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contour. And steel.

Against all the alien invaders of the past. Saucermen, body snatchers, she-devils. Shemonsters, space children. Giant evil brains, evil eyes. Monster monoliths, giant claws. But the steel penetrates those bodies. They just bodies here. The astronaut has no body there. Smile of steel. Collapsible driver. But that signature is a virus. Let us leave it off, leave it.

Be that science and silence. As long as all you have are pencils and paper, you can only draw it good.

Floating there in a most peculiar way. See the pride and prowess. There is no corruption. The space is the background. Everything steel contour atop.

Circuits and curves. As long as that technology is better than my drawing technology.

And the space is open. Everything atop is going to change. The sky is the limit. The contact. I need another drawing kit. I need a new one.

1969-72. By now space fiction has disappeared.

The space disappeared. Into fantasies filling the space of my private house. With those holodecks.

Getting me out there. Indoors. All the space is already occupied. Space of braun.

But the drawings got there first. But the space was empty. Those photographs always better than my pencils. Living happily inside my head.

And now they land against solid dirt. Land. And its horizon is now the Earth. And the stars so different today. The limit, the Earth. No name there, anymore.

No steel, but flags. Against that emptiness.

Against the background all the circuits are already dead. There is nothing I can do.

son von braun.

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First edition limited to 250 numbered copies.

10 copies (+ 2 AP) deluxe limited edition of this book, accompanied by a signed and numbered photo by the artist is available from onestar press.

Layout: Mircea Cantor

Mircea wants to thank Ami Barak, Gabriela Vanga, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu.

First page text: Ovidiu Tichindeleanu

Typeface use for the pages: ‘Typedtype’ by Ayse Erkmen text type face: NASALISATION

Printed and bound in France

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