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Lots of eyes. So many.

  • Adam Rowe

Adam Rowe

07 Jun 2020 • 3 min read

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Looking in Spaceship Windshields

Looking in Spaceship Windshields

Spaceship windshields don't make much sense for several different reasons – the lack of wind and the physical limitations of translucent materials being the big ones. However, they look cool. Which means they make a lot of sense on sci-fi book covers. And for some reason, during the 70s
13 Oct 2025 5 min read
Odds and Ends: October 2025

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

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
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