Joachim Boaz

Book Review: Universe 12, ed. Terry Carr (1982) (Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Waldrop, Nancy Kress, R. A. Lafferty, et al.) Richard Courtney’s cover for the 1983 edition 3.5/5 (collated rating: Good) My fifth sojourn to Terry Carr’s Universe series of original anthologies (17 volumes published between 1971-1…

I've read and enjoyed McAlister's short story "When the Fathers Go” (1982). I've also had a copy of Humanity Prime for a bit. sciencefictionruminations.com/2022/05/01/b...

Cover for the Great Hunt. Four figures: one to the left with sword and dagger holds a Golden Horn; Woman stands pensively. Another man with book stands with torch. Horned figures looks at them from the distance.

Cover for The Dragon Reborn. Three guys -- one stands with a sword made of light above him; Another stands with an ax. Another watches. There are large pillars behind them.

Robert Jordan (1948-2007) was born on this day. An important author in my youth. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Darrell K. Sweet, 1990; R, Darrell K. Sweet, 1991
#books #fantasy

Cover for The Moon of Comrath. Man in armor rides a horse. There's a blue moon behind him.

Cover for Red Shift. Three figures stand in front of an ax head. The axhead is a portal to another medieval-esque world. The three figures from L t R: Man stands shirtless with a skull on his spear; Man stands with hat in 16th or 17th century clothing. Man stands near his bicycle.

Alan Garner (1934-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Jeff Jones, 1967; R, Laurence Schwinger, 1981
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books

Cover for Humanity Prime. A merman rides a turtle in the ocean. There's a spaceship or rocket-like building with an eye behind him.

Bruce McAllister (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Davis Meltzer, 1971; R, Paul E. Wenzel , 1967
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology) Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? I apologize for the photos of my copies instead of my normal hi-res scans. My scanner died suddenly. Goodbye Dutiful…

I just acquired Red Shift. sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/09/19/u...

Nice!

Cover for the Great Hunt. Four figures: one to the left with sword and dagger holds a Golden Horn; Woman stands pensively. Another man with book stands with torch. Horned figures looks at them from the distance.

Cover for The Dragon Reborn. Three guys -- one stands with a sword made of light above him; Another stands with an ax. Another watches. There are large pillars behind them.

Robert Jordan (1948-2007) was born on this day. An important author in my youth. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Darrell K. Sweet, 1990; R, Darrell K. Sweet, 1991
#books #fantasy

Cover for The Moon of Comrath. Man in armor rides a horse. There's a blue moon behind him.

Cover for Red Shift. Three figures stand in front of an ax head. The axhead is a portal to another medieval-esque world. The three figures from L t R: Man stands shirtless with a skull on his spear; Man stands with hat in 16th or 17th century clothing. Man stands near his bicycle.

Alan Garner (1934-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Jeff Jones, 1967; R, Laurence Schwinger, 1981
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books

Cover for Humanity Prime. A merman rides a turtle in the ocean. There's a spaceship or rocket-like building with an eye behind him.

Bruce McAllister (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Davis Meltzer, 1971; R, Paul E. Wenzel , 1967
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

A wintery scene. A large bird that looks comprised of clouds flies overhead. A small group of people walk towards the viewer. A castle burns on a mountaintop in the background

Mick van Houten's cover art detail for the 1986 edition of Richard Cowper's A Dream of Kinship (1981)
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art

Short Story Review: “Lost Memory” by Peter Phillips (Cover by Jack Coggins. Galaxy, May 1952.) Who Goes There? I don’t have much to say on today’s author, partly because I’ve not read anything by him until now and partly because th…

Doesn't matter if you have a rescue team of highly intelligent robots, if these robots don't know what it is they're rescuing. It's "Lost Memory" by Peter Phillips, from the May 1952 issue of Galaxy!

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I also adored Piercy's Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1970): sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/05/26/b...

Cover for Asimov's Foundation -- published in abridged form as The 1,000-Year Plan. Man with uplifted cuffs, a v-neck shirt with raised collar and a spaceship logo, stands in front of three spaceships zipping in the background and the larger cosmos.

Cover for The December 1955 issue of Amazing Stories. Man surrounded by pink spheres with tentacles hits at them with an ax.

Artist Ed Valigursky (1926-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1955; R, 1955
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Cover for Robinson's Die gnadelose macht. Man grasps his hands around a city. He seems to be on fire or sending rays into the city below.

Cover for Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman. Various spaceships zip around a central spherical spaceship (with three fins).A spaceship explodes in the background.

Artist R. S. Lonati (1924-1990) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1959; R, 1964
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) ⭐ 7.9 | Drama, Mystery 2h 25m | Not Rated

My comments aren't the clearest. Sorry!

Great movie co-written with László Krasznahorkai -- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). www.imdb.com/title/tt0249...

It adapts Krasznahorkai's equally great novel The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)

As I adored the movie in college I tracked down the novel and enjoyed it as well! It was a long time ago though.... 2008 or something.

....It's a slightly possibly magical realist novel in which a circus comes to town with only a massive whale. And of course the strange events that transpire.

It adapts László Krasznahorkai's novel The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)

I was obsessed with his collaborations with Bella Tarr -- the film director. My favorite Tarr movie (which is an adaptation of his novel with a co-written screenplay) is the Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)...

The March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights stepped off #OnThisDate 1979. An estimated 100,000 people from around the country had streamed into the nation’s capital, all united to advance five primary demands... 1/3

A hot air ballon floats above similarly shaped islands (mountain and coast). THe islands float in space. The earth is down below and clouds above.

Mick van Houten's cover art detail for the 1st edition of Ian Watson's The Book of Being (1986)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist #books

Uncredited interior map depicting a flooded UK in 3000 C.E. from Richard Cowper's novel Road to Corlay (1978)
#scifi #sciencefiction

Photo shows the book and a pencil on a desk. Cover is Lyle Ashton Harris’ photo Americas (Triptych) (1987-1988)

New history purchase. Jennifer Dominique Jones’ Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness & Homosexuality after World War II (2023)

#history #books

Book Review: The Road to Corlay, Richard Cowper (1978) (Gary Viskupic’s cover for the 1979 edition) 3.75/5 (Good) Nominated for the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel Richard Cowper’s The Road to Corlay (1978) charts the ethereal pastoral wan…

I wrote about the book here: sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/04/01/b...

Uncredited interior map depicting a flooded UK in 3000 C.E. from Richard Cowper's novel Road to Corlay (1978)
#scifi #sciencefiction

"Everybody was so excited. Why didn't they watch this pretty thing while they could!" Man's head, who I assume is thinking the quote above, is amongst the flames. There are people behind him screaming, a burning city, and a worried face.

Virgil Finlay's interior art for Robert Bloch's "Slave of the Flames" in Weird Tales (June 1938)
#art #weirdfiction #fantasy

I have zero interest debating definitions of science fiction (and genre).

....although I'd have browse (can't, at work) to see when the later versions (in the thread) of some of those banners appeared.

I think the first banner -- Scientifacts -- is M. Marchioni as he's the primary early interior artist and it appears in the second issue. If I were to guess, again, no evidence, I suggest the others are Wesso. He appears in the second year of the magazine.

Nope.

Thrilling Wonder Stories v21n02 (1941 12) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Thrilling Wonder Stories v21n02 (1941 12)

If you want to read the columns below the banners -- here's an electronic copy of the magazine: archive.org/details/Thri...