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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6h

Miles J Breuer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/breuer... died on this day (3rd), so here's some magazine interior art for his stories 1931-1942 (Artist: Leo Morey, HW Wesso, Leo Morey and Jay Jackson). 1st for "On Board the Martian Liner"; 3rd for "The Strength of the Weak":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 8h

Keikaku Itō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ito_ke... - also known as Project Itoh - and AM Lightner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lightn... were born on this day, so here’s some related cover art (Artist: [couldn’t identify], [couldn’t identify], Gene Szafran and Karl Stephan):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 10h

Joe Gibson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gibson... and Noëlle Roger sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/roger_... died, whilst Rachel Wyatt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wyatt_... was born on this day (Artist: 1 Walter Popp, 2 Peter Poulton, 3&4 [couldn’t identify]). 2nd is for Gibson’s “Three Worlds in Shadow”:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 13h

Nicholas Fisk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fisk_n... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Dexter Brown, Barry Wilkinson, Ken Reilly and Alun Hood):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 16h

Genrikh Altov sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/altov_... and Bill Baldwin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/baldwi... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Barbu Teodorescu, Regine Grube-Heinecke, John Berkey and Chris Moore):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Joseph Samachson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/samach... aka William Morrison, was born on this day (13th): so here's some interior magazine art for his 1953-1958 stories (Artist: 1 J Dreany, 2&3 Ed Emshwiller, 4 Diane & Leo Dillon). 1st for 'Task of Kayin'; 2nd 'Dead Man's Planet'; 3rd 'Picture Bride':

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Barrington J. Bayley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bayley... died on this day, so here are some book covers and an interior illustration from New Worlds Quarterly (Artist: John Harris, John Schoenherr, Chris Foss and Brian Vickers):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php with Sarah K Ellis, Terry A Garey, Henry Kaiser and Robert J Szmidt; films 'Tears in the Rain' (2017); '2073' (2024) and 'The Shining Future' (1944); tv series 'Fallout' and the US comic 'Dynamo' (1966/67).

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Gallagher sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gallag... was born and P Schuyler Miller sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miller... died on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: Edward Miller, Karel Thole, Hannes Bok and Johnny Bruck):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Author Deborah Abela sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/abela_... author Janice Elliott sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/elliot... and artist/author Robert Ingpen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ingpen... were born on this day, so some related artwork (Artist: Zdenko Bašić, Grahame Baker, Robert Ingpen & Robert Ingpen):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Dye sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dye_ch... was born and Frank Bryning sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brynin... died on this day; here's some interior magazine art (Artist: [uncredited], HW Kiemle, Gerard Quinn and Eddie Jones). 1-3 Dye, 1st for "Because of the Stars"; 4 Bryning, for "The Visitors":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Dean Ellis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ellis_... died on this day, so here's some of his 1973/1974 cover art.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Satoshi Kon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kon_sa... was born and Arkady Strugatski sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/struga... died on this day: some related artwork (Kon?, Kon, Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme & Lasth). 1 apparently a pamphlet for Kon's "Paprika"; 2 from Kon's Opus; 3&4 co-written with brother Boris:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Barclay Shaw sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shaw_b... and author Thomas Burnett Swann sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swann_... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Shaw, Shaw, 萩尾望都 and Brian Froud). 1st for Isaac Asimov's "The Martian Way ... and Other Stories":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Storm Constantine sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/consta... Cynthia Felice sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/felice... Jonathan Green sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/green_... and Usman T Malik sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/malik_... were born on this day (Artist: Doug Beekman, Cortney Skinner, Pye Parr and Victo Ngai):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Artist and author Albert Robida died on this day, so here are some of his illustrations (from the first 60 pages or so) to his "Le Vingtième Siècle" (originally published 1882):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

GC Edmondson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/edmond... died and Doris Piserchia sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/piserc... was born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Richard Powers, Attila Hejja, Serge Clerc and Frank Kelly Freas):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Artist Jim Woodring sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/woodri... was born on this day, so here's some of his work.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Eleanor Cameron sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/camero... and Ruthven Todd sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/todd_r... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], Robert Henneberger, Bip Pares and Paul Galdone). 2nd from "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

TE Dikty sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dikty_... died on this day, so here are the covers to some of the books he edited (Artist: 3rd by C Stewart, couldn't identify other artists):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Ralph Milne Farley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/farley... died on this day (10th), so some interior magazine artwork 1926-1939 (Artist: Frank R Paul, M Marchioni, Julian S Krupa and HR Hammond). 1 a 1939 reprint of a 1926 story (with new artwork); 3 as by 'John Pease'; 4 for "The Hidden Universe":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Walter Popp sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/popp_w... died on this day, so here's two examples of his cover art, plus two other pieces, the first from 'True Adventures' (1960), the 2nd (I admit, probably not genre) from 'OK-For Men' (1959):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Author and artist Rumiko Takahashi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/takaha... was born on this day, so here's some of her work:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Michael Cobley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cobley... and Vladimir A Obruchev sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/obruch... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Steve Stone, Steve Stone, Yuri Bogachev and [couldn't identify]). 3rd an illustration for Obruchev's "Plutonia":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

EL Arch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arch_e_l (aka Rachel Payes) died and JD Robb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robb_j_d (aka Nora Roberts) was born on this day, so here's some related cover and magazine art (Artist: 1st by Gray Morrow, couldn't identify the others ):

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