This is my favorite starmap ever. As a devoted science fiction enthusiast, I love starmaps, but accuracy is always a problem. Winchell Chung has delved way deep into the subject on his Project Rho website, and the result is a number of nice starmaps, of which several have been made into CafePress posters. This one is my favorite.


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As time goes by, there's a bigger and bigger impetus by fans to mashup the various pop-culture properties they remember from decades past. In previous decades, this was just a rare creative bit -- like Bob Newhart making references to previous series he did in whichever show he was making at the time. With the easy availability of decent video- ( Read more... )

I love this one. I've often wondered what the world would look like in one of the novels mentioned in this article.

http://io9.com/5361050/a-map-of-your-future-mega+cities-and-megalopolises

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