Looking Over the Next Hill

With Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” premier about a month away, I’ve found myself thinking more about exploration-themed SF. For me that’s always been the primary appeal of the genre and why shows like the original Star Trek got their hooks into me. The challenges of managing an alien first contact or confronting an ancient alien mystery have always been high octane fuel for my imagination.  

Unfortunately it’s been a dying brand of SF in recent years, at least on the media scene. Just look at the Star Trek movie franchise and how many of the recent works have essentially been “the Enterprise crew vs. a future super villain”.

 

Anyway, I’ve probably beat a hole in that drum by now, but I though it might be fun tempt you all into a group effort: to seek out strange new worlds! What images by Deviant Art members best evoke a sense of exploration and/or scifi mystery to you? If you want to play, share you choices in the comment section!

 

Of course if I’m going to thrown down the gauntlet, it’s only right that I kick it off with some of my own picks:

 

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So what ya got? What DA images send your brain into “alien exploration overdrive”?