“The Doors of Vast Airlocks Opened”
“The doors of vast airlocks opened.” Some nice 1930s pulp illustrations with the swell captions of the day. Art by Elliot Dold here and here. Art by M. Marchioni here and here.
Respectable Newspaper, All Geek
The Austin Chronicle‘s the paper of the future with an all science fiction edition. News, books, music, everything. (I’m especially excited about the music—The Day the Earth Stood Still and afronauts).
Afrofuturism
Preserved from usenet, Mark Dery’s 1994 essay on Afrofuturism: “Hack this: Why do so few African-Americans write science fiction, a genre whose close encounters with the Other—the stranger in a strange land—would seem uniquely suited to the concerns of African-American novelists? …. This is especially perplexing in light […]
Mothership Connection
It’s a history of Afronauts in music, from Rev. A.W. Nix to Sun Ra to Lil Wayne.
Red Eye
15 hours on the road and I was my own red-eye on I-94’s corridor of stripclubs, fireworks and roadkill, racing past dead deer in Michigan, then Gary, Indiana’s steel mills and through Chicagoland, the Sears Tower in the distance waiting for its evil eye, till the highway gave […]
Antarctica and John Carpenter’s The Thing
Big Dead Place, a website devoted to Antarctica, offers a whole section devoted to reviews (and one boardgame version) of John Carpenter’s The Thing. (Actually, the whole site is swell).
The Cultural Gutter 