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I'm Martin, guitarist for All India Radio and Steve Kilbey/Martin Kennedy, sci-fi & Pink Floyd fan, artist and tragic archivist. Most of these images are scanned from sci-fi magazines and books I've been collecting for the last million years.
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Admission: I like this 1977 disco version of Star Wars music by Meco better than the actual Star Wars soundtrack. Don’t get me wrong,  John Williams SW soundtrack was perfect, but the Meco version ended up on my turntable far more often. As an impressionable adolescent I was carried away by the disco explosion of the late 1970s as much as I was by Star Wars. ‘Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk’ was a multi million seller for Meco but it was downhill from there, as he insisted on ‘disco-ising’ every movie in sight.

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.

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.

An amazing set from Space 1999 (1975). If we were to renovate our kitchen this is what it would look like.

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…

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

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’.

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’.

My Melmac ‘Vogue’ plate series. Previously sneered at, these 1960’s plates are now quite collectable. I rescued the orange one from my mums house awhile ago and recently completed the collection of six. Just love the colour and patterns.

My Melmac ‘Vogue’ plate series. Previously sneered at, these 1960’s plates are now quite collectable. I rescued the orange one from my mums house awhile ago and recently completed the collection of six. Just love the colour and patterns.