Keith Elliott is a visual storyteller, illustrator, and indie author based in the Washington, D.C. area. With a background in photography, video production, and digital design, he brings cinematic worldbuilding and dry humor to every page.
He is the creator of the Atomic Cities series — a 15-volume (and counting) collection of retro-futurist, AI-assisted sci-fi art books that explore tomorrow’s cities, jobs, diners, borders, and signal ruins through neon-tinted nostalgia and speculative satire. Each volume is a postcard from a parallel future: chrome dreams, malfunctioning robots, emotionally unstable clones, and terrible jobs no one asked for.
His work blends mid-century design, AI-generated illustration, speculative fiction, and glitch aesthetic into a unique brand of poetic futurism.
Prior to launching Atomic Cities, Keith worked as a filmmaker, small business owner, real estate broker, and e-commerce expert — building an 8,000+ item online store while creating original branded content and visuals.
When he’s not imagining emotionally overworked hologram chefs or building fictional cities with dysfunctional transit systems, he can be found photographing local landscapes, sculpting bonsai trees, or dreaming up the next chrome-glazed mess of the future.
Step into a glowing postcard world of jetpacks, vending shrines, and nostalgic optimism — a love letter to the atomic age and the cities we imagined would save us. Mid-century futurism, now slightly haunted.
The cities grow taller, the gadgets stranger. A vivid continuation full of cosmic diners, gravity-glitching skylines, and bubble-helmet ambition. The future is still bright — but it’s starting to blink.
A neon-toned look at future childhood: school zones on Mars, AI nannies with breakdowns, and backyard portals to who-knows-where. Nostalgia glitches beautifully.
From empathy auditors to space janitors, this volume explores the unglamorous, hilarious grind of tomorrow’s workforce. Punch in. Power up. Try not to question the vending machine.
The bad jobs are back! Neurotic employees, malfunctioning tech, and chrome-covered chaos in the retro-future's least desirable careers. Now with 25% more existential dread.
The lunch rush has gone lunar. From gravity-defying omelettes to ramen-flinging androids, this volume explores the strange kitchens, diners, and cosmic cafés of tomorrow. Taste buds are not ready.
📅 Release Date: June 11, 2025
Step into a chrome-plated dining disaster of the future — where sushi orbits your table, smoothies defy physics, and curries might just bend time itself. Bon appétit, spacetime.
📅 Release Date: June 18, 2025
Retail therapy meets retro-futurism in this collection of shops, stalls, and specialty stores too weird to exist and too delightful to ignore. Transactions may be emotional. Receipts are optional.
📅 Release Date: June 25, 2025
Ancient spirits glitch in chrome as Australian myth meets speculative sci-fi. From biomechanical bunyips to songlines encoded in plasma, this volume rewires folklore into something neon, poetic, and just a little haunted.
📅 Release Date: July 2, 2025
Haunted folklore and corrupted AI collide across 25 illustrated scenes in a ghost-riddled retro-future Britain. This is where ley lines flicker, mirrors don’t match, and the moon may be reading your thoughts.
📅 Release Date: July 9 2025
A haunting, humorous, and visually striking postcard tour through a retro-future Canada where auroras archive memory, politeness is protocol, and machines file your emotions more efficiently than you do.
📅 Release Date: July 16 2025
Timelines loop. Forms duplicate. Identities glitch. This surreal borderland volume captures the Interzone — a bureaucratic dreamstate where everything is regulated, and nothing is truly processed.
📅 Release Date: July 23, 2025
Neon spirits drift through vending rituals and digital shrines. Reflection police patrol back alleys. Dream inspectors work double shifts. Tokyo has never flickered like this.
📅 Release Date: July 30, 2025
Down here, light is a rumor. Gem-tech strata whisper, mole monuments shimmer, and lost cities dream in compressed memory. What lies beneath remembers everything we forgot.
📅 Release Date: August 6, 2025
Coral archives. Whale-song tranquility. Thought blooms as reef. This deep-drift volume descends into bioluminescent serenity where machines don’t speak — they glow.
I’d love to hear it!
Whether it's a place you'd love to see drenched in neon or a weird, overworked character for the next volume, send it my way.
📧 Email your idea directly to:
Keith@AtomicCities.com
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