a few thousand science fiction covers

October 18, 2005 4:00 PM

a few thousand science fiction coversis a flash presentation of thousands of SF magazine covers from the fifties through today, arranged chronologically from left to right, and grouped by color from top to bottom.
posted by jonson (12 comments total)

I love s.f. covers! But as for
.... an experimental interface
Keep experimenting.
posted by uni verse at 4:03 PM on October 18, 2005

I should correct my post - the earliest covers I've found are from the 30s, not the 50s.
posted by jonson at 4:09 PM on October 18, 2005

Wow, I own quite a few of these.
posted by interrobang at 4:43 PM on October 18, 2005

Wow, Nick Jainschigg is in there a lot! He's an awesome guy, and I wouldn't be surprised if he reads Metafilter. Nick's website links to languagehat's -- meta oddness.

I love science fiction & science fiction illustrations. As an interface this isn't that great, but it's fun to just look at random pictures.
posted by Marit at 5:43 PM on October 18, 2005

uni verse writes 'Keep experimenting.'

I heartily disagree. How else would you have put so many covers in some semblance of order in such as a small space?

Kick ass. IMO.
posted by signal at 6:10 PM on October 18, 2005

if this were comic books that would be what the floor of my bedroom looked like as a kid.

awesome.
posted by shmegegge at 7:44 PM on October 18, 2005

Holy crap I wish this were comic books.
posted by jonson at 7:54 PM on October 18, 2005

I liked this link better when it was posted earlier today.
posted by jjg at 8:24 PM on October 18, 2005

Can't help but think there's some "magic eye" image hidden in there, but my eyeballs are already in pain. Anyone else want to give it a go?
posted by sambosambo at 10:10 PM on October 18, 2005

d'oh! didn't see that, jgg, my bad.
posted by jonson at 10:21 PM on October 18, 2005

Or jjg, even.
posted by jonson at 10:21 PM on October 18, 2005

Yeah, Nick's a great guy (and my site links to his as well—check the "Visual pleasures" part of the blogroll).

I liked this link better when it was posted earlier today.

What pointless snark. It's not a double post if it was originally linked in a comment; in fact, people are frequently urged to make front-page posts of great links originally hidden away in comments. No need to apologize, jonson. You did good.
posted by languagehat at 6:17 AM on October 19, 2005