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History PhD. Joachim Boaz maps the more esoteric inclines and declines of science fiction between 1945-1985. When SF tackles the greater morass of things and our oblique interiors he is happy. His website Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations charts these movements. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/

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Artist Larry Kresek (1948-) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26342

L, 1976; R, 1974

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Artist Richard Clifton-Dey (1930-1997) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26442

L, 1971; R, 1972
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #artist

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Neil R. Jones (1909-1988) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?33

L, A. Drake, 1941; R, Gray Morrow, 1967
#scifi #pulp #sciencefiction #books

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T. H. White (1906-1964) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2322

L, 1960; R, Peter Le Vasseur, 1964
#fantasy #books

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Artist Ken Fagg (1901-1980) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27557

L, 1953; R, 1954
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Walker Percy (1916-1990) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4988

L, uncredited, 1978; R, uncredited, 1987
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature

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Sherwood Smith (1951-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2089

L, Jim Burns, 1993; R, Nicholas Jainschigg, 1997
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@TheGreatHermit Not an author I've read

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Geoffrey A. Landis (1955-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?417

L, Jack Gaughan, 1984; R, Janet Aulisio, 1988

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Short Book Reviews: Clifford D. Simak’s They Walked Like Men (1962) and Jacques Sternberg’s Sexualis ’95 (1965, trans. 1967) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/05/27/short-book-reviews-clifford-d-simaks-they-walked-like-men-1962-and-jacques-sternbergs-sexualis-95-1965-trans-1967/

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Omg, I got to use the phrase "exegetical anxiety" in a review! Exciting! Stay tuned.

#scifi #sciencefiction #writing #books

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If "wait, what?" is your response, that's okay! As a medievalist by training who wrote a lot about Church history, I'm all about exegesis. Muahaha.

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Artist Alan Magee (1947-) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25719

L, 1974; R, 1979

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Mordecai Roshwald (1921-2015) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4833

L, uncredited, 1961; R, Gene Szafran, 1976
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #ColdWar

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Roshwald's Level 7 (1959) is very very very good. My review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2013/01/05/book-review-level-7-mordecai-roshwald-1959/

#scifi #sciencefiction #books #ColdWar

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Author and editor Robert Hoskins (1933-1993) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1248

L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1976; R, Jim Steranko, 1970
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Editor Charles D. Hornig (1916-1999) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1870

L, Frank R. Paul, 1940; R, Frank R. Paul, 1941
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Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?835

L, Richard Powers, 1964; R, Tom Kidd, 1980
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@resuna I reviewed her first three published short fictions on my site. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2023/01/16/short-fiction-reviews-phyllis-gotliebs-a-grain-of-manhood-1959-phantom-foot-1959-and-no-end-of-time-1960/

#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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C. Wright Mills on how big business uses small business owners as a key part of their self-perpetuating propaganda.

From White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951)

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Nochem Nodel's interior art for Irving E. Cox, Jr.'s "Way Station" in If (May 1965)

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Themistokles Kanellakis' cover art detail for the 1st edition of Michael Sullivan's In den Dschungeln von Scylla (1984)

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New history purchase!

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James Blish (1921-1975) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7

L, Darrell K. Sweet, 1979; R, Chris Foss, 1981

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Isidore Haiblum (1935-2012) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3088

L, Larry Kresek, 1977; R, uncredited, 1979

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