See Where Science Fiction Has Been

[beamjockey]

Speaking of the history of science fiction (as we were yesterday, sort of), Paul Rodriguez points out something worth celebrating:

In a spectacularly detailed, and quite erudite, diagram, Ward Shelley maps the history of science fiction as a series of colorful blobs, clouds, brains, blimps, and tentacles.

Mr. Shelley's artwork is an entry in a visualization contest with the rather prosaic title of "Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries."

It is also part of a family of historical drawings he has made over the years. Check out his Web site.

Comments

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It's an ambitious illustration, but it's marred by a number of easily-fixed misspellings ("Barrayer", "To Your Scattered Bodies" [there was easily enough room for the "Go"], "Joe Mcdevitt", and "obervation" are the ones I noticed.)

I'm glad that he did it, but I just wish that he'd paid a little more attention to the details.