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A drop of dream fuel - The Man in the Maze by Bruce Pennington

I signed up for a black-market time-travel tour as soon as I heard about them. (The first rule of Time Club etc.)

There’s an hour long pre-mission briefing on how you must be extremely careful in what you say or do as the smallest event could have future-changing consequences.

After that, they give you back your money, admit that there is no time machine, and tell you “now go and do the smallest thing you can to make the future better”.

I’m not even mad.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

1 - untitled, original painting, c. 1953
2 - « The Worshippers », cover illustration for "Space Science Fiction" magazine, March 1953

by Wayne Francis Woodard, aka Hannes Bok (American artist, 1914-1964)

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #hannesbok #scififantasy

« Chaos Marauders », 1987

by John Blanche (British artist, 1948-2026)
Box cover illustration of "Chaos Marauders" boardgame of orcish mayhem by Stephen Hand, #GamesWorkshop, 1987

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #warhammer #JohnBlanche #boardgame #oldhammer

Okay, how did I never hear about the writer line-up in the old Land of the Lost TV series?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(1974_TV_series)

#SciFi #Writing #ScienceFiction

Bruce Pennington, Forest Temple - Private Work (1985)

https://imgur.com/gallery/bruce-pennington-forest-temple-private-work-1985-5jp0AuZ

#painting #paint #painter #illustration #drawing #space #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #world #imagination #colors #colours #landscapes #creativity #vintage #art #culture #brucepennington

"Every city in the Midwest has a half-finished canal in it."

I love canals, so this makes me want to do a tour of the midwest US and its half-finished canals - and a boat tour of the *finished* canals. But I'm in Scotland so... let me do it online.

First up: Indianapolis!

(1/n)

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« Three Skull Mountains By The Sea », c. 1975

by Ray Feibush (British artist, 1948-1998)
Cover illustration of "The Best of Frank Herbert, 1952-1964", Angus Wells ed., Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RayFeibush #SciFiFantasy #FrankHerbert #darkfantasy

One of my very favourite Leonov / Sokolov works, delicately poised between Abstract and Realistic!

Space art by some combination of Alexei Leonov / Andre Sokolov.

Luna 16 leaves the Moon with it's precious sample.

A drop of dream fuel - Nemesis by Alfred Kelsner

A drop of dream fuel - Galactic Voyage by Alfred Kelsner

A drop of dream fuel - Space Trip by Alfred Kelsner

A drop of dream fuel - Explorer by Alfred Kelsner

Moon lander, Sokolov, 1965