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Dinosaurs

Plus, the Spielberg face and 40s-era 'humor'

  • Adam Rowe

Adam Rowe

07 Apr 2020 • 2 min read

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Beams From Flying Saucers

Beams From Flying Saucers

There's something about the old-school "flying saucer" UFO. I've covered a wide range of classic sci-fi spaceship art, but the flying saucer is in a class by itself. It's mysterious, eerie, unknowable, even horrific. Cryptic and a cryptid. There's only
19 Jan 2026 5 min read
Ray Guns

Ray Guns

Science fiction magazine covers of the '30s-'50s loved thinly-reskinned adventure tropes. Skeletons on deserted islands became skeletons on deserted planets; Wild animal attacks became alien monster attacks. The violence inherent to the genre meant that pistols and rifles were naturally the next in line for a revamp.
12 Jan 2026 6 min read
Polar Bear-Drawn Sleighs

Polar Bear-Drawn Sleighs

Next month is the tenth anniversary of a blog post I wrote for the Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. Like many cool art blogs owned by corporations, it is no longer online, so I don't feel too bad about scavenging that particular post off of the
05 Jan 2026 5 min read
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