The inside cover of one of my favourite childhood books ‘By Spaceship To The Moon’ by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt. Loved the nightmarish spider spaceship.
Found this little guy deep in the ground while gardening. Who knows how many decades he’s been holed up waiting for the war to end. At ease soldier.
An amazing set from Space 1999 (1975). If we were to renovate our kitchen this is what it would look like.
Spotted these at a garage sale last week. It was one of two boxes of aircraft plastic kit models and die-cast metal ones - an entire childhoods worth and then some. The guy selling them said he found them abandoned somewhere. I think you’d have to be crazy to throw these out. Or maybe that’s just me…
From 1977 until the mid 1980s I collected just about every newspaper and magazine article related to science fiction movies and TV I could lay my hands on. These are the ‘Family Collection’ centre spreads from TV Guide (Australia), 1980
This image is one of the most enduring of my childhood. I’d spend hours staring at it, completely enthralled by its strange grandeur. The illustration is by Leslie Carr and was in Arthur C Clarke’s speculative book ‘The Exploration of Space’.
Today, Saturday 21st April 2012, is international Record Store Day and my mission if I wish to accept it (I do!) is to add to my science fiction soundtrack LP collection (There is an obvious non-science fiction LP in this picture. But it is still a soundtrack..sort of. I couldn’t resist)
TV schedules used to be so much less complicated than they are today. This one is from The Sun newspaper (Australia) December 1980. I know what I’ll be watching!
Music fads, fashions and formats come and go but my vinyl LP collection will always be there on the shelf, eagerly awaiting my selection.
ELO ‘A New World Record’ (1976)
Record reviews using internal thoughts I might’ve had at the time:
Last year of school! Yeeeeeaaaaaaah!!! Wow what a great record this is. Move over ABBA! Those melodies sound a bit like the Beatles and make me feel happy-sad. My mum can’t get enough of it (hey mum can you tone down the enthusiasm, you’re supposed to leave rock music to us kids).
