Science fiction in the cold war era

JA November 28

I realise at some point I’m going to have to stop with the whole vintage sci-fi/paleo-future obsessiveness but … not yet. At least not with covers like these:

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Astounding Science Fiction, Sept 1954 (via)

Cover for SF Magazine (Japan’s first science fiction periodical) by Kazuaki Saito, 1971. (via)

Cover for SF Magazine by Kazuaki Saito, 1971. (via)

Worlds of IF Science Fiction cover, fifth series, March 1974 #13 (via)

Poster promoting the new Penguin SF series in 1979, artwork by Adrian Chesterman and tag line, ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds’, by David Pelham. (via)

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