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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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 · 19h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Herbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/herber... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Bruce Pennington, Don Punchatz, Dean Ellis and Bruce Pennington):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Artist Richard Hescox sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hescox... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art. 1st for "The Dragon Lord" by Peter Morwood; 2nd for "Brightsuit MacBear" by L Neil Smith; 3rd for "The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley" and the 4th for "Life Force" by Zach Hughes:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Serge Drigin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/drigin... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

David Dvorkin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dvorki... Andrey Sinyavsky [aka Abram Tertz] sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sinyav... and George Turner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/turner... were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (Bob Fowke, [couldn't identify], Ron Walotsky and John Harris):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Richard S Shaver sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shaver... was born on this day (7th), so here's some of the interior magazine art for his 1948/1949 stories (Artist: Malcolm Smith, Robert Gibson Jones, J Allen St John and Malcolm Smith). 4th for "The Fall of Lemuria". 'Irwin' a pseudonym:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Edgar Allan Poe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/poe_ed... died on this day, so here are some of Carlo Farneti's illustrations to the 1927/1928 editions of his 'Histoires Extraordinaires' and 'Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires'.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Howard V Chaykin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chayki... and authors Steven Erikson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/erikso... and Michel Parry sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/parry_... were born on this day: some related artwork (Howard V Chaykin, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and Bob Haberfield):

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