character.)

It's going to be fun! I hope to see you tomorrow!

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rjalker · 1 year

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Here you go, free and legal epub and PDF versions of The Beetle Horde by Victor Rousseau from 1930, with original illustrations and added image descriptions!

"https://archive.org/details/the-beetle-horde-by-victor-rousseau-1930"

It was originally published in two parts in the magazine, Astounding Stories of Super Science, with the first part in the January edition, and the second in the February edition. Having to jump back and forth just to read the whole story is inconvenient, so I made it one file.

This story is Public Domain, meaning you don't have to write fanfiction for it-- you can literally write whatever the fuck you want and publish it and sell what you write. You can rewrite it from the ground up and turn it into a full-length novel. You can make everyone queer. You can get rid of all the white people. You can switch everyone's genders. You can tell the story from the perspective of the beetles. You can say "okay but what if aliens invaded at the same time?" It's literally open for anyone to do anything they want with it.

You can download the different editions of Astounding Stories of Super Science for free from Project Gutenberg! Here's the links:

January (1930)

February (1930)

March (1930)

April (1930)

May (1930)

June (1930)

July (1930)

August (1930)

September (1930)

October (1930)

November (1930)

December (1930)

January (1931)

and maybe at some point I'll combine them all into one file too!

#free books #scifi #science fiction #The Beetle Horde #Victor Rousseau #Victor Rousseau's The Beetle Horde #old scifi #public domain characters #public domain stories

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technicallyclassyperfection · 8 months

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Michael Hutter

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thefrontierfacade · 1 year

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Echos of Valhalla

#ai generated #armor #ai image #surreal #surreal landscape #old scifi #vintage science fiction

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aidenssadagain · 1 year

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book reviews by aiden

title: Flowers For Alergnon

author: Daniel Keyes

year: originally published in 1959 as a short story, made into a novel in 1966

type: classic / science fiction

2 sentence summary: in 1940s new york, 32 year old Charlie Gordon undergoes an experimental operation that starts his journey from having a mental disability to extreme intelligence. the story is told through his written progress reports that document his life as he sees it.

my vibe: this book left me REELING. the writing style is so unique and drew me in instantly. it’s technically a sci-fi but it didn’t feel like one at all to me. flowers for alergnon is incredibly mentally and emotionally deep, so if you don't cry at least give yourself time to process everything once it ends because wow. (my s/o cried at me just explaining the book to them, if that tells you anything) i rank this among the best classics ive ever read, close to literary genius.

tws: it was written in the mid 1900s so the word r****d is used frequently, as well as the negative stereotypes and language used to describe mentally disabled people at the time. also has desriptions of child abuse, harassment, sexual relationships, and suicidal thoughts.

stars: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10

i know the language used was used as a common medical term at the time but it still made me uncomfortable. some of the scenes seemed unnecessary to me but otherwise it was an amazing book and ill definitely read it again once i emotionally recover.

(keywords: science, science fiction, classic literature, animals, intellectual disability, mental health in the 1940s, intelligence)

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souldagger · 1 year

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you know how old scifi is. [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote t

#i was thinking abt quotes from books ive read that just live in my head RENT FREE and i realized its like.#a solid 80% old scifi lol #.txt #books

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covenawhite66 · 1 year

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Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny (1976)

Outcasts of Heaven Belt by Joan D. Vinge (1978)

The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre (1975)

The Doppelgänger Gambit by Lee Killough (1979)

The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs (1969)

#science fiction #old scifi #books #scifi books #book list

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