John H

“A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators, darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste.”

[John H @chatsubo]

@Hooberbloob How do I unclick this and pick the armour instead

[Black 🏳️‍⚧️ Site @UnseenOps]

Missile intertial guidance systems are some of the most sorcerous objects ever created, the old ones were ominous floating spheres harnessing esoteric formulas and the new ones do the same with channeled lasers

[SF Encyclopedia @SFEncyclopedia]

Artist Hubert Rogers died on this day, so here's some of his 1939/1940 magazine cover art:

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.

More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: https://t.co/rDbY3te7l1

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Gustave Doré’s depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance: frontispiece to a 1863 edition of the 17th-century masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, who died #onthisday in 1616.

More on the imagery of Don Quixote here: https://t.co/VNnLrs4IgS #otd

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

There's more to the world of art than Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso.

So here are 11 brilliant, beautiful, & bizarre painters you've (probably) never heard of:

[Pascal Blanché @pascalblanche]

A reminder of the amazing visions of #Dune by John Schoenherr form back late 70's

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Fritz Hegenbart

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying.

Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Today in pulp I look back at the work of Victorian illustrator Sidney Sime.

Come this way...

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

4 great Philip K Dick book covers by Bob Pepper (DAW, 1982)

[John H @chatsubo]

@Hooberbloob You need a Kaosillator

[John H @chatsubo]

@Hooberbloob The carrier has a few of these on board y'know

https://t.co/tE3L0ycBun

[💭 Sean McCoy @seanmccoy]

Had a little writer's slump, so needed to go back to basics. Finally updated the pocketmod to 1e. This is where Mothership started. You don't need more than this.

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

The black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Nearly 20 times the size of our Sun.The orange light is superheated gas swirling into the centre. See more on @BBCNews

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

In these bewildering landscapes (ca. 1689) by Ferdinand van Kessel, 64 cities across 4 continents are depicted as mere backdrops to the antics of animals — the built environment of the human world almost superfluous. More here: https://t.co/svAwaCsMK9

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

John Berkey https://t.co/HKa3jcZP8L

[William Blake @williamblakebot]

By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a burning city; beneath us at an immense distance was the sun, black but shining;