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thehauntedrocket · 3 months

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Vintage Pulp - Thrilling Wonder Stories (July1940)

#Pulp #Magazines #Thrilling Wonder Stories #Science Fiction #Turtle Man #Vintage #Art #Harry Bates #Alfred Bester #1940 #1940s #40s

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chasedbybuildings · 6 months

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Illustrations by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller) for Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. Galaxy Magazine, December 1956.

#emsh #ed emshwiller #alfred bester #galaxy magazine #scifi #science fiction #vintage sci fi #vintage illustration #1950s #50s

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regionbetween · 9 months

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So. Babylon 5.

#babylon 5 #my art #b5 #londo mollari #delenn #talia winters #susan ivanova #alfred bester #j michael straczynski #90s sci fi #ugh Your honor i love them all

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asexual-spock · 10 months

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It’s a lovely day on Babylon 5 and you are a horrible psy-cop.

#Babylon 5 #alfred bester

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dragontopaz · 5 months

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Bester + 5x06

#babylon 5 #babylon5edit #alfred bester #stuff i made

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squidsploitation · 2 years

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some of my b5 faves (oops all headshots)

#babylon 5 #g’kar #delenn #londo mollari #talia winters #alfred bester #lyta alexander #***png #more than overtly inspired by me not being able to play DE but oops too much rendering. and wrong brush for these to be direct refs #i’m nowhere near lyta in my rewatch but i love her i miss her dearly 🤲

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nicnacsnonsense · 4 months

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I say I’m not a fan of villain characters — I appreciate a well-written villain and what they do for a story, but I don’t *like* them — but then Bester shows up and proves me to be a lying liar. Every time he is on my screen I am filled with delight; he’s just too fucking funny.

#babylon 5 #b5 #alfred bester

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woodsfae · 2 months

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B5 03e14 Ship of Tears previous episode • table of contents

The news from Earth is back, but it's fully propaganda now.

I'm glad Sheridan's getting to play in the starfuries for a bit. He definitely needs some chill, fun, flying time.

Dang, it's Walter Koenig! My guy, Bester. Can't wait to see what evil shenanigans he's up to now!

He's such a good villain. So reasonable. So...off.

I don't get why the gang are still stonewalling G'Kar...it's ever more fucked up the longer they keep doing it. C'mon, be better.

I forgot about the new uniforms for a bit but I like them. Looking snazzy! I like the lines and random patch of color.

I genuinely wonder if Bester intentionally goaded her into hitting him. Glad PsiCorps are against the Shadows...it's a low bar to clear, since the Shadows are against life, but still glad.

This is a huge enemy-of-my-enemy stretch, though, considering elements within PsiCorps have been directly enemies with B5 interests themselves. Still, cooperation has got to be key against the shadows.

Wow, this is the biggest fight I've seen Delenn and John have! But seriously for the best to read G'Kar in on all the intel. He brought his intel to them! it's insulting they haven't read him in to their own intel.

Oh shit, they disclosed the existence of the Secret Ship to Bester! That's a hell of a move, as is it for Bester to just plop into the Captain's chair on the bridge. Is that a Star Trek nod? Chekov never commanded the Enterprise in any of the episodes and never sat in the chair, so Bester steals the chair for a second in B5? Cute.

I gotta pay close attention to Delenn and G'Kar's talk. Delenn's decision to obsfucate was directly because of the Grey Council's decision not to share any info. Delenn's arguing it was a good decision, because if they'd allied openly with the Narns from the beginning, the Shadows would have wiped out the Narns entirely instead of only enabling the Centauri to genocide and oppress them.

I find G'Kar's reaction a bit...odd. He talks himself around to agreeing with her, which I find a bit shameful of the writers. It cannot ever be a good thing that a people were wiped out without any foreknowledge from supposed allies. Maybe it wouldn't have changed the outcome in terms of life, but who could say what they may have done?

They have a sort of tractor beam and caught a ship, cool. Weapon's supplies, but it seems to be a person in pained stasis. Dun dun dun.

It's so wild that they took Bester into their confidence enough to take him on the White Star when they're known G'Kar all along and he still doesn't know it exists! Wild, wild set of priorities on information sharing. Bester has been a literally mortal threat to them all, G'Kar has never been a threat to any of them but Londo. And that was fair anyhow.

