This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

“Why can’t we just put the oil onto trucks and ride it across the desert rather than through the strait of Hormuz?” My love, let me direct you to a little documentary called Mad Max: Fury Road

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

James Herbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/herber... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Gerry Grace, Oscar Chichoni, Tim White and Karel Thole):

Robert Bloch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bloch_... was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (artist: Pete Kuhlhoff, [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify] and John Schoenherr):

Manly Wade Wellman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wellma... died on this day, so here are some of his magazine and book covers (Artist: AR Tilburne, AJ Donnell, Ed Emshwiller and Lou Feck):

Stanley G. Weinbaum sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weinba... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: 1 Ron Walotsky, 2 Peter Elson, 3&4 [couldn't identify]):

There is an element of truth in the cartoon that makes the situation truly pathetic. Our sons and daughters are the cannon fodder for the sons and daughters of the oligarchs!

Stanisław Lem sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lem_st... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stéphane Dumont, [couldn't identify], Daniel Mróz and Paul Lehr). The first is from 1981.

This re the BookBub Idoru ebook. Much appreciated, and I feel we’re basically there already for a Kardashian/AI hook-up!

Rakesfall

Leigh Brackett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bracke... died on this day, so here are some interior magazine illustrations to her stories from 1949/1950 (Artist: [Uncredited], [Uncredited], Vincent Napoli and Virgil Finlay):

The cover and interior artwork from Astounding Stories, June 1936, for HP Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" (Artist: Howard V Brown):

"Existe um lugar para onde eu posso ir quando estou pra baixo, quando estou triste: é a minha mente. E o tempo deixa de existir, quando estou a sós." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTsb...

In this week's #Cybersecurity roundup: -new White House Cyber Strategy: deregulate, attack, use lots of AI -beware misleading Proton-FBI headlines (there are so many) -Chornobyl's computer rebuild -DEF CON vs. authoritarianism -interactive XKCD -much more! Link: www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

Essa música, bicho!

Trump and Israel war on Iran. Please stop calling it the Iran war as if they were asked to participate and they decided to lead.

Kate Wilhelm sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wilhel... died on this day, so here’s some 1980s magazine artwork for her stories (Artist: Evelyn Taylor, Pierre Lacombe, JK Potter and Gerard Di-Maccio):

As batatas Pringles na ficção de Gene Wolfe (e de quem mais podia ser?).

Philip K Dick sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dick_p... was born on this day, so here are four covers for his "Dr Futurity", originally published in 1960 (artist: Ed Emshwiller, [uncredited], Marco Patrito and Chris Moore):

Leo Dillon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dillon... died on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork (made in collaboration with Diane Dillon).

Na quinta série, minha professora de português ensinou uma turma inteira a ficar craque na pesquisa em dicionário, criando a Hora do Insulto. Durante os últimos 10 minutos da aula, tava liberado xingar os coleguinhas desde que fosse preciso procurar o xingamento no dicionário.

Eric Frank Russell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/russel... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Bob van Blommestein, Frank Kelly Freas, Karel Thole and Karel Thole):

Theodore Sturgeon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sturge... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Mel Hunter, [couldn't identify], Robert Engle and Paul Lehr). The 2nd looks very Ian Miller in style, so might be re-used artwork:

Philip José Farmer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/farmer... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (artist: [uncredited], [uncredited], JH Breslow and Bruce Pennington):

Robert Aickman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/aickma... died and Liz Williams sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/willia... was born on this day, so here are two book covers for the former and two pieces of interior magazine art for the latter (Artist: Ian Miller, Wayne Barlowe, Lori Koefoed and Melissa Ferreira):

No but this is entirely correct

Brasileiros voadores no topo

Frank Herbert sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/herber... died on this day, so here are some of the covers to his "The Eyes of Heisenberg" (Artist: [seems to be Paul Lehr], Ian Miller, Éric Scala and Jean-Claude Hadi):

John Shirley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shirle... was born on this day, so here’s a book cover and some interior magazine art (Artist: Chris Moore, Stephen Fabian, Piero Fassoni and JK Potter):

Very fond of this Mr Hyde by Grickle, look at that lovely Mr Hyde face

Edward Bryant sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bryant... died and Robert Shearman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shearm... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Ron Walotsky, Jean-François Podevin, Reggie Oliver and [couldn't identify]):

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Artist Jack Kirby sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kirby_... died on this day, so here's some of his early comic book cover work (1942-1944). Kirby did the pencilling, with inking by Joe Simon (note: the 2nd is signed ‘Jon Henri’ but apparently it’s Kirby & Simon):

Eric Flint sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/flint_... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: 1, 3 & 4 Tom Kidd, 2 Bob Eggleton):

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.

Paddy Chayefsky sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/chayef... and JD Kurtness sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kurtne... were born, whilst Janet Frame sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/frame_... died on this day, so here are some of their book covers (4th by Biro, but I couldn't identify the other artists):

It's not an HG Well's anniversary, but the March 1908 'Cosmopolitan Magazine' (vol.XLIV no.4) has an article by Wells entitled 'The Things That Live on Mars' ("a description based on scientific reasoning ..."). So here are the illustrations by William R Leigh. [See archive.org/details/well... ]

James Joyce sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/joyce_... died on this day, so here's the cover and two interior illustrations to the Folio Society edition of 'Finnegans Wake' (artist: John Vernon Lord), plus the cover of Mary Manning's "A Free Adaption for the Theater" of the same work (don't know artist):

WAGNER MOURA ganha o prêmio de Melhor Ator, e homenageia Fernanda Torres. Os dois merecem!

O AGENTE SECRETO leva (ou melhor, traz) o Globo de Ouro de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro (mesmo sendo um filme nacional. :-)))

Musician David Bowie sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bowie_... was born and artist Gene Szafran sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/szafra... died on this day, so here are two 1973 Bowie concert posters (first by Frank Kozik, don't know who designed the second) and two Szafran book covers:

Karel Čapek sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/capek_... was born and Walter M Miller sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/miller... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Jay Sawka, [couldn't identify], Bruce Pennington and James Otis):

Algis Budrys sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/budrys... was born on this day, so here are some of his magazine covers (artist: Ed Emshwiller, Gray Morrow, Paul Lehr and Paul Lehr). Lehr painted the covers to 3&4 and Budrys wrote stories based on them (using pseudonyms):

Nossas desesperadas tentativas de evitar que os ladrões invadissem nossa casa. tinyurl.com/2algb4v6