Another icon of my childhood bites the dust. Gerry Anderson, dead at 83

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From the UFO thread:

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Is there a term for this sort of show, where there is such loving attention to the vehicles and technology? “Gadget porn” seems to apply more to real-world electronics than fictional space ships. Or do we not need a term, since Gerry and Sylvia Anderson seem to have the genre to themselves?

Any thoughts to share here? Did anyone else ever construct a science-fiction universe that paid such attention to the minutia of the hardware? (And post hoc fanwanking doesn’t count.)