#John Varley

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1983

#Overdrawn at the Memory Bank #Douglas Williams #Barry Bergthorson #John Varley #Raul Julia #Linda Griffiths #Donald Moore #mst3k #hammersmith horror #science fiction #Canadian scifi #80s scifi #dystopia #the matrix #sov #nirvana #film stills

[laclefdescoeurs]

A view of the south front of Polesdon Lacey, Surrey, John Varley

#John Varley

[romanticism-art-history]

Suburbs of an Ancient City painted by John Varley (1778 - 1842)

#art #art history #artwork #culture #curators #history #museums #painting #romanticism #vintage #john varley

[pmamtraveller]

THE GHOST OF A FLEA (c. 1820) by WILLIAM BLAKE

GHOST OF A FLEA may be one of BLAKE'S ’s strangest and weirdest paintings. The title refers to a series of sketches BLAKE did for the astrologer and spiritualist, JOHN VARLEY.

Fleas have traditionally been associated with dirtiness, greediness, and other negative qualities, when the flea appeared to BLAKEE, he understood it to be “…inhabited by the souls of such men as were by nature blood thirsty to excess.”

So fleas represent evil and wickedness, representing all the bad things about humanity. These anthropomorphic fleas were quite common in nineteenth-century art.

BLAKE decided to take this concept further by creating a giant flea, which is huge, muscular, and reptilian. It holds a cup full of blood in its hands. The cup is a symbol of the flea’s greed, and the flea is encased in theatrical curtains and star motifs.

The combination of GOTHIC STYLE and ROMANTICISM is evident in this work. It is both dramatic and macabre; it's a triumph of imagination.

#the ghost of a flea #William Blake #john varley #romanticism #gothic style #gothic art

[landschaftsmalerei]

Landschaft mit Harlech Castle von John Varley 

#kunst #kunstwerk #art #artwork #john varley #künstler #artist #landschaft #landscape #nature #natur #plants #pflanzen #cow #kuh #bäume #trees #grün #green #blätter #leaves #water #wasser #people #menschen #view #aussicht #harlech castle #schloss #castle

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

The cyberpunk aesthetic tells us right off the bat that whatever we’ve sat down to read/watch/play is set in ~the future~. Right?

In this episode, Ariel and Christina discuss cyberpunk’s origins not just as an intentional intervention into the science fiction genre imagination, but how it currently is used as a shorthand for a certain type of future - and whether it can really be said to be a future at all.

#solarpunk #Solarpunk Presents Podcast #podcast #podcasting #solarpunk podcast #cyberpunk #solarpunk and cyberpunk #cyberpunk aesthetic #future aesthetic #futuristic aesthetic #cyberpunk technology #cyberpunk literature #solarpunk questions #solarpunk narrative in a cyberpunk setting #the cloud #cyberpunk as a fantasy setting #show don’t tell #cyberpunk media #The Matrix #Neuromancer #Johnny Mnemonic #John Varley #Press Enter #cyberpunk critique of capitalism #Youtube

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #The Golden Globe #John Varley #Eight Worlds #poll #l: English #result: no

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

fuck Connor Freff Cochran, obviously, but these illustrations he did for Titan go hard as fuck

#a friend gave me a bunch of Varley's work years ago and i am kicking myself for not reading it sooner #this shit has me crawling on the ground absolutely feral with delight #i keep bothering gregg to read to him from it #john varley #freff

[the25centpaperback]

Blue Champagne by John Varley, cover by Todd Cameron Hamilton (1986)

#1980s #todd cameron hamilton #john varley #Berkley Science Fiction #paperback #book #vintage #science fiction #stories #blue champagne

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Demon from The Gaea Trilogy by John Varley, 1984 with cover art by Steve Ferris.

#sci fi #science fiction #sci fi novels #science fiction novels #demon #the gaea trilogy #john varley #marilyn monroe #lady centaur #centaur #female warrior #women with guns #steve ferris

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Honest question: Does anyone know of a film or TV series made before Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1983) that depicts the casual use of tablets? Don't even think about saying The Flintstones

#Overdrawn at the Memory Bank #Raul Julia #John Varley #Doug Williams #80s scifi #mst3k #hammersmith horror #meme template

[laclefdescoeurs]

View of Polesdon Lacey from parkland with shepherds and sheep in the foreground, John Varley

#John Varley

[birbliothecaire]

Obligée à un moment de faire une comparaison entre le monde en transition (haha) de John Varley dans Options et le monde qui prétend en avoir fini avec le genre de Terra Ignota. J'ai pas le cerveau pour ça aujourd'hui mais il faudra

#john Varley #options #c'était bien. c'était vraiment très bien

[the-drunk-game-master]

Did John Varley inspire Star Trek IV?

maybe it was just a common theme at the time, but does anyone know if Star Trek The Voyage Home was partially inspired by John Varley's Eight Worlds series? 

In Eight Worlds, aliens show up and flood planet Earth to save whales and dolphins from humans. These aliens are telepathic, but see humanity as nothing more than vermin. They can talk to the Whales and Dolphins though.

In Star Trek, the Voyage Home, whales go extinct in the 21st century, but long before that they made contact with strange alience that humans can’t make contact with. 

In the time of Kirk and Spock, the aliens come back and try to make contact with the whales, and their presssence causes crazy weather that starts to flood Earth. Spock, Kirk, and the others need to go back in time to bring some whales to the future, who are then able to TELEPATHICALLY contact the aliens and tell them to stop messing around.

#Star Trek #John Varley #Whale #Eight Worlds

[batgovernor]

Short poem: 'First Contact'

Short poem: ‘First Contact’

And when we leave this planet, even leavecorporeal necessity behind,launch in new realms of space, new states of matter,encapsuled and encoded, searching blind,who will we find, as we have always found,those others there before us, unconfined?How will we meet them, how will we relate,them settled formlessly, we coming late? Perhaps I owe an explanation to non-readers of science fiction. The…

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#Bewildering Stories #Don Webb #future #John Varley #posthumans #science fiction #SF #SF poetry #Vernor Vinge

[cityscape-paintings]

Street Scene, Cairo painted by John Varley II (1850 - 1933)

#art #art history #artwork #cityscape #culture #history #museums #painting #vintage #john varley II #urban #city #buildings #street #streets