Mr Keith, are you a member of the Communist Party or ever have been?

[kafka47]

Clearly, the Keiths were never members of the CP, as best as we can tell (their fiction alone ought to be more than enough proof). However, check out this Soviet artwork from the early years of the Soviet Republic...http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/05/soviet-futuristic-illustration-oodles.html

Some of it downright pulpy but others certainly could have a place IMTU.

 

[Rhialto the Marvelous]

Spectacular stuff, kafka!

There was a guy on rpg.net, Polish I believe, who was going to design an honest-to-goodness, 1930s-50s Communist scifi RPG. Nothing came of it so far as I know. A missed opportunity. Comrades in space, rayguns vs. tentacled class enemies, what's not to like?

 

[Golan2072]

A few more cool pieces of futuristic goodness by the Russians:

Flying Cities! (my favorite so far)

Arcologies/futuristic architecture

More Arcologies/futuristic architecture

Strange Architecture

Mega Hovercraft!

Climbing Waldo

Mega Monorail!

 

[Rhialto the Marvelous]

Oh, this is beautiful stuff. A friend of mine works on Soviet art history circa 1905s and 1960s, and the Sputnik era gave birth to some amazing magazines. Sort of like "Scientific Soviet."

 

[Golan2072]

There was even a Soviet Traveller-style Tracked ATV!

 

[Golan2072]

More Coolness:

Garden Dome

Prefab Advanced Bases

Underground Colony

Beanstalk

 

[Rhialto the Marvelous]

Oh, man... somebody, design a game around this material!

 

[Golan2072]

Oh, man... somebody, design a game around this material!

The flying cities are definitely going to appear in the atmospheres of some gas giants IMTU, and I'll probably also use the honeycomb and sphere arcologies as well.

 

[Nick Nova]

The flying cities are definitely going to appear in the atmospheres of some gas giants IMTU, and I'll probably also use the honeycomb and sphere arcologies as well.

It turns out that the honeycomb arcologies were actually car parks! (from another picture on the site).

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Wow.

Most cool, Comrade Citizen....

I will have to get to this tomorrow and really check it out, still neato-nifty so far.

 

[Maladominus]

Soviet art is definitely interesting.

But more than Soviet art.... I'm a fan of Soviet Red Army Orchestra music! The rich voices of that orchestra is the best thing to come out of the (former) Soviet Union. It's like the Korobelniki done right!

 

[VargrIntellectual]

Good finds, comrades. Soon we will put the vast resources of the entire galaxy at the service of the working class and its scientific social system. I mean, did you see the capitalist lackeys in that one picture? They were still bearing clubs!

 

[savage]

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