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HR Giger was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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Frank Herbert died on this day, so here are four Dune-related Japanese book covers (couldn't identify artists, but suspect 石森章太郎 either did 2nd & 3rd or the 4th):
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Artist Shaun Tan was born on this day, so here's some of his work:
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Artist Wayne Douglas Barlowe, best known for 'Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials', was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Katsuhiro Ōtomo was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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Artist Jean Giraud - aka Moebius - died on this day; best known for his comics and film work, he also provided the illustrations for many book covers, so here's some of them:
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Artist Noriyoshi Ōrai died on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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Artist HR Giger died on this day, so here's some images from his 1977 collection "H.R. Giger's Necronomicon":
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Illustrator Jerome Podwil was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (the 2nd is for A Bertram Chandler's ' Empress of Outer Space', the 3rd for Poul Anderson's 'The Enemy Stars' and the 4th for Philip K Dick's 'A Crack in Space':
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Frank Frazetta was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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HP Lovecraft died on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (1st artist is named on bottom row, centre left; couldn't identify the others). The 3rd is a manga adaptation.
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Philip K Dick was born on this day, so here are most of his US magazine cover art appearances (artist: Ed Emshwiller, Milton Luros, Frank Kelly Freas and Lloyd Birmingham):
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Artist Rick Sternbach was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Artist David A. Hardy was born on this day, so here are some of his covers:
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Artist Tom Adams was born on this day, so here's some of his book cover art:
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Artist Brian Bolland was born on this day, so here's some of his work. I think I still have my copy of that Beautiful Happiness album.
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Larry Niven was born on this day, so here's some of his Japanese book covers (couldn't identify artists):
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Artist Richard Hescox was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art. The 3rd is his artwork for Robert E. Vardeman's "Space Vectors":
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Galaxie was a French magazine that translated stories from Galaxy, If & Worlds of Tomorrow, and - until the late 1960s - used their covers; but by 1971 the covers were exclusively home produced - here are some examples (Jacques Wyrs, Philippe Caza, Claude Lacroix & Philippe Caza)
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Manga creator Yukinobu Hoshino was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Artist Karel Thole died on this day, so here's some of his cover art from 1960/1961:
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Artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was born on this day; so here's some of his interior art, for: 1&2, Edmond Hamilton's 'La Planete des Loups'; 3, 'Les Univers de Robert Sheckley' and 4, Francis Carsac's "Ceux de Nulle Part".
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Illustrator Michael Whelan was born on this day, so here's some of examples of his cover art; the 1st for Mack Reynold's 'Day After Tomorrow', the 3rd for Fred Saberhagen's 'Brother Assassin' (who died on this day - see earlier tweet) and the 4th for CJ Cherryh's 'Sunfall':
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Gene Wolfe died on this day, so here are four of his French covers (artist: Yuri Shwedoff, Anthony Wolff, Guillaume Sorel and [couldn't identify]):
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Robert Silverberg was born on this day, so here are some of his book's covers (artist: Don Punchatz, Željko Pahek, Ed Valigursky and G. Benvenuti): [Calvin Knox was a Silverberg pseudonym]
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Bruce Pennington was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork. 1st for Frank Herbert "Children of Dune"; 2nd for Philip Jose Farmer "The Stone God Awakens":
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Patrick Woodroffe was born on this day, so here's some of his book cover artwork, for A Merritt's "Seven Footprints to Satan"; "New Worlds 8 (also used for Best of Galaxy IV"); Ralph Milne Farley's "The Radio Planet" and "The Best of Robert Heinlein":
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Artist and author Shigeru Komatsuzaki was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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Ray Bradbury died on this day, so here are some of the covers to Fahrenheit 451 (Artist: Lima de Freitas, unknown, Josh Kirby and Barron Storey):
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Artist Leo Dillon died on this day, so here are some of the book covers he illustrated (in collaboration with Diane Dillon; the 2nd & 3rd with their son Leo, who designed the frames). The 4th was used, but in b&w, for RA Lafferty's 'Iron Tears' collection:
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Artist Ray Feibush was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers:
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Philip K Dick died on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (artist: [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify], 藤野一友 and 土井宏明):
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Artist Tim White was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers:
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Artist David Pelham was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers:
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Josh Kirby died on this day in 2001, so here are four of his covers (the Dan Morgan was his first, from 1955).
