Science Fiction
2002: Child Life One Hundred Years from Now
We have a theme on WU of predictions of a future we have already reached. Some are way off, others more accurate. You may decide for yourself how this book fares. While we do not yet have personal winged flight for kids, we do have telephones with visuals.Read the whole thing here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 20, 2024 -
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Category: Predictions, Yesterday’s Tomorrows, Children, Books, Science Fiction, 1900s
Legal Daisy Spacing
I read this book nearly forty years ago, and never forgot it. It's weird and hilarious. I was so glad to see it turn up at the Internet Archive.It purports to be a manual for terraforming a planet. But it's written by madmen and nature haters. Cacti must be enclosed in steel. Mountains must be leveled. Jungles must be paved over.
Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 12, 2024 -
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Category: Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Science Fiction, 1980s
Welcome to 2024, the year of ‘A Boy and his Dog’
We've now got AI, but still no telepathic dogs.
Based on the poster below, I think the French version of the movie was titled, "Apocalypse 2024". Hope that's not prophetic.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 01, 2024 -
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Category: Movies, Science Fiction, New Year
The Electric Hairbrush and Comb of Hugo Gernsback
One of the fathers of modern science fiction once came up with this.Tip o' the hat to Steve Davidson, current proprietor of Amazing Stories.
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 27, 2023 -
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Category: Magazines, Patents, Science Fiction, 1910s, Hair and Hairstyling
Loma, A Citizen of Venus
Read it here."Long narrative on a cosmic germ theory of evolution. A Venusian comes to earth to educate the male fetus of an unwed mother so that the fetus will become the apostle of Venus's ideal culture. On Venus clothes are considered ugly and unsanitary, all human faculties are developed and 'balanced,' and social status is determined by a network of interpersonal relations among strangers, acquaintances, associates, brothers, sisters, lovers, and consorts -- the more of the latter three, the higher the status."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 23, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Gonzo, Demento, Kooky, Wacky and Out-there, Science Fiction, Nineteenth Century, Pregnancy
Homo cerebrointricatus
In 1953, Dr. Wilton Krogman of the University of Pennsylvania used his skills as a physical anthropologist (and his knowledge of human evolution) to predict what humans will look like five million years in the future. He decided that humans will evolve into a species he called Homo cerebrointricatus, meaning super-brained man. Our descendants will have telepathic brains, no stomachs, and "flat, round, pedestal-like feet."Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any illustrations of Homo cerebrointricatus.
Part of his prediction reminds me of the mentats in Frank Herbert's Dune:
Calgary Herald - Oct 22, 1953
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 25, 2022 -
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Category: Anthropology, Science Fiction, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
The Empire Strips Back
Article with many fotos here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 25, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Burlesque, Exotic Dancing, Stripping and Other Forms of Staged Nakedness, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Science Fiction
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 -
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Category: Science Fiction, Reader Recommendation, Cartoons, Love & Romance
CHANGE RETURN
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 05, 2022 -
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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 -
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Category: Horror, Movies, Stop-motion Animation, Surrealism, Science Fiction
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