January 2nd is National Science Fiction Day! This day honors the science fiction genre and the birthday of famous sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (born January 2, 1920). While we don’t really have anything in the print shop at the Sacramento History Museum that is specifically sci-fi related, we took the approach of printing something that appears a lot in sci-fi works. For today, Howard letterpress printed two electrotypes that depict insects and bugs. These were sent to us a few months ago from one

ISAAC ASIMOV SUR L'AVENIR DU FUTUR 🤖 En 1974, le grand écrivain américain de science-fiction pose cette double question existentielle et prémonitoire : "Est-il préférable pour l'humanité de prendre des décisions qui aboutiront probablement à sa propre destruction ? Où bien doit-elle s'en remettre au contrôle des machines pour son confort et son bonheur, au prix de sa liberté ?" | INA