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Keith Laumer was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Richard Powers, unknown, Carlos Ochagavia and Wayne Barlow):
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Stanisław Lem died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Przemek Dębowski, [couldn't identify], Philippe Caza and [couldn't identify]):
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Artist Stephen E Fabian was born on this day, so here's some of his work:
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Frank Frazetta died on this day, so here's some of his 1960s comic and book cover art. 1st for 'Tales from the Crypt' (Dec'64); 2nd Ray Bradbury 'The Autumn People'; 3rd 'Eerie' (May'66); 4th 'Creepy' (Oct'66):
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Here are some Japanese covers to Ray Bradbury works (artists unknown):
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Michael Moorcock was born on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (artist: couldn't identify first two, though I'll suspect I'll kick myself when I find out; I think the 3rd is by Leiji Matsumoto and the 4th is by 天野喜孝):
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Barry N Malzberg was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (Artist: Ray Feibush, unknown, Bruce Pennington and Tim White):
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Artist John Martin died on this day, so here's some examples of his work. “Pandemonium”, “Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council”, "Bridge Over Chaos" and "The Great Day of His Wrath" (1&3 were illustrations to an edition of Milton's "Paradise Lost"):
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Some more Bruce Pennington covers. The first two are for Brian Aldiss' 'Canopy of Time' and 'Space, Time and Nathaniel'; the third for M John Harrison's 'The Pastal City' and the fourth for Clifford Simak's 'Out of their Minds':
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Artist Barclay Shaw was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art. The 4th is his artwork for Philip K Dick's "The Penultimate Truth":
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Frank Frazetta was born on this day, so here's some of his 1954/1955 comic cover art:
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Artist Ken Barr was born on this day, so here are some of his cover art. 1st for Pohl/Kornbluth "Wolfsbane"; 3rd for CJ Cherryh "Serpent's Reach" (re: 4th, it's also Jacqueline Lichtenberg's birthday today - see previous post):
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Bruce Sterling was born on this day, so here are some of his Japanese covers (couldn't identify artists, though first two have a signature that looks like "Kon"):
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Artist Jean Giraud - better known as Moebius - died on this day; so here's some of his cover art. The 2nd is for the anthology "Étonnants voyageurs - Utopies S.F." by Jacques Chambon & Michel Le Bris":
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Artist JK Potter was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Illustrator (and author) James Cawthorn was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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Isaac Asimov died on this day, so here's Michael Whelan's cover art for the Foundation Trilogy, then three more book covers (artist: Josh Kirby, [couldn't identify] and Stephen Youll):
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Ursula K Le Guin died on this day, so here's some of her book covers (Artist: Jerome Podwil, [couldn't identify], Chris Overbeeke and Colin Hay):
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Artist Leo Dillon was born on this day, so here's some of his and Diane Dillon's cover art:
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RIP Frank Herbert, who died on this day in 1986:
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Mark S. Geston was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art (Artist: John Schoenherr, George Barr, unknown and John Schoenherr):
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Fritz Leiber was born on this day, so here are some of his covers (artist: Bruce Pennington, Ed Emshwiller [both parts of the Ace Double], Lars Nestler and Jack Gaughan/John Schoenherr):
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Artist Ed Emshwiller was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers. The 3rd is his cover art for Philip K Dick's "The Simulacra":
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Artist Virgil Finlay was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Artist Leiji Matsumoto died on this day, so here's a couple of related posters and covers:
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TH White and Edward D Hoch died on this day, so here are some of their book covers (artist: TH White, Marion, Alan Lee and unknown): [the Alan Lee was for the cover of 'The Sword in the Stone', I found this version without the printing)
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Arthur C Clarke was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine covers (artist: Allen Anderson, Ken Fagg, Mel Hunter and Ed Emshwiller). As with Philip K Dick, less magazine cover appearances than I expected!
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Artist Chesley Bonestell was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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Here's a couple of examples of Ian Miller's artwork for an illustrated edition of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, plus covers by Jacques Noël and Cândido Costa Pinto):
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At the Washington Post, Charlie Jane Anders choses "The 9 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2022": .
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... and even more Fritz Leiber covers (Richard Clifton-Dey, unknown, Jean Delville and Richard Powers):
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Joe Hill was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Magdalena Kaczan, Vincent Chong, Vincent Chong and James Hannah):
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Shinji Kajio was born on this day, so here are some of his covers (couldn't identify the artists):
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C L Moore was born on this day: in the 1970's the Japanese editions of her works were illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, so here's some examples:
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Artist Richard Corben died on this day, so here's some of his artwork. The 3rd was for Harry Harrison's "The Deathworld Trilogy":
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Gene Wolfe was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (artist: Bruce Pennington, Paul Lehr, Kovács Péter and [couldn't identify]:
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In 1900 Theodor Hildebrand & Sohn, a German chocolate company, produced a series of trading cards depicting life in 2000. Here's four of them:
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Artist Boris Vallejo was born on this day, so here's some of his work. The 3rd is his cover art for Frederik Pohl's "Gateway", the 4th for Arsen Darnay's " A Hostage for Hinterland":
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Harry Harrison was born on this day, so here's four of his Japanese book covers (artist: 4th by 角田純男, couldn't identify the others):
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Jack Vance died on this day, so here are some of his French book covers (Artist: Guillaume Sorel, [couldn't identify], Julien Delval and Marc Simonetti):
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William Gibson was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (4th by Antoine Poulain,couldn't identify other artists):
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Arthur C Clarke died on this day, so here are some of his Japanese book covers (couldn't identify artists):
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Komatsu Sakyō was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (couldn't identify the artists):
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Artist Ian Miller was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art. 1st for for HP Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror"; 2nd Stuart Gordon "Suaine and the Crow-God"; the 4th for Ray Bradbury's "Long After Midnight":
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Artist Attila Hejja died on this day, so here's some of his artwork:
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David Gerrold was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jacques Wyrs, Vincent Di Fate, Paul Lehr and Dean Ellis ):
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Andre Norton died on this day, so here are some of her Japanese book covers (Couldn't identify artists):
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Artist Norman Saunders (of 'Mars Attacks' bubble-gum trading cards fame) died on this day, so here's some of his 1940s (and a 1950) magazine covers:
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Samuel R Delany was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: Jack Gaughan, Jack Gaughan, Chris Foss and [familiar with the art style but can't remember the name]):
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Cordwainer Smith died on this day, so here's three of his magazine covers and a piece of interior art (Artist: Virgil Finlay, John Pederson, Virgil Finlay and Virgil Finlay). I posted some of his book covers on the anniversary of his birth, back in July:
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Artist Fred Gambino was born on this day, so here's some of his artwork (1978-1991). The 4th was for James P Hogan's "Entoverse":
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Artist Tim White died on this day, so here are some of his book covers. 2nd for 'Jewel of Jarhen' by Gregory Kern; 4th for 'Lord of the Spiders' by Michael Moorcock.
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Film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky was born on this day, so here's some related film posters (2nd: signature on bottom right seems to read "Folon"; 4th by Victo Ngai):
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Jules Verne was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, Glanville, Mort Künstler and [uncredited]). The 4th looks like a cover that started out as a "spaceship has landed on an alien planet".
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Artist Amano Yoshitaka was born on this day, so here's some of his work:
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RIP Abraham Stoker, who died on this day in 1912:
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Manga creator and film-maker Katsuhiro Ōtomo was born on this day, so here are some of his covers:
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Artist James Warhola was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:
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