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From one of a handful of influential 70s feminist critiques of science fiction -- Susan Wood's “Women and Science Fiction” in Algol, ed. Andrew Porter (Winter 1978-79) #scifi #sciencefiction

“Women have their great and proper place, even in a man’s universe,” conceded the crusty old spaceship captain who narrated “Priestess of the Flame” by Sewell Peaslee Wright [Astounding,
June 1932).
“Women, when handled in moderation and with extreme decency, fit
nicely into scientifiction at times," wrote Isaac Asimov in the letter column of the November 1939 issue ofStartling Stories. He was nineteen.

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Thanks for the repost! One part of my Exploration Log article series exploring Simak's non-fiction.

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Pepsi Advertisement in Captain Future (Spring 1943) #WWII #history

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Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"THE BRAIN" Uncredited interior art for William Morrison's "Worlds to Come" in Captain Future (Spring 1943) #scifi #sciencefiction

A cube with mechanical contraptions inside. Two eye-stalks poke through.

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🔎 Connaissez-vous les french tissues ? Très en vogue à la fin du XIXe siècle, certaines photographies stéréoscopiques étaient doublées d'un tissue pouvant être coloré afin de changer l'atmosphère de la photo d'origine lorsqu'elle était regardée à contre-jour. En voici un exemple : c.bnf.fr/YGQ

Ici, les photos originales prises place de la Concorde en 1870. On y distingue l'une de ses célèbres fontaines à droite, ainsi que l'obélisque, l'église de la Madeleine et l'Hôtel de la Marine en arrière plan.

Sur cette vue à contre jour, le bleu et le jaune probablement ajoutés sur le papier de soie collé derrière la photo la colore afin de donner l'illusion d'une photo nocturne. Les points blancs représentant les lumières de lampadaires et le reflet de l'eau jaillissant de la fontaine sont des trous réalisés dans l'image par lesquels la lumière s'infiltre. Le dessin de ballon avec une nacelle dans le ciel de l'image est lui aussi dessiné sur le tissue caché derrière. D'où son invisibilité sur les photos de jour.

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Michael G. Coney (1932-2005) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Josh Kirby, 1975; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1975 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Rax. A shaggy alien hold a human.

Cover for The Jaws that Bite, The Claws that Catch. Woman with metallic claw hand holds chain. Behind her is a landshark.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Moon car" Balbalis' interior art for Willy Ley's popular science article "For Your Information: How to Get Around on Other Planets" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1958) #scifi #sciencefiction

A long tube with four large wheels and a further 5th wheel out front. There's a canopy over the top of the passenger cylinder. It rolls through the lunar landscape.

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New column, rumination, and update: "What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading?" sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/09/27/w... #scifi #sciencefiction

A selection of read volumes from my shelves. For links to my reviews, see the post itself. From L to R: Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris (1960, trans. 1970) (cover is a large brai nand planets), Angela Carter’s Heroes & Villains (1969): (cover is a man and a woman in exotic robes and diaphanous dresses), saac Asimov’s Foundation (fix-up 1951) (cover is a man's upraised hand, a space person, and a face), Jack Vance’s The Languages of Pao (1958)

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry I haven't been as present on Bluesky and my site (I do have a post scheduled for later today). My cat has been in and out of the ER for a urinary blockage and various side effects... lovely. I've sort of realized how important my cat is for my mental health. He's my library companion.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Rolligon Mars car, driven by hydrogen peroxide turbine" Balbalis' interior art for Willy Ley's popular science article "For Your Information: How to Get Around on Other Planets" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1958) #scifi #sciencefiction

Fig. 1: Rolligon Mars car, driven by hydrogen peroxide turbine. As it says, a bus-like vehicle with rollers zooming across Mars. There are rocks nearby.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Moody interior art by Diane and Leo Dillon for Theodore Sturgeon's novella "To Marry Medusa" in Galaxy Science Fiction (August 1958) #scifi #sciencefiction #art

Man looks at a large construct with spheres and bars. His has a hand raised in awe/worry, There's mist about.

Man huddles in some plants. A woman stands in the distance.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

J. Hunter Holly (1932-1982) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 1971; R, Gray Morrow, 1965 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for The Dark Planet. Man stands shirtless with arm upraised. It's sort of confusing what is happening but there are two large sphweres conjoining behind a mountain range.

Cover for the June 1965 issue of Fantastic Stories. Man in robe with swords stands over a woman tied to a tombstone. goblin like creatures crouch beside him.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Harold Mead (1910-1997) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Barton, 1957; R, Richard Powers, 1956 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Mary's Country. Three children run across a desolate field.

Cover for The Bright Phoenix. Man stands against a rocket. Large splotches surround him.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Brunner (1934-1995) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Steele Savage, 1969; R, Murray Tinkelman, 1976 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for The Stand on Zanzibar. Lots and lots of people in box-like apartments. It's trying to emphasize the overpopulation of the future that's central in the book

Cover for The Sheel Look up. The outline of a human form arrayed against the dry desert. The man holds a sheep skull with dry flowers. He is wearing a gas mask.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Kessel (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ed Gazsi, 1997; R, Ron Walotsky, 1980 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for The Pure Product. A table cloth set inside of a spaceship or space station with a bowl with strawberries and cereal, a mug, and a box of cereal.

Cover for the December 1980 issue of F&SF. Man laying on a slap with a blanket hovering over him surrounded by the expanse of space.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Artist Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1965; R, 1967 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Cover for The Fellowship of the Ring. Gandalf standing on a Craig with people behind him.

Cover for Sleeping Planet. Some scary looking robots with tentacles and grasping claws surrounded by rockets and others shooting at them.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wilmar H. Shiras (1908-1990) was born on this day. Her bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Art Sussman, 1958; R, Frank McCarthy, 1949 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for the fix-up novel CHildren of the Atom. A humanoid shape that seems transformed -- elements of the circulatory system appear on the skin, there's a futuristic building, and various other mechanical transformations arrayed across the body.

Cover for THe Best Science Fiction Stories 1949. Man with glass helmet looks up triumphant. Behind him is a cityscape and what I assume is a large spaceship

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Richard Powers, 1962; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1967 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Wilson's collection Time Out for Tomorrow. A surreal Powers cover with what could be two human shapes and a rocket somewhere in the cosmos.

Cover for The Girls from planet 5. There's a woman with spear standing in front of the Capitol building. She's holding something in which a spiral light is emerging. There's a saucer floating above.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sounds about right... britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carter Scholz (1953-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Attila Hejja, 1984; R, Richard Powers, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for his co-written novel Palimpsests. Cover is a skull with a cube light in the middle.

Cover for Clarion SF. Cover is a surreal Powers work with a man in some sort of craft with a pole (that could be a mast) with streamers.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carter Scholz (1953-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Attila Hejja, 1984; R, Richard Powers, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Virgil Burnett, 1963; R, Paul Lehr, 1967 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Wells' The War of the Worlds. Cover shows a tripod walking across a flaming surface.

Cover for Wells' The Food of the Gods. In a valley people gather around an egg with an eye-like think inside. Fragments of other eggs lay around -- and apparently a chicken that emerged from one.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stephen King (1947-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Don Brautigam, 1982; R, John Cayea, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #horror #fantasy

Cover for The RUnning Man. Person holds a sphere with a rectangle with a face screaming.

Cover for The Stand. A person dressed in white fights a creature in darker robes, a hood, etc. with a scythe.

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Keith Roberts (1935-2000) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Diane and Leo Dillon, 1969; R, Paul Lehr, 1966 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Pavane. Drawn in the style of a stained-glass window, a man with the signaler sigil blesses the crowd. There are stained-glass windows in the background

Cover for Furies. Giant wasps fly around huge nests. Humans mark at the base.

