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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 between 1945-1985. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
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Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Covers for Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears and Terminal Boredom. The left cover shows her sitting on a mattress with red shoes. The second her reaching across a Japanese floor mat.
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Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1972; R, 1973
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Cover for Anthony's Macroscope. A satellite or spaceship hovers of a moon-like surface that is covered with signs of habitation. The earth seems to be in the distance. The craft seems to be emitting a signal or something. Cover for Simak's Cemetery World. A an abandoned city, with a large image of a person, looms above a desert landscape.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Molly Gloss (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Shelley Eshkar, 1997; R, Gary Freeman, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Dazzle of Day. The cover shows the moon or a planet surrounded by various patterns. Cover for The July 1986 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A muscular man holds a bow and flexes his chest. Below him is a furry reptile creature and a large male head behind him.
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Molly Gloss (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Shelley Eshkar, 1997; R, Gary Freeman, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Dazzle of Day. The cover shows the moon or a planet surrounded by various patterns. Cover for The July 1986 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A muscular man holds a bow and flexes his chest. Below him is a furry reptile creature and a large male head behind him.
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Check out my latest joint review with @joachimboaz.bsky.social on Izumi Suzuki's disturbing and fascinating "Terminal Boredom":

sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...

Japanese #SFinTranslation
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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As of today, the publishers with the most #SFinTranslation in 2025 are:

@ndbooks.bsky.social (6)
@twolinespress.com (4)
@honfordstar.bsky.social (4)

Thanks for all the great books!!! 🎉
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I do not understand authors, broadcasters, voice artists, YouTubers, ANY creative artists using quick and cheap AI for their cover images and not realising: it will be you next.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Edward Blair Wilkins' cover art detail for the 1983 edition of K. H. Scheer's Die Großen in der Tiefe (1961)
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art
A cross section of a spacecraft (I assume) of some sort. Various astronauts sit and walk around. There seems to be a woman reclining in a chair with a sphere behind her and various struts of the craft.
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Our book comes out this week!!!
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Oct 9
With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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A Sweet Sweet Summer by Jane Gaskell

Alien invasion and the local Nazis complicate Pelham "Rat" Garfield's simple dream of being a successful pimp.

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On the Right Track
Jane Gaskell’s 1969 A Sweet Sweet Summer is a near future dystopic black comedy novel. Vast alien ships appear over Britain and isolate it from the rest of the world1. Millions die as food stops arriv...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Wallace Saaty's interior art for Laurence Manning's "The Living Galaxy" in Wonder Stories (September 1934). The story contains a very early reference to a generation ship.
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
A cosmic scene. A spaceship illuminates various asteroids and a ray emerges from a tower on "top" of the ship that aims into the dark.
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Frank R. Paul's interior art for Charles de Richter's La menace invisible (translated by Fletcher Pratt as The Fall of the Eiffel Tower) in Wonder Stories (September 1934)
#scifi #sciencefiction #book
A street in Paris collapses. People and cars scurry about.
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Japanese #SFinTranslation
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Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Covers for Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears and Terminal Boredom. The left cover shows her sitting on a mattress with red shoes. The second her reaching across a Japanese floor mat.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Happy Control Panel Saturday, with this tiny frontal lobe control room from Roger Dean’s 1973 cover art for 'Gold the Man,' by Joseph Green
A cutaway view of a brain from the side, with half of it replaced by two tiny round rooms. One room in the frontal lobe has a chair and an array of controls, with another room behind it that has a small young human figure in it.
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I am reminded of Gerard F. Conway's short story "Funeral Service" (1972) in which the mind of a dead relative is implanted into a robot. The main character wants to reconcile with his dead father. Of course real connection with a simulacra is impossible.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8d
For real, check this out. Evil.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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In honor of J. G. Ballard's birthday, two french editions of his work.

L, Wojtek Siudmak, 1986; R, Marcel Laverdet, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #books
Cover for Crash. Large tyre that looks like a shell hovers over a beach. Cover for Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction J. G. Ballard. Large man on a beech, people sit and climb on him, wasps, ocelot-like cats with odd collars.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Covers for Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears and Terminal Boredom. The left cover shows her sitting on a mattress with red shoes. The second her reaching across a Japanese floor mat.
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Chris Foss, 1978; R, James Marsh, 1985
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Drought. Seas have dried up. Ships are stranded. Cars. Two figures look at the massive shape of the ship stranded in the sand. Cover for Crash. Woman holds a whip with red lips and a collar.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Frank Utpatel, 1947; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1962
#scifi #fantasy #books #sciencefiction
Cover for Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Man wanders in the distance. There's a gnarly tree in the foreground, a large moon, and a house with a luminous door. Cover for The House on the Borderland. A man levitates towards a church-like house. There are various faces and forms on the ridges on both sides.
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Joseph Payne Brennan's "Recognition of Death" in Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, ed. August Derleth (1961)
#poetry #fantasy #books
Recognition of Death I see now, not far away, the savage pit, The strangling sea, the web of night, enormous. I fear them. Murmur words, blur them with myths--- Terror remains. You cannot touch it with talk. Fear has entered my aging fibers, coiled like an asp. Henceforth I shall bear it towards the darkness, And if it casts a shadow in the sun, Then will the sun be sweeter, while it stays.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Michael Bishop (1945-2023) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Gene Szafran, 1975; R, H. R. Van Dongen, 1977
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire. The upper torso of a bald man with rock eyes. Behind him is a chasm filled with similar green colored elements. Cover for Beneath the Shattered Moons. Woman dances above a person laying on a table covered with a cloth. In the distance is a man with a dagger on the back wall.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Paul Cook (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, James Gurney, 1984; R, John Hamagami, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #Books
Cover for the Alejandra Variations. A strider device carries a bomb. Around it seems to be an ancient world of sailing ships. Cover for Halo. The Earth is impacted by a comet or asteroid.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Bruce Pennington
People in robes walk along curved pathways under the green tubes of a bulbous city.
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
Cover for Player Piano. Close-up of eyes with a piano shape coming out of one. Cover for Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Various soldiers dancing underneath a bomber.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Artist Ian Miller (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

#scifi #sciencefiction

Cover: 1975
Cover for Herbert's The Eyes of Heisenberg. Man in suit is smashed by multiple destructive rays. His suit seems to be attached to a machine behind him.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Mack Reynolds (1917-1983) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Vincent Di Fate, 1976; R, Paul Lehr, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Rolltown. A town rolls across the landscape. Various other vehicles on tracks behind and in front of it. Cover for Lagrance Give. A spaceship flies out of a VAST space station.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM