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6x Best Fanzine Hugo-finalist. Blast back to 1970: #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, and the #Space Race! Broadcasting the Moon Landings "as they happen" and discussing classic #ScienceFiction here: https://galacticjourney.org
Poster for Andromeda Strain showing a man in a space suit kneeling over a squalling baby, rendered in line-art
Joe takes on the film adaptation of The Andromeda Strain #ScienceFiction film. Does it kill... or simply die?
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Color image of the cover of Fantastic, showing a soldier in fantasy armor, carrying a large black bow, surrounded by slain enemy soldiers.
John Boston has stepped in to review the latest Fantastic #ScienceFiction... with his usual, ascerbic (and eminently readable) charm:
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The East German poster of "Signals"
Scenes from the striking title sequence of Tatort
@corabuhlert.bsky.social has the latest from Germany, West and East! #Tatort and #Signale:
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A cube-shaped contraption sits on the surface of the moon, with orange plastic ribbons trailing from it to various other smaller devices. Nearby, astronauts' footprints remain in the dust.
The title illustration for the novelette To Fit The Crime, which spans the top of two facing pages. on the left, a balding man seems to be climbing out of the desert sands. He is clutching a knife and staring balefully toward three individuals on the facing page. Two are kneeling facing the hills in the background, while the third stands over them brandishing a pistol.
Space news and a Galaxy #ScienceFiction roundup? You're welcome!
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Six comics covers—click on the article clink for further details!
What a terrific piece on the state of British comics by @krisvm.bsky.social !
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Poster for the movie Lust for a Vampire. The central image is assorted photographs of people biting each other with a hungry expression on their faces. Text above the photos says: Devils in female bodies whose embrace is the kiss of death for man or woman! Ghoulish! Gory! Ghastly!
Not a great movie, but a terrific review: Lust for a Vampire
Thanks, @drfionamoore.bsky.social
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Cover of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction for March 1971. It announces stories by Jack Vance, Ted Thomas, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Stephen Barr and Avram Davidson. The illustration shows a sitting robot manipulating a tool on its own face in front of a broken mirror.
Third time's the curse for this month's #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction... but there's a nifty piece on the latest Japanese #Space shot!
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The Journey is looking for time traveling writers to join our staff of book and magazine reviewers! Anyone interested in experiencing (the best parts of) 1971? Drop us a line!
Cover for Quark 2 showing a picture of a boy with a fishtail for legs against crumpled material background. Text at the top says: A paperback library original review Quark/2 A quarterly review of speculative fiction by John Brunner, Thomas Disch, Carol Emshwiller, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Lieber, James Sallis and Others. Edited by Samuel R. Delaney and Marilyn Hacker.
@krisvm.bsky.social tackles the latest issue of Quark — whatever it is, it ain't #ScienceFiction!
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Rod Serling stands presenting his work
Amber determines that the next batch of Rod Serling's Night Gallery is way better than the first!
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Cover of IF. Orbs of various colors and textures circle the head of a woman wearing a circlet.
David tracks the mediocritization of IF #ScienceFiction... and memorializes the most important cartoonist you've barely heard of:
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Tune in tonight at 1am Pacific for all night LIVE Apollo 14 Moon landing and Moonwalk coverage!
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Colour photograph of the cover of the February 1971 issue of Analog, depicting a space craft closely resembling a fighter jet taking off from a rather carrier-esque vessel and curving in flight towards Earth, featuring the story 'The World Menders' by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Venera 7 approaches Venus (painting)
Spherical capsule emblazoned CCCP on the hellish surface of Venus (painting)
A tremendous #space success for the Soviets! And... a less than stellar outing for John Campbell's Analog #ScienceFiction
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Starting in less than two hours!!!! Don't miss it!
Sustained, joy-tinged contentment.
Here's the full broadcast schedule:
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The three Apollo 14 astronauts in front of their mission insignia
This is it! Apollo 14 coverage starts THIS WEEKEND (January 31st) at 11am.
This is to-the-second "live" coverage of the entire Apollo 14 mission with all extant footage: YOU ARE THERE.
PLEASE tell all your friends and mark your calendars.
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#NASA #Moon #space
LA 2017 in MICR font overlays a desolate, orange-filtered landscape with an ambulance parked in the distance
Lorelei takes on LA 2017, and Jason reviews Brewster McCloud: two #ScienceFiction pieces for the price of one!
Cover of the first issue of the New Gods featuring a masked man in an orange and purple skinsuit flying a rocketpack away from a green planet
Jason Sacks is positively verklempt over the newest National (DC) Comics creation:
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A person holding a bearded dragon standing next to a brown and white pug dog, both pets looking quizzically at the camera
"Two pets, both alike in dignity..."
Full-scale model of Lunokhod-1 Soviet Moon rover looking like a truck mated with a spider
So much space news, it wouldn't fit in one article! Learn about the Russian "Man" on the Moon... and what the French are doing:
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The Master's first appearance. He has dark hair slicked back, a goatee and sports a black Nehru jacket.
@holmesja.bsky.social serves up another funny review for the latest #DoctorWho
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A man and woman stand on either side of the Uhuru satellite. The man is Riccardo Giacconi, the woman Marjorie Townsend.
Who is Marjorie Townsend, and how will her #Uhuru satellite discover new secrets of the universe? Kaye Dee has a thrilling story for you:
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#NASA #space
cover of the issue, predominately in reds, featuring a stylized, golden figure of a man hanging in the ropes beneath a hot-air balloon
Jack Vance starts a new #ScienceFiction classic in the latest #Fantasy and Science Fiction!
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Cover for Worlds of Fantasy #3, depicting Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin, showing two robed figures walking over a desert landscape with seven dark standing stones behind them. Behind them is the transluscent image of a skull in orange wearing a bat winged helmet. Text on the cover: Worlds of Fantasy Issue 3, 1970-71 75¢ MAC What do you mean - Fantasy? Theodore Sturgeon In a blue blox: Complete new novel by this year's Hugo winner! The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin Bottom text reads: In the Cards - Robert Bloch Among the Grimoires - Lester Del Rey"
More than half of the latest Worlds of Fantasy magazine was written by women! Unprecedented! And a pretty good issue. Check it out:
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Five SF book covers
Seven SF book covers
We covered 12 #ScienceFiction books this month! See the verdicts:
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@corabuhlert.bsky.social , assuredly, but it does seem a Frazetta thing.
Traynor, an older man with messy white hair and close-trimmed beard and mustache, holds Liz in a headlock, aiming a large knife at her face.
The British #ScienceFiction show, "TimeSlip", is finally starting to warm up to itself... pun intended:
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February 1971 cover of 'Fantastic Stories' featuring a woman in dark robes covered in planets and stars standing before a large pillar. pink clouds billow behind her.
A pair of terrific vignettes make the latest Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy worth your time!
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