#richard powers

[solar-settings]

the overstory, richard powers // yellowjackets (2021-)

#yellowjackets #web weaving #shauna shipman #lottie matthews #taissa turner #natalie scatorccio #misty quigley #van palmer #richard powers #mine

[gnnosis]

what we owe to each other

[ the good place, 2x13 / the overstory, richard powers / unknown / “don’t carry it all,” the decemberists / thoodleoo ]

#web weaving #the good place #chidi anagonye #what we owe to each other #richard powers #the overstory #the decemberists #don’t carry it all #on interconnectedness #on interdependence #on community #on humanity #on peoplehood #my post

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

#book quotes #richard powers #the overstory #trees and forests #books and libraries #books and reading #literature

[quotespile]

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Richard Powers, Orfeo

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #Orfeo #quote #books #lit

[70sscifiart]

Black Mirror and retro sci-fi paperback cover art

Someone on the Black Mirror team really knows their late-60s sci-fi paperbacks! Spoilers for Season 6 ep "Beyond the Sea." 

This paperback is a 1967 edition of Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man,' with a top-tier Dean Ellis cover.

Ellis was a great paperback artist: He balanced one central image with intricate details, making covers simple yet engaging. Ellis covers don't usually have this much ennui, which makes this one a particularly good pick for the episode, about an astronaut who also feels alone.

The other main paperback featured in the episode is a 1968 edition of 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,' by Robert A. Heinlein, with a cover by Paul Lehr.

Lehr is an icon of 60s/70s covers, so he's a great artist to include. This particular cover has one of his signature tropes - A crowd of tiny figures gathering around a single object, in this case a moon base.

That said, that particular Lehr cover looks more similar to the style of Richard Powers (a surreal 50s artist who influenced Lehr) than is typical for Lehr. Here are a few other 1968 Lehr covers that I think represent him better, with more shadows and monochrome.

But here's what blows my mind: We never see the cover to one paperback spine in this scene. It's this 1967 Richard Powers cover, with the yellow spine.

It seems to show a man enviously watching a woman from behind a screen - incredibly on-the-nose symbolism for this episode.

I wonder if the prop person for the show came up with multiple options and the Powers cover lost out to the Lehr one. Either way, it's an amazing Easter egg. 

 If you liked this, subscribe to my newsletter - My latest issue covers Black Mirror’s retro sci-fi cover art in more depth. You might also enjoy my art book Worlds Beyond Time, which has a restored version of that exact Dean Ellis Illustrated Man cover in it.

#Black Mirror #Beyond the Sea #retro sci-fi #paperbacks #cover art #70s sci-fi art #newsletter #Worlds Beyond Time #dean ellis #Paul Lehr #Richard Powers

[kafkasapartment]

"We are made of stardust and water, cobbled together from the debris of exploding stars, and yet we dream of permanence." - The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers.

#quotes #excerpts #books #literature #richard powers #life #science #philosophy

[doomedbythenarrator]

coming of age horror films in which the monster and the girl are somehow one

mine // the vvitch (2016) // alexa thorn // joan macleod // hatching / pahanhautoja (2022) // chelsea g summers // ashe vernon // carrie (1976) // amber sparks // venetta octavia // cat people (1942) // richard powers // angela carter // raw (2016) // rebecca harkins-cross

#webweaving #horror #girlhood #poetry #fragments #the vvitch #alexa thorn #joan macleod #pahanhautoja #chelsea g summers #ashe vernon #carrie #amber sparks #venetta octavia #cat people #richard powers #angela carter #raw #rebecca harkins-cross #this is messy and quick bc im trying to clear out some of my docs so sorry about that #also WHY is the quality of the first one so bad oml nothing i tried to make it better worked #mine <3 #webweave #films

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #lit #books #words

[gameraboy2]

Mission to the Stars by A.E. van Vogt Berkley Books F704, 1962 Cover by Richard Powers

#mission to the stars #richard powers #1962 #1960s #vintage #paperback cover #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #art #illustration #painting

[whilereadingandwalking]

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”—Richard Powers, The Overstory

#the overstory #richard powers #bookish love #redwoods #reading and walking #bookworm

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #441

Richard Foster is a pen name of Kendell Foster Crossen

Cover by Richard Powers -- 1959

#1959 #1950s #1950's #wwiii #atom bomb #Richard Powers #cover art #book cover #paperback #vintage paperback #science fiction #scifi #sci fi #ephemera #sci-fi

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Richard Powers #Orfeo #Powers #insecurity #fear #anxiety #economics #society

[sandmandaddy69]

Richard Powers

#richard powers

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.

Richard Powers, Bewilderment

#book quotes #richard powers #bewilderment #literature #books and libraries #books and reading #quotes #life quotes #literary

[quotespile]

She knows she'll never see him again in this or any life to come. Yet she sees him wherever she looks. That's life; the dead keep the living alive.

Richard Powers, The Overstory

#literature #quotes #Richard Powers #The Overstory #quote #books #lit

[70sscifiart]

the cover of an old sci-fi book I found! Enjoy!

Very nice! Looks like the artist is Richard Powers, for a 1964 edition.

#richard powers #asks #day of the triffids