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One of my design heroes has written some incredibly wonderful praise of mothership, highlighting things a lot of people don’t talk about. I’ve got the warm butterflies.

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Badges are on sale for SDHistCon North 2026, July 11-12 in the Twin Cities! Get yours here now: tabletop.events/conventions/.... More information here: sdhist.com/badges-on-sa....

The State of the Art by Iain M Banks - BBC Sounds A spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'money'.

My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Issue #22, featuring a dungeon map with a number of Citadel figures in each room, leading to the ultimate prize of the Citadel catalogue.

Issue #27, featuring the 15mm Traveller boxed sets. Each box had a great Jim Burns cover image.

Issue #43: Mayhem & Chaos. A Tony Ackland illustration with plenty of Broo action.

Issue #32, with a horde of zombies marching out of the Citadel citadel (if you see what I mean).

Citadel no more? Oh well.
Have some classic Citadel pages from White Dwarfs of yore.

Well now, I knew Erich von Däniken was a big old liar but I had no idea how much until listening to the latest KARTAS episode. Still good material to mine for RPG purposes though 👍👽🛸

Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

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Steve Wozniak holds an early Apple home computer as if playing an accordion in this black and white photograph.

Nobody had the heart to tell Woz why his accordion playing sucked.

Sidedoor Something dark and invisible makes up as much as 90 to 95 percent of the universe—and it took a little girl staring out a bedroom window at the night sky to bring it to light. As a child, Vera Rubin b...

The closing lines of this profile of astronomer Vera Rubin made me tear up in the supermarket aisle. 🥹 play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Revival tour by Madness?

The cover to the disc shows Flynn in the role of Captain Blood. The film also costars Olivia de Havilland.

This has reminded me that I still need to pick up the Criterion edition of Captain Blood. #TCMParty

A poster for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

When its on TCM, I have to watch it. No matter how many times I see it. #TCMParty

Basil with a black shirt that has a golden dragon on it with a blue cape and Chantal under the shirt.

Basil with a red tunic with several jewels over the chest.

Basil in a green chainmail shirt with a dark green cloak.

Basil with a red tunic and an orange and blue cloak over it.

Basil Rathbone's wardrobe was 🔥 in this. #TCMParty

A drop of dream fuel - Neon Space by Paul Lehr

Norman Saunders' cover art for Uncanny Tales, August 1939

Norman Saunders' cover art for Uncanny Tales, May 1940

Norman Saunders' cover art for Planet Stories, Summer 1942

Norman Saunders' art for a Topps candy bar wrapper

Artist Norman Saunders sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/saunde... died on this day, so here's three examples of his magazine cover art from 1939-1942, plus his artwork for a Topps candy bar wrapper:

Gray Morrow's cover for "Thongor of Lemuria" by Lin Carter

Gray Morrow's cover for "Warriors of Mars" by Michael Moorcock [writing as Edward P Bradbury]

Gray Morrow's cover for 'If', January 1966

Gray Morrow's artwork for the cover of 'Worlds of Tomorrow', March 1966

Artist Gray Morrow sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morrow... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art from 1966:

And in case you're wondering why I'm covering all of this now: #StarTrekScouts recently featured an episode with an adult and a juvenile Denebian slimevark (from the Deneb star system), a much cuter creature from the same star system as the slime devil! ;-) 7/7

We get a better look at the graphic in "The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". All the text is fully legible there, confirming that the creature on the bottom right is indeed the Denebian slime devil, making the creature's appearance canon. 6/7

In #StarTrekDS9's "A Man Alone"⬅️ and "The Nagus"➡️, Keiko O'Brien's classroom on Deep Space 9 features a large "Comparative Xenobiology" display. This display includes illustrations of several creatures and aliens from the Medical Reference Manual, including the Denebian slime devil. 5/7

2002, finally, saw the release of "The Starfleet Survival Guide" by David Mack. This book featured illustrations by Timothy Earls, including one of of a Denebian slime devil, based on the painting by Punchatz. But this is all non-canon, you say? But wait...! 4/7

Then, in 1989, "The Worlds of the Federation" by the late Lora Johnson was released and featured two new illustrations of the Denebian slime devil, wholly based on its appearance in the Medical Reference Manual, and a gorgeous colour painting of the creature by Don Ivan Punchatz. 3/7

We find out for the first time in 1977 in the excellent "Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual" by Eileen Palestine, Geoffrey Mandel, Doug Drexler and Anthony Fredrickson. What a wonderfully alien (and ugly) creature it is! We also get a cool cross-section of the slime devil! 2/7

In #StarTrekTOS' "The Trouble With Tribbles", Korax calls Kirk a "Denebian slime devil". The species is never referenced again in any later #StarTrek episode (except for the re-used #TOS footage in #StarTrekDS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"). Now, what exactly does it look like? Let's find out! 🧵1/7

This is a really cool thread

An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation Those who know the name Marcel Proust, if not his work itself, know it as that of the most solitary and introspective of writers—a name become an adjective, describing an almost painfully delicate var...

An Introduction to the Literary Philosophy of Marcel Proust, Presented in a Monty Python-Style Animation

Every key on a white desktop keyboard is itself an entire keyboard of incredibly tiny keys.

A tiny group of mountain climbers scale a desktop computer.

A desktop computer has different paths formed by arrows pointing out in a handful of different directions, with pairs of tiny people travelling along some of them.

A container holding a bunch of floppy disks has a pull-out keyboard along its side.

One last set of interior art by Robert Tinney, for BYTE's December 1988 issue. This is the biggest one yet, with a total of eight illustrations.

Three astronauts in blue jumpsuits float through or work in the cramped quarters of a space station with CCCP on its side. A blue Earth is below and to the right of them.

Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday! Here's a crossection of the Mir space station, by Pierre Mion.