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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 43m

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 · 1h

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 · 4h

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 · 6h

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 · 20h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Tales from Startling Stories (June 1953-Spring 1954) by authors without a SFE entry: 1&2 Fox B Holden, 3 Charles A Stearns, 4 Wilbur S Peacock (Artist: 1,2&4 Virgil Finlay, 3 Connell) 1&2 for "Here Lie We"; 3 for "Little Enos"; 4 for "The Sound of Willow Pipes":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Author and editor Harry Bates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bates_... was born on this day, so here are some covers to his fix-up novel "Space Hawk", written by him and DW Hall under the pseudonym 'Anthony Gilmore' (Artist: Johnny Bruck, Karl Stephan, Curt Caesar and Allison):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Reed sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/reed_r... was born on this day, so here are magazine illustrations for some of his 1987-1999 stories (Artist: Cortney Skinner, Wendy Snow-Lang, Kent Bash and Michael Dubisch). 1st for 'Aeries'; 2nd for 'Goodness'; 4th for 'What It Is':

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Filmmaker and author Guillermo del Toro sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/del_to... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Troy Nixey, James Jean, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]). 4th might be a box set and/or DVD cover:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

WL Alden sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/alden_... Diamandis Florakis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/florak... Luis Britto García sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/britto... were born, Roy Lewis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lewis_... died this day. 1 Alden's "A Darwinian Schooner" (1893), 3 from El Cuento magazine (1977)

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Artist and author George du Maurier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/du_mau... died on this day (8th), so here's his videophone, or "Edison's Telephonoscope", from 1879 and three of his illustrations to his 'A Legend of Camelot' (1898), whose "title poem is [a] fantastical Satire of the Pre-Raphaelites":

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