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Book notes: 'Hardyware'

Featuring volcanoes, shattered Earths, Cadbury's

Adam Rowe

11 Dec 2020 • 6 min read

Detail from "Mountain of Mystery," 1980, by David A Hardy

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Smoking in Sci-Fi

Cigarettes are right up there with Coca-Cola as a feat of marketing, manifested into being with the one-two combo of advertisements and addictive ingredients until they hit a critical mass and became a genuine self-perpetuating element of Americana. The tobacco propaganda machine faltered in the 90s, leaving a long, fascinating

01 Sep 2025 6 min read

Weird Horses and Other Steeds

I love all the details in Richard Clifton-Dey's 1973 cover art for The Wizard of Venus, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The green-yellow gradient sky; those garbled, mist-shrouded buildings in the background. But the creature design is the main attraction: The bug eyes, the endless scream, the dinnerplate feet,

25 Aug 2025 4 min read

Book Notes: "The Art of NASA"

Welcome back to "Book Notes," an old series that I did way back when I was working on writing my art collection Worlds Beyond Time and was constantly churning through research materials. I'd post my favorites notes on each book along with my best attempt at

18 Aug 2025 4 min read

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