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- Some illustrations from late Victorian magazines, for 1. GH Boden 'The Discovery of London' ; 2 Fred M White 'A Single Hair'; 3&4 WJ Wintle's 'Life in Our New Century'. 1st an example of the type of story where future visitors to the ruins of London [or wherever] misinterpret what they find.
- Neal Asher sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/asher_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Adam Burn, Marc Simonetti, Jon Sullivan and Jon Sullivan):
- Dag Ove Johansen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/johans... & Ted White sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/white_... were born on this day: covers to two Johansen books & two White-edited magazines (Artist: [couldn't identify], DOJ, Jeff Jones, Mike Hinge). 1&3 look as if picturing same scene from different angles!
- Hugh Walker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/walker... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Nikolai Lutohin, Eddie Jones, Karel Thole and Sanjulian):
- Jean Richepin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/richep... was born on this day. So here's some related artwork (Gill, Montserrat Gudiol, Henri Caruchet and [couldn't identify]):
- Henry Kuttner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kuttne... died on this day, so here are some of his 1942-1944 magazine cover appearances (artist: Virgil Finlay, William Timmins, George Gross and Harry Lemon Parkhurst):
- Here's some of the artwork (by Alex Schomburg) from the March 1940 issue of 'Startling Stories', illustrating Henry Kuttner's story "When New York Vanished":
- John Christopher sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/christ... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify], 3 Don Crowley, 4 Diane & Leo Dillon):
- Paul Auster sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/auster... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (2nd by 'Grez', couldn't identify the other artists):
- Chi Ta-wei sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chi_ta... and Rafael Marín sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/marin_... were born, whilst John Grant sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/grant_... died on this day, so here are some book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify], Lee Gibbons and Bob Eggleton):
- Francis Stevens sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/steven... and Christopher Priest sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/priest... died on this day (2nd): interior magazine art by Virgil Finlay & Eddie Jones. Plus, as a bonus, illustrations for 'The Electric Vampire' by FH Power, from The London Magazine, October 1910:
