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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

thebeatandpulse:

Listen Up

Track: Science Fiction

Artist: Divinyls

Taken From: Desperate (1983)

R.I.P. Chrissy Amphlett

H. G. Wells: Mysticism and Machinery

H. G. Wells: Mysticism and Machinery by Thomas F. Bertonneau

my new piece on io9.com, on Japan's early (1880s) science fiction

(Source: jessnevins)

mothernaturenetwork: In honor of Ray Bradbury… Why we love sci-fi: It boldly goes where other stories can’tScience fiction gives people the chance to explore whole new worlds as well as the real world but with an imaginative twist.

mothernaturenetwork:

In honor of Ray Bradbury…

Why we love sci-fi: It boldly goes where other stories can’t
Science fiction gives people the chance to explore whole new worlds as well as the real world but with an imaginative twist.

(via jessepinkson)

An illustration of a futuristic battle taken from the October 21st 1916 issue of the German news weekly, ‘Die Wochenschau’ (The Weekly Review). Translation of the caption : ‘Fighting machines of the future :battle between a gigantic trenchdestroyer and a powerful electrically driven ‘circlecruiser”. (SOURCE: Science-Fiction from the Great War )

An illustration of a futuristic battle taken from the October 21st 1916 issue of the German news weekly, ‘Die Wochenschau’ (The Weekly Review).
Translation of the caption : ‘Fighting machines of the future :battle between a gigantic trenchdestroyer and a powerful electrically driven ‘circlecruiser”. (SOURCE: Science-Fiction from the Great War )

geisterseher: John Jacob Astor. A Journey in Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future. New York, 1894.

geisterseher:

John Jacob Astor. A Journey in Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future. New York, 1894.

(Source: openlibrary.org)

geisterseher: John Jacob Astor. A Journey in Other Worlds : A Romance of the Future. New York, 1894. Copies available at Internet Archive

geisterseher:

John Jacob Astor. A Journey in Other Worlds : A Romance of the Future. New York, 1894.

Copies available at Internet Archive

(Source: openlibrary.org)

bulentyusuf:

Out Of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, British Library, review - Telegraph

This is awesome, you should go:

The British Library’s latest exhibition, Out Of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It, challenges the notion that sci-fi is restricted to fanboys. In displaying an extraordinary number of seminal and unexpected texts it reminds us that pigeon-holing this fiction is both incorrect and a shame. Fiction is fantasy in its very nature, science fiction just takes it a little further off-piste. Plus, authors such as HG Wells, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and JG Ballard have been key players in the genre. Rule out sci-fi and you rule out their work.

There’s lots to savour and enjoy here - original manuscripts, archive audio and videos, full-size martian tripod sculptures. Definitely worth a visit.

(via turner-d-century)