Dino Buzzati sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/buzzat... was born on this day, so here are some examples of his work (Artist: Dino Buzzati, Dino Buzzati, Emmanuel Julien and [possibly Dino Buzzati?]). 1&2 from his "I Miracoli di Val Morel":

Artist and astronomer Lucien Rudaux sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rudaux... was born on this day. Best known for his influential space art, he also whimsically illustrated an article by Rene Thevenin in 'The American Weekly' (May 1938) titled "The Bizarre, Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined":

Italo Calvino sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/calvin... Anthony P Morris sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morris... and Boualem Sansal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sansal... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (2&3 by Edward Mason, couldn't identify the other artists).

Author and artist Paul Scheerbart sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/scheer... died on this day, so here are three of his book covers, plus an illustration by him (Artist: Tom Breuer, Tom Breuer, Ottomar Starke and Paul Scheerbart):

RIP the best to ever do it. #RIPDrewStruzan

Nicholas Fisk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fisk_n... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Dexter Brown, Barry Wilkinson, Ken Reilly and Alun Hood):

Genrikh Altov sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/altov_... and Bill Baldwin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/baldwi... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: Barbu Teodorescu, Regine Grube-Heinecke, John Berkey and Chris Moore):

Voy a intentar dedicar los martes a comentar una novedad de un autor generalmente poco conocido, de forma similar a otras "secciones" como Lunes de res...eña, detalles sobre la historia de la ciencia ficción española (jueves) o El Libro de la Semana (viernes) ¿Sigues leyendo? :)

Author Deborah Abela sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/abela_... author Janice Elliott sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/elliot... and artist/author Robert Ingpen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ingpen... were born on this day, so some related artwork (Artist: Zdenko Bašić, Grahame Baker, Robert Ingpen & Robert Ingpen):

📕 Ya está aquí LIBRISIMO #30 con Naseem Jamnia que nos presenta su novela de #fantasía LA MARCA DE QILVA con la editorial @crononauta.es, traducida por @lauramoraniglesias.bsky.social y con portada de Elsa Velasco www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNba...

Feliz #diadelasescritoras (con algunas de mis favoritas)📚❤️

Día de las escritoras.

Rodney Ascher, tras zambullirse en la habitación 237 para desenterrar los misterios de El resplandor, abordó el mundo como simulación en Un fallo en Matrix. @marioamadas.bsky.social parte de dicho documental para desplegar cómo la cf y, sobre todo, Philip K. Dick han tratado esa idea #cifituits

TE Dikty sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dikty_... died on this day, so here are the covers to some of the books he edited (Artist: 3rd by C Stewart, couldn't identify other artists):

Eleanor Cameron sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/camero... and Ruthven Todd sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/todd_r... died on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: [couldn't identify], Robert Henneberger, Bip Pares and Paul Galdone). 2nd from "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet":

EL Arch sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arch_e_l (aka Rachel Payes) died and JD Robb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robb_j_d (aka Nora Roberts) was born on this day, so here's some related cover and magazine art (Artist: 1st by Gray Morrow, couldn't identify the others ):

Michael Cobley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cobley... and Vladimir A Obruchev sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/obruch... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Steve Stone, Steve Stone, Yuri Bogachev and [couldn't identify]). 3rd an illustration for Obruchev's "Plutonia":

WL Alden sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/alden_... Diamandis Florakis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/florak... Luis Britto García sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/britto... were born, Roy Lewis sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lewis_... died this day. 1 Alden's "A Darwinian Schooner" (1893), 3 from El Cuento magazine (1977)

Filmmaker and author Guillermo del Toro sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/del_to... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Troy Nixey, James Jean, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]). 4th might be a box set and/or DVD cover:

Robert Reed sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/reed_r... was born on this day, so here are magazine illustrations for some of his 1987-1999 stories (Artist: Cortney Skinner, Wendy Snow-Lang, Kent Bash and Michael Dubisch). 1st for 'Aeries'; 2nd for 'Goodness'; 4th for 'What It Is':

Author and editor Harry Bates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bates_... was born on this day, so here are some covers to his fix-up novel "Space Hawk", written by him and DW Hall under the pseudonym 'Anthony Gilmore' (Artist: Johnny Bruck, Karl Stephan, Curt Caesar and Allison):

David Dvorkin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dvorki... Andrey Sinyavsky [aka Abram Tertz] sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sinyav... and George Turner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/turner... were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (Bob Fowke, [couldn't identify], Ron Walotsky and John Harris):

Artist Serge Drigin sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/drigin... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art:

Hoy, 8 de octubre, es el aniversario del nacimiento de Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

Buena noticia por partida doble. Sergio Mars da el salto al audiovisual y abre sucursal de Rescepto en youtube. Se estrena con la última obra de Juan Miguel Aguilera, "Arcología". rescepto.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/r...

