Beautiful blown glass retro rocketships

Artist Rik Allen makes beautiful blown-glass and metal sculptures of retro rocketships, with so much personality and detail. And tiny chairs. Every one of these evinces a ZOMG WANT reaction from me.

Blown Glass Rockets, SCFI & Mixed Media Sculpture of Rik Allen (via Super Punch)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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millie fink

Gorgeous and tempting stuff indeed. But only for toddler-free homes!

I wonder what they cost?
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  Toddlers don’t stay toddlers for long. High shelf in the meantime….and Diogenes you are CORRECT. That IS exactly how they should look.
  - Diogenes
    
    If the Krell ever build ships, this is how they’ll look. In the meantime, I’ll have to buy mine from the Puppeteers.
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krell
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers
- Ipo
  
  Toddler free-homes are much cheaper in the long run.
  - Conan Librarian
    
    “Toddler free-homes are much cheaper in the long run”
    
    I don’t know, Prozac and Xanax don’t come cheap
Diogenes

The first one, with the chair on the empty deck, with a giant view of the universe, is exactly how a cool rocket ship should look. Exactly.
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  - Diogenes
    
    But in the retro-future where these ship fly, they have reactionless drives that warp space so the star voyagers would feel no acceleration. That’s the retro-future I’m waiting for.
  - Diogenes
    
    Just noticed that you can follow the link to more shots of the ships. I thought it was an escalator too, but it’s stairs. Page 3
Jeff Grygny

When do we get spaceships that look like this? (I’m still waiting for the electric car I can actually afford, too.)
McMe

Beautiful! Remind me of the series from Joe Blow Glassworks in Vancouver :
http://io9.com/joe-blow-glassworks/