AMAZING STORIES N86 -- TECH-NOIR TALES FROM THE "METROID" UNIVERSE.
PIC INFO: Resolution at 1280x1862 -- Spotlight on a pulp/noir/vintage sci-fi novel interpretation of Samus Aran as "The Bounty Hunter" (from the "Metroid" video game series by Nintendo). Artwork by Ástor Alexander, c. 2014.
Nice condition early 90s printing of the #philipkdick classic Blade Runner now available. #bookstore #usedbooks #vintagebooks #scifi #sciencefiction #classicscifi #vintagescifi #bladerunner (at The Bookstore On Pluto) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co-BcdmrdBP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Like The Syndic, I picked this up (thrift store, I think) hoping for dumb trash, a nice Mad Max ripoff, as I'd seen a bunch of those around second hand shops (endworld, deathlands, etc). What I got instead was a brutal, uncompromising, empathic, and thoughtful piece of eco-fiction that grappled fearlessly with sexual violence and the fallout of trauma. I've since learned that I love spec fic by 70s & 80s lesbians, due to an evocative deployment of romance novel techniques (often bordering on slashfic) in violent SFF frameworks. This one flashes some trash fiction ultra-violence early, then pivots to a slow-burn character study, and a very grounded survival story. The ambiguous non-ending and denial of catharsis was a quality I would later come to love in the work of Yarbro's contemporary, CJ Cherryh. False Dawn is pretty underrated, like Yarbro is generally. This book is an all-timer imo. Walking Dead eat your heart out.
Running behind with fantasy February. Here is day 6. Quarry. I went with rocks, like a rock Quarry, except for its a mask. I don't know. I'm on a kick with the goggles. Can't seem to get it out of my system. . . . . . #inkdrawing #artoftheday #landscape #scifiart #surrealism #fantasyart #fantasy #sciencefictionart #fantasydrawing #mask #scifiartwork #artist #scifiworld #artwork #psychedelicart #rocks #vintagescifi #illustrator #scifiartist #illustrationartists #illustration #fantasyartists (at Lincoln, Nebraska) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYuJ-iMVgT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=