If you haven’t read Charlie Stross’ Singularity Sky then this might not mean much to you (and it means you should go and read it), but I thought it was genius – a Lego interpretation by Gambort of one of the wonderfully old-fashioned starships Charlie describes in the novel. To give you a little context, Singularity Sky sees a solar empire modelled on the old Russian Czarist model trying to respond to an ultra-modern threat in their hideously out-dated manner, on powerful ships with enormous, advanced engines and weapons and yet still run by a navy which seems to think is is 1870, right down to speaker tubes on the bridge. (thanks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid for the link)
(borrowed from the The Brothers Brick site and (c) Gambort)
Wed, Jul 30, 2008
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