[Via Old School Science Fiction]

[Infinity crawl]

Locked in an endless Cold War with the USSR, a security-obsessed United States is a McCarthyite near-dictatorship.

Mankind has reached the nearby planets and colonies and research stations dot the Solar System.

In these fringe outposts, forbidden science discovers a new technology that will enable whole cities to escape the repressive Earth and travel among the stars ...

Yup.

Living in the future,

This is dF

[Via The Neon Wilderness]

Stag party,

This is dF

[Via Erotic Mad Science]

He’s not Iron Man,

This is dF

[Via Crypt Of Wrestling]

God, I miss the Cold War.

I’ve got a secret,

This is dF

[Via Pulp International]

Vice run wild,

This is dF

[Via The Girl Can’t Dance]

When in Rome,

This is dF

I majored in Lust in university, you know.

And I have the degrees to prove it.



[Via Old Erotic Art]

Magna cum louder,

This is dF

[Via Old Erotic Art]

The art of the deal,

This is dF

Han Solo as pulp-fiction hero.



[Via the artist, Phil Noto]

Is it just me, or does he look kind of like Robert Vaughn?

BONUS TRACK: This reminds me of Brian Daley’s Han Solo novels, which I read in high school. I don’t know if they’d hold up to my jaded 45-year-old self, but I enjoyed them at the time, not least because Solo was my favorite Star Wars character, and I was keen to read some (ahem) solo adventures.

On the other hand, I did try Daley’s first book, The Doomfarers Of Coramonde, after reading the Solo books, and it didn’t make a huge impression.

DISCLAIMER: I should also mention that apart from The Han Solo Adventures and Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter Of The Mind’s Eye (which I also liked, at least when I was 13, despite Solo not being in it), I haven’t really bothered with most of the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels. If anyone wants to make recommendations, I’m all ears.

Shoot first,

This is dF

In future, the 50s secretary look will be big.



Sorry, that’s all I have for today, due to spending the day island-hopping in 36ºC heat – which requires a 5am wake-up call, BTW. Explanations within the next 48 hours. More or less.

Extra crispy,

This is dF