Failure to launch : a tour of ill-fated futures
Title:
Failure to launch : a tour of ill-fated futures
Author:
McDonald, Kel, editor.
ISBN:
9781638991236
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Contents:
Bagels in Space / Birth by Blonsky / CGIdol / Dead Calls / Dead Eyed / Death of a PC Repair Shop / Hemispheres / Indestructible Bicycle / Lead Balloon / Little Islands / Lost Dogs / Magic City, All of Fire / Milking It / Ninit'i or The End / One Man's Beast, Another Man's Bacon / The Panopticon / Pneumatic Tube to Nowhere / Poma / Rats / When Do We Get Our Star Trek Future / The Digesting Duck / The First Union / The First Wind-Power Revolution / The Paradise Within Reach of All Men / The Pasilalinic Sympathetic Compass / The Rain-Making Machine / The Second Extinction of the Pyrenean Ibex / The World Turns / To Be Believed to Be Seen / What Happens at Midnight? / Zigurats
Abstract:
A collection of short comics relating some of history's most notable failures, mistakes, botched inventions, and unfulfilled dreams.--Publisher.
"History is often written by the winners... but now, the award-winning independent publisher Iron Circus is jumping through the cracks in history to spotlight those who didn't let failure stop their dreams. FAILURE TO LAUNCH: A TOUR OF ILL-FATED FUTURES is a light-hearted, educational tour of (so far!) unrealized technological and societal advances promised in years past, but which never came to be. FAILURE TO LAUNCH tells the tales of what could have been, but wasn't: planned utopias in space, wild inventions, attempts to improve society, robot pets, and predictions of Armageddon. With over 300 pages of full color comics, this collection of disasters explores a wide variety of hopes and dreams falling to pieces." -- Provided by publisher.
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