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Jim Powers' "Life in the Year 2000" (1956), with Moonbase and seabase.
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Jim Powers' "Life in the Year 2000" (1956), with Moonbase and seabase.
Rocket Age: Arthur's Guide to Martian Life ~ Why Not Games (2023)
So in my tour of the current landscape of TTRPG systems, I'm reading Rocket Age, which is a retro-SF solar system setting - think rocketships with fins, ray guns, space suits with bubble helmets, canals on Mars, jungles on Venus, you get the idea.
And it occurred to me that it could be entertaining to run the plot of The Expanse - specifically Leviathan Wakes - in this setting and see how long it takes the players to catch on.
Rocket Age Savaged -
Rocket Age Savaged - In this Savage Worlds Jumpstart, explore ancient ruins on Mars and then punch some Nazis! This radium punk sci-fi episo
The vacation house of the future. In 1957 this is how they pictured holidays in the rocket age. Are we there yet? Illustrated by James R. Powers.
Buy Vacation House of the Future print | 1950s Art
On December 3, 1937 [Albert Einstein] detached from his orbital workshop in the Intrepid and ignited the advanced new engines, leaving the Solar System behind and disappearing into deep space.
the Rocket Age core handbook, about Albert Einstein’s current (1938) whereabouts
If this isn’t the biggest fucking mood...
“Tea in a Moon Rocket” — Meiji Tea print advertisement reflecting the Space Race era, c. 1960s