terraform podcast
@terraformpod
science fiction has hitherto only interpreted the future; the point, however, is to change it. a show about sf, environment & american radicalism by @frimairist
You might like
these guys were nothing if not obsessive chroniclers of each other
in October 1936 this unassuming Fishtown H&R Block was Baltadonis' Frankford Avenue Café and the site of "the epochal First Pan-National SF Convention" where some dudes from New York and Philly met mainly to spur each other into synthesizing Gernsback and Lenin
lol i recorded a test episode and as soon as i got going nell decided it was time to play with the mic
wow, I can’t believe Ursula Le Guin recorded a fourth world cover of Roundball Rock for mallets, cicadas, and a 7-foot long horn called a Houmbúta
slowly making my way through this; it’s wild how much Moskowitz presents himself as remembering and how incredibly petty most of it is, like who could and could not have been present at “Mutation or Death!” because they were drunk 🍹🍹🍹
one of the things that’s super-interesting about this story is that it’s simultaneously proposing a utopia of technique and also really against Hoover-type business technocracy
socialist party of america official, cpusa collaborator, wonder stories editor, and rocketry enthusiast david lasser
and here he is in a newsreel, The March of Time, from 1/1/37: gettyimages.com/detail/video/d…
gettyimages.com
David Lasser leading Workers Alliance parade marching demonstration...
David Lasser leading Workers Alliance parade marching demonstration in New York people carry WPA signs.
within a few years he would be the head of the Socialist Party’s Workers’ Alliance, a union for the unemployed (and, later, WPA workers). here he is (w/o pipe) getting arrested at the White House in 1936, from Washington SPARK flickr.com/photos/washing…
Lasser was the author of THE CONQUEST OF SPACE (the 1931 one, not the 1949 one, that’s Willy Ley)
United States Trends
- 1. Packers 83.5K posts
- 2. Packers 83.5K posts
- 3. #WWERaw 115K posts
- 4. Jordan Love 12.8K posts
- 5. Smitty 5,008 posts
- 6. Jalen 22.2K posts
- 7. Patullo 10.7K posts
- 8. Cavs 9,879 posts
- 9. #GoPackGo 7,399 posts
- 10. AJ Brown 5,513 posts
- 11. Matt LaFleur 6,095 posts
- 12. John Cena 93.7K posts
- 13. Devonta Smith 5,004 posts
- 14. Green Bay 17.1K posts
- 15. Wiggins 10.3K posts
- 16. Pistons 14.5K posts
- 17. Bo Melton N/A
- 18. #MondayNightFootball 1,855 posts
- 19. Donovan Mitchell 2,705 posts
- 20. Lane Johnson 1,876 posts
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.