SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

The Journal Of Science-Fiction vol. 1, no. 4 (1953)

This is very different to everything else in the collection.

It's unfortunate how Nazi-solute that gesture looks, but otherwise an intriguing image. It looks like a photo. Maybe a still from a film?

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/TheJournalOfScienceFictionV01n041953

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Feb 5 at 1:42amWeb
Show threadDougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)Feb 5

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> unfortunate how Nazi-solute that gesture looks

Nah, look closer. He's just pointing.

And after all, people were hypersensitive to Nazis in 1953, just after WWII.

Show threadgarlicmachineFeb 5
@SFFMagazineCovers "Things to come" maybe?
Show threadBodhipaksaFeb 5
@SFFMagazineCovers Yes, it's a film still. Very striking. The credit says 'A still from the Alexander Korda film "Things To Come" based on the H. G. Wells book The Shape of Things To Come.'
Show threadYonderFeb 5

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I started to read that book many many years ago.

I don't think I got past the first chapter, but what I do remember is that it starts by describing a bloke who doesn't have to bother shaving, because he's had all his facial hair removed electrically

Show thread60sRefugeeFeb 5
@yonder @bodhipaksa @SFFMagazineCovers The movie soft-peddles Wells's vision of a hard-core technocratic socialist world state that Vladimir Lenin would approve of. For example Wells postulates that such primitive vices as drinking, gambling and prostitution would be eliminated and that holdout populations such as the Jews would be forcibly deracinated.
Show threadFredKiesche 🇺🇦Feb 6
@SFFMagazineCovers THINGS TO COME, H.G. Wells.
Show threadSIMONFeb 6
@SFFMagazineCovers is it from The Shape of Things to Come movie - from HG Wells novel ?