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Adamas Nemesis – “Spaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere” (2020)
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Tom Roberts – “The Opening of the First Parliament” (1903), featured in “I Joined the Fediverse”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Travel the Solar System at 1g” (2021)
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Alexandre Cabanel – “Fallen Angel” (1847), featured in “Angelenos, You Know Nothing of Hell”, and “I Do Not Fear the Dark Side as You Do!”
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“Emma Hamilton as Joan of Arc” (1780s-90s), featured in “Nemesis Among the Machines”
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Auguste Toulmouche – “Vanity” (1890), featured in “Completing the New Me: Preventive Botox?” and “When Your Looks are Maxed Out…”
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “Capri” (1884), featured in “Pacific Destiny”
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones – “Psyche’s Wedding” (1895), featured in “The Future of Marriage”
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Unknown (but good!) Illustrator – “Sif was Queen of the Fields” (1897), featured in “More Thoughts on my New Calendar”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Not Too Much to Carry” (1895), featured in “The Surprising Path to a Happy Everyday Life”
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Rick Guidice – “Toroidal colonies, cutaway view, exposing the interior” (1970s), featured in “Artificial Gravity in Outer Space: Centrifuges and Beyond”
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Les Bossinas – “Wormhole travel” (1998), featured in “Worldbuilding faster than Light Travel”
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Maxime Vorobiov;s “Oak fractured by Lightning” (1842), featured in “Operating System What-Ifs”
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Archibald Thorburn – “On the stooks – Blackgame” (1902), featured in Worldbuilding Avian Intelligence”
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Charles Dana Gibson – “Serious Business” (1906), featured in “Me, A Spendy Start-Up? Oh No!”
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Alfons Mucha – “The Arts: Painting” (1898), featured in “Toward More Visual Storytelling”
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George Romney – “Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-1790s), featured in “Lockdown, the Culture of Fear, and the Politics of the Future” and “The Clock is Ticking”
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George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1780s-90s), featured in “I Never Went to College…or High School”
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Henry Raeburn – “Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry” (c. 1810-1812), featured in “Degree Quest: The Second Leg Looms”
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Johann Ender – “From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (1831), featured in “On Etymologies of the Elements”
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James Tissot – “Goodbye on the Mersey” (c. 1880), featured in “Industrialization in a World Without Oil”
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Alfons Mucha – An illustration from “Le Pater” (1899), featured in “In Restless Repose”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Ninth Wave” (1850), home page header image, and featured in “A Bolt from the Blue”
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Jonas Lie – “Path of Gold” (1914), featured in “Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets”
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Thomas Edwin Mostyn – “Jewels’ (1864-1930), featured in “Materialist, Not Minimalist”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Through the Looking Glass” (2021)
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Wenzel-August Hablik – “Starry Sky” (1909), featured in “The New Star Trek I Would Have Made”
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Unknown author – Reclining young woman with skull, c. 1900, featured in “Folkways From Our Past Return”
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Francis Danby – “Shipwreck” (c. 1850), featured in “No Escape for the Cheap”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Charting the Airy Deep” (2020)
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Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet – “Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross” (c. 1914), featured in “Therapeutics of my Alternate History”
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Alfred Seifert – “Hypatia” (1850-1901), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 58”
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Albert Edelfelt – “At the Piano” (1884), featured in “Academia, Dark and Otherwise”
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Arthur Hacker – “Temptation of Sir Percival” (1894), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 16”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Story Book” (1877), featured in “Orphans of Opry Tower: Now Writing”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Capri III” (1900), featured in “The Rise of Deplatforming and the Decentralized Web”
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Joseph Farquharson – “The Blizzard” (1846-1935), featured in “Christmas Blizzard: More Brainstorming”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Les Oreades” (1902), featured in “Counting Bodies”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa” and “Why Don’t You Stay?”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Girls’ Night Out” (2021)
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Herbert James Draper – “A Water Baby” (c. 1895), featured in “Stop Worrying and Love the Birth Dearth?”
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Gustav Dore – “Dante and the River of Lethe” (1880), featured in “Lethe to the Future”
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Marie-Denise Villers – “Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes” (1801), featured in “Thinking Outside the ‘FIRE’ Box” and “Normie Bingo? Let’s Play”
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Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – “Portrait of Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein” (1793), featured in “A Second Sci-Fi Romance Novel is Coming Soon”, “Dear Future Me: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released”, and “Of Principalities That Are, and Nations That Never Were”
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Albert von Keller – “Melancholy” (c. 1885), featured in “Left Out of Life”
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Augustus Leopold Egg – “Past and Present” (1858), featured in “Worldbuilding Motorhomes”
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Hans Dahl – Siste stråler (1849-1937), featured in “Dare I Put the Max in Looksmaxing?” and “Tan and Blonde, But am I Fun?”
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Gabriel Loppé – “Unknown Title” (1882), featured in “Skiing and Space Diving on Other Worlds”
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William-Adolphe Bougeureau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Courtesans and Drugs: All Things in Moderation?” and “A Dance with Death”
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Fritz Zuber-Bühler – Distant Thoughts (1822-96), featured in “Beginning the Adventure of writing a Novel”, “It’s my Life! Into the Next Year”, and “Great Christmas Blizzard: Now Writing!”
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John William Waterhouse – Consulting the Oracle (1884), featured in “World Religions in Alternate Histories”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Harvest” (1883), featured in “Fresh Air, Green Space, and Unsung Paths to Healthy Living”
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Peder Mønsted – Solen trænger gennem trækronerne over Sæby Å (1922), featured in “Taking Earth into the 23rd Century”
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Richard Riemerschmid – “Ghost clouds” (detail) (c. 1897), featured in “To Love a Ghost”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Sunset flight to cloud city” (2020)
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John William Waterhouse – “The Crystal Ball” (1902), featured in “Crystal Cities in Other Galaxies”
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Léon-François Comerre – “Moon” (1850-1916), featured in “Infinite Scattering: The Future of Spacefaring Civilization?”
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“Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6”, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816), featured in “Cosmic Ley Lines: Space Opera to Space Fantasy”
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Alfons Mucha – “Dance” (1898), featured in “Toward Nuclearpunk: Solarpunk with a Twist”
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Tresca, Salvatore (Graveur), Lafitte, Louis (Dessinateur du modèle) – Vendémaire calendar (1797-98), featured in “Worldbuilding New Calendars”
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “A Forest Stream” (1905), featured in “A Vacation Home for Decca?”
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Heywood Hardy – “Holiday Time” (1908), featured in “A Slice of Life at the Dawn of the Space Age?”
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Gustav Wertheimer – “The Kiss of the Siren” (1882), featuring “Making Diet and Exercise Easy and Fun”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Wave” (1889), featured in “Opry Tower: Going Goth?”
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “The ball or an elegant evening” (c. 1890), featured in “A Social Vision for College Ships”
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John Gast – “American Progress” (1872), featured in “One Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Glowbugs in flight” (2021), featured in “Double, Double, Stories and Trouble”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Maternal Admiration” (1869), featured in “The Boon of Young Motherhood?”
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Peter Nicolai Arbo – “The Wild Hunt of Odin” (1872), featured in “A Wandering Soul in the Wild Hunt?”
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George Wilson – “Snow Scene” (1848-1890), featured in “Christmas Night, Rocket Night, Magic Night”
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Mihaly von Zichy – “Romantic Encounter” (1827-1906), featured in “I’m ‘The Most Dangerous Personality Type'” and “Give Me Those ‘Take Me’ Eyes”
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – “Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son” (1780s), featured in “Forget Humanoid Aliens: Try Dinosaur Aliens”
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Albert Bierstadt – “Storm in the Mountains” (c. 1870), featured in “The Dark Matter of Excellence”
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Arthur John Elsley – “Well on the mend” (1910), featured in “On the ‘We’re So Blessed’ Starter Pack”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Gatherers” (1882), featured in “Art, Nature, and Freedom: Toward a Better Future for Education”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Crisis” (1891), featured in “The Wonder Drug Scores Again?” and in “The Lives of Georgia and Decca: More Thoughts”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Abschied” (1892), featured in “Toward a Generational Division of Labor?” and “What? Semaglutide? And Chemical Peels? For Me?”
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Joseph DeCamp – “Farewell” (c. 1901-02), featured in “Europe: Should I Just Go?”
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George Romney – “Study of Emma Hamilton as Miranda” (1780s-90s), featured in “Thoughts on Ariel and the Adamas Nemesis Girls”
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William-Adolphe Bougereau – “The Motherland” (1883), featured in “Big Families on the High Frontier: Worldbuilding Space Colony Demography” and “A Bride for a Triplet?”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Worldbuilding with Parthenogenesis” and “The Real Red Pill?”
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Millais, John Everett; The Convalescent; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-convalescent-107425
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Jean Delville – “Allegory of Music” (1923), featured in “A Music City for my Alternate History”
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“Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, page 180” by Arthur Rackham (1911), featured in “Starve the Beast: Still the Path to Smaller Government?”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “Off”, featured in “Donald Trump is Disqualified”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Solitude” (1851-1913), featured in “Lifestyles in a Fully Globalized Future”
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Domenico Corvi – “Allegory of Painting” (1721-1803), featured in “Artists Exit Stage Left?”
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Jules Joseph Lefebvre – “Servant” (1880), featured in “Third Rome, Viking Tsars, Russian Turan, and Beyond”
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “Spring” (1894), featured in “Worldbuilding Near-Future Space Demography”
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John William Waterhouse – “Hylas and the Nymphs” (1896), featured in “Worldbuilding the Naked Jungle…in Space”
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Alexandre Cabanel – “The Birth of Venus” (1863), featured in “God Bless Filler”
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Pierre Bouillon – “The Child of Fortune”, (1801), featured in “For Proportional Representation”
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Thomas Francis Dicksee – “Distant Thoughts” (1886), featured in “A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown”
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Henrietta Rae – “Roses of Youth” (1859-1928), featured in “A Not-so-Minor Dream for the Minor Outlying Islands”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – “Nymphe” (1892), featured in “Aquamusicals in Space: Worldbuilding Zero-G Sports”
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1790), featured in “Jean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World”
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Luc-Olivier Merson – “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1880), featured in “Welcome to the Desert of the Weird”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Fly me to the moons” (2021)
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Adamas Nemesis – “Starburst” (2021)
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Ferdinand Richardt – “Steamwheeler on the Upper Mississippi” (1865), featured in “Riverboat Futurism à la Nouvelle-Orléans?”
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John William Godward – the Priestess (1893), featured in “Indistinguishable from Nature: Toward a ubiquitous Dark Web” and “God Bless Botox”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Peter the Great at Krasnaya Gorka” (1846), featured in “The Twilight of Conservatism”
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Unknown artist, edited by Albertus Seba – Illustration of squid (circa 1735), featured in “After Thalassa: Squid Brains of Enceladus?”.
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Antonio Sant’Elia – “Casa a gradinata” (1914), featured in “Personal Transportation of the Near Future: Flying Cars and Beyond”
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François-Joseph Navez – “Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna” (1823), featured in “Family Formation: I’m Falling Behind…Or Am I?”
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Juan Luna – “The Death of Cleopatra” (1881), featured in “Catacombs of Music City”
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Artur José de Sousa Loureiro – “Spirit of the New Moon” (1888), featured in “To Orbit by Space Gun”, “Worldbuilding the First Moon Landing”, and “Twilight on the Moon”
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Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – The Planet Venus (1882), featured in “The Strange New Worlds of ‘Warp Dawn'”
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Witold Pruszkowski – “Falling star” (1884), featured in “Panspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega” and “By the Light of Genesis”
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John Smmons – The Morning Star (1867) (detail), featured in “Worldbuilding the Cool, the Romantic, and the Fantasy into my Space Opera Setting”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Toteninsel” (Isle of the Dead) (1851-1913), featured in “Panpsychism and Beyond”
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George Romney – “Emma, Lady Hamilton” (c. 1785), featured in “Taking my Space Opera into the Far Future”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “The Dedication” (1908), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 4”
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François Gérard – “Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children” (1814), featured in “The Secular Shall Inherit the Earth?”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Emerald Nebula” (2021)
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Ships in a Storm” (1860), featured in “A Pirate Story for Me, Savvy?”
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “The Baths of Caracalla” (1899), fearured in “Sisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera”
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Julius Sergius von Klever – “Moonlight Winter Landscape” (1913), featured in “Housing Crisis: Is the End in Sight?”
