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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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Ed Emshwiller's interior art for James E. Gunn's "Witches Must Burn" in Astounding Science Fiction (August 1956)
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art
A man looks forward while a scene of destructions rages behind him -- various people hold guns, clubs, and knives and buildings burn.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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H. R. Van Dongen's interior art for Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg's "The Promised Land" in Astounding Science Fiction (August 1956)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art
Possible humanoid alien (not sure, have not read story) woman with necklace and high collar holds the head of a thing horse-like creature.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Artist John Alvin (1948-2008) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, 1984; R, 1992
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #artist
Cover for Bladerunner. Shows the city, Harrison Ford, levitating car, etc. Cover for Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country. There's a klingon, various bird of prey, the enterprise.
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Spider Robinson (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, James Warhola, 1987; R, Chris Foss, 1986
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Time PRessure. WOman in a sphere levitates over a wintery scene. Cover for Telempath. A man with an egyptian (almost) headdress seems to be connected to a mech which is shooting.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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New history purchase! #history #USA #UnitedStates
Photo of A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society. Cover shows a group of workers in strike
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Nelson S. Bond (1908-2006) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Jack Gaughan, 1965; R, Hubert Rogers, 1941
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Exiles of Time. Three men are pelted with gunshots or small meteorites. There is a spaceship above them. Cover for the February 1941 issue of Astounding. Man and woman approach the statue of liberty.
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Steven Brust (1955-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Stephen Hickman, 1984; R, Rick Berry, 1992
#fantasy #books
Cover for Yendi. Man with small dragon on his soldiers poses imperiously. He has earrings, golden hair, and a scrumptious cloak/coat. Cover for The Phonix Gards. Man with a swords stands in front of a phoenix.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...

L, Davis Meltzer, 1977; R, Michael Whelan, 1977
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for The Lincoln Hunters. Shows Lincoln bifurcated in two worlds. One of his origins (cabin, cart, etc.) and another of the future. Cover for Tucker's The Year of the Quiet Sun. African American man stands in a column surrounded by skulls on sticks. Behind him are two faces and a nuclear explosion.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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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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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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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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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My review also contains an appeal for assistance (about identifying Japanese publication dates): sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
A Preliminary Note about the Verso edition that I wish I didn't have to make: It's a shame that the editors of Terminal Boredom (2021) did not commission an introduction about Izumi Suzuki and her place in the larger Japanese literary/SF world or even include the original Japanese publication dates for seven stories included. I identified the date for "Terminal Boredom" (1984) and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1979) from a Japanese-language website and "Women and Women" (1977, rev. 1978) from SF Encyclopedia. It's embarrassing/lazy that this information isn't included in the edition. If you know of the rest of the publication dates for "You May Dream", "Night Picnic", "That Old Seaside Club", and "Forgotten" in the collection let me know. As the organization appears to be chronological, I assume they were published between 1977-1984.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 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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Ballard I've covered on my site: sciencefictionruminations.com/science-fict...

My most recent review: The Wind From Nowhere (1962) sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/10/17/b...
Ballard, J. G. “The Assassination Weapon” (1966) Billenium (1962) “Billenium” (variant title: of “Billennium”) (1961) “The Insane Ones” (1962) “Studio 5, The Stars” (1961) “The Gentle Assassin” (1961) “Build-Up” (variant title: The Concentration City) (1957) “Now: Zero” (1959) “Mobile” (1957) “Chronopolis” (1960) “Prima Belladonna” (1956) “The Garden of Time” (1962) “The Cage of Sand” (1962) “The Dead Astronaut” (1968) High-Rise (1975) “The Killing Ground” (1969) The Voices of Time and Other Stories (1962) “The Voices of Time” (1960) “The Sound-Sweep” (1960) “The Overloaded Man” (1961) “Zone of Terror” (1960) “Manhole 69” (1957) “The Waiting Grounds” (1959) “Deep End” (1961) “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe” (1966) The Wind From Nowhere (1962) “Thirteen to Centaurus” (1962)
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 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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....what I've covered on the site: sciencefictionruminations.com/science-fict...
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975) [Guest Post] “Allegiances” (1975) [Guest Post] A Little Knowledge (1977) And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (variant title: Beneath the Shattered Moons) (1976) [Guest Post] Blooded on Arachne (1982) (selections) [Guest Post] “Brittle Innings” (1994) [Guest Post] Catacomb Years (1979) Catacomb Years (1979) “The Domes” (1978) “If a Flower Could Eclipse” (1970) Interlude: The Testimony of Leland Turner” (1979) “Old Folks at Home” (1978) “Interlude: The City Takes care of Its Own” (1979) “The Windows in Dante’s Hell” (1973) “Interlude: Volplaning Heroes” (1979) “The Samurai and the Willows” (1976) “Interlude: The Cradle Begins to Rock” (1979) “At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoofly-Pie Kid: A Story by Julian Kosturko-Cawthon” (1977) “Interlude: The Fall of Saganella Lesser” (1979) “Death Rehearsals” (1979) [Guest Post 1] “Death and Designation Among the Asadi” (1973) [Guest Post 2] “Death and Designation Among the Asadi” (1973) [Guest Post] “In Rubble, Pleasing” (1974) [Guest Post] No Enemy But Time (1982) [Guest Post] “The Quickening” (1981) “Saving Face” (1980) Stolen Faces (1977) Transfigurations (1979) [Guest Post] “The White Otters of Childhood” (1973) “The Windows in Dante’s Hell” (1973)
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 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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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