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Cover for Elizabeth Moon’s “Remnant Population”

Interior magazine artwork for Elizabeth Moon’s “The Perfect Hero”

Interior magazine artwork for Elizabeth Moon’s “Creative Criticism”

Cover for Elizabeth Moon’s “La Résistante”

Elizabeth Moon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moon_e... was born on this day, so here’s some related artwork (Artist: Fred Gambino, Gregg Hinlicky, Annie Lunsford and Antoine Poulain):

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “...And Comfort to the Enemy”

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “Lost Newton”

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “The Unreachable Stars”

Interior magazine artwork for “A Flash of Darkness”, Stanley Schmidt’s first published sf story (Analog 1968)

Stanley Schmidt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/schmid... was born on this day, so here’s some magazine artwork for his stories (Artist: 1-3 Frank Kelly Freas, 4 Leo Summers):

Illustration for "Nicodemus" by Alfred Crowquill (1867)

Illustration for "The Water Spirit", a poem by Walter Thornbury (1867)

Illustration for "Silbury Hill" an anonymous poem (1869)

Illustration for "Brierley Grange" by Astley H Baldwin (1869)

Some illustrations from the Christmas issues of the Victorian magazine 'Belgravia' 1867-1869 (Artist: [couldn't identify], Thomas Gray/WL Thomas, HK Browne/Edmund Evans and FW Lawson/WL Thomas):

Jack Binder’s cover for Nickel Comics, July 1940

Jack Binder’s cover for Silver Streak Comics, September 1941

Jack Binder’s cover for Prize Comics, October 1941

Jack Binder’s cover for Silver Streak Comics, October 1941

Artist Jack Binder sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder... died on this day; he did a lot of work for comics (as well as the SF magazines), so here’s some of his comic cover artwork from 1940-1941:

Cover for 'The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 23rd Edition', edited by Edward L Ferman

The cover for 'Terminal Velocities' edited by Andrew Joron

The cover for 'In Flagranti' by Rachel Ingalls (may not be genre)

The cover for 'Mrs Caliban' by Rachel Ingalls

Editor Edward L Ferman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ferman... and poet Andrew Joron sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/joron_... were born and author Rachel Ingalls sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ingall... died on this day: some cover art (Artist: [uncredited], DS Black, [couldn't identify] and Kathy Felstead):

Cover for "Avatars Inc" edited by Ann Vandermeer

Cover for "Irmãs da revolução: antologia de ficção especulativa feminist" edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer

Cover for "Mennyms Under Siege" by Sylvia Waugh

Cover for "Earthborn" by Sylvia Waugh

Ann VanderMeer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vander... was born and Sylvia Waugh sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/waugh_... died on this day, so here's some of their book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify], Patrick Benson and Martin Matje):

Cover to "Other Worlds" by Cyrano de Bergerac (a 1976 edition)

From “The Comical History of the States and Empires Of The Worlds of the Moon and Sun. Written in French by Cyrano Bergerac. And newly Englished by A. Lovell", a 1687 edition

From "L'autre monde ou Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1947 edition

From "L'Autre Monde" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1944 edition

Cyrano de Bergerac sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cyrano... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Tim White, [possibly FH van Hove], Jacqueline Charmot and Maurice de Becque):

An illustration for “The Nymph of the Waterfall”, a poem by B Montgomerie Rankin in ‘London Society, Holiday Annual’ 1875

Illustration for “The Dragon of St Paul’s” by Reginald Bacchus and Ranger Gull, from The Ludgate 1899

“The Mermaid” by SH Sime (from an appreciation of the artist – ‘The Carlyle of Art’ by Walter C Purcell, in The Ludgate, 1900)

Artwork by SH Sime (from an appreciation of the artist – ‘The Carlyle of Art’ by Walter C Purcell, in The Ludgate, 1900)

Illustrations from the Victorian magazines 'Belgravia' and 'The Ludgate' 1875-1900 (Artist: W Wagner, Louis Kight, SH Sime and SH Sime):

Attila Hejja's artwork for 'Tech Trek' by TA Heppenheimer (from Omni in 1986)

Attila Hejja's artwork for 'Body and Soul', an essay by Mark Teich and Pamela Weintraub, from a 1988 Omni essay on the 2088 Olympics

Another of Attila Hejja's artwork for 'Body and Soul', from a 1988 Omni essay by Mark Teich and Pamela Weintraub on the 2088 Olympics