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Rogelio de Egusquiza – “Tristan and Isolde” (1912), featured in “Ever Rending: Another Bond Movie I’d Make”
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Charles Chaplin – Allegory of Science (1891), featured in “R&D and the Great Power Sweepstakes”
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Thomas Lawrence – “The Red Boy” (1825), featured in “Page Boys of the Perfect Storm”
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John William Godward – Dolce Far Niente (1897), featured in “Idle Geopolitics”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “A Childhood Idyll” (1900), featured in “Life Cycles in my Space Opera’s Far Future”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “God Speed!” (1900), featured in “The Future of Fashion: After Greige”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
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Constance Mayer – The Dream of Happiness (1819), featured in “All My Little Dreamlets”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “The Fairy Dance” (1895), featured in “The Coming Union of Intelligence and the Cosmos Primeval”, and “Straddling the Shadow of Life”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Sphinx mit Undine” (1902), featured in “The Long Night of Elite Imagination”
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Constantino Brumidi – Sketch, Telegraph (c. 1862-67), featured in “A Telegraph World”
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James Tissot – “Room Overlooking the Harbor” (c. 1876-78), featured in “The Puzzle of Credentialism”
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John Martin – “Manfred and the Witch of the Alps” (1837), featured in “Improving the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy”
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Benes Knüpfer – “Duel of the Tritons” (1848-1910), featured in “Some Thoughts on James Bond”
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George Romney – “Emma Hart as Circe” (1782), featured in “The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy I Would Have Made”
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter – “The Cousins (Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours)” (1852), featured in “Tangling Up a Family Tree for Fun and Worldbuilding”
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Albert Bettannier – “The Black Stain” (1887), featured in “Redrawing the Map of Ukraine”
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James Poole – “Donati’s Comet” (1858), featured in “Colonizing the Oort Cloud: The Final Frontier of the Solar System”
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James Tissot – “Plymouth Dockyard” (1887), featured in “College Ships: A Pathway to Seasteading”
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SpaceX – “A Performance Inside Starship” (2018), featured in “Interplanetary Travel in the Solar System of the Near Future”
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Albert Lynch – “The Jolly Boat” (1896), featured in “Accelerate! Front-Loading the New Year”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Evening” (1821), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 66”
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Antoon van Welie’s portrait of the gorgeous Geneviève Lantelme (1911), featured in “My Dream Relationship”
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Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Gibraltar at Night” (1844), featured in “For a Darkness Protection Act”
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Ottilie Roederstein – “Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter” (1887), featured in “Ventures Too Many, or Just Enough?”
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Wilhelm Kray – “Sea Creatures” (1828-1889), featured in “Upgrading the Life of Linda”, “Fun with Matrilineal Patriarchies”, and “My Future: California Beach Baby”
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Leonardo da Vinci – “Study for the Head of Leda” (1503-10), featured in “The Renaissance Man, still the Master”
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Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890), featured in “Sponsus ex Twittera” and “There’s No Such Thing as One Cycle”
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John Martin – “Pandemonium” (1841), featured in “Our Dystopian Moment: The Fruit of Our Dystopian Futures” and “The Rhenium Age?”
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Adamas Nemesis – “A Trip to Starlit Spa” (2021)
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Thomas Moran – “Green River, Wyoming” (1878), featured in “Young, Lonely, and Restless”
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Eugène Carrière – “Two Women” (1895), featured in “Hold Fast the Dream”
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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson et Amable Louis Pagnest – “Atala au tombeau” (1813), featured in “A Life Not-So-Well-Lived?”
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Hubble Space Telescope – “The Cosmic Horseshoe” (2011), featured in “The Sun as Gravitational Lens: A Breakthrough Technology?”
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Thomas Cole – “The Course of Empire: The Savage State” (1836), featured in “Worldbuilding with Dunbar’s Number”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1819-20), featured in “My Lunar Program After Wings of Fire”
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – “Napoleon on his Imperial throne” (1806), featured in “Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Great Pyramid at Giza” (1871), featured in “Twilight of a Decade”
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Rick Guidice – Bernal Sphere “Interior including human powered flight” (1970s), featured in “Our Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts”
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Cesare Maccari – “Cicero Denounces Catiline” (1889), featured in “Presidential Debate Reform: A Radical Proposal”
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Karl Bryullov – “Italian Midday” (1827), featured in “Brand New Decca” and “A Virgin No More”
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Albert Bredow – “Romantic Winter Landscape with Gothic Castle” (1899), featured in “The Heir Abides”
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Caspar David Friedrich – “Graveyard Under Snow” (1825), featured in “A Diamond Baron Goes Green?”
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Pierre-August Cot – “Primavera” (1873), featured in “Pensioners, Aristocrats, and Financial Independence”, and “Reinhardts After Rapunzel”
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William Gale – “Rocking the Baby” (1867), featured in “Of Single Mothers by Choice”
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Gaston La Touche – “Le Ballet” (1890-1913), featured in “Dancing in Space: Worldbuilding More Zero-G Sports”
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“The Death of Dido” – Henry Bone (after Reynolds) (1804), featured in “Delayed Childbearing: I Too Succumb”
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Paul Gustave Fischer – “The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen” (1889), featured in “Interests Too Many, and Never Enough”
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Peder Mørk Mønsted – “The Woodland Glade” (1898), featured in “Germanic America’s Strange Dearth”
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Adamas Nemesis – “Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment” (2021), featured in “Worldbuilding Number Systems”
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Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrien (1869), featured in “Constant Acceleration: Across the Solar System and Beyond”
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NASA/JSC – “Humans Explore Martian Canyons at Dawn” (1989), featured in “Worldbuilding the First Mars Landing”
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Pierre-Auguste Cot – “Springtime” (1873), featured in “Antifragility in Love and Life”
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Seymour Millais Stone – “Parsifal and the Holy Grail” (1904), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 88”
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Jacques-Louis David – “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), featured in “Becoming a Superior Man: Easier than You Think?”
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait with Her Daughter (1789), featured in “Thoughts on Names for Characters and Babies” and “Racing against Time…and my Wallet?”
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Konstantin Makovsky – “Tamara and Demon” (1889), featured in “Me, Taking a Level in Sexy!?”
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An antique New Year’s postcard in Berlin, Germany (c. 1911), featured in “Beginning the Night of the Calendars”
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George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-90s), featured in “Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition”, “A Romantic Apocalypse: Beyond the Doomsday Shroud”, “The Man Who Was Never Really Good Enough”, and “Justice for Lockdown”
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Paul Emile Chabas – “Jeune Naiade” (1869-1937), featured in “Taffy’s Life: A Few Thoughts”
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John Collier – “Lilith” (1889), featured in “Bite the Apple, Escape the Amazon Jungle?”
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NASA – “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept” (2014), featured in “Worldbuilding Cloud Cities on Venus”
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Albert Bierstadt – “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” (1870), featured in “Let’s Build Pacific Coast City!”
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Delphin Enjolras – “Portrait of an Elegant Lady Reading” (1910), featured in “New Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel”
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Mårten Eskil Winge – “Thor’s Fight with the Giants” (1872), featured in “The Dark Path to Masculine Beauty”
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Ivan Aivazovsky – “Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea)” (1881), featured in “The Lavender Glow of a Radon Sea: Worldbuilding Exotic Oceans”
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Ivan Auvazovsky – “The Wave” (1889), featured in “A Flying-Dutchman Christmas Tree Ship?”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Der Rettung entgegen” (1851-1913), featured in “Worldbuilding Immortals in Science Fiction” and “Gleichen and Valentinova: Lost in Space”
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Albert Bierstadt – “Alaska” (c. 1889), featured in “An Alternate History of Cascadia” and “Chinook Jargon Conquers the World?”
