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Joachim Boaz
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History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
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Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Player of Games. A craft zips towards buildings over a waterfall. Cover for Against a Dark Background. Woman looks over rail at a complex set of machines.
February 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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A lesser-known speculative fiction for Black History Month! (An African American journalist uncovers a secret, genocidal, government plan)
#scifi #sciencefiction #literature #blackhistorymonth
Cover for The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams. Just black/brown smudges on cover and title. No art. Photo on table with patterned cloth, coffee cup, and pencil
February 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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1853 novel "Clotel, or, The President's daughter: a narrative of slave life in the United States" by William Wells Brown, a writer and fugitive slave. the novel uses then-contemporary rumors about Thomas Jefferson to expose the brutal horror of chattel slavery in the US
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February 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Artist Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1953; R, 1958
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Cover for the November 1953 issue of Galaxy. A group of woman computer and place coordinates and lines on a transparent view screen. Men sit at computers on the other side. Cover for Heinlein's Have Spacesuit--Will Travel. Spaceman wanders across surface in spacesuit. There are, in the distances, indicators of hills and valleys
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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F. L. Wallace (1915-2004) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Wallace Wood, 1958; R, Jack Coggins, 1952
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Address Centauri. Man on scooter, woman kneeling, and a ghostly shape of another spaceman -- all below a landed spaceship Cover for the Sept. 1952 issue of Galaxy. Rocket ship launches. Loading tower and various outbuildings nearby.
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Wilhelmina Baird (1935-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Bruce Jensen, 1993; R, Brian Lewis, 1961
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Crashcourse. Cover shows a dial, lips, some sort of cloth or textured surface. Cover for No. 107 issue of New Worlds. Police man walks in front of a woman with patches on her pants. Baird writes as Kathleen James.
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Keith Scaife, 1989; R, Mark Salwowski, 1993
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Player of Games. A craft zips towards buildings over a waterfall. Cover for Against a Dark Background. Woman looks over rail at a complex set of machines.
February 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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A lesser-known speculative fiction for Black History Month! (An African American journalist uncovers a secret, genocidal, government plan)
#scifi #sciencefiction #literature #blackhistorymonth
Cover for The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams. Just black/brown smudges on cover and title. No art. Photo on table with patterned cloth, coffee cup, and pencil
February 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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A virtually unknown speculative fiction for Black History Month! (near future or alternate present account of Black Revolution) #scifi #sciencefiction #literature #blackhistorymonth
Photo of Chuck Stone's King Strut. Book is next to a pencil and my Iceland mug with coffee.
February 15, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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James Gurney's canvas for the 1st edition of John Dalmas' Homecoming (1984)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
A spaceship descends into a glade filled with medieval-esque knights and foot soldiers.
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Joel Richards (1937-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, David Mattingly, 1986; R, Peter Goodfellow, 1986
Cover for Pindharee. A couple gaze at an elevated city surrounded by birds in a spectacular mountain valley with river and waterfall Cover for Universe 14. A twister-like shape emerges from what looks like water. There's a sun in the background.
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Jack Dann (1945-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Jim Burns, 1986; R, uncredited, 1981
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Man Who Melted. Man with sinister look approaches a woman who seems to be turning into stone. Behind him is a henge, a tree, and another stone woman. Cover for Junction. Man runs away from a demonic dragon-like thing.
February 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Jo Clayton (1939-1998) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L Michael Mariano, 1980; R, Ken Kelly, 1982
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #fantasy
Cover for Star Hunters. Woman in diaphanous blue dress walks across a chessboard-patterned floor. Behind her is a man with orange hair and high boots. There's also a rabbit-like creature at her feet. Cover for Moongather. Man, with woman behind him, approaches a small dragon.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Arthur Leo Zagat (1896-1949) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Rudolph Belarski, 1939; R, Frank R. Paul, 1931
#scifi #sciencefiction
Cover for Argosy Weekly illustrating his short novel Children of Tomorrow. Three people, one woman, seem to be hunting or stalking someone. Behind them is an Asian enemy. Unfortunately, this is an example of the "Yellow Peril"-style SF popular at the time. Cover for the September 1931 issue of Wonder stories. Various robots chase after a human spacecraft.
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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My little reader
#scifi #sciencefiction #caturday #cats
Cyrus the tabby on chair with Best of Fritz Leiber
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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A most profitable day has been had in Sheffield.