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James P. Blaylock (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, James Warhola, 1986; R, James Gurney, 1984 #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy

Cover for Humunculus. Two men trap another man under a glass container. IN the background there's a skeleton and a dusty shelf. The table contains vials and flasks.

Cover for The Digging Leviathan. Man reads a paper while digging with his leviathan into the ground. A dog looks on.

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A. A. Attanasio (1951-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Mick Posen, 1989; R, Rick DeMarco, 1985 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Radix. A window into a desert landscape with two humans.

Cover for Beast Marks. Man with a bull head.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

George R. R. Martin (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ed Soyka, 1977; R, David Willson, 1986 #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Songs of Stars and Shadows. A spider-like beetle grasps at a flower with a woman with wings inside.

Cover for Tuf Voyaging. Man sits at a mushroom shaped table and chair. Cat runs nearby. A dome of a city in space looms beyond.

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My final repost -- this is a fascinating interview about a fascinating topic! Interested in the history of feminist science fiction fanzines and their creators? This is not to be missed.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Don Maitz, 1977; R, Tim White, 1983 #scifi #sciencefiction

Don Maitz’ cover for the 1st edition of Drinking Sapphire Wine. Woman sits in a bed of flowers drinking a blue liquid from a goblet. Behind her a man stands with sword upraised. There's a computer bank behind them.

Cover for The Electric Forest. Woman in pillar. Man's face looms sinister. Machine operates at its base.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New purchase: G.-J. Arnaud's La compagnie des glaces (1980). Translated as The Ice Company (2010) by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier. Vintage French post-apocalyptic SF in translation. #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover shows a man in front of a locomotive. Wolves walk nearby. A figure reaches up towards the train.

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This World SF newsletter inspires me...which means that upcoming issues of Small Planet will be even longer. Sorrynotsorry 😎. www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=16933

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Engle's interior art for Isaac Asimov's "Let's Get Together" in Infinity Science Fiction (February 1957) #scifi #sciencefiction

A man with a suit of some sort looks towards the right. A row of people in their individual squares marches across the image onto the next.

The continued row of people and nuclear symbols. there's a nuclear bomb explosion in the background.

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pixel Scroll 9/17/26 If You Can’t Scroll Anything Nice, Come Pixel Next To Me file770.com/pixel-scroll...

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Exploration Log 17: Interview with Loïg J. F. Pascual on 1970s-1980s Feminist Science Fiction Fandoms sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/09/16/e... #scifi #sciencefiction #feminism

Cover for Janus 9 1977. Woman with earrings, headdress, necklace in front of fantastic mountains. A spaceship flies in the distance.

Cover for The Witch and the Chameleon: "A Feminist View of Science Fiction." Woman's face melds with a chameleon. There's a tree in the distance.

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something exciting arrived today! 🎉 #SFinTranslation @uniwalespress.bsky.social

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Buckling up for this one because I read those three Henneberg stories in the Damon Knight anthology and hooooooo boy. French #SFinTranslation

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Norman Spinrad (1940-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Alex Gnidziejko, 1969; R, O'Brien, 1970 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Bug Jack Barron. A man's face superimposed on the body of a woman.

Cover for Agent of Chaos. Man with multi-colored balls reaches towards them. Three other male forms within the larger man's cloak reach upward.

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Howard Waldrop (1946-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Dean Ellis, 1974; R, Don Punchatz, 1990 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for THe Texas-Israeli War: 1999. A tank with the star of david shoots a bunch of native americans on horseback.

Cover for Night of the Cooters. Man on armadillo shoots at a flying saucer. The armadillo seems to be fighting with a tentacled alien. The alamo is in the distance.

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John M. Faucette (1943-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1971; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1968 #scifi #sciencefiction

Cover for Siege of Earth. Two men with exposed brains walk on a surface with a moon or planet in the distance. Behind them is some sort of lander or pod also with a large eye and an exposed brain.

Cover for Crown of Infinity. A bunch of ships shoot at a space station or probe.

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