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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Val Biro sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/biro_val was born on this day, so here's two examples of his book cover artwork, plus two of his interior illustrations for a 1965 edition of L Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Here's some interior magazine artwork from Fantastic Adventures (Dec 1952-Feb 1953) for authors without a SFE entry: 1 Lawrence Chandler, 2 Stuart Faulkner, 3 Peter Dakin, 4 Alexander Blade (Artist: 1&3 Ed Emshwiller, 2 Nobu Shimotanka 4 Dick Francis). 2 "Hell Is Up Above"; 4 "A Man Called Meteor":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Artist RG Jones sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jones_... was born on this day, so here's some of his 1950 magazine cover art:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Keith Roberts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robert... died and Tetsu Yano sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yano_t... was born on this day: some covers (Artist: 1 Blas Gallego, 2 Tony Roberts, 3&4 [couldn't identify]). 3rd is an anthology ("恐怖への招待海野十三" or "Invitation to Fear") containing a Tetsu Yano story:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Ivan Yefremov sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yefrem... died on this day, so here's some of his cover art (Artist: 4th by D Andrei, couldn't identify the other artist: apologies for the poor quality of the 3rd):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

Artist and author Richard A Kirk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kirk_r... was born on this day, so here are some examples of his artwork. 1: Wandering Star, 2: Superhero, 3: Harbringer, 4: Scout:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Earl Andrew Binder, who - with his brother Otto - used the name Eando Binder sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder... was born on this day: some interior magazine art from 1934-36, plus a 1950 reprint (Artist: 1-3 Frank R Paul, 4 Peter Poulton) 1 &2 'Enslaved Brains', 3&4 'The Robot Aliens' (1936&1950):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Sydney Bowen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bowen_... was born on this day, so here are some of the covers to 'Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds' (1934-1935) for which Bowen wrote the lead story (Artist: all by Frederick Blakeslee):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Geoffrey Household sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/househ... died and Edward T Stratemeyer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strate... was born on this day (Artist: Alexander Farquharson, [???], AB Shute, [???]) 3rd from "The Rival Ocean Divers" (1905), 4th "The Wizard of the Sea" (1900), both as by Roy Rockwood:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

18th century architectural designer, builder and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pirane... was born on this day - here are some of his etchings:

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Jerzy Broszkiewicz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/broszk... died, whilst Marvin Karlins sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/karlin... and Bill Johnson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/johnso... were born on this day (Artist: 1-2 ?, 3 Denis Sire, 4 Vincent Di Fate) 2nd from book in 1st image; 4th for Johnson's "Solstice":

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 5d

Behold the absolutely bangin' 1940s lunar spacesuit design by the British Interplanetary Society. Thermal cape, front airlock for specimen collection, shooting stick, and a goddamn knight's helmet. The National Space Centre even built a "working" version of it: www.spacecentre.co.uk/collections/...

Concept drawing of an astronaut on the surface of the Moon, climbing over the crest of a rocky hill. He looks like a retro-futuristic knight.

Photo of a replica of the suit. It is buff. It is shiny. It looks slightly less cool than the drawing but somewhat more practical.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Charles B Stilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stilso... was born on this day, 1-3 are from a 1950 reprint (and retitling) of his 1917 novel "Polaris and the Goddess Glorian" from Fantastic Novels Magazine (1950), 4 is a 1922(?) book cover (1 Norman Saunders, 2&3 Frank R Paul and 4 AD Rahn):

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Elliott Dold sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dold_e... was born on this day. 1931 SF magazine Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories was edited by his brother Douglas; Elliot provided artwork - here's his frontispieces to both issues (1&2), plus his artwork (3&4) for his one story "The Bowl of Death":

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Katherine Kerr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kerr_k... Jason Erik Lundberg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lundbe... & Ray Faraday Nelson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nelson... were born on this day: some covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Yong Wen Yeu, George Barr & Ed Emshwiller). Lundberg edited 'LONTAR':

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