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