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This was on at Christmas, and was on opposite Frank Sinatra in VON RYAN'S EXPRESS (1965). My dad insisted on watching the latter, so I never got to see this ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. I cherish most memories of my dad, but not this one. Still carrying this particular grudge 52+ years later.

L Ron Hubbard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hubbar... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories 1941/1942 (artist: 1,2&3b Edd Cartier, 3a Hubert Rogers, 4a Frank Kramer, 4b Kolliker):

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

Alastair Reynolds sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/reynol... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Tomislav Tikulin, Bob Eggleton, Bob Eggleton and Pascal Casolari):

Stephen Vincent Benét sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benet_... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1 Robert J Lee, 2-4 Henry C Pitz). 2&3 from a reprint in Fantastic, May-June 1953, of a 1937 The Saturday Evening Post tale:

William F Wu sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wu_wil... was born on this day, so here's some related book and magazine art (Artist: Rick Berry/Phil Hale, Philippe Caza, George Barr and Ivan Kustura):

Some interior magazine art (by HR Van Dongen) for the serialisation of Harry Harrison's novel 'Deathworld' in Astounding/Analog, Jan-Mar 1960:

Harry Harrison sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/harris... was born on this day, so here's four of his book covers (artist: [uncredited], Wojtek Siudmak, Alan Craddock and Bruce Pennington):

Terry Pratchett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pratch... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: 1st by Terry Pratchett, 4th by Marc Simonetti; couldn't identify the other artists):

Hain Friswell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/friswe... died and Virginia Hamilton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hamilt... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: [uncredited], William McConnell, Diane and Leo Dillon and Diane and Leo Dillon):

Dave Eggers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/eggers... and John Symonds sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/symond... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Wesley Allsbrook, Wesley Allsbrook, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]):

Some interior magazine art for Fredric Brown stories 1941-1949 ([uncredited], Leo Morey, Swenson and [uncredited - possibly Lawrence]):

Fredric Brown sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brown_... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Louis S Glanzman, John Holmes, Karel Thole and [uncredited]):

Douglas Adams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/adams_... was born and John Jakes sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jakes_... died on this day, so here are some book covers (Artist: 3rd by Frank Frazetta, couldn't identify the other artists):

John Wyndham sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wyndha... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers, 2-4 from Italy (Artist: Richard Powers, [couldn't identify], Curt Caesar and Curt Caesar):

Edmund Cooper sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cooper... and Mary Rosenblum sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rosenb... both died on this day, so here’s some related artwork (Artist: Richard Powers, Paul Lehr, Alan M Clark and John Berkey):

Magazine artwork for authors without a SFE entry, from 'Galileo' in 1977: 1 Theodore Kubaska, 2 Jerry Goodz, 3 'Earth-Space Inc', 4 John Alfred Taylor (Artist: Larry Blamire, Larry Blamire, Ron Miller and John McIntosh):

Artist Jean Giraud sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/giraud... - better known as Moebius - died on this day; so here's some of his artwork (from an Italian edition of his works):

Mikhail Bulgakov sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bulgak... and John T Sladek sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sladek... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify], 3 Randy Jones, 4 Leslie Sternbergh):

Marvin Kaye sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kaye_m... was born on this day, so here are some illustrations from the magazine Galileo (1977/1978) for the serialisation of 'The Masters of Solitude', written by Kaye and Parke Godwin (Artist: Larry Blamire, Tom Barber, Larry Blamire and Larry Blamire)

CJ Cutcliffe Hyne sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hyne_c... died and Boris Vian sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vian_b... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Dean Ellis, Sonntag[?], [couldn't identify] and Félix Labisse):

Don Wilcox sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilcox... died on this day: some interior magazine art from 1943-1945 (Artist: F Magarian, Frank R Paul, Virgil Finlay and Virgil Finlay). The 2nd from December 1945: I do wonder if it's related to the efforts to get women out of the workplace once WW2 had ended.

Artist Richard M Powers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/powers... died on this day: so here's some examples of his early cover art, from 1954.

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php with Robin Anne Reid, Robin Roberts, Ralph Steadman and "Weird Al" Yankovic; animated series 'Code Geass' (Japan, 2006-2008) and 'Monkey Wrench' (New Zealand, 2002-ongoing), and the US comic 'Best Comics' (1939-1940):

Howard L Myers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/myers_... and William F Temple sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/temple... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Esteban Maroto, Ed Emshwiller, Redmill and Redmill):

Artist and author Brom sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brom was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art 1991-1993:

Pat Murphy sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/murphy... and Hannu Rajaniemi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rajani... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Anita Kunz, Anita Kunz, Sánta Kira [I think] and [couldn't identify] ):

Wallace West sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/west_w... died on this day, so here's some of the interior magazine art for his stories from 1936-1952 (artist: 1-3 [uncredited], 4 Virgil Finlay):

Paul Féval sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/feval_... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Tremelan, Tremelan, P Philippoteaux and P Philippoteaux):

Kurt Mahr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mahr_k... was born on this day; he was the principal writer for the Perry Rhodan series 1961-1993: here's some of the book covers where he’s the title story's author (Artist: Johnny Bruck). The E-Book editions are reproductions of the original 1979/1980 covers: