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Back to the future

By Marcus Chown

19 July 2003

Where’s my space age? by Sean Topham, Prestel, £22.95, ISBN 3791328441 Reviewed by Marcus Chown

SEAN Topham’s book could have been titled “That was the future that was”. From the Martians of TV mashed potato ads to ultrasound baths to “tri-beam” cosmic-ray guns, this is the way we saw the future at the dawn of the space age. Savour this glossy nostalgia and mourn the psychedelic reality that might have been.

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