Art and shiny things…
When they finally come, the others, the bright ones, they will find only rubble and ash. For where humanity once was, where earth once was, blinked out like a light in an increasing darkness; in ignorance and in fear we destroyed ourselves, until there was nothing left, only legions of space wrapped around the remnants of a fallen race. 
Far Out is a robot western graphic novel by Montreal-based author Gautier Langevin and designer Olivier Carpentier. You can read it online, and here’s an interview with Langevin that’s a good overview of the inspiration and concept. My favorite bit: “Machines are becoming more and more human, human more and more machine, and as of culture, what else it is but a very powerful technology helping mankind to thrive throughout the tragic wheel of time?” 
A Star Wars X-Wing fighter and a steampunk city – more stellar work from Benjamin Carre
X-Wing
Steampunk City
Brilliant illustrator Nick Foreman re-imagines city landscapes as they might be in the future.
Metropolis – a futuristic Paris
Shipment
Ruins
Benjamin Carré is a French illustrator and designer who graduated from the FASE and has a double career as a cartoonist (Vampires in Carabas and Smoke City at Delcourt) and concept designer for Darkworks video games. His illustrations, broody, magnificent snapshots of sci, steampunk, and fantasy worlds, make me swoon. 
Coffee and Irony 