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Frederic Edwin Church – “Aurora Borealis” (1865), featured in “Thalassa, or Proxima Centauri b: The Pale Green Dot”
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Elizabeth Keyser – “Resting at Dusk” (1851-98), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 84”
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Frederick Stuart Church – “Knowledge is Power” (1889), featured in “So Much Fear and Doubt For So Small a Paper”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “Tristan and Isolde” (1902), featured in “My Girlfriend, Unbeknownst to Me”
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“Portrait of Emma Hart” by George Romney (c. 1784), featured in “Toward a Libertarian Artistic Movement”
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NASA – “X-30 NASP” (1990), featured in” The Shapes of Spaceships”
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Vilhelm Melbye (attrib.) – “Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse” (1824-82), featured in “Worldbuilding Communications with Smoke, Mirrors, and Analog Computers”
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – “Hagar in the Wilderness” (1726-29), featured in “The Palestinians Must Go”
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Lady Emma Hamilton as either Ariadne or a Bacchante (c. 1790-92), featured in “Feminine Companionship: An Unsung Ideal”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Martyr and crucified, son Helios” (1895), featured in “Some Thoughts on Harry Potter”
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Joseph-Marius Avy – “White ball” (1903), featured in “Ballroom and Business with ChatGPT”
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Will Longstaff – “Ghosts of Vimy Ridge” (1931), featured in “The Archaism of Donald Trump”
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John Martin – “Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still” (1816), featured in “Let Us Move Beyond ‘Convincing Conservatives'”
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Alfons Mucha – “Spring” (1898), featured in “Ready for Rapunzel”
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Emma Musselman – “The Sky Pilot” (1918), featured in “2024: My Biggest Year Yet?”
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Edmund Blair Leighton – “A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne” (1904), featured in “Rules of Succession What-Ifs” and “Accident of Birth: A Feature, Not a Bug?” and “You Have More Than One Birthright…”
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John Reinhard Weguelin – “The Tired Dancer” (1879), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 33” and “Beware The Tired Dancer”
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Thomas Cole – “The Ages of Life: Youth” (1842), featured in “Leveraged Stocks for long-term Investing”
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Donald Davis – “Endcap view with suspension bridge” (1975), featured in “Worldbuilding Space Megastructures: Beyond Dyson Spheres”
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Harry Wilson Watrous – “Just a Couple of Girls” (1915), featured in “Do My Stories Pass the Bechdel Test?”
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Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – “Odalisque” (c. 1861-1897), featured in “Scratch One Tassel”
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Józef Chełmoński – “Cross in a Blizzard”, featured in “The Ultimate Storm?”
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J. Frassanito & Associates for NASA – McDonnell Douglas proposal for X-33 single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane (1996), featured in “Catching a Lift”
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Frederic Leighton – “The Fisherman and the Siren” (1858), featured in “The Siren Song of Job Security”
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NASA – “Blue Rays, New Horizons’ High-Res Farewell to Pluto” (2015), featured in “Worldbuilding the Definition of Planet”
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Birth of Venus” (1879), featured in “One Dominion to Rule Them All?” and “My Newest Makeover Story: Myself”
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George Spencer Watson – “The Saddler’s Daughter” (1923-24), featured in “Triumph of the Fleece Vest”
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Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895), featured in “Vampires of the Oort Cloud?” and “Star Wars: The Dark Theory”
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Eduard Büchler – “Classical ruins with a maiden in the foreground” (1915), featured in “Kudzu Among the Ruins”
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Bror Lindh – “Northern Light” (1900), featured in “Worldbuilding Seasons on Planets with High Axial Tilts”
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Jean-Léon Gérôme – “Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind” (1896), featured in “Of Fediverses and Frustrations”
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Paul DiMare – NASA Study for Manned Mars Mission (1989), featured in “Road Trains of Mars”
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Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars (1927), featured in “Worldbuilding a Space Opera Setting of My Own” and in “Alien Planet: A Fan Theory”
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Henrika Šantel – “The Chemist” (1932), featured in “The Final Frontiers of the Periodic Table”
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Thomas Le Clear – “Young America” (1863), featured in “Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy”
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Frederick Edwin Church – “Our Banner In The Sky” (1861), featured in “Worldbuilding Flags: Some Thoughts” and “In my Timeline, an Expanded States of America?”
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Winslow Homer – Girl in the Hammock” (1873), featured in “No Solace for the Single?”
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Luis Ricardo Falero – “Moonlit Beauties” (1851-1896), featured in “Romantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Question to the Stars” (1901), featured in “To Further the Decentralized Web, Think Bigger”, “Taking My Space Opera into the Really Far Future”, and “A Beloved From the Stars”
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John Martin – “The Fall of Babylon” (1831), featured in “Twenty Years of Terror”
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “Sleeping Beauty” (1899), featured in “Fia After Opry Tower”
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George Clausen – “The Student” (c. 1908), featured in “Toward a New Vision for Online Education”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Youth Conquers Age” (1900), featured in “Dare I Join the Dark World?”
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Alexandre Cabanel – “Echo” (1874), featured in “Post-Liberalism: An Echo, Not a Choice”
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “An Allegory of Lost Love” (1851-1913), featured in “Shadows Never Lie: The Next Bond Movie I’d Make”
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Robert Wilhelm Ekman – “Ilmatar” (1860), featured in “Worldbuilding Exotic Oxygen Atmospheres”, “Letters from the Airy Deep: New Novel Coming Soon”, and “Worldbuilding Ghost Atmospheres”
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Edward Arthur Walton – John George Bartholemew (1911), featured in “Of Map Projections Obscure”
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Marcus Herzberg – “Tall buildings in Dubai at night” (2018), featured in “Gleaming Cities of the Eclipsed”
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Frank Lloyd Wright – Sketches for Broadacre City (1932), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, featured in “Thoughts on Futuristic Transportation”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “Sleeping Beauty” (1899), featured in “Fia After Opry Tower”
Donald Davis – “Endcap view with suspension bridge” (1975), featured in “Worldbuilding Space Megastructures: Beyond Dyson Spheres”
François-Joseph Navez – “Roman Shepherd Family in the Campagna” (1823), featured in “Family Formation: I’m Falling Behind…Or Am I?”
