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more about #spaceships octoSink: I have two books I got about spaceships and spacewrecks when I was a kid (the 70s) that either he contributed or did entirely. I can't remember the na... more » Jassen: You know Charlie Jane, i've only just gotten my R2-D2 t-shirt and then you go an post this. *sigh* I'm gonna have to freeze my credit card or start se... more » lorq: I still own and cherish my copy of "20th Century Foss," the artbook put out by Dragon's Dream Publishers, which also put out beautiful and glossy book... more » J-a-z: My Dad was a scifi buff and he had a bunch of books with Chris Foss covers - several of them were the Foundation series and I Robot I think. I used to... more » SinisterBill prints in color on both sides: Reminds me of Stewart Cowley's Terran Trade Authority books. Outstanding! more » Perhaps Not: Yay, Jodo! Factoid: the new Metabarons GN has a lengthy sequence by AWOL WildC.A.T.S penciller Travis Charest, which is beyond awesome. The two of the... more » Matthew Parmeter: Does #14 strike anyone else as looking a bit like Deep Thought from the HHGG movie? And #5 seems vaguely Macross-ish more » Tim Barribeau: Many of Jodorowsky's ideas for Dune were folded into his comics, like L'Incal and Metabarons. L'Incal is an utter braintrip, in the best sense of the ... more » David Bullaro: I remember these from OMNI magazine. This was like timewarping back in time 2 decades. Thanks for that I09! more » disatess: awesome pics ,though I have a problem with where the giant robots are in dune . more » moifauxmail: Man will conquer space mounted on Foss' spaceships, never in NASA's concentration camps of the spirit. God, I love Jodorowsky. I assume this was t... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: My gods, those are some very colorful ships. more » cletar: I don't remember "Pirates of Dune." I like the pictures, though. more » FrankenPC: I used to have two artwork books from this guy. Very distinctive imagination. My mom threw them out when I left for college :-( more » RepoMan84: The big scoops on number 12 sure scream "Nostromo." more » Kenro199x: Simply stunning. I kinda hate seeing these because it reminds me of what we could have had. more » KhaiJB: aah Foss... shaped my view of spacecraft ever since I can remember... more » EBone: So do I have to be the dork to point out that the other "Enterprise" in The Tholian Web was the USS Defiant, also a Constitution Class starship? #spac... more » SeeingI: "Silence in the Library" but no "The Impossible Planet"? #spaceships more » NotChoinski: What aboutt he spider-infested ship from the Lost In Space movie? #spaceships more » -
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Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
A pirate ship slices through space in concept art from the lost Dune movie of the 1970s. Artist Chris Foss crafted covers for some of science fiction's greatest books, reshaping how we see spaceships and robots. Check out our gallery. More » -
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A Rogue's Gallery of Haunted Spaceships
Though spaceships exist firmly in the realm of science and rationality, that doesn't mean they can't be invaded by fantastical visions and spooky ghosts. Here's a gallery of space vessels whose crews aren't entirely of this universe. More » -
#chartporn
The Tallest Monsters, the Largest Starships, and the Space Race
The Visual Aid book series is chock full of fun and fascinating infographics that explain everything from the space race timeline to the relative sizes of the dinosaurs. And they've distilled their visual information onto handy posters. More » -
#legospaceships
Lego Spaceships Spell Out the Alphabet
Cartoonist Mark Anderson is using Lego blocks to invent new imaginary spaceships, but with a small twist: each ship's design is based on a letter of the alphabet. More » -
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Now That's What We Call A Starship Bridge
New Pandorum concept art shows a dark, time-worn spaceship command center, with rusty bulkheads and a cool-looking holographic user interface surrounding the captain's chair. And click through to see another piece of concept art, showing the inevitable service crawlway. More » -
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The City Inside A Mountain
Over the years, erosion revealed what lay beneath the Antarctic mountains. Scientists dubbed them "habitation discs," and they were all that remained of was was once a teeming city within these frozen peaks. More » -
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The Evolution Of Space Cruiser Design: A Gallery
The Romulan mining vessel Narada undulates as it prepares to claim another defenseless planet. Spaceship design has come a long way since the 1960s. Here's a gallery of five different eras in starships, battlecruisers and planet-destroyers, with 150+ images. More » -
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The Shipping Docks Are Crowded With Alien Vessels In Spring
She loved to watch the alien ships come in, bearing their loads of spice and AI processors. There was a perfect view of the star yards from her tiny apartment in the projects. More » -
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#rant
Maybe Star Trek And Caprica Shouldn't Be Franchises
It's the curse of Hollywood: We can't get new space opera movies unless they're the resurrection of 1960s workhorse Star Trek. And we can't explore artificial intelligence intelligently unless it's a Battlestar Galactica adjunct.
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Ships Clogged the Air, Their Exhaust Mingling with Smog from the Ring City Overhead
At dawn, they set out to find their culprit, who might be anywhere in this vast city. Its stinking sprawl spanned the planet below, and hung from several massive rings overhead. More » -
#startrek
The U.S.S. Enterprise Like You've Never Seen It
Here's a shiny, spaceworthy look at the new U.S.S. Enterprise, courtesy of model company Quantum Mechanix. Paramount's "Enterprise Project" invited a ton of artists to take liberties with Starfleet's flagship. Want to see the results? More » -
#trylonviper
Launch The Alert Vipers, With Your Very Own Battlestar Car
Don't you wish your driveway played host to this Viper car, straight out of Battlestar Galactica? Butch pilot with mental issues and a sexy flightsuit not included. More » -
#conceptart
Your Fleet Is No Match for Space Cthulhu
Even if you have an entire fleet of ships at your disposal, Space Cthulhu is going to crush you. At least, that's the message I get from this amazing concept art by Thai CGI artist Monsit Jangariyawong. A fan of strange creatures and shiny ships, Jangariyawong works from Bangkok. Want to see another one of his amazing monsters? More » -
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The Cargo Boat that Inspired the Look of Battlestar's Spaceships
This industrial sea-going ship provided inspiration for special effects designers working on the spaceships in Battlestar Galactica. Designer Mojo describes how in a recent blog post about how he makes Battlestar's ships look realistic by imitating the "self-lighting" look of this ship, which is illuminated only by its own onboard lights. Want to see the spaceship that was directly inspired by this image? More » -
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Blown Glass Spaceships Scatter Seeds to the Stars
Made of glass and recycled metals, these spaceships look like they were torn from the pages of rocket magazines in the 1930s. They're the battered but delicate stars of Rik Allen's show "Innersphere" at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, which runs through April 27. Allen, a master glass blower, said he wanted to pay homage to the science fiction he loved as a kid. Here are another two of his pieces, below. More » -
#spaceships
An Antimatter Ship for Every Space Dock
Earlier today, we celebrated the discovery that antimatter can be found everywhere — not just the center of the galaxy. Now we'll take you deep inside the strange world of antimatter-powered spaceships. Believe it or not, there's actually an entire lab devoted to antimatter space propulsion at Penn State (the image you see here is their AIMstar). Once we mined a bunch of antimatter out of black hole binaries or neutron stars, though, how would we get anywhere with it? More »
