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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Artist and author Enki Bilal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bilal_... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Bruce Carter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter... died on this day (Artist: Tony Weare, [couldn’t identify, though style familiar], [uncredited] and Klaus Bürgle). The 2nd seems to have slight alternate history elements (I don’t think Brighton's population was totally evacuated during WW2?).

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Some interior magazine art for Wilson Tucker's "The Time Masters", originally a 1953 novel, but reprinted in the January 1954 'Startling Stories' [1] and serialised in the September, October & November 1955 'New Worlds' [2-4] (1 by Virgil Finlay, 2-4 by Gerard Quinn):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

David Brin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brin_d... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jim Burns, Bruce Pennington, Bruce Pennington and [couldn't identify]):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Wilson Tucker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tucker... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Laszlo Kubinyi, Horacio Salinas Blanch, Peter Elson and Bruce Pennington). 2nd is Blanch's artwork for Tucker's “Los Amos Del Tiempo”:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

This week's new SFE entries are here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - for the Japanese tv series 'Spectreman' (1971/1972) [US English dub broadcast in 1978]; the short-lived US comic "NoMan" (1966/1967) and the Polish 'Sfinks Award'. The 2nd image is from the cover of a 1972 Spectreman single:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Gerald Heard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/heard_... and D Alexander Smith sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_... were born and Leo E Miller sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miller... died on this day (?, John Berkey, Wayne Barlowe and [signature bottom right]) 4 from Miller's animal fantasy "The Black Phantom":

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