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Edward Dmytryk's Cold War Hitchcockian thriller MIRAGE opened in New York on May 26, 1965. Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker and Walter Matthau. Beware of the Mirage (men).



An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major. Gregory Peck was so happy with the quality of the film, that he gave screenwriter Peter Stone a Rolls-Royce as a post-production gift after the movie came out.



This film, was released on September 23, 1965 in the UK, and it begins with a blackout in New York City. 48 days later, most of New York City, and large swaths of the Northeast including parts of Canada were actually plunged into darkness for 13 hours, beginning at 5:16 pm ET, on November 9, 1965.



This image & caption is featured in the 1989 book Checkerboard Press Computers and Electronics (Encyclopedia Series).

Space colonies are now being considered seriously by some people. The one in the picture [above] is controlled throughout by a big central computer. The colony is positioned 240,000 miles (350,000km) from Earth and about the same distance from the Moon. It consists of a great tube 430 feet (130m) across. This tube forms a ring over a mile in diameter. The tube houses the main living and agricultural areas and can support up to 10,000 people. The big wheel rotates once a minute. This makes an artificial gravity on the surface of the tube away from the center. "Up" is towards the hub and "down" is away from it.

Sunlight is reflected from huge mirrors that can be adjusted to give as much or as little sunlight as required in different parts of the tube. The sunlight also gives the energy to drive the generators which produce the colony's electricity.

Long "spokes" attach the tube to a central hub. At the hub there are docking ports for spaceships and vast antenna arrays for all the colony's communications with Earth.

Any particular movie come to mind?


Romulan invasion! For "Enterprise Incidents" magazine (1979), by artist Ralph Fowler.

Enterprise Incidents is a gen Star Trek: TOS fanzine. It was a joint production of The Science Fiction Comic Association and the Star Trek Federation of Fans. "Enterprise Incidents" mostly contains interviews, articles and clippings.

A bit of an odd duck, this zine straddled the line between semi-pro and fan-created content. Starting in issue #6, it printed fan fiction and fan art, but it is unclear how long this continued, perhaps only until issue #10.

When James Van Hise began adding non-Star Trek articles before changing the title completely and becoming this slick magazine, the zine was called Enterprise.

"Enterprise Incidents" ran for at least 33 issues. From issue #25, the cover banner incorporates a subtitle, "SF Movieland", and this new name begins to grow in size over the next few issues, to help the magazine compete with "Starlog" in the newsstands and comic shops. There also exist Special Collectors Issues that reprint early original issues, sometimes two old zines in one new, that had been long out-of-print.

Some of the artwork by Ralph Fowler can be found here.

It had a short-lived sister zine, a cookbook called, The Alien Cook.

Enterprise Incidents (US Star Trek: TOS zine)

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