A shadow body? Or a different species that's allied? I thought the shadows were multi-limbed, spindly things.

Not just one person in a tube, but over a hundred! Ivanova called them sleeper tubes, but Dr Franklin calls them cryotubes.

They have impants on either side of their cerebral cortexes, the lady they were waking up slowly came to screaming and asking why they were doing this. Bester identifies her as "a blip," a telepath who refused to take suppressants or join the corps. This lady is P-11 or P-12.

And she has a terrible nightmare/flashback to what looks to be three individuals, the same species as the unidentified body they found earlier. Leaning towards species allied with the shadows.

P-12 lady made herself a nest of wires? And first thing she tries to do is lure Bester in and attack him. Good instincts, lol. And she's in pain, she says. Bester claims she has no reason attack him or sabotage the station by ripping out all the wires, and she automatically shoots at Bester's PsiCorps broach.

Her name is Carolyn - I guess the shadows already got their hands on her and into her brain? Well that's harrowing. idk what her shared telepathy with Bester was about, even with Bester's explanation. He met her when she was caught and sent to the re-education center, and immediately fell in love with her. Tried to make her experience in the center better...I guess? Bigger quarters and more food. Yikes. And then he knocked her up. No mention of if she had anything to say about that?? jesus.

Hm, Shadows use people as processing for their ships? They are acting like they've talked about it before, but it's new info to me, and horrifying info at that.

Bester says his promise to keep her and their baby safe is the only promise he's ever made that he meant a damn. And that if they can help her, he's 100% on Sheridan's side. Handy! If they can pull it off and get those next level impants out of her or something.

Ivanova says he'll turn on them the second it's all over and I'm inclined to believe her. Maybe he'd play nicer for longer if he achieved some of his goals for telepaths - they are the future, he says.

Did Garibaldi finally teach himself enough Narn to read some of G'Kar's book? Good for him.

The Shadows are weak to telepaths, hence probably the 100+ telepaths being made into ship components. And this info is so timely, because the Shadows are attacking a place right now! Telepaths! We ride at space dawn!

Kosh...

#woodsfae b5 #g'kar #delenn #john sheridan #susan ivanova #alfred bester

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therighthandofvengeance · 2 months

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Bester: I know you’re not supposed to kill me.

Lyta: I don’t think you understand how unpopular you are. I could deliver you in a hundred pieces. They’d give me a separate medal for each one.

#who are queue? what do queue want?#incorrect babylon 5 quote #psi corps #alfred bester #lyta alexander #source: the americans #phillip jennings #more things Lyta is Even More Based For

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cantsayidont · 7 months

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October 1944. Born on Monday: The debut of one of the most fearsome of DC's Golden Age villains, the monstrous Solomon Grundy, in a story written by noted science fiction author Alfred Bester. Although he looked like Universal's Frankenstein Monster (then appearing with Dracula and the Wolf Man in a popular series of monster movies), Grundy was actually a kind of swamp monster, built around the skeleton of murdered miser Cyrus Gold. As Green Lantern explains:

Grundy's origin is very similar to that of the Hillman Comics muck-monster The Heap, who had first appeared in the Sky Wolf story in AIR FIGHTERS COMICS #3 (December 1942), although the Heap had originally been a WW1 German flying ace, Baron Emmelmann. (The Heap later inspired Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.) However, all of these characters ultimately had their roots in a Theodore Sturgeon short story called "It," first published in the pulp magazine UNKNOWN in 1940.

Because Solomon Grundy is immune to Alan's power ring (which didn't work on wood), Alan eventually deals with him by shoving the monster in front of an oncoming freight train. However, as any horror movie fan could tell you, it's not so easy to kill something that's dead to begin with. Grundy would return three more times in the Golden Age, next appearing in the Green Lantern story in COMIC CAVALCADE #13 (Winter 1945).

#comics #all american comics #paul reinman #alfred bester #green lantern #alan scott #solomon grundy #doiby dickles #swamp thing #the heap #man thing #muck monster #theodore sturgeon

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haveyoureadthisscifibook · 2 months

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