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    Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction

    Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries

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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05:20 PM

    In reply to How Do You Bridge The Gap Between Two Cool Moments In Your Novel?
    Cannell's is good advice: "What's the bad guy up to?"
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    03:53 PM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    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 sending you the bills.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    01:21 PM

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    The best Reason to Write Science Fiction:

    Simply put it is the best type of literature in the world !!!
    And that is why we are all here on io9 cause we love scifi
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01:10 PM

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    Also Threat Quality Press. We have published ONE WHOLE BOOK!
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    02:13 PM

    @braak: and a HALF! Holland's was sorta out, and then not out right?
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    02:32 PM

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Yes, true, technically! Technically it's a book and a half!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01:08 PM

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    Eraserhead gets an automatic win because of the Shatner Quake. Dear sweet jeebus.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    01:07 PM

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    I would call this a post that starts with a image that makes you wanna run away. But the hashtag was to long.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10:34 AM

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    I appreciate where he's coming from. I do feel slightly guilty that I get a lot of my reading from the library rather than supporting the authors by buying their works, but if I bought every book I wanted to read I'd be living in a box overtop a steam grate.
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    Image of lorq lorq
    10:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    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 books by Roger Dean, Syd Mead, and many others, back in the mid-70s and thereafter. (Time for a Dragon's Dream retrospective article / gallery, mayhap...?)
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    Image of lorq lorq
    01:07 PM

    @lorq: Ahem, of course I meant "21st Century Foss."
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10:15 AM

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    I was expecting this to be "I'm swimming in trim" but this is better.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    10:18 AM

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: That is actually the best reason to write vampire novels.
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    Image of ProfessorSara ProfessorSara
    10:30 AM

    @Perhaps Not: That makes me go to a weird place regarding Stephanie Meyer.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10:31 AM

    @Perhaps Not: Please please please don't be targeting the Tw-*ahem* demographic. I don't want to call Chris Hansen.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    01:25 PM

    @#c16980943: Actually, a bunch of girls I know who LOVE those books are in their 20's and older. Fair game!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10:11 AM

    In reply to Maybe The Best Reason To Write Science Fiction
    If I read a really good book I use a hundred dollar bill as a bookmarker so I can pretend that everytime I close the book, the author gets paid.
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    Image of CColdsmoke CColdsmoke
    11:35 AM

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: @crashedpc - Haifisch: Mind if I borrow some of your really good books?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12:24 PM

    @CColdsmoke: Oh, sure... *hands over New Moon*

    HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    08:58 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    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 them on one book hugely rule.
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    Image of Tim Barribeau Tim Barribeau
    07:59 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    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 word. Totally worth a read.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07:23 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    My gods, those are some very colorful ships.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I don't remember "Pirates of Dune."

    I like the pictures, though.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    07:36 AM

    @cletar: I like that title!

    You've got yourself another Kevin J. Anderson Dune series right there!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07:22 AM

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I used to have two artwork books from this guy. Very distinctive imagination.

    My mom threw them out when I left for college :-(
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    Image of Zenuflecked Zenuflecked
    08:19 AM

    @FrankenPC: Oh, that is so unfortunate. I managed to hold on to my copies of 3 of his books. I never got the star liners book unfortunately, but I had the spacecraft, spacewars, and spacewrecks. Someone is doing a revival of the storyline that ran behind these for an RPG.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08:34 AM

    @Zenuflecked: Mine were Starliners and Spacecraft. I've never seen Spacewars. I'll have to amble on over to Amazon and take a look see.

    #calendar
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    08:40 AM

    @Zenuflecked: the ones you mean by Stewart Cowley?
    I have them - Spacecraft 2000-2100, Spacewrecks, Great Spacebattles and the Spaceliners one.

    Foss wasn't actually involved with this series.. the work by other artists is very similar tho.

    Edit
    Forgot to note there is a Spacewars book, that is Spacecraft 2000-2100 and Spacebattles in one Edition.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    08:57 AM

    @Zenuflecked: Holy mother of gawd :-O Starliners goes from ~100$-~300$ on Amazon!
    (Shakes fist~!) Damn you mom!!!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    09:00 AM

    @FrankenPC: get away from my copy!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    09:03 AM

    @KhaiJB: heres the full set

    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]

    now get your mits off my copies. MINE!
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