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Larry Elmore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/elmore... and Élisabeth Vonarburg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vonarb... were born on this day, so here are some related covers (Artist: Larry Elmore, Larry Elmore, Gretta Kool and Jacques Lamontagne):

Captain FS Brereton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/breret... and Jacquetta Hawkes sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hawkes... were born on this day: some artwork (Artist: CM Padday, Edward S Hodgson, SA Garrad and Henry Moore). 2 from Brereton's "The Great Aeroplane" (1911); 4 from Hawkes' non-fiction "A Land":

Interior artwork for authors without a SFE entry, from Weird Tales (May 1940-Jan 1941): 1 Gretchen Ruediger "Wind in the Moonlight"; 2 Frank Owen "On Pell Street"; 3 HTW Bousfield "Impossible Adventure"; 4 Robert Barbour Johnson "Lupa" (Artist: Mont Sudbury, Hannes Bok, Hannes Bok & Virgil Finlay):

André Couvreur sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/couvre... died and Percy Bysshe Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... was born on this day, so here is some related artwork (Artist: Mandy, Mandy, CR Ashbee and John Farleigh). 3&4 are from 1904 & 1965 editions of Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'.

Gumercindo Rocha Dorea sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dorea_... was born on this day; he was "the Brazilian publisher regarded as the most important in the history of Brazilian sf" and founded the Ficção Científica GRD book line - here are some of the books he published (couldn't identify the artists):

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - Polly Holyoke, Roberta Morris, David Ritter and Daniel Ritter; 2025 anime series 'Kowloon Generic Romance'; 1947-49 EC comic 'Moon Girl'; a theme entry on 'Dolphins' and one for the Polish 'Nautilus Award':

Mihály Babits sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/babits... died on this day, so some related artwork. 1&4 are book covers, 2&3 illustrations to his "Novella Az Emberi Húsról És Csontról" and "The Book of Jonah" respectively (Artist: [couldn't identify], JV Divéky, Gyulai Líviusz and [couldn't identify]):

Luigi Serafini sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/serafi... was born on this day, creator of 'The Codex Seraphinianus', a "heavily illustrated pseudo-encyclopedia of an apparent Alternate World" that's written in an imaginary language. Here are some pages from it:

Here are some of the magazine illustrations for Clifford D Simak's stories 1938-1940 (1-3 HW Wesso, 4 WA Koll). 1&2 for "Cosmic Engineers", 4 for "Clerical Error":

Raymond E Banks sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/banks_... and Edward Whittemore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/whitte... died on this day, so here's two magazine illustrations for Banks' stories and two Whittemore covers (Paul Orban, Paul Orban, Paul Bacon and [uncredited]). 2nd for "The Instigators":

Some more Clifford D Simak covers, all for 'City' (Davis Meltzer, [uncredited], Adolph Denis Horn and Lima de Freitas):

Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):

Laurence Oliphant sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/olipha... was born whilst Dave Van Arnam sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/van_ar... and Robert Wilson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilson... died this day, so some artwork (Artist: Richard Doyle, Paul Lehr, [3&4 uncredited]). 1st from Oliphant's "Piccadilly" (1870):

Sven Christer Swahn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swahn_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 1st by Arnold, couldn't identify the others). The third is an anthology edited and/or translated by Swahn, the title itself translating as "Ghost Stories":

Ingersoll Lockwood sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lockwo... was born on this day, so here are some illustrations to his 1893 novel "Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey" (Artist: Charles Howard Johnson):

Ken MacLeod sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macleo... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stephan Martiniere, Fangorn, Jean Vouillon and Lee Gibbons):

William S. Burroughs sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/burrou... died on this day, so here's some of his book covers, not necessarily genre (Artist: Charles Burns, Peter Goodfellow, [couldn't identify] and Christof Kohlhöfer):

Bill Rotsler cartoon

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Robert Holdstock sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/holdst... was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (Artist: Barbara Berger, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and Carl Lundgren):

Frederick H Costello sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/costel... died on this day, so here are some of the illustrations to his 1909 novel "Sure-Dart: A Story of Strange Hunters and Stranger Game in the Days of Monsters" (Artist: Walter J Enright):

Russ Winterbotham sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winter... was born on this day: some 1955-1957 interior magazine artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], Luton, Ed Emshwiller and Bruce Minney) 1st 'Gladsome Planet'; 2nd 'The Man Who Left Paradise'; 3rd 'Once Within a Time'; 4th 'An Experiment in Gumdrops':

Artist Edd Cartier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cartie... was born on this day, so here's three of his illustrations for the Gnome Press's Calendars, plus one for Eric Frank Russell's "Sinister Barrier":

Some interior magazine art for Raymond A Palmer's stories, 1933-1938 (Leonard, Frank R Paul, Frank R Paul and Jay Jackson). 2nd for "The Time Tragedy"; 3rd for "Three from the Test-Tube"; 'Steber' a pseudonym:

Editor and author Raymond A Palmer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/palmer... was born on this day, so here are the covers to some of the magazines he edited (Artist: Julian S Krupa, Harold W McCauley, Malcolm Smith and Hannes Bok):

Alan G Yates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yates_... was born on this day, so here are some of the covers to his appearances in the Australian 'Thrills Incorporated' and 'Scientific Thrillers' series (Artist: 1&3 Maurice Bramley; couldn't identify 2&4's). 'Paul Valdez' and 'Ace Carter' were pseudonyms.

Artist Alan Hunter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hunter... died on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art; the first two from the early 1950s, then two from the early/mid 1980s:

Some interior magazine art for Poul Anderson stories (Virgil Finlay, David Stone, [uncredited] and Robert Fuqua [as by Joe Tillotson]). 2nd for "Inside Earth":

Allen Kim Lang sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lang_a... was born on this day, so here's some of the interior magazine artwork to his stories (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, Jack Gaughan, Mack and George Schelling). 2nd for "Cinderella Story", 3rd for "The Chemically Pure Warriors"; 4th for "Blind Man's Lantern":

Artist Junji Itō sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ito_ju... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork. I seem to recognise the third chap ...

Some covers for Poul Anderson's novel "Brain Wave" (Richard Powers, Busillet, Paul Lehr and Mudge-Marriott):