Cyberpunk rendition of a Valkyrie by Chinese artist YingJun Gui.
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Creature sketch by EA Criterion Concept Artist Aaron Griffin.
If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughtta go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.
~Q, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Q Who?”
Happy Birthday Robert A. Heinlein, born on this day in 1907 in Butler, Missouri. Fan art tribute by US-based artist E Lynx Lin.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A man with a geode for a face in this intriguing sci-fi art by Finnish artist Orange Savannah.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein
Outstanding Frank Herbert Dune fan art by Canadian artist Simon Goinard.
My lungs taste the air of Time,
Blown past falling sands…
~ Frank Herbert, Dune