I’m currently building a massive socialist retro-futurist setting and hit 100 entries in my gallery. Decided to share the entire thing with you people. (link to the full gallery of art and lore in comments )
Han Solo in a galaxy far away, still relying on a modified Mauser C96 from 1895, while the Mandalorian uses a modified Bergman 1896
This Broadcast Center controlled transmissions of television and radio signals to a central part of Europe and it was equipped with emergency broadcast studios and diesel generators in case of power failure. After more than 80 years of operation it has been abandoned, waiting for better tomorrow.
The first Paris Air Show, held at the Grand Palais, France, photographed by Léon Gimpel, 30 September, 1909
This converted airship hanger in Germany looks a lot like the classic Space colony pics by Don Davis and Rick Guidice. Cross post from /r/woahdude.
Part of the Soviets’ search for extraterrestrial intelligence included this now-abandoned radio telescope on a mountainside in Armenia
Rockets and stuff in Jack Williamson’s ‘A Planet for Plundering’ from Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1962. Art by Virgil Finlay
Cult-leader praying away an alien invasion in Eileen Kernaghan’s ‘Starcult’ from Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1971
A booster rocket scavenger at work from Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Martian Way’ from Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1952. Art by Ed Emshwiller, aka EMSH
This is my first post. “Modern World,” by David Wilcox, isn’t retro-futurism, but it is a song about retro-futurism. Give it a listen. If you like it, lemme know. If you don’t that’s cool too.
Cover art for “Buccaneers of Venus” by Otis Adelbert Kline, illustrated by J. Allen St. John (Nov. 1932)
A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
Concept Cars from the Dawn of the Jet Age (x-post from r/oldschoolcool, think it’s more at home here)