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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: Alert - there is a Facebook group "Retro Rockets"
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:42:38 -0700
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On 9/23/24 14:19, a425couple wrote:
> Alert - there is a Facebook group "Retro Rockets"
> It is very busy and full of graphics.
>
> Retro Rockets is a group for lovers of old time pulp, comics and film 
> science fiction and nostalgic fans of old time rocket ships, ray guns 
> and such. And for publishing our own “pulp”, Solar Stories. We want to 
> keep this a fun retreat for everybody. This group is a pulp science 
> fiction fan group, mostly the 1940s PLANET STORIES/CAPTAIN FUTURE/Doc 
> Smith/Jack Williamson type and TV series like TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET, 
> but also includes earlier Edgar Rice Burroughs sword-and-planet style 
> romances, and classic 50s-60s writers like Heinlein, Asimov, James 
> White, A Bertram Chandler, Keith Laumer, etc. In the 1940s universe, 
> all nine (including Pluto, Dr Tyson!) planets were inhabited, Earth 
> colonies existed on most of them by 1980, and you could get anywhere 
> in the Solar System by rocket ship in a few days - if not hours. Mars 
> was a red desert world with ancient ruins hiding lost races and 
> superscientific secrets and Venus was mostly ocean with a few 
> prehistoric jungle continents - with dinosaurs! The great writers of 
> that time included Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, CL Moore, and even 
> Ray Bradbury's earliest works.

     Too bad it is on the anti-Social platform.
         bliss

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