Dancing Stars

On an epic journey through an arid land. Desertpunk. 🪐 Real worlds and futuristic art.

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[thatsgoodweb]

Gianni Maiotti, Metamorfosi, 1981

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‘Tower City’ 1968, by Alex Schomburg for ‘Isaac Asimov’ by James Gunn. Image from The Chesley Awards Retrospective

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A classic Bruce Pennington work, used as a 1973 cover to ‘Children of Tomorrow,’ by A. E. van Vogt.

[lil-tachyon]

Return of the Sun-Kings

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[scifiseries]

[mellific]

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

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Sandstone Layers

[expressions-of-nature]

Zhangye Danxia National Park, China by Tatiana Runova

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[retroscifiart]

Art by the legendary Vincent Di Fate @vincentdifateart

[thecollectibles]

Courtyard by Quentin Stipp

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

C. G. Jung - Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen In The Sky - Routledge & Kegan Paul - 1977

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Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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Valley of Fire, Nevada

[weirdlandtv]

Pulp sci-fi illustration by Italian artist, Aldo Di Gennaro (b. 1938).

[auckie]

This is probably the most culturally important thing I’ll ever seen in my lifetime if I’m being honest. I want this affixed over my mantle, embroidered into my denim, and emblazoned into my flesh so that generations to come may never forget this 1938 gem of an illustration. Put this on my gravestone and name my children after Alfo Di Gennaro. This is what it’s all about.

[crabofdoom]

Artist was obviously a leg man, but I have never seen a female alien love interest designed as THIS alien before. She’s uniquely hairy, bugged-eyed, lines would indicate at least a partial exoskeleton, she has escaped being saddled with the mammories that a non-mammal being would not have, yet she’s got it bad for Space Force Leatherhead and he is so into her. I can practically hear his prose of her cabochon eyes of nebula violet, glowing with the passion to know and be known, in the starlight. The green of her body turning more vivid as discovery (and carnal knowledge) consume her conscious mind.

To suggest a red-blooded, human man could love Greedo’s cousin? Desire her??

This is fantastic, in every sense. How many lives did this change forever?