Albert Lynch – “The Jolly Boat” (1896), featured in “Accelerate! Front-Loading the New Year”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Fallen Angel” (1847), featured in “Angelenos, You Know Nothing of Hell”, and “I Do Not Fear the Dark Side as You Do!”
Thomas Moran – “Green River, Wyoming” (1878), featured in “Young, Lonely, and Restless”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Abschied” (1892), featured in “Toward a Generational Division of Labor?” and “What? Semaglutide? And Chemical Peels? For Me?”
Jean-Léon Gérôme – “Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind” (1896), featured in “Of Fediverses and Frustrations”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Peter the Great at Krasnaya Gorka” (1846), featured in “The Twilight of Conservatism”
Paul Emile Chabas – “Jeune Naiade” (1869-1937), featured in “Taffy’s Life: A Few Thoughts”
“Design for The Magic Flute: The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, Act 1, Scene 6”, after Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1816), featured in “Cosmic Ley Lines: Space Opera to Space Fantasy”
Tresca, Salvatore (Graveur), Lafitte, Louis (Dessinateur du modèle) – Vendémaire calendar (1797-98), featured in “Worldbuilding New Calendars”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Youth Conquers Age” (1900), featured in “Dare I Join the Dark World?”
Henrietta Rae – “Roses of Youth” (1859-1928), featured in “A Not-so-Minor Dream for the Minor Outlying Islands”
Adamas Nemesis – “Fly me to the moons” (2021)
Ferdinand Richardt – “Steamwheeler on the Upper Mississippi” (1865), featured in “Riverboat Futurism à la Nouvelle-Orléans?”
Pierre Bouillon – “The Child of Fortune”, (1801), featured in “For Proportional Representation”
Cesare Maccari – “Cicero Denounces Catiline” (1889), featured in “Presidential Debate Reform: A Radical Proposal”
Arthur John Elsley – “Well on the mend” (1910), featured in “On the ‘We’re So Blessed’ Starter Pack”
Adamas Nemesis – “Girls’ Night Out” (2021)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Birth of Venus” (1879), featured in “One Dominion to Rule Them All?” and “My Newest Makeover Story: Myself”
Gaston La Touche – “Le Ballet” (1890-1913), featured in “Dancing in Space: Worldbuilding More Zero-G Sports”
Peter Nicolai Arbo – “The Wild Hunt of Odin” (1872), featured in “A Wandering Soul in the Wild Hunt?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Travel the Solar System at 1g” (2021)
Alfred Seifert – “Hypatia” (1850-1901), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 58”
“Emma Hamilton as Joan of Arc” (1780s-90s), featured in “Nemesis Among the Machines”
John Smmons – The Morning Star (1867) (detail), featured in “Worldbuilding the Cool, the Romantic, and the Fantasy into my Space Opera Setting”
John Reinhard Weguelin – “The Tired Dancer” (1879), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 33” and “Beware The Tired Dancer”
Léon-François Comerre – “Moon” (1850-1916), featured in “Infinite Scattering: The Future of Spacefaring Civilization?”
Maxime Vorobiov;s “Oak fractured by Lightning” (1842), featured in “Operating System What-Ifs”
NASA – “Blue Rays, New Horizons’ High-Res Farewell to Pluto” (2015), featured in “Worldbuilding the Definition of Planet”
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – “Portrait of Louise-Elisabeth of France with her son” (1780s), featured in “Forget Humanoid Aliens: Try Dinosaur Aliens”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “Spring” (1894), featured in “Worldbuilding Near-Future Space Demography”
Jacques-Louis David – “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), featured in “Becoming a Superior Man: Easier than You Think?”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Evening” (1821), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 66”
Millais, John Everett; The Convalescent; Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-convalescent-107425
An antique New Year’s postcard in Berlin, Germany (c. 1911), featured in “Beginning the Night of the Calendars”
Johann Ender – “From Darkness, the Light: Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences” (1831), featured in “On Etymologies of the Elements”
Marie-Denise Villers – “Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes” (1801), featured in “Thinking Outside the ‘FIRE’ Box” and “Normie Bingo? Let’s Play”
Seymour Millais Stone – “Parsifal and the Holy Grail” (1904), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 88”
Will Longstaff – “Ghosts of Vimy Ridge” (1931), featured in “The Archaism of Donald Trump”
Arthur Hacker – “Temptation of Sir Percival” (1894), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 16”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” (1819-20), featured in “My Lunar Program After Wings of Fire”
Paul DiMare – NASA Study for Manned Mars Mission (1989), featured in “Road Trains of Mars”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “God Speed!” (1900), featured in “The Future of Fashion: After Greige”
Jonas Lie – “Path of Gold” (1914), featured in “Ecumenopolis: Thoughts on Worldbuilding City-Planets”
Jules Joseph Lefebvre – “Servant” (1880), featured in “Third Rome, Viking Tsars, Russian Turan, and Beyond”
Witold Pruszkowski – “Falling star” (1884), featured in “Panspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega” and “By the Light of Genesis”
Alfons Mucha – “Dance” (1898), featured in “Toward Nuclearpunk: Solarpunk with a Twist”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa” and “Why Don’t You Stay?”
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1790), featured in “Jean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World”
Alexandre Cabanel – “Echo” (1874), featured in “Post-Liberalism: An Echo, Not a Choice”
Paul Gustave Fischer – “The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen” (1889), featured in “Interests Too Many, and Never Enough”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “The Dedication” (1908), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 4”
Leonardo da Vinci – “Study for the Head of Leda” (1503-10), featured in “The Renaissance Man, still the Master”
James Tissot – “Goodbye on the Mersey” (c. 1880), featured in “Industrialization in a World Without Oil”
Albert Edelfelt – “At the Piano” (1884), featured in “Academia, Dark and Otherwise”
Harry Wilson Watrous – “Just a Couple of Girls” (1915), featured in “Do My Stories Pass the Bechdel Test?”
Mårten Eskil Winge – “Thor’s Fight with the Giants” (1872), featured in “The Dark Path to Masculine Beauty”
Albert Bredow – “Romantic Winter Landscape with Gothic Castle” (1899), featured in “The Heir Abides”
Adamas Nemesis – “Through the Looking Glass” (2021)
Benes Knüpfer – “Duel of the Tritons” (1848-1910), featured in “Some Thoughts on James Bond”
Luc-Olivier Merson – “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1880), featured in “Welcome to the Desert of the Weird”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Not Too Much to Carry” (1895), featured in “The Surprising Path to a Happy Everyday Life”
Rick Guidice – Bernal Sphere “Interior including human powered flight” (1970s), featured in “Our Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts”
Charles Dana Gibson – “Serious Business” (1906), featured in “Me, A Spendy Start-Up? Oh No!”
William-Adolphe Bougereau – “The Motherland” (1883), featured in “Big Families on the High Frontier: Worldbuilding Space Colony Demography” and “A Bride for a Triplet?”
Tom Roberts – “The Opening of the First Parliament” (1903), featured in “I Joined the Fediverse”
Albert von Keller – “Melancholy” (c. 1885), featured in “Left Out of Life”
Julius Sergius von Klever – “Moonlight Winter Landscape” (1913), featured in “Housing Crisis: Is the End in Sight?”
Henry Raeburn – “Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry” (c. 1810-1812), featured in “Degree Quest: The Second Leg Looms”
Les Bossinas – “Wormhole travel” (1998), featured in “Worldbuilding faster than Light Travel”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Question to the Stars” (1901), featured in “To Further the Decentralized Web, Think Bigger”, “Taking My Space Opera into the Really Far Future”, and “A Beloved From the Stars”
John Collier – “Lilith” (1889), featured in “Bite the Apple, Escape the Amazon Jungle?”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Thomas Le Clear – “Young America” (1863), featured in “Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Der Rettung entgegen” (1851-1913), featured in “Worldbuilding Immortals in Science Fiction” and “Gleichen and Valentinova: Lost in Space”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “The Fairy Dance” (1895), featured in “The Coming Union of Intelligence and the Cosmos Primeval”, and “Straddling the Shadow of Life”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Maternal Admiration” (1869), featured in “The Boon of Young Motherhood?”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “A Forest Stream” (1905), featured in “A Vacation Home for Decca?”
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self-portrait with Her Daughter (1789), featured in “Thoughts on Names for Characters and Babies” and “Racing against Time…and my Wallet?”
Wenzel-August Hablik – “Starry Sky” (1909), featured in “The New Star Trek I Would Have Made”
James Poole – “Donati’s Comet” (1858), featured in “Colonizing the Oort Cloud: The Final Frontier of the Solar System”
Hans Dahl – Siste stråler (1849-1937), featured in “Dare I Put the Max in Looksmaxing?” and “Tan and Blonde, But am I Fun?”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – “The Baths of Caracalla” (1899), fearured in “Sisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera”
Emma Musselman – “The Sky Pilot” (1918), featured in “2024: My Biggest Year Yet?”
Antoon van Welie’s portrait of the gorgeous Geneviève Lantelme (1911), featured in “My Dream Relationship”
Herbert James Draper – “A Water Baby” (c. 1895), featured in “Stop Worrying and Love the Birth Dearth?”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Martyr and crucified, son Helios” (1895), featured in “Some Thoughts on Harry Potter”
Alexandre Cabanel – “The Birth of Venus” (1863), featured in “God Bless Filler”
Hubble Space Telescope – “The Cosmic Horseshoe” (2011), featured in “The Sun as Gravitational Lens: A Breakthrough Technology?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Starburst” (2021)
Frank Lloyd Wright – Sketches for Broadacre City (1932), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, featured in “Thoughts on Futuristic Transportation”
Frederick Edwin Church – “Our Banner In The Sky” (1861), featured in “Worldbuilding Flags: Some Thoughts” and “In my Timeline, an Expanded States of America?”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “A Little Prince likely in Time to bless a Royal Throne” (1904), featured in “Rules of Succession What-Ifs” and “Accident of Birth: A Feature, Not a Bug?” and “You Have More Than One Birthright…”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “Capri” (1884), featured in “Pacific Destiny”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Gatherers” (1882), featured in “Art, Nature, and Freedom: Toward a Better Future for Education”
Rick Guidice – “Toroidal colonies, cutaway view, exposing the interior” (1970s), featured in “Artificial Gravity in Outer Space: Centrifuges and Beyond”
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson et Amable Louis Pagnest – “Atala au tombeau” (1813), featured in “A Life Not-So-Well-Lived?”
John William Godward – Dolce Far Niente (1897), featured in “Idle Geopolitics”
Auguste Toulmouche – “Vanity” (1890), featured in “Completing the New Me: Preventive Botox?” and “When Your Looks are Maxed Out…”
Pierre-August Cot – “Primavera” (1873), featured in “Pensioners, Aristocrats, and Financial Independence”, and “Reinhardts After Rapunzel”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Tristan and Isolde” (1902), featured in “My Girlfriend, Unbeknownst to Me”
George Romney – “Emma, Lady Hamilton” (c. 1785), featured in “Taking my Space Opera into the Far Future”
François Gérard – “Portrait of Louise-Antoinette-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, Madame la Maréchale Lannes, Duchesse de Montebello, with her Children” (1814), featured in “The Secular Shall Inherit the Earth?”
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Lady Emma Hamilton as either Ariadne or a Bacchante (c. 1790-92), featured in “Feminine Companionship: An Unsung Ideal”
Albert Bierstadt – “Alaska” (c. 1889), featured in “An Alternate History of Cascadia” and “Chinook Jargon Conquers the World?”
Edward Coley Burne-Jones – “Psyche’s Wedding” (1895), featured in “The Future of Marriage”
Jean Delville – “Allegory of Music” (1923), featured in “A Music City for my Alternate History”
Albert Bierstadt – “Storm in the Mountains” (c. 1870), featured in “The Dark Matter of Excellence”
Francis Danby – “Shipwreck” (c. 1850), featured in “No Escape for the Cheap”
“Portrait of Emma Hart” by George Romney (c. 1784), featured in “Toward a Libertarian Artistic Movement”
Albert Bettannier – “The Black Stain” (1887), featured in “Redrawing the Map of Ukraine”
John Martin – “Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still” (1816), featured in “Let Us Move Beyond ‘Convincing Conservatives'”
Elizabeth Keyser – “Resting at Dusk” (1851-98), featured in “Degree Quest: Day 84”
Eduard Büchler – “Classical ruins with a maiden in the foreground” (1915), featured in “Kudzu Among the Ruins”
John William Godward – the Priestess (1893), featured in “Indistinguishable from Nature: Toward a ubiquitous Dark Web” and “God Bless Botox”
Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet – “Portrait of a Nurse from the Red Cross” (c. 1914), featured in “Therapeutics of my Alternate History”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “An Allegory of Lost Love” (1851-1913), featured in “Shadows Never Lie: The Next Bond Movie I’d Make”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Ships in a Storm” (1860), featured in “A Pirate Story for Me, Savvy?”
