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did anybody else wig out on these when they were younger

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 17 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

no but i am happy to have em brought to my attention

― s1ocki, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

it's where i first saw this one

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/b12/present/lp1.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

and this one

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1301/defcon2br6.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

basically it's a collection of sci-fi themed space art (heavy HEAVY sci-fi influence, aliens and shit too) with some linking fiction.

lots of great silver age 70s airbrush and oil painting sci-fi book covers, MINUS the obnoxious branding.

i want to scan some of it and put it on the "all my life is a starway" page.

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

i love skeletons in spacesuits!

― s1ocki, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

i think i had a sci-fi book with a skeleton in a spacesuit on the moon when i was a kid. the whole premise of the book was "wtf is a skeleton in a spacesuit doing on the moon we thought we were here first omg"

― s1ocki, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

these look very very familiar
i think i may have gone through a phase of these. or my dad did and i read them too.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

YES! I have been trying to remember what these books are called for a LONG time. Killer. moonship tnk u!

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i've never heard of these but they look totally sweet

― sleep, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

and i've definitely seen that first image somewhere, probably 10+ years ago

― sleep, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure i still believe this is what space looks like and will look like in the future.
the illustrations always make me feel high. even as a kid, i remember illustrations like this making me feel floaty.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

I remember getting "2000-2100" at the library when I was kid. It was overdue for about 6 months when I finally returned it. That was a long stretch of late fees for someone as young as I was, but I never for a second thought it wasn't worth it. But I never saw it back on the library shelf after I had returned 'the spaceship book'. The library catalog always said 'Missing' or 'Overdue'. And I've always wished that I had just outright stolen that book, ever since the age of 12.. and I had always suspected that some other chump kid had just scooped me on the deed. This thread, and a quick visit to amazon.com means I'm going to go to sleep tonight with one less demon.

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

i love skeletons in spacesuits!

-- s1ocki, Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:50 PM (Yesterday)

I love the image of the Zendrati in Macross in the desert dead with the minmei doll in the shadow of his crashed ship

― JW, Friday, 18 May 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

petey i had the SAME EXACT experience as you did ... i just figured it out a couple days ago when i was closely perusing the liner notes to b12's "time tourist" and noticed a weirdly-phrased credit to TREVOR WEBB (who did the 1st painting) ... googled it and here we are ...

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

well done sir.

It's exciting that there are sequel books I've never seen. "Space Battles" ...uh... yyeess.

For a second I thought the movie case you posted was for some sci-fi horror movie I vaguely remember as a kid.. where astronauts on the moon are being carved up for parts by intelligent moon robots. I don't think this is the same movie though. :-/

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

"moontrap"?

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

^^ winner!

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I love the image of the Zendrati in Macross in the desert dead with the minmei doll in the shadow of his crashed ship

YES

― strongohulkington, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

i was obsessed with that defcon 4 cover as a kid every time we'd go to the video store

― strongohulkington, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

PETER ELSON

http://www.innovari.it/peter%20elson%203b.htm

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

i seem to have missed these:-/ the def-con 4 thing rings a bell, though

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

OMG SPACEWRECKS

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

GHOSTSHIPS AND DERELICTS OF SPACE

― petey_carnum, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

this shit was the fucking bomb. i have 2 or 3 of the TTA books still.

― blueski, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c1194.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

sorry

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c1194.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

I totally had Great Space Battles in grade school! How fucking deep was that buried in my brane??? Sweet thread.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

how did I miss this thread. I think about these books at least once a week

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Starliners was my favorite for some reason

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Local Space - not good, May 19, 2007
By Bear "Bear" (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
It almost seems like this book was cobbled together, with bits and pieces from the other books and even role playing games.

Here are some things that i found very uninspired:

The Alpha Centaurians look alot like elves
The Proximans look like a cross between chimps and dwarves
They seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the reproductive
habits of both species
Entire sections of diologue have been lifted, word for word, from the
original series.
There are numerous spelling and grammatical errors.
The world of the TTA seems to bear a striking similarity to the Shadowrun RPG.
- The megacorporations seem to be in almost total control.
- There are a few privilaged elite, and the remainder are poor and at the corps & governments mercy.
- Corps and governments seem to be in a constant state of conflict.
- The government seems to have little or no control.
- Crime seems to be rabid and uncontrolled.

I know it sounds like ranting, but I was expecting alot more.
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― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

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