Requiem Vampire Knight 8: Back to the Past

**NSFW Art** In the world of Resurrection, anything is possible

We’ve caught up with the future. Many of the dystopias and dreams of science fiction have been made manifest. Its triumphs and nightmares are all around us and there’s a case for thinking there’s nowhere left for them to go, despite Elon Musk’s implausible and scientifically bonkers boasts about missions to colonise Mars. The futuristic Concorde has been and gone. The moon landings have been and gone. Shanghai rivals the cities in Blade Runner. Today’s riot cops often look more sinister than Judge Dredd. Teleportation, time travel and alien invasions have been exhaustively explored. We just may have reached the final frontier of science fiction imagination. I’m sure that is one of the reasons for the popularity of fantasy and, in particular, Gothic fantasy.

To draw inspiration from the past, now that the future lacks the ‘Wow!’ factor. Flying drones delivering Amazon goods doesn’t feel very exciting to most people. Maybe we’ll feel different when accidents occur regularly. The wild imagination of past vehicle designs, notably from the 1950s and ‘60s compares favourably with the drab uniformity of today’s cars, even if the latter are technically superior. In the tank museum in Dorset, I’ve seen fans look with shock and awe at the terrifying Nazi tiger tanks. It’s hard to see how today’s Abrams tanks would ever be viewed with the same excitement. Weighed down with armour, they have a high fuel consumption of just two miles to the gallon. This ‘poses logistical challenges for sustained operations,’ which is something of a defensive understatement.