Science Fiction Globes

Platetocopia

 

Thanks to not one, but two awesome blogs, I now know of Planetocopia, the works of artist Chris Wayan. Many of them are future Earths, or alternates, where poles have shifted or some other catastrophe has taken place. Terraformed Mars and Venus are there, as well as a bunch of purely fictional ones.

It’s brilliant. It’s science fiction sculpture.

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  1. Pfff, meatlife. Your soft flesher civilizations will crumble before the stark grace of our superconducting crystalline minds!

    …I can’t wait until we go find something really weird. Then this guy can model new stuff based on it, and it’ll be even more awesome.

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  2. Well, it’s not the meatness that bothers me; it’s that the critters are furries that is subpar for me. THE PLANET OF CHIX WIT DIX is not exactly thoughtful science fiction. Which is odd, because so much thought, effort, and craft has been invested into the other parts.

    I’d like to see Dougal Dixon take on some alien landscapes, though he might be hesitant about getting so close to Wayne Barlowe‘s work again; every indication is that Man After Man was a knockoff of an identical book Barlowe was working on (and, given Dixon’s product, Barlowe would have done a better job), and an alien world might just be too close to Expedition.

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  3. Yeah, I’m with you on the furry thing, I just like saying ‘meatlife’. My Rudy Rucker intake climbs every now and then and I start making up slang.

    Speaking of alien planets, it would be pretty cool to accurately model an expedition’s group dynamics. Might even make a good roleplaying game…

    😀

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  5. Wave on it, baby. It’s giga gnarfy headfood.

    …This is actually starting to affect my ability to understand myself.

    And yeah, I’ve got the story around here somewhere (isn’t it in _Bears Discover Fire_?) I about shit laughing the first time I read it.

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  6. Transcribed verbatim from Transreal:

    ii)
    “The universal rain moistens all creatures”
    BBBBdddddrrrrrrrttttttt
    This hick burg’s got no train you dig
    I’m trapped here with Patty Hearst
    We should leave, but
    There’s no

    It’s like the man is reading my mind!

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  7. And the urban legend about the truck farmer and merge in _Wetware_. Oh man.

    Transcribed in return:

    “Vic Morrow had been a truck farmer in the San Joaquin Valley. In 2027, he’d hit on the idea of treating his migrant workers to a series of weekend-long mergedrip parties. Once the workers had all flowed together, Morrow would throw a couple of dogs into the love-puddle with them. He was nuts.
    Over the weeks, the workers had transmuted into beasts, ever more tractable, ever less demanding. The big scandal came when Morrow had a heart attack and his workers ate most of his corpse and rolled in the rest of it. A month later, the Anti-Chimera Act had passed Congress by acclaim.”

    It’s like a little cheap paperback wire stuck directly into the pleasure center of my brain.

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    2. Have you been reading Flurb? It’s quarterly Ruckerisms. Very entertaining.

      Oddly enough, I think I have to print it out to read it. That’s not a problem I often have, but I think I need to be able to really concentrate when I read things he’s written; otherwise, I lose the very tenuous grasp I have on what he’s saying.

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