Science Fiction Bagpipe, Illustrated
by wjw on March 11, 2011
So the artist Ward Shelley has achieved a degree of celebrity in our tribe through his painting, in which he managed to encapsulate the history of science fiction in a graphic that seems to otherwise depict a couple of Lovecraft monsters having sex.
Or maybe it’s a bagpipe turned inside-out.
But I’d like to point out that this can’t be a real history of science fiction, for the simple reason that I am not mentioned anywhere in the design.
And it can’t be complete without me, now can it? This is clearly a monstrous hoax.
It’s a bit worrying that the graphic seems to end in a sort of large, double cul-de-sac!
Would it be too outrageously flattering to say, Walter, that perhaps your stuff represents a way out of one of the cul-de-sacs or that you’re not even trapped in one?
Yes, it would – but I’ve said it anyway!
Ia Ia, Cthultu f’tagn
I took a look at this yesterday, and IMHO, any “history of science fiction” that makes no mention of Hardwired in it’s Cyberpunk section is, at best, suspect.
I also see that Ray Bradbury got left out.
Without me ‘n’ ray, it’s nothing!
I mentioned this to Apple, and her response: “Your favorite author should not be on some squid guy’s head” Fair enough.
A: the ultimate result of the evolution of Sci-Fi is WALL-E?
B: why do I have the sneaking suspicion that all of this was just to get us to look at a drawing of a butt?
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