Widdershins

Many thanks to longtime WU-vie Gerald Sacks for pointing us towards this neat little steampunk cartoon, whose anachronistic future is decidedly weird.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 15, 2022 - Comments (0)
Category: Science Fiction, Reader Recommendation, Cartoons, Love & Romance

CHANGE RETURN

Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 05, 2022 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Technology, Poor People, Poverty, Proles, and the Underclass, Science Fiction, Cartoons

Mad God

Looks exceedingly weird.

The homepage.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 23, 2021 - Comments (1)
Category: Horror, Movies, Stop-motion Animation, Surrealism, Science Fiction

King Dinosaur

The Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Mon May 31, 2021 - Comments (1)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, Science Fiction, Space Travel, 1950s

Martian Hop

The Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 25, 2021 - Comments (2)
Category: Aliens, Fads, Music, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Science Fiction, 1960s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

Moon Zero Two

Welcome to 2021, the year in which the 1969 movie Moon Zero Two was set. It was promoted as "the first Moon western". From Wikipedia:


For some reason the trailer for the movie inexplicably identified the year as 2028, even though in the movie itself the date was clearly shown as 2021.





You can watch the entire movie for free on YouTube:

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 01, 2021 - Comments (3)
Category: Movies, Science Fiction, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows

Mr. Drake’s Duck

Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 18, 2020 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Movies, Science Fiction, 1950s

Nebula-75 - Episode One (A New For 2020 Supermarionation Drama)

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 29, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Puppets and Automatons, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Science Fiction, 1960s, Twenty-first Century

The Cleve Cartmill Affair

Science-fiction author Cleve Cartmill is best known for his short story "Deadline," which appeared in the March 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The story isn't famous because it's a good story. Cartmill himself described it as a "stinker." It's famous because it contained specific details about how to make an atomic bomb — details which Cartmill somehow knew over a year before the existence of the bomb had been revealed by the U.S. government.

When Military Intelligence learned about the story they freaked out, fearing a security breach, and launched an investigation. They questioned Cartmill, as well as Astounding editor John W. Campbell. But eventually they concluded that Cartmill had gained his info, as he insisted, from publicly available sources.

However, the rumor is that Military Intelligence bought up as many copies of that issue of the magazine as they could, to prevent its dissemination. Which makes that issue quite valuable. For instance, at Burnside Rare Books it's going for $400.

But if you simply want to read the issue (and Cartmill's story), you can do that at archive.org for free.

More info: lynceans.org, Wikipedia.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 10, 2020 - Comments (1)
Category: Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, Science Fiction, 1940s

Rocket Robin Hood

Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 08, 2020 - Comments (3)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Regionalism, Science Fiction, Cartoons, 1960s