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Science Fiction, Fantasy & Human (& other) Beings in Peril
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montycrusto
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For those who love the patter of girls’ feet in combat boots in the morning.. sci-fi tv show Firefly and its follow-up movie Serenity had a good compliment of ass-kicking, gun-toting amazons amongst its crew of space pirates (and featured a bit of mild bondage here and there, too)
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Impressive prictures! Thank You! I think there are some artists still missing, for example Hajime Sorayama. Although there are some paintings by him which are sometimes so "strangely unique" that my first thought in German was: "OK, he is a really great artist, but somewhere a fuse must have blown away from his mind."
Some of his following paintings were so small on the internet that I changed them in size and colors. Most of them are from here and I hope they can really be downloaded from there without violating copyrights:
More about him is also to be found on YouTube, combined with music from Mike Oldfield:
Some of his following paintings were so small on the internet that I changed them in size and colors. Most of them are from here and I hope they can really be downloaded from there without violating copyrights:
Pin Up Girls - Hajime Sorayama : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Pin Up Girls - Hajime Sorayama
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More about him is also to be found on YouTube, combined with music from Mike Oldfield:
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Then I found some more things on the internet concerning Sci-Fi- & Fantasy-Art:
www.scififantasyhorror.co.uk
www.scififantasyhorror.co.uk
Pin-Up Art Archives - Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Art
www.scififantasyhorror.co.uk
Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Art | Concept Art | Cosplay and Photography
Scififantasyhorror is a UK based website dedicated to the best science fiction, fantasy and horror artists and cosplayers on the planet.
www.scififantasyhorror.co.uk
Fantasy Pin-ups: The Pin up Girl Art of Howard David Johnson; paintings,drawings, photography & digital pin-up art
The pin up girls art gallery: pin up girl art posters & pin up girl portraits by H.D.Johnson
www.howarddavidjohnson.com
Greg Hildebrandt pin-up girls - gallery 2 | The Pin-up Files
Image gallery for the contemporary pinup art of Greg Hildebrandt (gallery 2 of 3) | one of many featured artists at The Pin-up Files
www.thepinupfiles.com
Silent_Water
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And finally for today, my favorite "Epic Music Song" in this week with astonishingly well animated pictures in very fast succession from different kinds of Fantasy etc.:
Especially for this video, I installed a program (I got for free) which can make slow-motions out of every movie and I think it was worth it:
Especially for this video, I installed a program (I got for free) which can make slow-motions out of every movie and I think it was worth it:
Barb, absolutely. I have loved this picture for many many years. Just the thought of that girl, naked and suspended high above the world, forgotten, and then the rescue. Heroes get the best of both worlds, they see the damsel in her distress, and they get the gratitude of the rescued girl.
I've been looking around Sydney for naked suspended damsels in distress, but it musn't be the season for them or something
Please, for the sake of my sanity everyone STOP. As a science fiction tragic since the age of 10 I am suffering serious overload in this thread already.
I cannae take it, captain!
ok, here's a Frank Herbert cover that interested me many moons ago, seems a nod to our common interest here
and Harry Harrison's Great Balls of Fire made an impression on this young man - I still have a copy somewhere though I haven't seen it for years
Great Balls of Fire: An Illustrated History of Sex in Science Fiction: Harry Harrison: 9780448143781: Amazon.com: Books
Buy Great Balls of Fire: An Illustrated History of Sex in Science Fiction on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
www.amazon.com
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montycrusto
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The first is by Tim White I believeBarb, absolutely. I have loved this picture for many many years. Just the thought of that girl, naked and suspended high above the world, forgotten, and then the rescue. Heroes get the best of both worlds, they see the damsel in her distress, and they get the gratitude of the rescued girl.
I've been looking around Sydney for naked suspended damsels in distress, but it musn't be the season for them or something
Please, for the sake of my sanity everyone STOP. As a science fiction tragic since the age of 10 I am suffering serious overload in this thread already.
I cannae take it, captain!
ok, here's a Frank Herbert cover that interested me many moons ago, seems a nod to our common interest here
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and Harry Harrison's Great Balls of Fire made an impression on this young man - I still have a copy somewhere though I haven't seen it for years
View attachment 782199Great Balls of Fire: An Illustrated History of Sex in Science Fiction: Harry Harrison: 9780448143781: Amazon.com: Books
Buy Great Balls of Fire: An Illustrated History of Sex in Science Fiction on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orderswww.amazon.com
(His first appearance in this thread *edit: I think one or two of @Silent_Water ‘s spaceship pics might be Tim White’s)..and the second is of course the great Jim Burns once again..
