A retrofuturism sci-fi art book of glitching timelines, liminal bureaucracy, and paradox-laced hubs.

Book 12 in the Atomic Cities Series
By Keith Elliott

Please declare all unauthorized memories before entering. And if your reflection speaks first—run.

Step across the checkpoint into Interzone—a bureaucratic borderland between timelines, realities, and paperwork you don’t remember submitting.

In the twelfth volume of the acclaimed Atomic Cities series, visual storyteller and artist Keith Elliott presents a richly illustrated retrofuturism book where every page is a portal, every hallway loops, and every form is filled out in at least three dimensions. Combining sci-fi art book aesthetics with dry wit and recursive imagination, Portals & Paradoxes explores the surreal landscape of dimensional travel, memory audits, and reality reboots.

Featuring 25 original artworks crafted with the aid of AI art tools, this AI art book captures dreamlike transit hubs, paradox-checking kiosks, and other mid-century nightmares made from chrome, shadow, and glowing signage.

This is futuristic concept art with a narrative twist—an immersive blend of mid-century sci-fi, absurdist satire, and visual storytelling sci-fi that bends logic with a smile.

You’ll meet Agent Tilda Vey, a poised Reality Clearance Specialist who time-travels professionally (but gets airsick) and helps escort readers through portals that only sometimes exist. If you enjoy speculative fiction art with a side of bureaucracy and a dash of glitch, this is your terminal.

Includes:

• 25 full-color retro-futurist postcard stories
   
• Bureaucratic recursion, elegant paranoia, and chrome
   
• Elevators that skip decades
   
• Luggage that contains slightly too many selves
   
• Coffee that remembers you
   

Perfect for fans of:
Retrofuturism books, mid-century sci-fi, speculative fiction art, and people who’ve ever waited in line and questioned reality.

Welcome to the Interzone.
Please wait in the wrong direction.

ISBN: 979-8284440766

Independently Published