Listen to The 1950s Science Fiction Podcast. on Spotify for Creators open.spotify.com/episode/3uW… Finaly after a year or more I got post a new epsoide of the series. It took me long enough to get it done. #podcast #scifi #sciencefiction

🚀 Historic Image: The First Color Photo of Earth from Space On September 20, 1967, the DODGE satellite transmitted color images of our planet to Earth for the first time. This was a breakthrough, opening up a completely new, vibrant view of humanity's home. Previously, the images had been black and white, and seeing blue oceans and white clouds in color was a true miracle.

Cars on rails. Popular Science, October 1967.

Today’s Movie Poster. 1960 A man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.

I am currently reading this story. #perryrodan #scifi #sciencefiction #spacefiction

Art by Eddie Jones for Germany’s Terra Astra Magazine. Jones created over 500 covers for Terra Astra magazine in the 1970-80s.

Tonight The Sky Will Fall! by Daniel F. Galouye. Imagination, May 1952.

Rip Gene Shalit #TodayShow #GeneShalit #Movies

I grokked the cover of STAR WARS issue #4 for no good reason other than to see what would happen.

"This special report provided as a public service by the producers of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'"

Maybe even more than the film, Jim Steranko's 1981 graphic adaptation of Outland conveys the deeply noir, deeply cyberpunk elements of the story that would find completion a year later in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. wp.me/p7gXJr-8wE

John Pederson, Jr., 1962.

"The Invisible Man's Revenge" was released on this day in 1944. Classic Universal Monster film (inspired by the H G. Welles novel) from director Ford Beebe and screenwriter Bertram Millhauser. Highlights: Excellent special effects by John Fulton; exciting Hans J. Salter score. The fifth and final film in Universal's original "Invisible Man" series was met with audience indifference (barely doubling its production budget), but was a huge improvement over the prior two entries. While the character would later return in two successful Abbot and Costello movies, not having Griffin appear in either one of Universal's popular monster rally pictures ("House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula") remains a confounding missed opportunity.

ICYMI: In 1978, a Polish publishing house released a series of comics based on Erich von Däniken's crackpot "theories." Beautifully drawn by Bogusław Polch, the comics were later published in the UK as 'The Gods from Outer Space.' wp.me/p7gXJr-a56

New podcast is now up on an Enterprise episode. treksinscifi.com/podcast_not… #startrek #enterprise #scifi #podcast #trek #movies

Nearby at the haunted drive-in, tonight's movie... The Brain Eaters #1950s #scifi #horror

The Day Of The Triffids (1981). John Wyndham's "cosy catastrophe" gets a gritty Cold War survivalist style production by the BBC. John Duttine is the stoic everyman hero Bill, with the grim task of surviving in a devastated world. Emma Relph and Maurice Colbourne give powerful performances as Jo Playton and Jack Coker respectively, and they come to very different conclusions about the duty towards the blinded population and the necessity of long term survival. The Triffids in this are nice and chilling: it's hard to make a plant seem terrifying, but with their rattling hissing sound they gave many viewers nightmares.

The Mutant Weapon is a terrific 1957 sci-fi novella by Murray Leinster. It begins with a routine medical mission to a distant colony planet making bizarre discoveries. There's a very real sense of menace and of a nasty kind of calculated evil. My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.…

Love those oversized comic books from the 70s

HAVE SPACE SUIT-WILL TRAVEL

Captain Midnight #1940s #comics