#scientifiction

1860s dashing imperialist adventurer steps out of the steaming steel capsule, and takes a deep breath of the fragrant air of the Venusian jungles. He adjusts his pith helmet, and spots a gorgeous-looking fruit growing from a nearby tree. Eager to sample the bounty of the new world, he takes a bite. Immediately keels over dead. (Opposite amino acids)

[non-writing status update] I learned recently, via the pulp magazine "Amazing Stories Quarterly", that science fiction was once termed "scientifiction," and I like how odd a word it is. Also, can we talk about how beautiful this marginalia is?!

Happy New Year!

Before the potential of rocketry became widely known, spaceships in science fiction were either fired out of cannons like in From the Earth to the Moon and War of the Worlds, or were spheres propelled by some kind of repulsion like in First Men in the Moon and The Skylark of Space (and nostalgically homaged in Out of the Silent Planet).

check this out!! my drinking glass glows under uv light!!