I was thinking of how much I love the art in old sci fi cartoons like the original looney tunes episode Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century from 1953. Or Old Sci Fi movie posters. And speculative ideas of what the future would like like from the 1930’s and older. As an example that minute video of what people in 1939 thought people in the year 2000 would dress like I find extremely fascinating and amusing. (easily found on youtube (I can’t type link here))
I was hoping I could just google sci fi art collection books but I am having a harder than expected time. But I’d love a nice coffee table book of old sci fi images! Ideally a history of sorts starting with the earliest up through the 60’s or 70’s. (once telescopes became more powerful and satellites more plentiful the imagination of space became more tamed (aligning with reality naturally)). I fly satellites and stare at the Earth live all day every day for a living. I love space and will always be fascinated by the reality of it. But I am longing for the more imaginative, fun, maybe pulp look of how we use to imagine space and the future.
The few books I did find on amazon have reviews with most people complaining about the size of the images. Which is exactly what I want to avoid. I want a nice big coffee table book full of old school sci fi and space art. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.
by SSJ2chad