Showing posts with label R.I.P.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label R.I.P.. Show all posts

26 August 2012

"There can be no great accomplishment without risk."


Neil Alden Armstrong (1930 - 2012)

Do your blood pressure a good turn and please refrain clicking on all that pathetic "faked moon landing" conspiracy nonsense linking from this clip.

15 August 2012

Harry Harrison's The Technicolor Time Machine



Very sad to read of the passing of yet another SF hero today, but what a fantastic and enjoyable body of work he has left us. As a young reader I loved such stories as The Men From P.I.G and R.O.B.O.T, Bill The Galactic Hero and of course Slippery Jim DiGriz aka The Stainless Steel Rat. Currently on the "to read" shelf I've a copy of Harrison's A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (aka Tunnel Through The Deeps) a steampunk/alt. history novel published a good 20 years or so before the sub-genre was first pigeonholed.

Technicolor Time Machine cover art by the great Bruce Pennington

The Saturday Play: The Technicolour Time Machine (1981). Harry Harrison's fun tale of desperate movie moguls, airheaded Hollywood starlets, brawny Vikings and the time machine that brings them all together.

All credit to the original uploader. dl


You can also listen to the rather excellent, BBC Radiophonic LP version of Bill The Galactic Hero here.

18 July 2012

Hammond Lord


Jonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord (1941-2012)

4 May 2012

MCA


 Adam Yauch (1964 – 2012) 

18 March 2011

23 February 2011

The Brigadier



"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."