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Book Notes: 'Visions of Space'

Featuring a bloodthirsty Chesley Bonestell

Adam Rowe

07 Dec 2020 • 6 min read

Cropped version of “Portent of Doom,” by Julian Baum

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Odds and Ends: October 2025

Do you know this meme? Maybe you don't – it's not a hugely popular one. But I've seen it for years, and only relatively recently learned what its origins were: Nora Reed on Bluesky asked about it, and they got a response from cartoonist Roger

06 Oct 2025 6 min read

Computer Plant Life

"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize

29 Sep 2025 6 min read

Childcraft's How and Why Library

Much like the door-to-door salespeople who sold them, encyclopedia sets have been largely killed off by the internet. Perhaps they'll make a comeback once we hit a critical mass of AI hallucinations. The encyclopedia business was booming across the 20th century, enough so that the publishers of the

22 Sep 2025 5 min read

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