Our review of For All Mankind
The first time I gave For All Mankind a try was not long after I’d seen Altered Carbon, and another ten episodes of Joel Kinnaman’s pent-up anger was a little too much for me.
I still find it off-putting, and his character in For All Mankind shows almost no growth over two seasons. But the rest of the series makes up for it.
It starts with the Soviet Union beating the Americans to the Moon and…
The sci-fi art of Chris Moore
Chris Moore is a British artist who has illustrated everything from (science-fiction) novels to LP covers.
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Review of the 1968 alternate Space Race movie Countdown
The 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of oneupmanship. One that saw them leaping from first satellite to the first man to the first woman and first multi-person crew to, thanks to President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 declaration before Congress, to putting someone on the Moon first. That goal was reached in July 1969, when Apollo 11’s Neil…
The sci-fi art of John Harris
John Harris is a British artist known for his otherworldly landscapes and science-fiction book covers.
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Defending a Moon base with nuclear grenades
An American military base on the Moon, defended by nuclear grenade launchers. If that doesn’t sound like an atomicpunk fantasy, I don’t know what does.
Except it was a real plan.
A 1959 feasibility study, codenamed Project Horizon, argued for a lunar outpost, manned by about a dozen soldiers, to keep the Moon out of Soviet hands.
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The retro-futuristic art of Vincent Di Fate
Vincent Di Fate is an American fantasy and science-fiction illustrator. He started his career in the 1960s drawing for pulp magazines and has since produced artwork for IBM, NASA and the National Geographic Society, among others.
He is also the author of some 300 articles and three books and a professor at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Günter Radtke was a German illustrator who mostly did work for Stern magazine.
He also illustrated various science-fiction stories, including Ulrich Schippke’s Zukunft: Das Bild der Welt von Morgen (“The Future: An Image of the World of Tomorrow”) (1974), which shows self-driving cars, skyscrapers in the sea and various imagined forms of public transportation.
All images courtesy of Retro-Futurismus.
Günter Radtke’s World of Tomorrow Günter Radtke was a German illustrator who mostly did work for Stern magazine. He also illustrated various science-fiction stories, including Ulrich Schippke's…
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