Bruce Carter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter... died on this day (Artist: Tony Weare, [couldn’t identify, though style familiar], [uncredited] and Klaus Bürgle). The 2nd seems to have slight alternate history elements (I don’t think Brighton's population was totally evacuated during WW2?).

Hoy, 7 de octubre, es el aniveersario de la muerte de Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

El 7 de octubre de 1879 deja este mundo Edgar Allan Poe, uno de los más brillantes autores de la literatura gótica y de terror. Os proponemos escuchar uno de los relatos que él mismo consideraba de sus mejores obras. «El hundimiento de la casa Usher», de Edgar Allan Poe go.ivoox.com/rf/128414653

Hoy, 7 de octubre, es el cumpleaños de Enki Bilal alt64.org/wiki/index.p...

Hoy, 6 de octubre, es el aniversario de la muerte de Wilson Tucker (1914 - 2006)

Artist Val Biro sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/biro_val was born on this day, so here's two examples of his book cover artwork, plus two of his interior illustrations for a 1965 edition of L Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz":

Ivan Yefremov sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yefrem... died on this day, so here's some of his cover art (Artist: 4th by D Andrei, couldn't identify the other artist: apologies for the poor quality of the 3rd):

Keith Roberts sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robert... died and Tetsu Yano sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yano_t... was born on this day: some covers (Artist: 1 Blas Gallego, 2 Tony Roberts, 3&4 [couldn't identify]). 3rd is an anthology ("恐怖への招待 海野十三" or "Invitation to Fear") containing a Tetsu Yano story:

Artist and author Richard A Kirk sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kirk_r... was born on this day, so here are some examples of his artwork. 1: Wandering Star, 2: Superhero, 3: Harbringer, 4: Scout:

Scientist and science writer Willy Ley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ley_wi... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Ed Emshwiller, [couldn't identify], John Polgreen and John Polgreen) 4th from his book "Space Travel":

Cumplimos un año de vida, un logro posible solo gracias al apoyo de quienes nos leéis y recomendáis. Sin vosotros, no habríamos alcanzado el primer aniversario. Con vosotros, esperamos cumplir muchos años más de ballenas y letras 💙🐋

William Morris sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morris... died and Alex Raymond sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/raymon... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Edward-Burne Jones & William Morris, William Morris, Alex Raymond [?] and Alex Raymond [?]):

Hoy en C contamos con una crónica de la San Diego Comic-Con de Málaga desde dentro. Fernando Ángel Moreno, profesor universitario de la Complutense, escribe sobre su experiencia como invitado este año en Málaga y en 2023 en San Diego (San Diego). Merece la pena leerlo.

Hoy, 2 de octubre, es el aniversario del nacimiento de Jack Finney (1911 - 1995)

Hoy, 2 de octubre, también es el aniversario del nacimiento de Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024) Hace poco más de un año que nos dejó. alt64.org/wiki/index.p...

Julianna Baggott [aka NE Bode] sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/baggot... and SM Stirling sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stirli... were born, whilst Wynne Whiteford sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/whitef... died on this day: some of their covers (Artist: Peter Ferguson, Stephen Hickman, Mark Harrison and Don Dixon):

Nicola Griffith sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/griffi... and Sheree Renée Thomas sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/thomas... were born on this day, so here are some related covers (Artist: Anna & Elena Balbusso, JK Potter, [couldn't identify] and Marianne Plumridge). Sheree Renée Thomas is editor of the MF&SF:

Alfred Bester sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bester... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [uncredited], Colin Hay, Vicente Segrelles and [couldn't identify]):

Artist Earle K Bergey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bergey... died on this day, so here's some of his cover art 1936-1940. A lot going on in the 3rd:

HB Fyfe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fyfe_h_b was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine illustrations for his stories 1951-1952 (Artist: all by Ed Cartier) 1&2 for "Thinking Machine"; 3 "Implode and Peddle"; 4 "Bluff-Stained Transaction".

2025 Prix Aurora-Boréal Winners locusmag.com/2025/09...

Hoy, 30 de septiembre, es el aniversario de la muerte de Alfred Bester (1913-1987)

Hoy, 30 de septiembre, es el aniversario del nacimiento de Horace Browne Fyfe (1918 - 1997)

Austyn Granville sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/granvi... & Archibald Marshall sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/marsha... died on this day, so the cover & 2 illustrations to Granville's "The Fallen Race", & the (to be honest, less interesting) cover to Marshall's "Upsidonia" (1-3 Edward Mason 4 Savile Lumley):

Frances A Yates sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/yates_... died on this day, so here are some book covers (not sure of artists). "Her influence on sf has been indirect... [but] her ideas & discoveries have had a pervasive influence on authors of Fantastika ... notably including John Crowley & Gene Wolfe":