..there’s nothing phallic about that spaceship, it’s all in the mind..
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Ok since @phlebas and @Silent_Water both insist on posting Tim White, here are some of my favourites from his work; he illustrated all the greats; Frank Herbert, Robert Silverberg, Asimov, Heinlein, even H.P.Lovecraft..
Rescue, or sacrifice?
You know a lot of these pictures are simply, well, not soundtrack obviously, but the visual accompaniment of my SF journey since the early 70s. They are old friends. I've forgotten more science fiction stories than most people will read in a lifetime! Those covers, through childhood to adolescence to independent adulthood and beyond, the backdrop of a lifetime of reading.
It boils my blood when people (especially journalists!) talk about SF as if it only exists in film and TV. What a narrow world they inhabit.
(Phlebas descends from soapbox)
Some Heinlein covers
Maybe I should scan some of my own? Nah, too much work
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Couldn’t agree more.. and when you’ve explored the vasty wildernesses and jaw-dropping miracles of the universe in the company of these poets and painters .. it makes most contemporary mainstream fiction seem like rancid ditchwater in comparison.Rescue, or sacrifice?
You know a lot of these pictures are simply, well, not soundtrack obviously, but the visual accompaniment of my SF journey since the early 70s. They are old friends. I've forgotten more Science Fiction stories than most people will read in a lifetime! Those covers, through childhood to adolescence to independent adulthood and beyond, the backdrop of a lifetime of reading.
It boils my blood when people (especially journalists!) talk about SF as if it only exists in film and TV. What a narrow world they inhabit.
(Phlebas descends from soapbox)
Some Heinlein covers
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Maybe I should scan some of my own? Nah, too much work
(Montycrusto also descends from soapbox and chides himself and @phlebas for illeism)
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Silent_Water
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As we were asked to stop the overload, this picture gives me the opportunity to play one of my favorite roles in discussions: I sometimes like to be the "pseudo-philosophical smart-ass" in smalltalk.
I am often surprised about things / events / emperors in history that / who changed the world, but there is one thing which surprised me more because it did not happen in history and this is the story after which I often asked myself if and what might be out there in this universe to influence human history: God? Aliens? A special interest of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Paradoxon in human history?
EPR paradox - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
In any case and the following seems to be true as far as I could check it, in the year 1239 or 1240, a small Mongolian delegation visited the German emperor Friedrich II. in his capital in Italy, announcing the coming annexation of this little peninsula with the name "Europe" into the Mongolian empire during the coming 5 years, but as the Great Khan was informed about Friedrich II., he has written a very good book about hunting with birds of prey, so the Great Khan offers him his sympathy and the job of being his "Falkner" and his right hand in hunting with birds. Friedrich had already heard about the conquests of the Mongols in Asia, so he pretended to be friendly, took the presents from the delegation and said, it is now not the time to decide the answer yet:
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
In 1241, the conquest of "this little peninsula Europe" really started. Two Mongolian armies came from the Ural and the European documents from this time which still exist are declaring these armies to be warriors from hell. The documents state that there were so many Mongolian soldiers that it was impossible to tell the exact numbers, several witnesses said: "Please believe us, we are not exaggerating, we have never before seen so many soldiers on horses, they must be more than our biggest cities have inhabitants! There are more than 10.000 Mongolian soldiers, much more!"
The first Mongolian army in the North easily defeated a combined army of German, Polish, Moravian and even Roman (sent by the Pope) knights at the battle of Liegnitz / Legnica and killed all the European knights there.
Battle of Legnica - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Two days before the second Mongolian army about 1000 kilometers to the South defeated a combined army of Hungarian, Slovakian and Romanian knights at the battle of Mohi / Sajo:
Battle of Mohi - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Nothing in Europe could really stop them but after their two big victories, these two Mongolian armies looted around, killed all the population in villages and cities who did not surrender at once in Eastern Europe - and turned back into the direction of Russia.
As far as it is possible to read the texts, the Great Khan Oegedei had died after a hunting accident, in which his horse broke one leg and landed on parts of the Great Khan's body.
The commanders of the conquest armies were his sons who had to be back in Mongolia as soon as possible to prepare his cremation (?) and to decide who would be his successor.