By which I mean - profitable for all the stalls who say this mug coming a mile off.
A whole lotta comics - Marvel's Transformers, various 2000AD/Judge Dredd comics, Dan Dare, Star Lord, and David Bowie.
February 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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A lesser known speculative fiction for Black History Month! #scifi #sciencefiction #literature #blackhistorymonth
Kelley’s A Different Drummer (1962). Cover shows a broken chain and perhaps a sun
February 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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With #HugoAward nominating starting this week, I thought I'd talk about some of the works, critics, and artists that we thought are worthy of recognition.

My friends, what an exceptional year for SFF it was.

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Screen shot from Murderbot on Apple+ Cover for novel Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Cover of Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky Cover of Krypto, The Last Dog of Krypton
February 12, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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J. T. McIntosh (1925-2008) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, John Richards, 1961; R, Virgil Finlay, 1963
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Fittest. Man seems to be screaming and rising his hand in front of a large explosion or fire. Cover for The Million Cities. A group of men against the cosmos. One breaks a spaceship. People fall out.
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Gwyneth Jones (1952-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Sue Lanzon, 1985; R, Lionel Jeans, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Woman with earring looks at the expanses of the cosmos. Cover for Escape Plans. Woman with a cybernetic brain looks across an urban expanse.
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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It's always worth tracking down the citation.

Here it is: Jim Burns' cover art for Colin Greenland's Mother of Plenty (1998)
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retro sci-fi art of a woman in a spacesuit beside some wading bonds with a metal bird
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Elliott Dold, Jr.'s interior art for Otto Binder's "Life Disinherited" in Astounding Stories (March 1937)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Two men drive a car through the wreck remains of a city. It's covered with dead people. A car crashes through a furniture store window. Even their rearview mirror shows the dead.
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Elliott Dold, Jr.'s interior art for Amelia Reynolds Long's "Cosmic Fever" in Astounding Stories (February 1937)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Spaceman leans over in agony from the heat inside of a spaceship with all types of dials and gauges etc.
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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THE TROUBLE WITH TYCHO (1976)
Acrylic on Illustration Board

While excavating on the Moon, an astronaut bites the dust (I couldn’t resist) and another fights vainly against a malevolent alien energy. 1/3

#booksky #art
A man in spacesuit with bubble helm throws up his arms as he’s swarmed by blue lights. The fuzzy dots of light leave a trail back to the horizon, obscuring some of the star field. In front of man, face down in the regolith lies the remains of another astronaut whose helm is cracked. All that remains of his head are the bones of his skull.
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips.

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Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Edited by Timothy R. Granger and Michael W. Phillips Jr. Volume 1: The Black Stockings by William Thomas Smith + Tales of Black Robin by H.L. Faggett Introduction by Cauleen Smith, cover art by Daimon Hampton A Black guerrilla group fights against a racist presidential candidates, plus an undercover avenger rights racist wrongs one punch in the jaw at a time. Volume 2: The Creeping Thing by Cora Jean Moten + The Baron of Harlem by Nick Lewis Introduction by Charlotte Carter, cover art by Julie Anderson One of the first zombie stories in English, and one of the best. Plus a white gangster changes places and skin color with a scheming Black musician. Volume 3: From Outer Space & Orbit of Doom + short stories about Jacques Lenglet and Jiggs Bennett by James H. Hill Introduction by Ytasha L. Womack, cover art by Maurice Buckley Aliens visit Earth with a dire warning about humanity's nuclear ambitions, plus stories about a Black WW1 ace and a reporter who punches racists in the face. November 2026.
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM