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For years, Sms has been asking SF editors to give him stories with spacemen, girls in spacesuits, alien
planets or aliens ... which
are the kind of things he likes drawing. The
editors, on the other hand, have tended to get him to illo ‘Proper
SF’ which is all very nice and flattering but it can be a bit
awkward when your art show consists of pictures of blank faced Finally,
Sms decided he’d just paint a series of something he’d been
doodling and It’s
a happy coincidence that the moons of Uranus are all named, either
after the heroines of Shakespeare’s plays*, or after the (Female)
Sprites of Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock’.
Sms
has a fascination for Uranus (No, please, let’s be serious here
for a second), which has all the plusses of any Solar gas giant, but
is just a little more subtle about it than the others.
It also has a wacky angle of rotation, which is great for
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It
might reassure purists to know that the moons and the relative views
of Uranus / it’s rings/ Albedo’s are fairly accurate. The
spacesuits? They’re completely accurate to C22 tech, which tends
to incorporate a fair number of B&D memes. To
date, 7 Spacegirls have been painted. Belinda.
Rosalind. Desdemona. Ophelia. Portia. Bianca. Juliet. A
superficial glance at the list of Uranus’s moons will show that
there’s a lot more yet to be painted. Sms is leaving Titania ‘til near the last ...
*Well, all aside Oberon. Puck, wonderfully enough is from Pope and is thus a Girlsprite. |
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