To: SHADO Marketing Department Harlington Straker Studios Harlington Sir, Following your recent advertisement in the national press I contacted you to order one of the Limited Edition UFO’s. I was a little perturbed at the delivery charges, which seemed rather extortionate, but I have purchased a number of items from your Department in previous years, and have found them to be of high quality, although the fancy dress outfit…
Straker and Foster in ‘Kill Straker!’ Courtesy of UFO series homepage Straker at microphone. Courtesy of UFO series homepage. Straker and Lake in ‘Timelash’. Courtesy of UFO series homepage. Straker in ‘Exposed’. Courtesy of UFO series homepage.
Science fiction and the fascination of space. Endless distances, unexplored, undiscovered, full of dangers, secrets, challenges, fiction and dreams. As a kid and youth I devoured every sci-fi TV series, every sci-fi-movie and nearly every novel, as far as I was allowed to do so. They all enthralled me, and to the day they did not release me. Perry Rhodan, Gozilla and its monsters, The Invaders, Raumpatrouille Orion, Star Trek,…
I like drawing some of the sets used in some of my favorite shows and movies. This is from Stingray with the sub in it’s pen. Though a “puppet show,” the attention to detail was incredible. I took an existing pic I did of Stingray and drew the pen around it. This qualifies as mixed media. I did the art in Corel, but used Photoshop to achieve the ripple effect…
This is SID. SID stands for Space Intruder Detector. It is from the Gerry Anderson series UFO. It detects the invading UFO forces before it reaches Earth. It is not manned, but it is a highly intelligen computer and warning system. It was hard to draw and took days. One of the reasons it is hard to draw is all the pics of this on the internet all vary some,…
The Loneliness of Command by Chris Thompson This image I call “The Loneliness of Command”. While in all the other series the main commander was always treated like a father figure, a grumpy old git with a softer side, Colonel White on the other hand was far more of a “superior”. Deliberately distancing himself from his team, either behind his desk or looking out into the observation desk. Oddly enough…
By: Loopstagirl (author) Gordon let his eyes flicker open, a smile immediately leaping onto his face as he breathed in sharply through his nose, allowing the oxygen to flood his senses and bring him round further. He loved today. Possibly one of his favourite days of the year. It was the one day he could truly be himself, and no one would expect anything less. In fact, they were…
07.10 I was awake long before he realised. I remember the feel of his hand as he tucked the duvet around me, and I hoped for a surreptitious kiss, but… nothing. Like I was a stranger. And then, much later, after he had brought me a coffee, had sat on the very edge of the bed, our bed, as if he was the stranger and not the man I had…
Chapter 1 ‘You have resisted us for the last time. The penalty is death.’ Alone, in a mirrored room, with odd angles of support on the reflecting wall surfaces, Greg listened to the commands in his head, blasted from a green pod from above, clean, machined, chrome cut, razor sharp commands, inside his butchered brain. He stood there. Waiting, he knew this all too well, many times he had been…