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schwarzfee · 11 months ago
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crionic-dubs · 1 year ago
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(Unconfirmed) Influences listed in this article (not including potential gameplay inspirations):
Alien (film) obviously, but the article is about influences other than that
Baraduke (video game)
Moebius (artist)
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (film)
Star Wars (films)
Gradius (video game)
Lensman (film, tv show & book)
Cobra/Space Cobra/Space Adventure Cobra (manga, tv show, film)
Barbarella (film)
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xinu1941-1966 · 2 years ago
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illustration:真鍋博 hiroshi MANABE
惑星連合の戦士 1974 創元推理文庫 japan
Spacehounds of IPC by Edward Elmer Smith
#真鍋博 #hiroshi MANABE #Edward E. Smith #EEスミス #レンズマン #Lensman Series #lensman
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laboitediabolique · 1 year ago
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Cover of press kit booklet for Lensman, 1984. Scanned from my personal collection.
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vintagegeekculture · 2 years ago
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A.J. Donnell’s 1950 unused cover for “First Lensman.” 
His method of illustrating the Lens differs from how many other artists depict that wonder device. 
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evilmidnightlurker · 10 months ago
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Ships of The Culture
GOU You Cross This Line You Die
ROU Stark Fist of Removal
GOU Have You Considered a Career Change?
GCV Sativarg
ROU Really Quite Angry
GOU You Need a House to Go With This Doorknob
VFP Disturbing Palindromic Song of the Mutant Gerbils
GCU No Jury in the Universe Would Convict Me
GCU Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles
ROU Your Kung Fu is Weak
GOU WITH CATLIKE TREAD UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL!
GOU Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means
ROU Consider an Iceberg, its Every Form and Aspect
GOU My Powers are Weak, my Intellect Feeble
ROU You Just Lost the Game
VFP Centipede's Dilemma
GOU Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence
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believerindaydreams · 2 years ago
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Doc Smith: Her Callistan vexto-silk gown, of the newest and most violent shade of "radio-active" green, was phosphorescently luminous; fluorescent; gleaming and glowing. Its hem swept the floor, but above the waist it vanished mysteriously except for wisps which clung to strategic areas here and there with no support, apparently, except the personal magnetism of the wearer. She, almost alone of all the women there, wore no flowers. Her only jewelry was a rosette of huge, perfectly-matched emeralds, perched precariously upon her bare left shoulder. Her hair, unlike the other women's flawless coiffures, was a flamboyant, artistically-disarranged, red-bronze-auburn mop. 
Me: this man was a teenager when the first two Anne of Green Gables books came out. I am inclined to Wonder.
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nem0c · 2 years ago
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Politely but firmly asked to leave the function
Gray Lensman, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939 Illustration: Charles Schneeman
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animprovinghuman · 2 years ago
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Chief Science Officer but I really meant something else…
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schwarzfee · 10 months ago
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xinu1941-1966 · 2 years ago
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illustration:真鍋博 hiroshi MANABE
グレー・レンズマン 1974 創元推理文庫 japan
Gray Lensman  1939
#真鍋博 #hiroshi MANABE #Edward E. Smith #EEスミス #レンズマン #Lensman Series #lensman
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kawajiri #1 - lensman
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i love how proud they are of the best cg 1984 had to offer. it's very charming
visually this is a feast, the kawajiri levels growing as it goes on. plenty of great setpieces with great vibes, from the snail alien hookah den to the disco seemingly designed solely to make sure the cops have to run in and break up fights to the 2 different flavors of evil villain lair (death star and skeletor's castle). it's such a shame this never even had a dvd release, though i know the rights situation is not good and they probably don't want to press their luck on something that wouldn't be a big seller. it's ALSO a shame that this movie is just not well written, though i will extend the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge my subs were not the best. but as i watched it it was a kinda mediocre immediately post-star wars* space opera that just happened to be an immaculately greebly animated 80s scifi anime by one of the most visionary directors of the decade. there are much worse things to be and way worse ways to spend a few hours. great first outing from a visual perspective, but i hope the rest of his stuff has a bit more meat on their��bones
*the lensman books started in the 30s but this definitely owes more to lucas than smith. star wars never had the afterschool special attitude towards drugs though, that's pure lensman. or so i hear, i never read those books, just heard a lot about them
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kasperl-ruprecht · 1 month ago
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What if they call Earth "Tellus"?
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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi
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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 months ago
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In fact, by definition, mass and inertia are different names for exactly the same property.*
* The late E. E. Smith, in his classic 'Lensman' tales postulated an inertia-free drive to get around the speed-of-light limit for space travel. Ordinary mass with inertia cannot go faster than light, he suggested, but mass without inertia can go at any velocity, however great. It was a fascinating suggestion and I loved it, but if we look at it in the hard light of reality, we must admit that mass without inertia is equivalent to mass without mass – a contradiction in terms. (At least, so it seems.)
"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov
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believerindaydreams · 2 years ago
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Anxious Doc Smith character: "I'm shaking like a vibrator myself."
Me: did he really just say that
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nem0c · 2 years ago
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At The Function
Gray Lensman, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939 Illustration: Charles Schneeman
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