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| | Amazon.ca: Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future: Books: Norman Brosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Focusing on the enthusiastic embrace of a particular 20th-century spirit, they form a visual archaeology of industrial and architectural design for the world to come, a historical exploration of the not yet known and the soon to arrive, and a stage for the visionary theater of vintage science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
 | | Sections of the book are devoted to: the future as history, as visualized in illustrations for science fiction stories; and the future as style as depicted in architectural designs, renderings of transportation of all types (especially flying machines and space vehicles) and conceptions of |
 | | and engineers who envisioned the future as if it were already there---making it the perfect gift for science-fiction afficionados, especially those that love illustrations of yesterday's tomorrows, visions that can be---corny, extravagant, misguided, wild, impractical, awesome, quaint or even dead-on accurate. |
| www.amazon.ca /Out-Time-Designs-Twentieth-Century-Future/dp/0810929392 (1202 words) |
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