This is way cool. I'm looking forward to exploring this, as well. You rock, Steve. :) On Jan 22, 2015 4:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I know I seem to have dropped off the face of the world and there’s no > good excuse for that. All I can say is that I went into hermit mode > immersed in several semi-related projects. Finally, finally, finally, > they’re ready to show to people. Not complete, that’s a long way off, but > the first bits are past the draft stage. > > First is a website, Flying Cars and Food Pills > <http://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com>. Yep, it’s about flying cars and > food pills. And robots, and rocketships, and ray guns. (Does it have a > pretentious subtitle? Of course it does: The Visionaries, Madmen, and > Tinkerers Who Created the Future That Never Was: A Celebration 1893-1962.) > It’s just what it says, glimpses of that cool and wonderful > future-that-should-have-been technology that is today inseparable from the > science fiction and science fiction writers who worshipped it. The Internet > doesn’t suffer from a lack of retrofuture sites but they mostly yank old > images out of context for you to laugh at. Our grandparents weren’t > laughing. They believed in marvels in a way we don’t. I’m trying to show > the Future the way they saw it, with fresh eyes and unjaded minds as the > world was re-created around them daily. > > That’s hard to do in slices online. What’s really needed is a book. I > started one. A sample chapter is available for download through Amazon. Flying > Cars:The Miracle of Flight - In Your Driveway! > <http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Cars-Miracle-Flight-Driveway-ebook/dp/B00PSXB5RQ/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421791680&sr=1-14&keywords=flying+cars> > (Where else could I start?) > > All this made me read and think about SF and its history, which led me > down the rabbit hole to yet another huge time sink. Gnome Press was one of > the publishing houses that fans started after WWII to finally put SF into > hardcovers. Gnome had all the biggest of names – Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, > Williamson, Leinster, Pohl, van Vogt, Simak, Moore, Kuttner, Leiber, > Norton, Brackett, Doc Smith; its history is most of the history of the > field. I have all the books and a new bibliography was needed. So I started > the Gnome PressRelease <http://gnomepress.com> to cover each title. > There’s now tens of thousands of words piled up there and I’m only 20% of > the way through. > > I’d love to get feedback from any and all of you. Opinions on what works > and what doesn’t would be great. Does anyone care about the reprints of old > SF and early movies, e.g.? Thoughts about stuff you’d like to see in the > future would be helpful, too. I expect to be adding at least one page a > week from now on. I’ll take requests if they fit in at all. New sections > will be added as well. Atomic Energy. The House of the Future. World’s Fair > s. The source material is endless. > > And if you like it, please help me get the word out. > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
