“The Lost World” (1992). It’s not hard to figure out why we’re not still talking about this one: when it comes to dinosaur movies, Jurassic Park came out a few months later, and it feels like it’s on the wrong side of a truly seismic shift where dinosaur movie fans started to demand more. 

John Rhys-Davies plays Professor Challenger, easily Arthur Conan Doyle’s second most memorable character, a deep voiced, irascible, contentious, fearless visionary who is almost like a Brit Teddy Roosevelt, a great scientist but who believes in the full-contact version of science, resolving scientific arguments with an angry armwrestling contest. John Rhys Davies was born to be Professor Challenger, just like he was born to be Gimli and born to be Holly in a film production of She. John Rhys Davies was also the most absolutely buyable voice of the Marvel hero Mighty Thor ever, during the Fantastic Four cartoon. 

Communism from Juterbog Abandoned Military base. 

Punk Or What [1977; @King’s Road, London | ©DerekRidgers]

The Lost World - Small Wonder record store, 162 Hoe Street East London | early ‘80

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The Lost World - Rough Trade Shop, 202 Kensington Park Road, London | 1978

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Darrell K. Sweet.

You might be wondering why it seems so many 60s-70s paperbacks had yellow backgrounds. This is because, in defiance of logic, it was widely believed in the publishing world that books with yellow covers sold better. However, whenever a publisher mixed it up and made a red or blue cover, that book sold stratospherically well. Why? All the yellow covers were background that made them stand out and pop. 

Venturing into the Lost World with nothing but a staff? Good thing he’s got an escape lined up – he needs it.

Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution – human telepathy.

Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. The only problem is that one of them has to stay behind, and that one will grow old while the other explores the depths of space. Always a master of insight into the human consequences of future technologies, this is one of Heinlein’s triumphs.

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Eggman saving Sonic (Sonic Lost World).