ARMAGEDDON (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 20” x 30”
Even after all humankind has been wiped out, mechanized engines of destruction continue to eradicate the last traces of civilization. 1/2
#sciencefiction #illustration #harryharrison #simonandschuster
(You don't blow-up the bridge, you blow-up the road to the bridge. Likewise with powerplants.)
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus -- chapter 21
He was a good and experienced climber. I would have stopped for breath by this time. He just went at it hand over hand at a steady pace. Reached the junction of the four legs. That should be it. But no, he went on until he appeared to be as high as the cables pendant from their immense insulators. Then he stopped. A dark smudge against the bright metal of the tower.
And seemed to remain there for an awfully long time.
I don’t know much clock time passed before he started back down. Subjective time seemed to last and last. And then I could see that he was moving back down, surely and steadily. He jumped the last few meters, smiling and wiping the grit from his hands.
“A piece of cake. Timed to blow in two hours.”
“We’ll have a front seat for the show.”
“We will indeed.”
...
“Just about time-” Bolivar said when the ball of flame flared out. Changed to dark billows of smoke.
For long moments nothing happened. The copter bumped a bit when the sound of the explosion reached us.
“Now,” Bolivar said.
And it was going. The top of the tower was bending, falling almost gracefully. Then the giant insulators began to turn and twist, the immense cables stirring and writhing. Falling.
I could see lightning spear out as the falling cables broke, twisting as though in pain. Twisted and fell, faster and faster, followed by the ruined tower. Splashing down into the sea in great furrows of waves that stretched across the width of the channel.
#HarryHarrison wrote a very funny book called Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers in 1973. Some of the aliens in the book turned their home solar system into a gigantic #RingWorld and drove around in "70 yard long cars"
I think #car manufacturers read that joke and thought it was something to aim at. Especially #SUV and #pickup manufacturers. What the ever loving fuck was wrong with a 1990s Ford Escort or equivalent? Why do we all have to drive 3 ton monstrosities?
We shouldn't even need to own personal cars by now. Instead we should all be taking free, electric #PublicTransport, #cycling or #walking. Everyone but the most blinkered and confused right winger can see this is the right thing to do.
It seems that we get the future #SciFi writers come up with. The problem is sci-fi writers love a good #dystopia.
Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of Deathworld by Harry Harrison, which I *have* and *have read* and *have enjoyed*, and have given out before for that matter. I've thought a lot about the book over the years, seeing echoes of Pyrrus in various other books. Also, of all things, screws.
"Iam ni tenis la tutan mondon en niaj manoj, sed ni ĝin manĝis kaj forbruligis, kaj nun ĝi malaperis."
– Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!
“One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!
„Einst hielten wir die ganze Welt in unseren Händen, doch wir haben sie verschlungen und verbrannt, und nun ist sie verschwunden.“
– #HarryHarrison, „Make Room! Make Room!“
Titelbild von N.N. für
"Planet des falschen Zaubers" von Harry Harrison (Deathworld)
Übersetzt von Heinz Zwack
Utopia Großband 141, Pabel Verlag Dezember 1960
(AmeS)
Born this day: 03/12/1925 (d. 08/15/2012)
Harry Harrison was an American SF author and SFWA Grand Master best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series and Make Room! Make Room!, which inspired the film Soylent Green. He also wrote the Deathworld trilogy and Bill the Galactic Hero, blending satirical wit with classic space opera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)
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