Cover of Jeff Mills’ The Messenger by Thomas Gianni
“The Messenger is the fourth chapter of a musical science fiction series. This chapter explores the recycling of Planet Earth and the end of all Earth’s life forms. Doomsday appears to be nothing more than an agricultural reconditioning phase controlled by an alien life forms, they reveal the explosive reality of creating the Human animal for the production and harvesting of Dreams. Caught between secretive human+alien relationship, The Messenger pleads the case for more time so that humans can evacuative Earth and save innocent lives - but time has run out.”
Galaksija August 1978
According to 50 Watts: Illustration by Nikolai Lutohin for the Yugoslavian science/science fiction magazine.
Find 135 other covers from the 1970s and 80s in Yugodrom’s Flickr set.
Michael Whelan - 2010: Odyssey Two (acrylic on illustration board, 1982)
Interior view of a Cylindrical Space Colony - Artist unknown (mid-1970s)
Courtesy of NASA Ames Research Center. Further renderings and an overview of space settlement.
Syd Mead - Blade Runner concept art (1980)
Reality ahead of schedule.
Every Drexciya EP navigates the depths of the Black Atlantic, the submerged worlds populated by Drexciyans, Lardossians, Darthouven Fish Men and Mutant Gillmen. In the sleevenotes to The Quest, the Drexciyans are revealed to be a marine species descended from ‘pregnant America-bound African slaves’ thrown overboard ‘by the thousands during labour for being sick and disruptive cargo.’
Extract from “More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction” by Kodwo Eshun (ISBN 978-0704380257)
