Filed under: history, paperback club, science fiction | Tags: mystery of the flying discs, remember that time krycek got infected with the black oil that was cool huh, russian, the x-files, ufology!, unreadable, ussr
Flying saucer fever, it would seem, hit the USSR too:
Mystery of the Flying Discs (1960), which are (apparently) showing up hovering over Moscow. Note the similarity to the classic "I Want to Believe"/Passaic streetlamp UFO!
Unfortunately, while I own this, I can’t actually read Russian well enough to tell you what’s going on in it.
Filed under: future history, paperback club, recent acquisitions, science fiction | Tags: arthur c. clarke, childhood's end, paperback books, pulp sci-fi, undeniably cool
Okay, so I have started picking up a lot of good paperbacks since I started working at a used bookstore. Case in point:
Ah, the famous EPCOT-drink mixer-psychedelic explosion sequence - who could ever forget?
I mean, obviously it’s showing its wear and tear, but as a piece of art it’s pretty undeniably cool, even now.
So for a little bit I’m going to post up the best ones I’ve found at a decent enough quality and maybe offer up a few thoughts on what makes them so good or, at least, what makes them so noteworthily of their time.
messier object 