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Preferably books but anything will do.
Star Wars
Retrofuturism as others have said, but probably more specifically cassette-futurism
I'm about halfway through We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was originally published in the 1920s, and has a lot of the hallmarks of sci-fi of the era: everything's made of glass, everyone has access to personal helicopters, Government scientists can do imagination-ectomy procedures on subjects to keep them in line, everyone has a number instead of a name. It's very "in the year 1999" kinda vibe. I like it. Also a pretty snappy read, I'm not struggling to get through it like some other so-called masterpieces (one day I'll make it through Gravity's Rainbow... maybe)
Judge Dredd graphic novels.
Similar cities and tech. Tongue-in-cheek for a lot of the older stories.
Mega-cities, block-war, sky surfers, Hover Wagons, robots, and knee pads.
Badly cropped?
There is letterboxing then there is OPs image.
“We now return to Lawrence of Arabia presented in its original Ultra Cinemascope letterbox format.”
Need to get that 100:9 screen to see what is going on.
You don't already have one? Pleeb
Na. I'm not compensating for anything.
I laughed a good bit at this one! Lol!!
Almost space-faring atom-punk, but designs and art look a bit too modern.
I always think of this sort of setting as "Amazon takes over the earth and starts an interplanetary trading empire," do we have a term for that? Corpo anti-punk?
Reminds me of:
If you haven't read any Asimov books you should give them a shot (:
:D Reminded me that there's a huge collection of them st my local library, i might go and get some
Stephen Baxter has a ton of hard sci fi books with a similar aesthetic, expansive stories, and interesting philosophy
Second this!
I would heavily recommend the Culture series books by Iain M. Banks. They have a lot of advanced technology. Their societies are largely ship and space station based rather than on-the-ground cities but there is a huge variance across the series.
I would also recommend basically anything by Alistair Reynolds, but primarily the books in the Revelation Space series. Banks is probably a bit more accessible of an author but Reynolds is fantastic if you give him a chance. House of Suns is a good standalone novel outside the rev space series if you want a starting point.
Edit: also basically anything by Peter F. Hamilton. Fairly similar to Reynolds in scope but with quite a bit of raunchy stuff, whether that's a positive or a negative is your preference lol. Pandora's Star is where I'd recommend starting for him.
Check out the legendary artist Syd Mead who pioneered this style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Mead
IDK, what was included in the prompt that generated it?
If I had to hazard a guess, a futuristic city based on cover art for '70s science fiction novels, several of which are on my shelf.
“Retro futurism” is the vibe you’re looking for. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut is a good one.
I wouldn't really call it "Retro", more "Industrial".
Stewart Cowley did an art book of stuff like this back in the day... let's see here...
"Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD" published in 1978.
https://archive.org/details/spacecraft2000to0000cowl/mode/1up
I call it "slop"
I don't know if it has a name but my association is semi pulpy sci-fi books from the seventies and eighties.
I questioned the other suggests that it was retrofuturism, as I had a different picture of what that meant, but apparently that is a very broad category that it seems most futuristic fiction seems to fall in if it has anything we think of in the picture, like flying vehicles or modernistic buildings. Everything from cyberpunk (both positive and dystopian) to steampunk to dieselpunk fall under the name. So I would maybe further narrow this to cyberpunk, aka Bladerunner/The Expanse type? Hard to say the environmental/social feel from just this picture.
The expanse is great.
Retrofuturism?
