Working on the Area X: The Southern Reach Files, the SR coffee table book from Abrams Image and cackling at how good your lighthouse photos were. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest.
John Brunner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brunne... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: John Schoenherr, Paul Lehr, John Schoenherr and Allison). 'Keith Woodcott' a Brunner pseudonym:
![A cover for 'The Martian Sphinx' by John Brunner [as by Keith Woodcott]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaffsikc5nub6hqya4ufufxd/bafkreievnk25akbow6oep64hffclyfegpbina2xm3zlxxx5kvkkqo7k6cq)
Some interior magazine artwork for John Brunner stories 1959-1963 (Gray Morrow, Roy G Krenkel, John Schoenherr and Francis)
Brian Aldiss sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/aldiss... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Dean Ellis, Karel Thole, Peter Elson and Bruce Pennington):
Hugo Gernsback sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gernsb... was born on this day (16th): so here's some of the illustrations to his series "Baron Münchhausen's New Scientific Adventures" begun in his magazine The Electrical Experimenter, from 1915 (Artist: First seems to be initialled "EE", rest uncredited):
Had some problems logging onto Bluesky earlier, but seems OK now. Artist Paul Lehr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lehr_p... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover artwork from 1971:
Achei meu time para torcer na Copa. Que viva Cabo Verde!
James Tiptree Jr sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tiptre... died on this day, so here are some of her book and comic covers (Artist: John Allison, Rick Sternbach and Vicente Segrelles):
Um dia ainda vamos lembrar dos tempos difíceis de hoje e sentir saudades deles, e vamos chamá-los, com nostalgia, “o tempo em que tínhamos tudo”.
JG Ballard sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ballar... died on this day, so here are some magazine covers from 1962/1963 illustrating his stories (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, Brian Lewis, Virgil Finlay and Ed Emshwiller):
Bruce Sterling sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sterli... was born on this day, so here's some magazine artwork for his stories from 1982-1993 (Artist: Carl Lundgren, Rudolf Hausner, Gregory Manchess and Vern Dufford):
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
“Why can’t we just put the oil onto trucks and ride it across the desert rather than through the strait of Hormuz?” My love, let me direct you to a little documentary called Mad Max: Fury Road
a man is hanging from a rope next to a vehicle
Alt: The pole fighters swinging over Imperator Furiosa’s War Rig
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"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.
James Herbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/herber... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Gerry Grace, Oscar Chichoni, Tim White and Karel Thole):
Robert Bloch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bloch_... was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (artist: Pete Kuhlhoff, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and John Schoenherr):
Manly Wade Wellman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wellma... died on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (Artist: AR Tilburne, AJ Donnell, Ed Emshwiller and Lou Feck):
Stanley G. Weinbaum sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weinba... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: 1 Ron Walotsky, 2 Peter Elson, 3&4 [couldn't identify]):
There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!
Stanisław Lem sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lem_st... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stéphane Dumont, [couldn't identify], Daniel Mróz and Paul Lehr). The first is from 1981.
This re the BookBub Idoru ebook. Much appreciated, and I feel we’re basically there already for a Kardashian/AI hook-up!
Jessica Rose Sanford 🏳️⚧️@jess6k.bsky.social · 6mo agoJust reread this trilogy, so much would be discarded as hacky 'on the nose' of current events if they dropped today, just wild. We're gonna zip right past that 'future' when a Kardashian marrying an AI feels like boring news. Give us a couple more years...
Leigh Brackett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bracke... died on this day, so here are some interior magazine illustrations to her stories from 1949/1950 (Artist: [Uncredited], [Uncredited], Vincent Napoli and Virgil Finlay):
The cover and interior artwork from Astounding Stories, June 1936, for HP Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" (Artist: Howard V Brown):
