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Charles Sheffield sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sheffi... was born on this day, so here are three book covers and an interior magazine illustration (Artist: Boris Vallejo, Attila Hejja, [uncredited] and Stephen Fabian). 4th from Amazing Stories, May 1978:

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'English Illustrated Magazine' artwork, 1-3 1899, 4 1889: 1 Alice Munro “Terror of the Pond” (Aug); 2 H Havelock Ettrick "The Red And Black Death" (Jun); 3 from Simon Lake’s article on his submarine The Argonaut (April); 4 is two page headers (2nd for George B Shaw on Wagner). 1&2 by Warwick Goble.

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Wayne Rogers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rogers... was born on this day: some magazine covers from 1934-36 (Artist: 1 Walter M Baumhofer, 2 Rudolph Belarski, 3&4 John Howitt). His other story titles include The Man Who Painted Pain, The Dead Must Eat, Satan Stole My Face! & The Devil's Step-Daughters.

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Fred Hoyle sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hoyle_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Lima de Freitas, [couldn't identify], Richard Powers and [uncredited]):

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Francis Leslie Ashton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashton... was born on this day, so here are three pieces of cover art, and an interior magazine illustration (Artist: Reina M Bull, [uncredited], Tindall and [uncredited, though the style looks familiar]): 4th for "The Long Way":

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Artist Sanjulian sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sanjul... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art. The 3rd's teddy bear has some harsh words for his agent.

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Richard Matheson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mathes... died on this day, so here's some of the interior magazine artwork for his 1951-1953 stories (artists: Peter Poulton, Ed Emshwiller, Ed Emshwiller and Bill Ashman). 2&3 for "Lover When You're Near Me":

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Cixin Liu sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/liu_ci... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stephan Martinière, Jok, [couldn't identify] and Marc Simonetti).

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Artist Paul Orban sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/orban_... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art. The 3rd was for Lester del Rey's "Marooned on Mars":

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This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php with writers SK Ali, Eiren Caffall, Deborah L Davitt, John Ironmonger, Andrew Ludington, Simina Lungu and Charles Lee Swem; artists Mike Hoffman and Alan Pollack ... [tbc]

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Hugh Howey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/howey_... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (Artist: 1st by Jeremy Geddes, couldn't identify the other artists):

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Léon Cahun sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cahun_... was born, whilst J Storer Clouston sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cloust... and Stephen Gilbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gilber... died on this day (Artist: P Philippoteaux, P Philippoteaux, A B Studio and [couldn't identify]). 2nd from "Captain Mago ..."

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H Rider Haggard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/haggar... was born on this day, so here are some of the illustrations by Virgil Finlay for the reprint of his novel "Allan and the Ice-Gods" in the April 1947 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries:

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Robert Jackson Bennett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bennet... was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (Artist: 1st by Jon Foster, couldn't identify the other artists):

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Octavia E Butler sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/butler... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (artist: Nick Bantock, Oscar Chichoni, Giuseppe Festino and John Jude Palencar):

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Johanna Sinisalo sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sinisa... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: 3rd by Yoshitomo Nara, couldn't identify the other artists):

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Weston Ochse sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ochse_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Luke Preece, [couldn't identify] and Goñi Montes):

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Cleve Cartmill sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cartmi... was born on this day: here's some of the interior magazine artwork for his stories (Artist: [uncredited], Frank R Paul, Alex Schomburg and Sanford Kossin). Right side of the 2nd image faded, a side effect of making it clearer is a dark background:

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Andrzej Sapkowski sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sapkow... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Ugo Pinson, Étienne Le Roux, Maéna Paillet and Bartłomiej Gaweł):

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Muriel A Pollexfen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pollex... and Thorne Smith sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_... died, whilst David J Skal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/skal_d... was born on this day (Artist: Watson Charlton[?], Watson Charlton, Oscar Liebman and Vincent Di Fate). 2nd from 'The Grey Ghost':

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"Captain" W E Johns sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/johns_... died on this day, so here's two French book covers and two pieces of UK interior book artwork (artist: Patrice Sanahujas, Paul Ordner, Leslie Stead and Leslie Stead). 3rd an illustration from "Kings of Space", 4th from "Return to Mars":

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Claude Farrère sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/farrer... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: BK, [couldn't identify], Alexander King and Louis Morin). 3&4 from 'Fumée d'Opium' (aka 'Black Opium'): 3rd from US 1929 edition, 4th from French 1919.

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Stanley Mullen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mullen... was born on this day, so here's some 1948-1952 story artwork (Artist: Hannes Bok, Virgil Finlay, Leydenfrost and Frank Kelly Freas). The 1st is a 23pp pamphlet containing his "The Sphinx Child". Bok, Finlay, Leydenfrost & Freas - not a bad line-up!

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Publisher and author Lloyd Arthur Eshbach sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/eshbac... was born on this day, so here are some of his covers from 1931, 1932, 1988 and 1990 (Artist: 1&2 Leo Morey, 3&4 Darrell K Sweet). 1&2 illustrates the Eshbach tale mentioned.

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Mark S. Geston sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/geston... was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (Artist: Bob Eggleton, [uncredited], Dieter Ziegenfeuter and John Schoenherr):

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Wu Ming-Yi sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wu_min... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Brendan Monroe, [couldn't identify] and Massimo Dall'Oglio). 3rd suffers from my not being able to incorporate the section of the image that's on the spine:

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John Mackworth sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mackwo... and Gordon Williams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/willia... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Reginald Mills, Thomas Somerfield, Gerry Grace and Karel Thole). 2nd an illustration to Mackworth's "Raid of the Terribore":

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Robert Moore Williams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/willia... was born on this day, so here's some of the interior magazine art for his stories, from 1943-1946 (Artist: J Allen St John, Virgil Finlay, J Allen St John and Julian S Krupa). 2nd for "Battle Before Dawn".

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K-H Scheer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/scheer... was born on this day, here are some of his book/magazine covers: 1&2 as author, 3&4 as editor (Artist: RS Lonati, Atelier Heinrichs, Johnny Bruck and Johnny Bruck):

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William Golding sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/goldin... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], Adams Carvalho, [couldn't identify] and Anthony Gross):

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Patricia Wrightson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wright... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Martin White, David Bergen, Joan Saint and [couldn't identify]):

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Mark Adlard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/adlard... and Brian N Ball sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ball_b... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Peter Jones, Eddie Jones, [uncredited] and Tom Adams):

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Edgar Hoffmann Price sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/price_... died on this day, so here are some of his covers (Artist: T Wyatt Nelson, George Evans, HJ Ward and David B Mattingly). Covers from 1932-1986:

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Léon Groc sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/groc_l... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: [initials seem to be 'TM'], André Galland, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]):

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TE Grattan Smith sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gratta... & Bruce Marshall sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/marsha... were born, whilst John Robb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robb_j... died on this day (Artist: 1&2 E Boye Uden, 3 Shirtsleeve Studio, 4 George Ratcliffe). 2 also for "The Cave of a Thousand Columns":

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Artist Jody A Lee sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lee_jo... and author Lidia Yuknavitch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yuknav... were born on this day, so here's a pair of covers for each of them (Artist: Jody A Lee, Jody A Lee, Rafaela Romaya/Florian Schommer and [couldn't identify]):

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Artist Wally Wood sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wood_w... was born on this day, so here are some of his covers for Weird Science:

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Sydney J Van Scyoc sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/van_sc... died on this day, so here's some of her book covers (Artist: Paul Lehr, Gérard Aublé, Karel Thole and Richard Courtney):

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John Cowper Powys sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/powys_... and Zheng Wenguang sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/zheng_... died on this day: here's some related artwork; the 3rd is a portrait of Zheng Wenguang (couldn't identify the artists; unable to decipher the signature on 2nd, though 1st name might be Mark):

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Dean Ing sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ing_dean was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [uncredited], Alan Gutierrez, Walter Velez and Paul Alexander):

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John Hersey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hersey... G McDonald Wallis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wallis... and Andrew Weiner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weiner... were born on this day (artists: 1&2 Jacob Lawrence, 3 Richard Powers, 4 Geoff Butler). 1&2 from a 1983 limited edition of Hersey's "Hiroshima":

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Artist A Leydenfrost sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leyden... died on this day; he did some impressive sf magazine art, but here's some of his other work:

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Murray Leinster sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leinst... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: William Benulis, Cândido Costa Pinto, Ed Emshwiller and Earle Bergey):

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Marek Baraniecki sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barani... and Joyce Carol Oates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oates_... were born on this day: some covers (Artist: 1 Ryszard Woytowicz?, 2 AG Smith, 3&4 [couldn't identify]). Sorry for the poor quality of the first; 3&4 might not be genre (but I liked covers):

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This week's new SFE entries are here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - a theme entry on 'Technocracy'; the Japan/US film 'Terror Beneath the Sea' (1966) and the US comic 'Adventures into Darkness' (1952-1954).

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