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Behold the "sci fi tarot"

a deck in which each card is done in the style of a golden-age pulp sci-fi novel

the ingenious creation of the designer Todd Alcott, who sells 'em online

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Six images of the sci-fi tarot cards. Each one looks like a pulp sci-fi novel from the 1940s and 1950s. The first one is "10 of cups", and shows a 1950s-style family riding along in their yellow flying saucer. The next is "the king of wands" and it shows grim cartoon of a black and white man in a cape, holding a glowing green wand, set against a red background with, far in the background, a dark castle on a hill. The next is "nine of swords", showing a woman with a Marilyn Monroe style appearance -- dressed in a short blue skirt, blue leggings and white boots, holding a blue space pistol aloft, as she turns her head around to look at the viewer, with an expression of surprise; behind her three glowing red banks of computers. The next is "the chariot", and it shows a man piloting a three legged UFO across a rocky green surface. The next is "death", and it shows a gray cartoon of a family, dressed in 1950s clothing, walking away from us and towards a line of people that recede into the distance towards the base of a spacecraft that is pointed towards the sky; everyone is apparently getting into the spacecraft, and in the sky above is a ringed planet. The final one is "four of wands", and it shows a cartoon of a glowing red flying saucer that has landed on the ground, from several aliens -- each one has a large eye occupying their entire torso -- are emerging and waving at a crowd of similar aliens who gathered around to greet them.

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Eli the Bearded
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Eli the Bearded
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Last time I saw that flying saucer it didn't have the man reading a newspaper.
Black and white illustration of a woman flying groceries home in a Jetsons-esque flying car. This is above a block of text that advertises the future of electric power. There is a girl and a dog in the backseat and the groceries are on the seat beside the pilot. Below the "flying carpet" (as the image caption calls it) is a ranch house surrounded by grass. A man is in front of the house looking up and holding on to what might be the handle of a lawnmower. There's a child beside him and a similar car in the driveway behind him. The whole image projects an impression of 1950s futurism.
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Clive Thompson
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@elithebearded

just magnificent that the way you'd steer a UFO -- moving on XYZ dimensions -- is with a rotary steering wheel

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llewelly
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llewelly
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@elithebearded
naw, it's super intuitive. You use the right foot pedal to change between the X, Y, and Z axis, and the steering wheel to rotate around the current axis.
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Earthling
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Earthling
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@elithebearded I wonder what year they were imagining this to be. With all the changes they imagined, moving beyond June Cleaver gender roles wasn’t one of them.
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