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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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Richard Adams (1920-2016) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1018

L, Pauline Baynes, 1973; R, Martin White, 1974

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William Tenn (1920-2010) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?484

L, Boris Vallejo, 1975; R, Richard Powers, 1955

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Brazilian SF author André Carneiro (1922-2014) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11686

L, uncredited, 1980; R, Paul Lehr, 1973

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Richard McKenna (1913-1964) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?8013

L, Angus McKie, 1976; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1963

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Kris Neville (1925-1980) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1265

L, Charles Frank, 1952; R, Andy Zito, 1971

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Artist George Schelling (1938-) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27415

L, 1965; R, 1965

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Geoff Ryman (1951-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1027

L, Dave McKean, 1989; R, Paul Rickwood, 1987

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Richard Cowper (1926-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?481

L, Don Maitz, 1979; R, Don Maitz, 1981

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Ed Emshwiller's interior art for John Christopher's "Decoy" (1954) in Science Fiction Stories (July 1955)

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New science fiction purchases! Vernor Vinge, Daphne du Maurier, Keith Laumer, and Mack Reynolds

Discussion, my initial thoughts, cover information: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/05/07/updates-recent-science-fiction-purchases-no-cccxxxiii-keith-laumer-vernor-vinge-mack-reynolds-daphne-du-maurier/

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Today's : Faustine by Emma Tennant (1992, 140p.)
A retelling of the Faust legend, set in 1990s London with a female cast. Doormat Muriel becomes rich, sexy, envied Lisa through the machinations of a Satanic Gran. "An entertaining tract for the times," said the TLS.

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@neglectedbooks I thoroughly enjoyed Tennant's The Time of the Crack (variant title: The Crack) (1973). I should read more of her speculative fiction... I read but never reviewed Hotel de Dream as well. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2017/02/28/book-review-the-time-of-the-crack-variant-title-the-crack-emma-tennant-1973/

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@neglectedbooks ...The Crack (1973) is also wafer thin haha.

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Lee Killough (1942-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?605

L, Michael Herring, 1979; R, Michael Herring, 1981

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Pat Frank (1907-1964) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?807

L, uncredited, 1960; R, Barye Phillips, 1957

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Artist Bob Layzell (1940-) was born on this day. List of covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26048

L, 1977; R, 1980

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John Broome (1913-1999) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1864

L, Rudolph Belarski, 1941; R, Rudolph Belarski, 1941

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A. O. Pollard (1893-1960) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?239306

L, uncredited, 1937; R, uncredited, 1937

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Eddie Jones' cover art for D. C. Hogan's Nacht über Balun (1976)

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New SF esoterica for the collection!

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Edward E. Smith (1890-1965) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?67

L, Ric Binkley, 1950; R, Jack Gaughan, 1965

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Eddie Jones' cover art detail for William Voltz's Quarantäne (1976)

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Today’s SF esoterica — race tensions in a near future New Zealand

Craig Harrison's Broken October (1976)

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Frank Kelly Freas' art illustrating William Rotsler's "The Raven and the Hawk" in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, ed. Ben Bova (September 1974)

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Larry Niven (1938-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?42

L, Rick Sternbach, 1975; R, Dean Ellis, 1970

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@pyperkub Never cared for him.

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@pyperkub Birthday posts are birthday posts -- that's all. For my actual tastes and discussion of SF, check out my site as I probably have said before. That said, most of the Niven I read was before I started writing about SF but space opera and "hard SF" tend not to be my wheelhouse.

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