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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spacefantasy.jpg]]
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3	Commissioned by the United States Postal Service and created by Stephen Hickman, this booklet displays [[IdiosyncraticCoverArt a pane of five stamps in a row]], celebrating the ScienceFiction genre.
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5	Released on the 25th of January 1993, it won the 1994 MediaNotes/HugoAward for Best Original Artwork.
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7	!!These stamps provide examples of:
8	* ArtisticLicenseSpace:
9	** The red background is highly unusual, and the presence of planets indicate that this is not a planetary sky. Possibly a nebula, but the presence of planets with atmosphere would indicate against that.
10	** The central white star [[FullMoonSilhouette which provides the background for the humans]] in one of the stamps, has an unusual corona.
11	* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: There's nearly a dozen stellar objects, ranging from maybe rocky planets to gas giants, to a central star, all within the [[IdiosyncraticCoverArt single pane of five stamps]].
12	* FullMoonSilhouette: The central stamp has two humans flying across a blue-white star in the background.
13	* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: The five stamps that make up each of the four pages of this booklet are a single piece of art, designed to have a different central image in each of the five stamps.
14	* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: The central stamp has two humanoids in metallic-silver spacesuits, wearing bubble helmets that give them the appearance of [[RetroRocket snub-nosed rocketships]].
15	* MileLongShip: The ship in the lower background of the centre and centre-right stamps is the largest ship on the entire [[IdiosyncraticCoverArt pane of stamps]]. The red spaceships give a general idea for how large it is.
16	* RetroRocket:
17	** The stamp on the left has three dart-like silver ships, with excessive fins and one or more thrusters.
18	** The humans in the centre stamp are wearing jetpacks and a snub-nosed [[InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace bubble helmet]] that makes them look like their suit is designed for rocketing around in the atmosphere.
19	** The stamp on the right has three red rockets with an oblong shape and three fins. A line of these ships appears, growing smaller and smaller, in each stamp to the left of this one, ending in the centre.
20	* StandardizedSpaceViews: Since its purpose is to celebrate the SciFi genre, most of the stamps display a range of stellar objects. There are artificial satellites, colorful planets, stars, a RetroRocket, and a MileLongShip.

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