Seen from the European point of view, it was very friendly of this Great Khan to die at the perfect time to save Europe because the conquest of Prague, Rome and Paris was a declared "touristic destination" of the Mongolian armies. On the other hand, the next Khan was probably a bit disappointed by the poverty of the Europeans he had seen in Eastern Europe compared to the treasures of China and Arabia, so the Mongolian armies later turned to the South and in 1258, they conquered and destroyed Bagdad, killing more than 1 million of the Arabian population on their way there.
The distances which these Mongolian armies left behind and the organisation of their military campaigns are incredible even up to our days.
The history of the whole world would have completely changed, if the Great Khan Oegedei would not have been so kind to die in an absolutely perfect timing for Europeans.
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Great find.
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Most people (when reading Nomads of Gor) :”Oh it’s obviously based on history.. the Wagon Peoples are the Mongols and the Tuchuks are the Golden Horde..”As we were asked to stop the overload, this picture gives me the opportunity to play one of my favorite roles in discussions: I sometimes like to be the "pseudo-philosophical smart-ass" in smalltalk.
I am often surprised about things / events / emperors in history that / who changed the world, but there is one thing which surprised me more because it did not happen in history and this is the story after which I often asked myself if and what might be out there in this universe to influence human history: God? Aliens? A special interest of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Paradoxon in human history?
EPR paradox - Wikipedia
In any case and the following seems to be true as far as I could check it, in the year 1239 or 1240, a small Mongolian delegation visited the German emperor Friedrich II. in his capital in Italy, announcing the coming annexation of this little peninsula with the name "Europe" into the Mongolian empire during the coming 5 years, but as the Great Khan was informed about Friedrich II., he has written a very good book about hunting with birds of prey, so the Great Khan offers him his sympathy and the job of being his "Falkner" and his right hand in hunting with birds. Friedrich had already heard about the conquests of the Mongols in Asia, so he pretended to be friendly, took the presents from the delegation and said, it is now not the time to decide the answer yet:
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia
In 1241, the conquest of "this little peninsula Europe" really started. Two Mongolian armies came from the Ural and the European documents from this time which still exist are declaring these armies to be warriors from hell. The documents state that there were so many Mongolian soldiers that it was impossible to tell the exact numbers, several witnesses said: "Please believe us, we are not exaggerating, we have never before seen so many soldiers on horses, they must be more than our biggest cities have inhabitants! There are more than 10.000 Mongolian soldiers, much more!"
The first Mongolian army in the North easily defeated a combined army of German, Polish, Moravian and even Roman (sent by the Pope) knights at the battle of Liegnitz / Legnica and killed all the European knights there.
Battle of Legnica - Wikipedia
Two days before the second Mongolian army about 1000 kilometers to the South defeated a combined army of Hungarian, Slovakian and Romanian knights at the battle of Mohi / Sajo:
Historical texts describe how the Mongolian troops most probably and for the first time in European history used gunpowder and primitive rockets from their before conquered Chinese advisors to trigger panic in the enemy armies.Battle of Mohi - Wikipedia
Nothing in Europe could really stop them but after their two big victories, these two Mongolian armies looted around, killed all the population in villages and cities who did not surrender at once in Eastern Europe - and turned back into the direction of Russia.
As far as it is possible to read the texts, the Great Khan Oegedei had died after a hunting accident, in which his horse broke one leg and landed on parts of the Great Khan's body.
The commanders of the conquest armies were his sons who had to be back in Mongolia as soon as possible to prepare his cremation (?) and to decide who would be his successor.
Seen from the European point of view, it was very friendly of this Great Khan to die at the perfect time to save Europe because the conquest of Prague, Rome and Paris was a declared "touristic destination" of the Mongolian armies. On the other hand, the next Khan was probably a bit disappointed by the poverty of the Europeans he had seen in Eastern Europe compared to the treasures of China and Arabia, so the Mongolian armies later turned to the South and in 1258, they conquered and destroyed Bagdad, killing more than 1 million of the Arabian population on their way there.
The distances which these Mongolian armies left behind and the organisation of their military campaigns are incredible even up to our days.
The history of the whole world would have completely changed, if the Great Khan Oegedei would not have been so kind to die in an absolutely perfect timing for Europeans.
Me, when reading history; “oh, it’s obviously based on Nomads of Gor..”
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montycrusto
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Time for more Frank Frazetta, and this time in glorious black and white 
Sharkman
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Captured in Jabba's dungeon? Nice idea.
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montycrusto
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You mean the Boris Vallejo one?Reminds me a little of Eulalia’s old avatar
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I’ve always adored that painting.. no wonder I fell in love with @Eulalia when i first joined the forum.. it was love at first sight!Reminds me a little of Eulalia’s old avatar
