Wonder Stories July 1932: Frank R. Paul's Future City New York to Sydney
Pure utopian wonder radiates from this gleaming vision of tomorrow — a vast, multilevel futurist metropolis stretches to the horizon under a brilliant sky, dominated by a towering cylindrical skyscraper ringed with luminous disc-shaped floors. A sleek red transatlantic rocket ship labeled 'New York to Sydney' looms in the foreground, while elevated transit tubes and red aircraft weave through a city of breathtaking ambition. This is Golden Age optimism at full throttle, channeling Hugo Gernsback's gospel of technological salvation.
The colossal ringed cylindrical skyscraper defies all engineering logic, its glowing horizontal discs stacked like a luminous space station planted in the middle of a city grid. Only Hugo Gernsback's universe could make this seem inevitable.
“THE BEST IN SCIENCE FICTION WONDER Stories Hugo Gernsback Editor July The Gernsback Club 25¢ NEW YORK TO SYDNEY "VOICE OF ATLANTIS" by Laurence Manning”
