A children's book from 1954. Note classic "Grey"-type bodies and heads in aliens, Amanita color scheme
Robot's "brain" is mushroom-shaped
"Frank went on to tell me that much of the premise of Dune–the magic spice (spores) that allowed the bending of space (tripping), the giant worms (maggots digesting mushrooms), the eyes of the Fremen (the cerulean blue of the Psilocybe mushroom), the mysticism of the female spiritual warriors, the Bene Gesserits (influenced by tales of Maria Sabina and the sacred mushroom cults of Mexico)—came from his perception of the fungal life cycle, and his imagination was stimulated through the experience with the use of the magic mushroom."
Robert McCall, official concept artist for NASA
Cloud City, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Eye of Horus from Doctor Who,
in Amanita red and white
The Alien Revelation
PKD's final novel had a disgraced bishop search for
Zadokite mushrooms in Judean desert;
Amanita red and white again
Mothership from Cocoon,
about to emit Heavenly Beam from its center
Uniform design for Starfleet space stations,
from Star Trek:The Next Generation
ST's Starbase's modeled on "Technogea"
from Jodorowsky and Moebius' The Incal?
Star Wars:The Force Unleashed -
The mushroom forest level
The X-Files, also no stranger to
more explicit psychedelic mushroom stories...
...or implicit ones...
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