Henrika Šantel – “The Chemist” (1932), featured in “The Final Frontiers of the Periodic Table”
NASA – “X-30 NASP” (1990), featured in” The Shapes of Spaceships”
Frederic Leighton – “The Fisherman and the Siren” (1858), featured in “The Siren Song of Job Security”
James Tissot – “Room Overlooking the Harbor” (c. 1876-78), featured in “The Puzzle of Credentialism”
John Martin – “The Fall of Babylon” (1831), featured in “Twenty Years of Terror”
Augustus Leopold Egg – “Past and Present” (1858), featured in “Worldbuilding Motorhomes”
John Martin – “Manfred and the Witch of the Alps” (1837), featured in “Improving the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy”
Thomas Edwin Mostyn – “Jewels’ (1864-1930), featured in “Materialist, Not Minimalist”
Winslow Homer – Girl in the Hammock” (1873), featured in “No Solace for the Single?”
Franz Xaver Winterhalter – “The Cousins (Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours)” (1852), featured in “Tangling Up a Family Tree for Fun and Worldbuilding”
Alfons Mucha – “Spring” (1898), featured in “Ready for Rapunzel”
Delphin Enjolras – “Portrait of an Elegant Lady Reading” (1910), featured in “New Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel”
Robert Wilhelm Ekman – “Ilmatar” (1860), featured in “Worldbuilding Exotic Oxygen Atmospheres”, “Letters from the Airy Deep: New Novel Coming Soon”, and “Worldbuilding Ghost Atmospheres”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – “Hagar in the Wilderness” (1726-29), featured in “The Palestinians Must Go”
Edmund Blair Leighton – “Off”, featured in “Donald Trump is Disqualified”
Adamas Nemesis – “Charting the Airy Deep” (2020)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – “Napoleon on his Imperial throne” (1806), featured in “Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory”
Thomas Cole – “The Ages of Life: Youth” (1842), featured in “Leveraged Stocks for long-term Investing”
Albert Bierstadt – “Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast” (1870), featured in “Let’s Build Pacific Coast City!”
Juan Luna – “The Death of Cleopatra” (1881), featured in “Catacombs of Music City”
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – “Portrait of Princess Karoline of Liechtenstein” (1793), featured in “A Second Sci-Fi Romance Novel is Coming Soon”, “Dear Future Me: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released”, and “Of Principalities That Are, and Nations That Never Were”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Moonlit Beauties” (1851-1896), featured in “Romantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future”
Alfons Mucha – “The Arts: Painting” (1898), featured in “Toward More Visual Storytelling”
John William Waterhouse – “The Crystal Ball” (1902), featured in “Crystal Cities in Other Galaxies”
Peder Mørk Mønsted – “The Woodland Glade” (1898), featured in “Germanic America’s Strange Dearth”
Unknown author – Reclining young woman with skull, c. 1900, featured in “Folkways From Our Past Return”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Solitude” (1851-1913), featured in “Lifestyles in a Fully Globalized Future”
Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter – “Odalisque” (c. 1861-1897), featured in “Scratch One Tassel”
George Romney – “Study of Emma Hamilton as Miranda” (1780s-90s), featured in “Thoughts on Ariel and the Adamas Nemesis Girls”
John Martin – “Pandemonium” (1841), featured in “Our Dystopian Moment: The Fruit of Our Dystopian Futures” and “The Rhenium Age?”
George Wilson – “Snow Scene” (1848-1890), featured in “Christmas Night, Rocket Night, Magic Night”
Karl Bryullov – “Italian Midday” (1827), featured in “Brand New Decca” and “A Virgin No More”
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pygmalion and Galatea (1890), featured in “Sponsus ex Twittera” and “There’s No Such Thing as One Cycle”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Nut Harvest” (1883), featured in “Fresh Air, Green Space, and Unsung Paths to Healthy Living”
Constance Mayer – The Dream of Happiness (1819), featured in “All My Little Dreamlets”
J. Frassanito & Associates for NASA – McDonnell Douglas proposal for X-33 single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane (1996), featured in “Catching a Lift”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-90s), featured in “Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition”, “A Romantic Apocalypse: Beyond the Doomsday Shroud”, “The Man Who Was Never Really Good Enough”, and “Justice for Lockdown”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Toteninsel” (Isle of the Dead) (1851-1913), featured in “Panpsychism and Beyond”
Joseph-Marius Avy – “White ball” (1903), featured in “Ballroom and Business with ChatGPT”
Mihaly von Zichy – “Romantic Encounter” (1827-1906), featured in “I’m ‘The Most Dangerous Personality Type'” and “Give Me Those ‘Take Me’ Eyes”
“Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, page 180” by Arthur Rackham (1911), featured in “Starve the Beast: Still the Path to Smaller Government?”
George Spencer Watson – “The Saddler’s Daughter” (1923-24), featured in “Triumph of the Fleece Vest”
Frank Dicksee – “The Mother” (1910), featured in “Fia and Family: After Anacapa”
Unknown artist, edited by Albertus Seba – Illustration of squid (circa 1735), featured in “After Thalassa: Squid Brains of Enceladus?”.
Heywood Hardy – “Holiday Time” (1908), featured in “A Slice of Life at the Dawn of the Space Age?”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “A Childhood Idyll” (1900), featured in “Life Cycles in my Space Opera’s Far Future”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Black Sea (A storm begins to whip up in the Black Sea)” (1881), featured in “The Lavender Glow of a Radon Sea: Worldbuilding Exotic Oceans”
Caspar David Friedrich – “Graveyard Under Snow” (1825), featured in “A Diamond Baron Goes Green?”
John Gast – “American Progress” (1872), featured in “One Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?”
Pierre-Auguste Cot – “Springtime” (1873), featured in “Antifragility in Love and Life”
Gustav Dore – “Dante and the River of Lethe” (1880), featured in “Lethe to the Future”
Gabriel Loppé – “Unknown Title” (1882), featured in “Skiing and Space Diving on Other Worlds”
Konstantin Makovsky – “Tamara and Demon” (1889), featured in “Me, Taking a Level in Sexy!?”
Victor Gabriel Gilbert – “The ball or an elegant evening” (c. 1890), featured in “A Social Vision for College Ships”
Frederic Edwin Church – “Aurora Borealis” (1865), featured in “Thalassa, or Proxima Centauri b: The Pale Green Dot”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Worldbuilding with Parthenogenesis” and “The Real Red Pill?”
Edvard Munch – Vampire (1895), featured in “Vampires of the Oort Cloud?” and “Star Wars: The Dark Theory”
NASA – “High Altitude Venus Operational Concept” (2014), featured in “Worldbuilding Cloud Cities on Venus”
Domenico Corvi – “Allegory of Painting” (1721-1803), featured in “Artists Exit Stage Left?”
Thomas Francis Dicksee – “Distant Thoughts” (1886), featured in “A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown”
Józef Chełmoński – “Cross in a Blizzard”, featured in “The Ultimate Storm?”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “Wave” (1889), featured in “Opry Tower: Going Goth?”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Sphinx mit Undine” (1902), featured in “The Long Night of Elite Imagination”
Richard Riemerschmid – “Ghost clouds” (detail) (c. 1897), featured in “To Love a Ghost”
Alfons Mucha – An illustration from “Le Pater” (1899), featured in “In Restless Repose”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Ninth Wave” (1850), home page header image, and featured in “A Bolt from the Blue”
Frederick Stuart Church – “Knowledge is Power” (1889), featured in “So Much Fear and Doubt For So Small a Paper”
John William Waterhouse – Consulting the Oracle (1884), featured in “World Religions in Alternate Histories”
SpaceX – “A Performance Inside Starship” (2018), featured in “Interplanetary Travel in the Solar System of the Near Future”
Unknown (but good!) Illustrator – “Sif was Queen of the Fields” (1897), featured in “More Thoughts on my New Calendar”
John William Waterhouse – “Hylas and the Nymphs” (1896), featured in “Worldbuilding the Naked Jungle…in Space”
Edwin Blashfield – Spring Scattering Stars (1927), featured in “Worldbuilding a Space Opera Setting of My Own” and in “Alien Planet: A Fan Theory”
Artur José de Sousa Loureiro – “Spirit of the New Moon” (1888), featured in “To Orbit by Space Gun”, “Worldbuilding the First Moon Landing”, and “Twilight on the Moon”
Vilhelm Melbye (attrib.) – “Shipping off the Eddystone Lighthouse” (1824-82), featured in “Worldbuilding Communications with Smoke, Mirrors, and Analog Computers”
Adamas Nemesis – “Base 10 versus Base 12 parchment” (2021), featured in “Worldbuilding Number Systems”
George Romney – “Lady Emma Hamilton as Cassandra” (1780s-1790s), featured in “Lockdown, the Culture of Fear, and the Politics of the Future” and “The Clock is Ticking”
James Tissot – “Plymouth Dockyard” (1887), featured in “College Ships: A Pathway to Seasteading”
Archibald Thorburn – “On the stooks – Blackgame” (1902), featured in Worldbuilding Avian Intelligence”
George Romney – “Emma Hart as Circe” (1782), featured in “The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy I Would Have Made”
Peter Nicolai Arbo – Valkyrien (1869), featured in “Constant Acceleration: Across the Solar System and Beyond”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “The Story Book” (1877), featured in “Orphans of Opry Tower: Now Writing”
William Gale – “Rocking the Baby” (1867), featured in “Of Single Mothers by Choice”
NASA/JSC – “Humans Explore Martian Canyons at Dawn” (1989), featured in “Worldbuilding the First Mars Landing”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Gibraltar at Night” (1844), featured in “For a Darkness Protection Act”
Wilhelm Kray – “Sea Creatures” (1828-1889), featured in “Upgrading the Life of Linda”, “Fun with Matrilineal Patriarchies”, and “My Future: California Beach Baby”
Luis Ricardo Falero – The Planet Venus (1882), featured in “The Strange New Worlds of ‘Warp Dawn'”
Joseph Farquharson – “The Blizzard” (1846-1935), featured in “Christmas Blizzard: More Brainstorming”
Thomas Cole – “The Course of Empire: The Savage State” (1836), featured in “Worldbuilding with Dunbar’s Number”
Marcus Herzberg – “Tall buildings in Dubai at night” (2018), featured in “Gleaming Cities of the Eclipsed”
Gustav Wertheimer – “The Kiss of the Siren” (1882), featuring “Making Diet and Exercise Easy and Fun”
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach – “Capri III” (1900), featured in “The Rise of Deplatforming and the Decentralized Web”
Bror Lindh – “Northern Light” (1900), featured in “Worldbuilding Seasons on Planets with High Axial Tilts”
George Romney – “Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante” (1780s-90s), featured in “I Never Went to College…or High School”
Charles Chaplin – Allegory of Science (1891), featured in “R&D and the Great Power Sweepstakes”
Luis Ricardo Falero – “Nymphe” (1892), featured in “Aquamusicals in Space: Worldbuilding Zero-G Sports”
Fritz Zuber-Bühler – Distant Thoughts (1822-96), featured in “Beginning the Adventure of writing a Novel”, “It’s my Life! Into the Next Year”, and “Great Christmas Blizzard: Now Writing!”
Adamas Nemesis – “Spaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere” (2020)
Antonio Sant’Elia – “Casa a gradinata” (1914), featured in “Personal Transportation of the Near Future: Flying Cars and Beyond”
Peder Mønsted – Solen trænger gennem trækronerne over Sæby Å (1922), featured in “Taking Earth into the 23rd Century”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – “Les Oreades” (1902), featured in “Counting Bodies”
Ivan Aivazovsky – “The Great Pyramid at Giza” (1871), featured in “Twilight of a Decade”
Adamas Nemesis – “Sunset flight to cloud city” (2020)
Adamas Nemesis – “A Trip to Starlit Spa” (2021)
Rogelio de Egusquiza – “Tristan and Isolde” (1912), featured in “Ever Rending: Another Bond Movie I’d Make”
Adamas Nemesis – “Glowbugs in flight” (2021), featured in “Double, Double, Stories and Trouble”
Ottilie Roederstein – “Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter” (1887), featured in “Ventures Too Many, or Just Enough?”
Joseph DeCamp – “Farewell” (c. 1901-02), featured in “Europe: Should I Just Go?”
Adamas Nemesis – “Emerald Nebula” (2021)
“The Death of Dido” – Henry Bone (after Reynolds) (1804), featured in “Delayed Childbearing: I Too Succumb”
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky – “Icebergs in the Atlantic” (1870), featured in “Arctic Toponymy in my Alternate History”
Ivan Auvazovsky – “The Wave” (1889), featured in “A Flying-Dutchman Christmas Tree Ship?”
William-Adolphe Bougeureau – “Nymphs and Satyr” (1873), featured in “Courtesans and Drugs: All Things in Moderation?” and “A Dance with Death”
Edward Arthur Walton – John George Bartholemew (1911), featured in “Of Map Projections Obscure”
Thomas Lawrence – “The Red Boy” (1825), featured in “Page Boys of the Perfect Storm”
George Clausen – “The Student” (c. 1908), featured in “Toward a New Vision for Online Education”
Frank Dicksee – “The Crisis” (1891), featured in “The Wonder Drug Scores Again?” and in “The Lives of Georgia and Decca: More Thoughts”
Constantino Brumidi – Sketch, Telegraph (c. 1862-67), featured in “A Telegraph World”