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Raygun Gothic
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Raygun Gothic refers to any creative work from 1900 through about 1959, predicting the future before it became possible. Think rockets and rayguns, flying cars and futuristic cities - especially if the vision never quite panned out in reality. We find this aesthetic in product design, book covers, films, radio & TV. "A tomorrow that never was". The same style as in the Fallout games, The Jetsons and so on but focused on the time period through the 50s.
See also: Raygun Gothic at TVTropes
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Flash Gordon is a 1936 superhero serial film. Presented in 13 chapters, it is the first screen adventure for Flash Gordon, the comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. It presents the story of Gordon's visit to the planet Mongo and his encounters with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon portray the film's central characters. In 1996, Flash Gordon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(serial)
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Good idea for a space station considering the year.
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Inspired by rockets, a classic design.
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Cover of the book: The Exile Of Time by Ray Cummings
Not sure who the artist was.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6319967-the-exile-of-time
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Send em to school in a self-flying car.
ETA: Found some background info on the art:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-adventures-in-coloring-1959.html
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Infinity Science Fiction was an American science fiction magazine, edited by Larry T. Shaw, and published by Royal Publications. The first issue, which appeared in November 1955, included Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star", a story about a planet destroyed by a nova (an exploding star) that turns out to have been the Star of Bethlehem; it won the Hugo Award for that year.
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This first cover after the magazine changed its name from Weird Science-Fantasy.
The artist is Jack Davis.
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