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Twitter feed for the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, principal editors John Clute and David Langford.

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Just to confirm that there will be no further SFE posts on X (they will continue at the other site).

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Some more artwork for A Merritt stories and novels (Virgil Finlay, C Barker Petrie Jr, Rodney Matthews and Douglas Rosa). 1st for "Through the Dragon Glass":

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A Merritt https://t.co/KYWnVi7vTm was born on this day, so here's some magazine art for his stories (Artist: Frederic Small, Frank R Pail, Virgil Finlay and Virgil Finlay). 3rd for "Metal Monster":

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The recently passed David Lynch https://t.co/XXsS8DIQYn was born on this day, so here's some posters for his films:

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Some more Nancy Kress covers ([couldn't identify], Gromovataya, Bob Eggleton and Stephan Martiniere):

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Nancy Kress https://t.co/KUJRNsPI6P was born on this day, so here are some of her book and magazine covers (artist: Stephan Martiniere, Donato Giancola, Tim White and Frederic Marvin). The 3rd is White's cover art for the UK edition of "An Alien Light":

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This week's new SFE entries can be found here https://t.co/SHsllCy7cu: Mariano Antolín Rato; the 1963 Polish film 'Wielka, większa i największa'; the 1959 Russian film 'Ya byl sputnikom solntsa'; the 2024 anime series 'Dandadan' and the 1953/54 US comic 'Ghostly Weird Stories':

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Louis Charbonneau https://t.co/U9LewmLFgt and Robert Murray Graydon https://t.co/6ZrCcSqELD were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (artist: Joseph Mugnaini, Karel Thole, [uncredited] and [[uncredited]):

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Kij Johnson https://t.co/VXcgxwks86 was born and Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail https://t.co/eXR8tp4lC1 died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Victo Ngai, Ryohei Hase, [indecipherable signature at bottom of dress] and [a signature that looks like 'Arvo Gill'):

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Editor and author Oscar J. Friend https://t.co/nrKNQQEt25 died on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories (Artist: Paul Orban, [uncredited], [uncredited] and Wilbur Thomas). "Jerome" and "Ford" were pseudonyms:

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Some interior artwork for Edgar Allan Poe stories (1&2 might be R Swain Gifford, who is credited with another illustration in the book, 3 [couldn't identify] 4 Carlo Farneti). 1-3 19th century [1&2 1884 I think], 4 from 1927. 2 for "The Devil in the Belfry" 3 for "Ligeia":

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Edgar Allan Poe https://t.co/XCoqVqKSZQ was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (artist: [couldn't identify], Jean Hamman, Manoo Prieto[?] and Mario Labocetta) 2nd from 1925, 3rd 1953, 4th 1956:

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Allen Steele https://t.co/HZp2ID9G5x was born on this day, so here are some of his Asimov's cover appearances (Artist: Gary Freeman, Todd Lockwood, Ron Miller and Jeroen Advocaat):

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S Henri Berthoud https://t.co/UXLnvTBwXN was born o this day, so here are some of the illustrations to his "Le Féeries de la science" ["The Extravagances of Science"] from 1866, by Yan Dargent:

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton https://t.co/xznMeky5ax died on this day (18th), so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 3rd by 杉浦康平/鈴木一誌, 4th by RL; couldn't identify the others):

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Artist Eddie Jones https://t.co/p76RQQyvUk was born on this day, so here's some of his book covers:

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Artist Virgil Finlay https://t.co/u6lnStxhum died on this day; apart from SF/Fantasy magazines he also worked for the American Weekly (from 1938): here's some examples of his work there (can't identify the stories, though the 4th looks like Cinderella ... save for the revolver):

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Clare Winger Harris https://t.co/i6Pfn0hjJw was born this day, so here's some interior magazine art for her stories (1929-1930) and a 1947 book cover (Artist: [uncredited], HW Wesso, KAW and JM). 1 for 'The Diabolical Drug'; 2 'A Baby on Neptune' (written with Miles J Breuer):

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Editor and author Jacques Sadoul https://t.co/sTrv3ShUkT died on this day, so here are some covers to the anthology series he edited, "Univers" (Artist: Philippe Caza, Philippe Druillet, Moebius and Tibor Csernus):

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Director, scriptwriter, producer and animator Genndy Tartakovsky https://t.co/ksbK6ONo2M was born on this day (17th). As well as directing Hotel Transylvania, he created Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Primal and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: