Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Monday, 2 September 2013

Top 5 Places (You Can't Visit)


One of the most appealing things about fiction - videogames, comic books, films, or anything else - is getting to remotely experience things we couldn't possibly do in real life, and go places most of us can't reach. Our massive and intricate universe is a bit of tease like that. Here are what I think are some of the coolest places (real and fictional) that, for now, we can only dream of visiting.


Monday, 18 February 2013

The Future by the Past

My old Master of Arts (Honours) History dissertation on retrofuturism, a topic about which you can read much more at Paleofuture (a fascinating blog which is also full of stunning images). I also thoroughly recommend this book from Popular Mechanics: