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Theodore Sturgeon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sturge... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Richard Powers, Peter Goodfellow, Richard Powers and Darrell K. Sweet):

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Author and editor Avram Davidson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/davids... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jack Gaughan, [uncredited], Tom Kidd and Richard Powers):

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Robert A Heinlein sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/heinle... died on this day, so here are some of the covers for his books that were initially published in the 1940s - though 1-3 are later editions (artist: Bruce Pennington, Sanford Kossin, Darrell K Sweet and Clifford Geary):

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Artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/giraud... was born on this day; so here's some examples of his artwork:

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Author & artist Hiromi Arakawa sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arakaw... and author, screenwriter etc Paul Tabori sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tabori... were born on his day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Arakawa, Arakawa, Jock Kinnei[?] & Panos Koutrouboussis) 1 re: Arakawa's Full Metal Alchemist:

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Illustrations to stories by authors without an SFE entry, from Amazing Stories Jan-Dec 1953: 1 Ivar Jorgensen [a house name, actual author unknown]; 2 Harriet Frank Jr; 3 Richard A Sternbach; 4 Vern Fearing (Artist: Paul Lundy, [uncredited], Ray Houlihan, Henry Sharp). 3rd for 'The Hands':

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Editor Mort Weisinger sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weisin... & author Hugh Thomas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/thomas... died on this day, so here's 3 magazines edited by Weisinger and a book by Thomas (Artist: Howard V Brown, Rudolph Belarski [or possibly Earle Bergey], Earle Bergey & Phillippe Jullian).

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Gene Wolfe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wolfe_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Richard Bober, Lisa Snellings-Clark, Nicholas Gaetano and Guillaume Sorel):

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Angela Carter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter... was born on this day: some illustrations to her stories by Gill Bradley, Meggie Wood, Igor Karash, Martha R Ford. I believe some/all relate to the Folio Society 2011 Book Illustration Competition where Carter's "The Bloody Chamber ..." was the text:

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William C Anderson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anders... Clyde F Beck sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/beck_c... and Peter Carey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carey_... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], Johnny Bruck, Miller and [couldn't identify]):

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Illustrations to stories by authors without an SFE entry: Amazing Stories Jul-Oct 1952. 1 Dean Evans, 2 HB Hickey, 3 Dex R Moore, 4 Ivar Jorgensen [house name: author unknown] (Artist: Gaylord Welker, Ed Emshwiller, Tom Beecham, Dick Francis). 1 "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" 2 "Sucker from Space":

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Artist Gerard A Quinn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/quinn_... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover artwork.

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L Frank Baum sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/baum_l... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (artist: 1-3 John R Neill, from The Patchwork Girl of Oz; 4 Zbigniew Rychliki, from a Polish edition of The Wizard of Oz):

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Douglas Dold sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dold_d... died and Annalee Newitz sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/newitz... was born on this day (artist: 1&2 Elliott Dold jr [brother], 3 Soufiane Mengad, 4 Deena So'Oteh) 1&2 for Dold's 1931 "Valley of Sin"; 4 from Washington Post review of Newitz's "Terraformers":

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Artist Gordon C Davies sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/davies... was born on this day, so some of his covers from 1952. The 4th's back cover is typical of cheap 1950s UK pulp paperbacks - Joan the Wad "the Lucky Cornish Piskey ... guaranteed dipped in water from the lucky saint's well" was popular too.

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Harl Vincent sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vincen... died on this day, so here's some magazine art for his stories from 1928-1929 (Artist: Frank R Paul, [uncredited], Frank R. Paul and Leo Morey) 1st for 'The Ambassador from Mars'; 2nd for 'Venus Liberated'; 4th for 'The Colloidal Nemesis':

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James Branch Cabell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cabell... died, whilst Leo Lionni sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lionni... and Scott David Westerfeld sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wester... were born on this day (Art: ?, ?, Leo Lionni & Stephan Martiniere. 4th: French edition shows more of the art than US one:

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Catherynne M Valente sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/valent... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (couldn't identify the artists):

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This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - Jacek Dukaj, Simon Jarvis, Florence Knapp and Heiner Goebbels; plus the pilot for the new animated webseries 'The Gaslight District' and the 1951-1955 US comic 'Web of Mystery':

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Thomas Burnett Swann sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/swann_... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Gray Morrow, Peter Jones, Stephen Hickman and John Schoenherr):

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Mór Jókai sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jokai_... and Wilfred Glassford McNeilly sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mcneil... died on this day (Artist: 1&2 couldn't identify, 3 Josh Kirby and 4 Victor Kalin). 1&2 not one of Jókai's genre novels, but liked the covers. 'Peter Saxon' a house name used by McNeilly.

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Some covers to 'Golden Hours' ("an up-to-date weekly for boys") from 1891-1901. Couldn't identify the artists. "Roy Rockwood" was a House Name and has an SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rockwo...

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Dave Dryfoos sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dryfoo... and Alexander M Phillips sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/philli... died, whilst Harold Bell Wrighton sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wright... was born on this day (1 Milton Luros 2&3 Robert Fuqua 4 John Rea Neill) 4th from Wrighton's "The Uncrowned King" (1910):

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E Nesbit sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nesbit_e died on this day, so here's some of her book covers (Artist: Lisbeth Zwerger, [couldn't identify] Richard Lamb and [couldn't identify]). There's a lot of Nesbit covers like the 2nd from over a century ago:

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Kim Mohan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mohan_... was born on this day; he was editor of Amazing Stories 1991-2000, so here are some of the covers from that era (Artist: Mark A Skullerud, Mark Zug, Christopher Moeller and Bob Eggleton):

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Cornelius Shea sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shea_c... died on this day: here's some of his dime novel covers (couldn't identify the artists). 1-3 from 1902/1903; The 4th, "The Wreck of the Nameless Schooner", from 1900, was reprinted in 1903 as "A Girl Crusoe, Or, The Wonders of the Isle of Gnomes":

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Illustrations to stories by authors without an SFE entry, from Amazing Stories January-May 1952. 1. Gerald Vance, 2. Mallory Storm, 3. John Fletcher, 4. F Willard Grey (*house name, actual author unknown) (Artist: 1 Ed Valigursky, 2 Virgil Finlay, 3&4 Lawrence).

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Artist Stephan Martinière sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/martin... was born on this day, so here are some examples of his book cover art (1st for Joel Shepherd's "Defiance"; 2nd Michael McCloskey's "The Rovan Binary"); 3rd Ken MacLeod's "Newton's Wake"):

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John Collier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/collie... was born in this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1st by Reg Cartwright, couldn't identify the others). 3rd from “The Devil and All” (1934):

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Charles Fort sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fort_c... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 1&2 couldn't identify; 3 Bob Pepper and 4 Justin Todd). Unfortunately 1-3's back & front covers don't match up because I don't have the spine images. Pepper might have done 1&2 too?

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Becky Chambers sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chambe... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (Artist: Maria Picassó i Piquer, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and Christopher Doll):

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2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Announced Congratulations to all these wonderful creators! locusmag.com/2025/05...

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Some artwork from "The Electrical Experimenter", Hugo Gernsback's predecessor to "Science & Invention'. All from early 1916: the February, February, January & March issues respectively. 3rd & 4th from Gernsbeck's "Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures" (couldn't identify the artists):

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Jerome K Jerome sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jerome... was born on this day, so here's some of the illustrations from his "Told After Supper" collection from 1891 (Artist: Kenneth M Skeaping):

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EE Smith sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_... was born on this day, so here are some of the covers to 'Skylark of Space', initially co-written with Lee Hawkins Garby, though editions from 1958 apparently removed her contribution (artist: Richard Powers, Karl Stephan, [???] and 中島靖侃 or 金森達):

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Artist Hariton Pushwagner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pushwa... was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork. 1st untitled; 2nd "Self-Portrait"; 3rd from "Soft City"; 4th "Cosmos":

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Antonia Honeywell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/honeyw... and Edward S Van Zile sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/van_zi... were born and Olive Harper sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/harper... died on this day. 2nd is from Van Zile's "Perkins, the Fakeer" (1903). [Artist: 2nd by Hy Mayer, couldn't identify others]:

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, but who cares: here's Ansible 454. news.ansible.uk/a454.html

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A quiet day for memorable anniversary art, so here's some illustrations from the October 1920 edition of Hugo Gernsback's 'Science & Invention' magazine. the 1st from an article on "The Propeller-less Aeroplane" by H Winfield Secor (Artist: 1&3 Frank R Paul, 2 Wardell[?], 4 can't see a signature):

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Illustrations to stories by authors without an SFE entry, from Amazing Stories May-December 1951. 1 PF Costello, 2 Gerald Vance, 3 Arthur G Stangland, 4 SM Tenneshaw* [*publisher's house name: actual author unknown] (Artist: Ogden Whitney, Leo Summers, Ed Valigursky and Dean Bershad):

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