By: cenoxo
goodnewsfortheinsane said: ...and what, no "jetsons" tag? Haven't found a direct Bonestell-Jetsons link yet, but given the season, there's A Jetson Christmas Carol (with Cosmo G. Spacely as Ebenezer...
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Illustrated in part by Bonestell's paintings, Werner von Braun's articles in the 1952-54 Collier's space flight seriesCC were the inspiration for Disney's TV movies Man in Space (1955), Man and the...
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That famous depiction of Saturn seen from Titan -- I'd always thought Don Dixon did that; nice to know it was a Bonestell work.
View ArticleBy: octothorpe
Cool post, I love Bonestell's stuff. One of my most treasured books is a hardbacked copy of his Conquest of Space. The future used to look so cool.
View ArticleBy: languagehat
Bonestell was fantastic—he was probably the first illustrator whose name I knew as a kid (followed rapidly by Ed Emshwiller, or "Emsh"). The name is three syllables, by the way: BON-e-stell. Of course,...
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Oh, and please stop inventing new uses for superscripted abbreviations on the front page. We were doing fine without them. Thankee. :) Sure, I'll take the crusader bait again. I feel compelled to ask...
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Ah, I just looked at the end of each link in the status bar, and didn't notice the Coral Cache links are longer. Thanks for the clarification. Oh, and please stop inventing new uses for superscripted...
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mediareport, "cc" is an alternative link to the Coral Cache mirror site. The FPP's main links go to a personal blog, and it might get overloaded by MeFi connections. Note that the "cc" URLs contain the...
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cenoxo seems to have jumped on the superscript bandwagon to show Coral Cache links to the site in question. Coral Cache helps rickety websites to hold up under traffic (from places like here and...
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Neat post, thanks, but is there something I'm not getting with that "cc" thing you seem to have invented? They go to the same page as the link just before them, it looks like.
View ArticleBy: booksandlibretti
Bonestell also did a background for Destination Moon (1950), America's "first major science-fiction film." I remember reading that the painting Bonestell did was something like fifteen feet long, and...
View ArticleBy: rolypolyman
Yeah, we'll see how long that unique Venusian ecosystem lasts with dirty people and their roach-infested belongings waltzing off the ship from Earth.
View ArticleBy: cenoxo
brundlefly said: ...how does he explain dinosaurs on Venus?ERB (who coincidentally died in March 1950) may have had some popular influence on that idea with his Venus series. As Earth's sister planet,...
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So that's what Nasa has planned for the moonbase - plastic domed atomic factories!
View ArticleBy: b1tr0t
The children were disappointed that there was no reptile house, but so far no serpents had been found on venus. Apparently they found them on venus, but didn't rank them as reptiles.
View ArticleBy: brundlefly
Great stuff. Haven't read the text yet, but how does he explain dinosaurs on Venus?
View ArticleBy: jfuller
Yes! When Rocket Ships looked like Rocket Ships and the Future was still the Future. (And still something you might want to look forward to.)
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Mr. Smith Goes to Venus—part 1CC and part 2CC. Legendary space artistChesley Bonestell shows us what family vacationsCC should have been like in Coronet Magazine, March 1950. [Click thumbnails for...
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