Many years ago I wrote and co-directed up in Palo Alto a hopeful video game startup called THE MAREXX (the name The Matrix having just been taken by some little sf film or other). I brought in artists David Mattingly and Barclay Shaw to do the main artwork. We were doing motion capture when no one else was trying it…

Find the tiger....

With anything even remotely reptilian, always go for the tail meat. Crocs, gators, iguanas...always the tail.

Wanted to make the turkey the national bird. Bad idea.

If Home Depot is smart, they'll do a commercial around this. If Home Depot is honest, they'll credit and pay kaisermachead.

Sarah; here's one from Gabon for you. Loango N.P., Tassi camp.

Leaving "Blacksad: A Silent Hell" off the list invalidates the list.

Haast's eagle: recently extinct native of New Zealand. 30-40 pounds of raptor attacking at 45-50 mph. Fed on 300 lb. moas. Take a toddler easily.

All three books in the Tipping Point trilogy (which focuses on transhumanism) used variations of this image. Wonder if they preceded the illustration for this article?

Thank you for this...absolutely freakin' amazing. A bunch of old guys open their mouths and instantly a hundred and fifty years drops away.

Excellent pic, funny as hell, and Joan Greenwood was to die for. The screenwriter, Roger MacDougall, spoke at one of my graduate writing glasses at UCLA, and was as dry and amusing as his script. He was far more interested in the economic consequences of his fictional invention than in the sf aspects of it, however.

1) Not a canoe. Looks like a small catamaran and they're in the starboard hull. Even though dad's standing and moving, they're not rocking...calm sea and stable cat.

THINGS TO COME...H.G. Wells only screenplay. Maybe it didn't/doesn't affect your life...but ask your grandparents about it.

Nothing beats the Harry Clarke illos.

Where's Blacksad?

The Bell Laboratory Science series, the first four of which were written and produced by none other than Frank Capra.

Millipedes are cute and harmless no matter how many legs they flaunt. On the side of my left hand, here's an example of what you can find in the Amazon (specifically, Yasuni National Park in Ecuador).

No Childhood's End. No Stapeldon (Odd John, Last and First Men).

Tiger has 2000 good days and one bad day.

Jack Vance: Big Planet