![]() You can contribute through PayPal, Patreon, Venmo and Crypto. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your contributions will help us continue providing the best free cultural and educational materials to learners everywhere. If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newsletter, please find it here. Oppenheimer: The Decision to Drop the Bomb will be added to our list of Free Documentaries, a subset of our collection: 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & More. Thank you NBC archives.” You can watch it above… History brought to life by the very people that were involved. As one YouTube commenter put it, “This is something everyone should see. It also features a coda by presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Released on NBC News’ official YouTube channel, the film captures their reflections two decades after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Robert Oppenheimer and other architects of the first atomic bomb. If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s new Oppenheimer film, you may want to turn your attention to another film, the 1965 documentary called Oppenheimer: The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Follow him on Twitter at a rshall or on Facebook. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. ![]() The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 Entries on All Things Sci-Fi Are Now Free Onlineīased in Seoul, Colin M a rshall writes and broadcas ts on cities, language, and culture. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Animation Concepts ![]() The Dune Encyclopedia: The Controversial, Definitive Guide to the World of Frank Herbert’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece (1984) Dick Novels from Around the World: Greece, Japan, Poland & Beyond Novelist Michael Chabon Sang in a Punk Band During the ’80s: Newly Released Audio Gives ProofĦ00+ Covers of Philip K. The Art of Sci-Fi Book Covers: From the Fantastical 1920s to the Psychedelic 1960s & Beyond Like many readers, I put this sort of thing aside after a few years, but Chabon has proven infinitely more dedicated: half a century after his days haunting Page One, his mission to “drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it,” as critic Ruth Franklin once described it, continues apace. For me, few images from these genres of that era could trigger reading memories as rich as those Ballantine covers of The Sheep Look Up, The Shockwave Rider, and Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, a British specialist in social and environmental catastrophe. My own sci-fi-and-fantasy period occurred in the late nineties, by which time these very same mass-market paperbacks from the seventies were turning up in quantity at used bookstores. “So instead of experiencing the movie as it should have been - as campy movie fun - I experienced it as an adaptation of a literary work.”ĭespite being a couple of decades younger, I, too, remember these covers vividly. I collected and cherished these, and the Tarzan series.” Bolling also highlights the adaptations Chabon includes on these re-imagined shelves: there’s “the James Blish Star Trek series, just as I remember it,” and also the novelization of Star Wars, which he read before the opening of the film itself. ![]() “Just look at those beautiful John Carter of Mars covers. “I’m the same age as Chabon, and I was also a bookstore rat, staring at these exact same covers and agonizing over which one I’d lay down my $1.25 for,” writes Ruben Bolling at Boing Boing. Downloadable here in “small” (96 MB), “large” (283 MB) and “very large” (950 MB) formats, the lavish image functions as what Chabon calls a “time telescope,” offering “a look back at the visuals that embodied and accompanied my early aspirations as a writer, and at the mass-market splendor of paperback sf and fantasy in those days.” Or at least it did if Chabon’s digital re-creation “ The Shelves of Time” is anything to go by.
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