This is an amazing and obsessive immersion in science fiction illustrations from what is known as the Second Golden Age. It’s mainly lots of cool science fiction imagery from the 1970s and 1980s. Part 2 Parts 3 – 5 after the jump

Popular Science magazine has put its entire 137-year history of issues online for free.  In partnership with Google, the magazine is offering a search tool that will allow you to read anything it ever published.  Here’s an example of a publisher who actually knows what it is doing in the 21st century.  There are very [...]

Look at that cover.  Look at exactly what’s going on there.  Makes you almost cry, doesn’t it?  It better.  Because if it doesn’t, then baby you’ve got it coming.  Chris Ware, one of our finest cartoonists did this cover for the New Yorker and made a comic strip for the issue. I see people crossing [...]

Heliotrope is a free quarterly magazine of speculative fiction that publishes stories, poetry and articles.  This issue features a story by Neil Gaiman called One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.  There are also several articles about writer Michael Moorcock’s profound influence on the science fiction and fantasy genres.  His most popular works are the Elric [...]

Shimmer is a magazine of contemporary speculative fiction.  Kind of a fantasy/sci-fi sort of thing.  They are offering their latest issue with 12 stories in it as a free download.  Some of the titles included are, The Carnivale of Abandoned Tales, Jaguar Woman, Counting Down to the End of the Universe, and an author interview. [...]