Part of Attila Hejja's cover artwork for 'Doomstar' by Edmond Hamilton

Artist Attila Hejja sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hejja_... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork:

The cover for Mike Resnick's "The Goddess of Ganymede"

The cover for Mike Resnick's "Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future"

The covers for Mike Resnick's "Santiago"

The cover for Mike Resnick's "Stalking the Unicorn"

Mike Resnick sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/resnic... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jeff Jones, Michael Whelan, Philippe Gauckler and Boris Vallejo):

Asimov's over illustrating 'A Touch of Lavender' by Robin Hobb [as by Megan Lindholm]

Cover for "O Assassino do Rei" by Robin Hobb

Cover for "L'Assassin Royal - deuxième époque 2" by Robin Hobb

Cover for "La Conquête de la liberté" by Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hobb_r... also known as Megan Lindholm, was born on this day, so here's some related artwork: (Artist: Wayne Barlowe, Marc Simonetti, [couldn't identify] and Mathias Bonnard):

Illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1988 for ‘The Last Impression of Linda Vista’ by Howard V Hendrix

Another illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1988 for ‘The Last Impression of Linda Vista’ by Howard V Hendrix

Illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1991, for Singing the Mountain to the Stars by Howard V. Hendrix

Another illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1991, for Singing the Mountain to the Stars by Howard V. Hendrix

Howard V Hendrix sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hendri... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories (Artist: 1&2 Cortney Skinner, 3&4 Wendy Snow-Lang):

Interior magazine art for 'The Blue Demon' by Lowell Howard Morrow

Interior magazine art for 'Through the Meteors' by Lowell Howard Morrow

Interior magazine art for 'The Green Splotches' by TS Stribling: from the 1927 reprint in 'Amazing Stories'. Originally published in 'Adventure' in 1920.

Two pieces of interior magazine art for another reprint of 'The Green Splotches' by TS Stribling: from 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries' in 1952

Lowell Howard Morrow sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morrow... died and TS Stribling sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stribl... was born on this day, so here's some of the interior magazine art for their stories (Artist: Nutter, Frank R Paul, Gambee and Lawrence).

Cover for ‘The Throne of Scone’ by Patricia Kennealy

Cover for ‘Travels in Nihilon’ by Alan Sillitoe

Dean R Morrissey’s cover for ‘Gameplay’ by Kevin J. Anderson

Dean R Morrissey’s cover artwork for ‘The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid’ by Rebecca Ore

Authors Patricia Kennealy sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kennea... and Alan Sillitoe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sillit... were born, whilst artist Dean W Morrissey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morris... died on this day (Artist: Thomas Canty, [couldn't identify], Dean W Morrissey and Dean W Morrissey):

Cover to Ryō Hanmura's 戸隠伝説

Cover to Ryō Hanmura's 晴れた空

Frank Utpatel's cover for Whispers, June 1975 issue

Frank Utpatel's cover for 'Poems for Midnight' by Donald Wandrei

Author Ryō Hanmura sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hanmur... died and artist Frank Utpatel sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/utpate... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify] and 3&4 Frank Utpatel):

Cover for Jon Hartridge's "Binary Divide"

Cover for Jon Hartridge's "Earth Jacket"

Cover for "How Britain Won the Space Race" by Desmond Leslie and Patrick Moore

Cover for "Killer Comet" by Patrick Moore

Jon Hartridge sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hartri... and Patrick Moore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moore_... were born on this day, so here are some related book covers (Artist: Paul Davis, [couldn't identify], Alan Cracknell and Peter Elson):

Cover to Analog, September 1976, illustrating 'Weather War' by William E Cochrane

Interior magazine artwork for 'A Little Edge' by William E Cochrane [writing as S Kye Boult]. As so often happens the two-page illustrations don't match up!

The cover for 'Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life' by George Gamow

Interior illustration to 'Mr Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life' by George Gamow

William E Cochrane sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cochra... died and George Gamow sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gamow_... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Frank Kelly Freas, Vincent Di Fate, [couldn't identify] and Charles Lehman). 'S Kye Boult' a Cochrane pseudonym:

Illustration for 'The Secret of the Locked Laboratory' by Bruce Crandall

Illustration for 'They Die on Mars' by Phyllis L Kaye

Another illustration for 'They Die on Mars' by Phyllis L Kaye

Illustration for 'The Murder Machine' by Phyllis Kaye

Magazine artwork for authors without a SFE entry, from 'Fantastic Science Fiction' (1952): 1 Bruce Crandall, 2-4 Phyllis Kaye (quite possibly pseudonyms). There were only two issues (the SFE calls it an "inferior magazine, whose stories featured formulaic, simplistic and chauvinistic adventure").

Ric Binkley's cover for 'Galactic Patrol' by Edward E Smith

Ric Binkley's cover artwork for 'The Space Egg' by RR Winterbotham [as by Russ Winterbotham]

The cover for 'La Chaussée des Géants' by Pierre Benoit

The cover for 'SF Reprise 3', edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli

Artist Ric Binkley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binkle... was born, whilst author Pierre Benoit sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benoit... and author/editor Kyril Bonfiglioli sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bonfig... died on this day, so here's some related art (Artist: 1&2 Ric Binkley; 3&4 [couldn't identify]):

Cover to William Henry Fleming Bird's "Operation Orbit" (writing as 'Kris Luna')

Interior magazine illustrations for Gregory Feeley's story "The Boulevard of Broken Domes"

Interior magazine illustrations for Gregory Feeley's story "Reversals"

Cover to Tony Russell Wayman's "Dunes of Pradai"

William Henry Fleming Bird sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bird_w... Gregory Feeley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/feeley... and Tony Russell Wayman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wayman... were born on this day: some related art (Artist: Gordon C Davies, SMS, Ron Miller, [uncredited]) 'Kris Luna' a Bird pseudonym:

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Ambuscadă pe Ornella"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Der Tod der Großen Schlange"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Der Neue Sonnenstaat"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Kanonenboot "Panik""

Daniel Walther sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/walthe... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify, though style looks familiar], Marcus Boas, Barclay Shaw and Helmut Wenske):

You're right (and the SFE itself has it so, it was an error on my part): thanks for letting me know.

Apologies: Philip K Dick died on the 2nd (as the SFE states, but a mind blip meant I typed "born" yesterday!).

UK 1964 paperback cover to Arthur Machen's "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural"

UK 1975 paperback cover to Arthur Machen's "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural volume 2"

US 1983 paperback cover to Arthur Machen's "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural"

US 1976 paperback cover to Arthur Machen's "Tales of Horror and the Supernatural"

Arthur Machen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/machen... was born on this day, so here are some book covers (Artist: Josh Kirby, Bruce Pennington, [couldn't identify] and Robert LoGrippo):

Interior magazine art for 'The Crystal Crypt' by Philip K Dick

Interior magazine art for 'James P Crow' by Philip K Dick

Interior magazine art for 'Small Town' by Philip K. Dick

Interior magazine art for 'The Turning Wheel' by Philip K. Dick

Some interior magazine artwork to for Philip K Dick stories from 1954 (Frank Kelly Freas, Ed Emshwiller, Bernard Krigstein and Frank Kelly Freas):

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for On Spec, Winter 2002

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Abhorsen Trilogy' by Garth Nix

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Time Quartet' by Madeleine L'Engle

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Porcelain Cat' by Michael Patrick Hearn

Leo Dillon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dillon... died on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork (made in collaboration with Diane Dillon).

Cover to one of the Ace Double editions of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to a UK paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to an Italian paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to another UK paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Philip K Dick sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dick_p... was born on this day, so here are four covers for his "Dr Futurity", originally published in 1960 (artist: Ed Emshwiller, [uncredited], Marco Patrito and Chris Moore):

This month's Ansible mentions the discovery of "George Méliès’s long-lost sf film Gugusse et l’Automate (1897)", "arguably the first ever robot film". It can be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jG... (other YouTube posters have put it up too).

From the opening credits of the 2025 anime tv series 'Sanda'

Image from the 2025 anime tv series 'Sanda'

Cover to Whiz Comics #41

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - Lokenath Bhattacharya, D Donnell, Phillip Fracassi, Maja Lidia Kossakowska, Tom Lehrer, Marius and John S Marr; live action tv series "Flight" (1958-1959); anime tv series "Sanda" (2025) and US comic "Whiz Comics" (1940-1953):

The cover to Ann Leckie's 'Ancillary Mercy'

The cover to - I think - the Thailand edition of Ann Leckie's 'Ancillary Justice'.

The cover to Hiroyuki Morioka's ささやかな戦い

The cover to Hiroyuki Morioka's 星界の紋章

Ann Leckie sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leckie... and Hiroyuki Morioka sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moriok... were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: John Harris, [couldn't identify], 赤井孝美 and [couldn't identify]):