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cover for Fantastic Universe. A lion/man holds the author list of the magazine contents.

Cover for Imaginative Tales, March 1957. A purple man with body swirls grasps the neck of a helmeted person. In the background a man seems to be in the middle of an explosion ripping off his clothing.

Mark Reinsberg (1923-1981) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Hannes Bok, 1956; R, Malcolm Smith, 1957
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Cover for Chthon. Woman stands amongst three stick-like pillars. There is a sphere in the background.

Cover for Bio of a Space Tyrant. Muscle man with eye-patch stands in the cockpit (I think) of a spaceship while others spaceships fly overhead.

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

L, uncredited, 1967; R, Alan Craddock, 1985
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Enjoy radical/experimental cinema,
Music, and literature from Japan in the 70s? I certainly do…

Suzuki’s Hit Parade of Tears and Terminal Boredom. Cover on left shows author sitting on a mattress. On right is the author laying on the ground.

New science fiction purchase! Japanese SF in translation. #scifi #sciencefiction #books #Japan

If you believe in the importance of SFF as a genre, and in the power of short story publishing to nurture new talent, make a point (if you can) of subscribing to an SFF magazine.

Everything about the present moment makes me want to retreat into old books.

"Both works [Dick and a Simak story I reference] extrapolate from the anti-union sentiment that grew over the course of the 50s. Mainstream news promoted the 1955 merger of the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) as a “danger to the public.”

From my review: “Stand-By” presents unions as a victorious interest group in a larger, dystopian, political game after the fall of democracy."

Reviewed this one for my ongoing series on organized labor -- not a positive depiction! sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/10/13/s...

The questions: 1. What is metagalactic space? 2. Identify the two largest stars. 3. What kind of a measure is an atmosphere? Give its value. 4. Where is the ecliptic? 5. What is a Geiger counter f 6. Describe polarized light. 7. What is an isotrope? 8. Explain the Brownian movement. 9. What are caesium and indium? 10. What are anode, goede, cathode, and nematode ?

A quiz in Dynamic Science Stories (February 1939)
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Thank you.

Blocked that account long long time ago. Canned responses and feels like AI...

No problem. There are many many more about Simak on the site.

Exploration Log 5: “We Must Start Over Again and Find Some Other Way of Life”: The Role of Organized Labor in the 1940s and ’50s Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak Cover art by Atun Purser My article on organized labor in the 1940s and ’50s science fiction of Clifford D. Simak went live! I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’ve spent the last ha…

If you want a very very different take on Simak's fiction, check out my article: “We Must Start Over Again and Find Some Other Way of Life”: The Role of Organized Labor in the 1940s and ’50s Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak

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YouTube video by David Agranoff PFDW #160 SF Hall of Fame #9 The Huddling Place by Clifford D. Simak W/ Joachim Boaz & Greg Mollin

I also appeared on a podcast about Simak's second story in the City sequence -- “The Huddling Place” (1944) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ib8...

I hate listening to my own voice so I haven't given it a listen...

Exploration Log 6: Clifford D. Simak’s 1971 Worldcon Guest of Honor Speech Graphic created by my father In an August 1967 editorial in Galaxy titled “S.F. as a Stepping Stone”, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) voiced his extreme disapproval of the New Wave movement as…

In another Exploration Log post I covered Clifford D. Simak’s 1971 Worldcon Guest of Honor Speech sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/30/e...

Exploration Log 9: Three More Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) Graphic created by my father Back in July 2024, I posted six interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988). Since then I’ve tracked down three more. As in that post, I’ll provide a rund…

I've covered all nine Simak interviews I've been able to track down.

Three More Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/27/e...

Six Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/07/07/e...

Book Review: Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak, Clifford D. Simak (1967) Lawrence Ratzkin’s cover for the 1st edition 3.5/5 (collated rating: Good) I can’t get off my Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) kick–the author that’s defined, directly and indi…

If you've followed my site, you'll know that I adore writing about Simak -- speeches, interviews, novels, short stories. My most recent review: Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak (1967) sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/10/26/b...

Cover for City. Robot moves a dial in front of the massive wreckage of a city.

Cover for Worlds Without End. A rocket launches from a rocky landscape. There's a few small human forms, the cosmos in the background, and a city.

Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Ed Valigursky, 1958; R, Richard Powers, 1964
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Cover for Conjure Wife. Woman with wispy white dress reaches upward at the shape of a church or medieval-esque building in the background. THere's a jar in front of her and ruins behind her.

Cover for Asimov's The Death Dealers. Woman in white trench coat stands superimposed on top of a man she has shot with her gun.

Artist Robert Maguire (1921-2005) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1954; R, 1958
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Cover for her novel The Children of Men. A doll lays on a cobblestone road below a dense forest. Two eyeballs lay next to it.

Cover for Mysterious Visions. A surreal cover with an angel woman, cosmos, and strange wing-like lengthy wing-things.

P. D. James (1920-2014) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Irene Von Treskow, 1992; R, Gary LaSasso, 1979
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Cover for November 1969 Venture Science Fiction. A group of spacemen with wide helmets stand below a strange spaceship (I assume) with a long spoke and ball connected to a hexagonal (I think) block.

Cover for the January 1972 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. A group of spaceships fly above a lunar (or Martian) surface.

Richard E. Peck (1936-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, uncredited (Bert Tanner?), 1969; R, John Pederson, Jr., 1972
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For whatever reason the embedded video version doesn't play while the link to YouTube does work.

Yes, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WP...

Yeah, that's mentioned in the Seed monograph.

Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic by Peter S. Fisher. Cover shows a still from Lang’s The Girl in The Moon (1929)

New history of SF purchase. #scifi #history #germany #sciencefiction

See my review. I quote some of the erotic sequences. It's that sort of naughty.. .

Some people are ignorant of what Playboy and Penthouse used to contain. You never know!

Penthouse used to have traditional book reviews. While there is some implied weird eroticism, it's not what you think of when you think of Penthouse... that's for sure. It's far from "smut." It's a literary SF near masterpiece only John Crowley could write!

Another great SF example of "monster loving."

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