After Man: A Zoology of the Future – How fifty million years of (imaginary) evolution could shape life on this planet. Complete with illustrations of wondrous beasts, including the Rabbucks, the Wooly Gigantalope, and the Oakleaf Toad (shown here).
Conan the Designer: Redeeming an Icon – A great piece on the challenges of illustrating an iconic figure, inspired by the Tor.com posts on the same subject.
Crucifish – From the truth-is-weirder-than-fiction files (inspired by the recent Brian Slattery posts, perhaps?), a fish skull shaped like Jesus. No, really.
The Art of the Title: Edward Scissorhands – A great look at a beautiful title sequence.
Happy Birthday, HAL 9000 – Don’t kill us. Please?
Also this day in history – In 1966 the Adam West Batman premiered.
The future is wild – A look at what the world could be like 5 million, 100 million, and 200 million years from now.
15 cool space projects for today and tomorrow – Complete with artist renderings and diagrams. Very cool indeed.
Is that why Christians have fish symbols on their cars? Homage to Catholic catfish parts?
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*Moment of silence to reflect on TV Batman*
*squeee!s*
Y’know, it’s nice to see that I’m not one of three people on the planet that remember After Man. I still love it to bits, 25 years after I got my first copy.
Anyone who finds a copy in the stores, I really recommend it, it’s well worth it for the art alone, let alone the interesting topic.
Seeing that book After Man plugged here reminded me of a book that I used to LOOOOVE as a child, talking about what kinds of dinosaur-based animals might have evolved if the meteor had missed… It was called The New Dinosaurs, though it just took me about twenty minutes of searching to find that.
…and on seeing it, I realized that the two were by the same author. How appropriate — if the one reviewed here is anywhere near as good as the one I used to love, it would be a wonderful find indeed.