The first truly wild-technique guitarist out of England, Jeff Beck in The Yardbirds, was seen on that there Shindig show playing (for the time) psycho-futuristic lead guitar on a Fender Esquire, that being a budget version of Fender's famous Telecaster (think Broooooce).
The final instalment of Gareth L Powell's barnstorming, award-winning monkeypunk trilogy Macaque Attack (Solaris, £7.99) sees Ack-Ack Macaque – a feisty nihilist monkey uplifted to intelligence thanks to futuristic gelware – lead the crew of the airship Sun Wukong in a battle to save the Earth from a horde of invading cyborgs.
Cover drew at least some of his inspiration for the device from a science-fiction series about a young boy named Tom Swift, whose futuristic inventions led him on grand adventures.
Innovation, as well as quality, has always been high on the Royal Court's agenda, so it's reassuring to know that among the events looking back over the venue's illustrious history is a series of rather more futuristic evenings led by Ken Campbell.
In the middle of it all a chimney, like a futuristic black tube, leads from the ceiling to a hanging fireplace.
Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange tells the story of a gang of futuristic thugs (droogs) led by Malcolm McDowell's amoral, Beethoven-loving chieftain.
It is a radical, almost futuristic inclination that led enslaved African women, miles from the Motherland, to create a Sisterhood whose main endeavor was is to ensure that Black people could live lives with some semblance of dignity, while wholly aware of how this mission would be affected by the complicated dynamics of gender and its relationship to violence.
Such prospects justifiably make environmental microbiology a very dynamic and futuristic field that leads the way for improved understanding and stewardship of Earth's predominant, unicellular biota.
Entering the futuristic and ancestral buildings that lead away from the under-construction Granary Square, the pathway to the new artistic paradise is called the Street.
I began the new and completely different process of auditioning for pilots and landed the lead in a futuristic family drama for CBS that was shot in England which set me off into the world primetime.
It is entirely possible that other factors, such as increased confidence or alertness, given the presence of a futuristic gizmo on subjects' heads, led to the apparent brain gains.
