We’re very happy to announce that Welcome to Mars by Ken Hollings will be with us by the end of October 2008.
You can download a PDF of the cover, complete with advanced praise from Adam Curtis, Erik Davis and Jacques Vallee, here.
The first 200 orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James. A small run of postcards have also been produced using images from the book and these are being sent out with any orders from Strange Attractor Shoppe.
Londoners can get a taste of the book on 2 October when Ken Hollings will be reading with a live accompaniment by Oort at the Shunt Vaults. More info on this will be forthcoming.
We won’t be taking advanced orders for the book until mid-October, but watch this space for announcements as we have more Strange Attractor publications and events coming throughout the Autumn.
Bingo! Great topic, looks like a great read and reference. Here’s an example of scarytech from that jittery, glittering age:
Project Pluto (Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile or SLAM)
an unshielded nuclear ramjet flying Mach 3 at treetop level for months, tossing H-bombs from its bomb bay…
May I suggest some websites full of postwar gee-whiz tech?
Mark Wade has compiled the authoritative reference on spaceflight
(many Martian items
http://www.astronautix.com/
Scott Lowther is a scholar and craftsman:
http://www.up-ship.com/
Dark Roasted Blend is full of retrotech :
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/
Oops…the Project Pluto link:
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html