#space stories

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990, American) Space Stories - February, 1953

[pencilmagmen]

Martian Tuareg: The One Who Carries the Horizon

1. The Setting: A Planet That Rewards Silence On Mars, sound behaves differently. The thin air steals volume but preserves texture.A Maa singer’s vertical cry becomes a distant flare.A Tuareg’s horizontal chant becomes a line drawn across the dust. Your Martian Tuareg have adapted to this world by becoming masters of the surface.They read the land the way others read faces.They navigate by wind…

Martian Tuareg: The One Who Carries the Horizon

[adeptus-nonsense]

Cybernetics & Magic

In a world where Cybernetic enhancements and magic are not a tale of fiction anymore this story takes us to a place where humans are widely regarded with fear, respect and a sense of awe.

For in the year of 9685 humankind are traveling among the stars and what could only be described as wild dreams have turned out to be true. In the vast array of galaxies spread in our universe countless species thrive and learnt what it meant to be a traveller. Civilisations thrived under strict regulations and if they were deemed a to big of a threat they were wiped out not by the intergalactic community but by themself. Atleast that’s what we were told.

Intergalactic politics are a complicated matter. deciphering languages, putting meaning in the noises spoken is no laughing matter. Simple miss communications have started wars devastating countless worlds in multiple galaxies to put it short. Species which ”talk” via hormones or what we would call telepathy exist, species who talk by gestures, body language subtle as a heartbeat exist in the vast universe. Species who thrived on death world as well as paradise worlds. But what sets them apart from eachother? the use of technology or lack of technology. Species who are fundamentally weaker relied on technology to thrive we see this in humans, choosing to alter their bodies via both biological and mechanical means, what we would call moraly questionable they deem neccesary. While on the other hand technological enhancements are looked down upon by the more biological fortunate.

part 1: the introduction. ( i have a severe case of writers block and i am fairly certain my sleep paralysis demon has evolved into shrek and i am very frightended please help)

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Pulp - Space Stories (Apr1953)

Art by Walter Poff

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[fred gambino]

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There’s an idea in many space stories, that the cosmos is a place of transformation, a crucible in which things burn, and if humans venture out deep enough they also burn, and become more fully who they are—that even in the wildest reaches of space, there we are, most pure and dark and bright and realised, somehow coming home. Our bodies come from stars and we find in space all that we are—terror, strangeness, beauty, hope. elucipher - films about space aren’t actually about space

[inky-curves]

Space Stories (February 1953) Cover by Ed Emshwiller

[thefugitivesaint]

Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990), ''Space Stories'', Vol. 1, #3, 1953 Source