Comments on: 15 Astoundingly Beautiful Sci-Fi Images

By: Joacogui

Joacogui — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:40:06 +0000

the galactic parliament is in paris? closer than i tought.

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:14:34 +0000

#2, “Future Entertainment”, is actually a future Sydney, Australia. I know, I’ve lived most of my life there. Some of the buildings in the foreground, the octagonal one in front of the tower, the cylindrical one to its left, and the one with “AAPT” to the left again, are real buildings, as are some others (not the main tower though, obviously, and the taller buildings) and if you look carefully you can just see part of Sydney Harbour Bridge near the centre of the picture. I got a real blast from this image!
All the pictures in this list are stunning.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:21:26 +0000

PS. It would have been great to include the artist’s name with the painting title…

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:19:17 +0000

No list of great sci-fi/fantasy painings would be complete without a couple from Michael Whelan (Welan?) and John Pitre. Check them out, they both have websites.

By: Tin

Tin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:34:16 +0000

BEAUTIFUL.

By: saber25

saber25 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:40:33 +0000

Hope no. 4 won’t ever happen, Ever!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:29:42 +0000

@Shaul Talmeed (71):

“A planet, is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.”

I’m pretty sure that most (if not all) wheel shaped objects in science fiction are :

a) Big to create their own gravity
b) Not big enough to creat thermonuclear fusion – i.e. What the Sun does
c) Aren’t surrounding by little planet looking things

If I’m wrong with any of my assumptions, please correct me, but I think that No.3 does qualify for the list

By: Shaul Talmeed

Shaul Talmeed — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:12:25 +0000

#3. Future City
I caught a violation! Number three is not a planet! It’s a depiction of the inside of a wheel shaped space colony like the ones in 2001! The idea is that they would have artificial gravity due to the spinning of the outer rim generating centrifugal force.

By: Spud

Spud — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:42:42 +0000

What?! no 2001?!

By: kweng

kweng — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:20:38 +0000

awww…ren and stimpy!!! 14-11 are really cool