Chesley Bonestell - Popular Culture References

Popular Culture References

  • Robert A. Heinlein made Bonestell's name into a verb first in his 1958 Juvenile Have Space Suit — Will Travel, then in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land: "Opener: zoom in on Mars, using stock or bonestelled shots, unbroken sequence, then dissolving to miniature matched set of actual landing place of Envoy"
  • In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Tapestry", a young Captain Picard is involved in a fight with aliens at the Bonestell Recreation Facility, a spaceport named after the artist.

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