Front Stage Exit

Front Stage Exit

The day the Earth understood

Man and machine and world peace

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Brady Dale
Mar 17, 2026
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Adapted from the cover of Air Wonder Stories #5 (1929)

You hardly ever see a movie with a giant robot fighting a gorilla.

When you come across a scene like that in an old sci-fi story, you can imagine how it might have caught on and become a trope. It might have been like the action star turning his back before the explosion.

It could have been a whole thi…

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