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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. 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
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It might
reassure purists to know that the moons and the relative views of
Uranus / it’s rings/ Albedos are fairly accurate. The spacesuits are
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.
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