Todd Alcott's Sci-Fi Tarot

Todd Alcott's Sci-Fi Tarot pulls from seven decades of science fiction visual culture, drawing on the wonderfully optimistic and often lurid imagery of vintage pulp illustrations, paperback covers, and movie posters. The deck features astronauts, aliens, robots, and the kinds of creatures that haunted the covers of mid-century science fiction magazines, all reimagined as tarot figures within the traditional Major and Minor Arcana structure.

The appeal here is the collision between two distinct symbolic systems. The retro-futurist aesthetic carries its own mythology, one built around exploration, fear of the unknown, and utopian possibility, and those themes map onto tarot in ways that produce genuinely interesting readings. The accompanying instruction book guides readers through both the Major Arcana and all four Minor Arcana suits.