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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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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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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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List on blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...
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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art by Jim Burns
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
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Ludovico De Luigi's cover art detail for the 1972 Italian edition of World's Best Science Fiction: 1968, ed. Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim (1968)

Italian title: Il computer sotto il mondo
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Man with jousting equipment on a motorcycle. He is dressed as a medieval knight.
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Today's black history month + science fiction post!

Two Italian covers for Samuel R. Delany's Triton (1976) and The Einstein Intersection (1967)

L, Giuseppe Festino, 1978; R, Ludovico De Luigi, 1971
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
A planetary scene with craters, various green swirls, and rock-like uplifts A Tower of Babel like arcology. The arches and pillars are duplicated and duplicated and layered.
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1966; R, 1968
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Cover for Conan the Adventurer. Conan stand with sword on a pile of dead. Various skulls behind him. And a woman at his feet. Cover for Danger World. Man and woman stand on a craggy outcrop with gun. There are two planetary objects behind them.
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Infamous hack author R. L. Fanthorpe (1935-) was born on this day. Co-wrote with his wife Patricia. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Eddie Jones, 1959; R, reused Ed Emshwiller art, 1960
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Space-Borne. Buff hairless man stands in garish pants in front of a rocket, the cosmos, and earth. Cover for Juggernaut. Various men look at a creature ripping the world like a sheet of paper. Buildings crumble and buckle as if the world is being torn.
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Artist Gary Viskupic (1944-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1978; R, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Cover for Carver's Star Rigger's Way. Man and cat person. Behind them is a spaceship. Cover for Simak's City. Various robots and dogs above and around a city.
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Star Trek Voyager scene. We've got Tuvok standing next to Seven of Nine (Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01). She's looking and him, and he's doing a smouldering, eyebrow popping look off into the distance thing. Closed caption reads, "I share your discomfort with social gatherings."
February 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Book Review: William Tenn's Time in Advance (1958) sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/02/08/b...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Mitchell Hooks’ cover for the 1st edition. A dense group of human figures below a looming facade. It's a bit surreal and unclear exactly what you're looking at.
February 8, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Today’s Black History Month post: two fascinating histories of the American South from my collection

#history #books #Blackhistorymonth
Harold’s New Negro Politics and Anderson’s The Education of Blacks in the South
February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, film stills, 1961; R, uncredited, 1905
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Film stills serve as the cover for Verne's Master of the World (including Robur the Conquerer). A scene of a man in the steering room of his craft Cover for Invasions from the Sea. A large steam ship leaves a pier. There's a fantastical map in the background.
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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A selection of science fiction histories that touch on African American visions from my shelves.

#history #scifi #sciencefiction #blackhistorymonth
From L to R: Foertsch's Reckoning Day, Kilgore's Astrofuturism, Lavender's Black and Brown Planets, Zamalin's Black Utopia, Nyong's Black Apocalypse, and Canavan's Butler.
February 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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John B. Michel (1917-1968) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Hannes Bok, 1941; R, John R. Forte, Jr., 1942
#scifi #sciencefiction
Cover for the June 1941 issue of Stirring Science Stories. Person with large head runs. There are various asteroids and what looks like an explosion of a cosmic body. Cover for the April 1942 issue of Future combined with Science Fiction. Man and woman look at a strange scene in front of them -- there seem to be various humanoid aliens with three figures, a spacecraft or rover, and a large circle of color in which a figure is held.
February 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Artist Jean-Michel Nicollet (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1979; R, 1979
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #artist
Cover for Farmer's Comme une bete. Man with gas mask sees a scene involving a tentacle, blood, and a woman. Cover for Farmer's La jungle nue. Tarzan holds a knife in his teeth and climbs a ropes.
February 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Diane and Leo Dillon's interior art for H. L. Gold's "Never Come Midnight" in Galaxy Science Fiction (May 1958)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #blackhistorymonth
A face reflected and refracted in a crystal-like shape. There's another aged face behind looking at it. A composite image of many scenes. Around the central figure of a man holding a woman's face there are other human outlines replaying various dramas. It's hard to decode without narrative context.
February 6, 2026 at 11:45 AM