@joachimboaz
History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
Or my survey of all his available interviews:
Three More Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/04/27/e...
Six Interviews with Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/07/07/e...
And: sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/11/30/e...
I have not written about The Way Station (read in my late teens). I assume Andy means my article “We Must Start Over Again and Find Some Other Way of Life”: The Role of Organized Labor in the 1940s and ’50s Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/13/e...
Toynbee’s Leftovers (1969). Running wild in the ruins of a world. Two teens stand in an abandoned streets with trash. Large business officers loom around them.
Science fiction esoterica from my collection. #scifi #sciencefiction #books
Updated the list of labour unions in SFF with a ton of new entries. (Many found by @joachimboaz.bsky.social)
Everything from 19th Century utopian works to reactionary tomes from the 1970s.
List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...
List as Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Toynbee’s Leftovers (1969). Running wild in the ruins of a world. Two teens stand in an abandoned streets with trash. Large business officers loom around them.
Science fiction esoterica from my collection. #scifi #sciencefiction #books
Cover for Walpurgis III. A composite cover of four figures. Woman in front, another woman who appears to be dressed as a nun, a man shooting a gun, and an emperor-figure with a staff with star.
Cover for Paradise. Alien with spear stands in a savannah-like landscape.
Mike Resnick (1942-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, uncredited, 1982; R, Michael Whelan, 1989
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Cover for Earth Ship and Starsong. Large hulking spaceship with various planetary bodies behind it.
Cover for the anthology Faster than Light. Large hulking spaceship with various planetary bodies behind it.
Artist Attila Hejja (1955-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1981; R, 1982
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I looked up "Ed Thirdley" -- and yeah, lots of "translations." Certainly not a real translator. Alas.
.....and definitely an AI cover.
Yannis Maris is a real greek author -- but yeah, maybe an AI translation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannis_...
He also taught us how to kill people with Bic pens (he learned in case they were shot down and had to escape a prison)…
Reminds me of my Vietnam War vet history teacher in high school -- joined the navy to avoid getting shot. Instead spent the war in Navy airplanes and definitely got riddled with anti-air shrapnel (got a purple heart) over Cambodia (when Nixon said we weren't bombing Cambodia).....
Forgot alt-text: two space corps members run around with futuristic guns. Various nuclear explosions around them.
"------so I joined the Space Corps to get out of the Infantry!"
Vogel's cartoon in Imagination (June 1953)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist #cartoon
Man with helmet in a factory setting looks over his shoulder
Various other works seems to be around a crises of some form. Someone seems to be shot?
Uncredited interior art for Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd's "The Star Lord" in Imagination (June 1953)
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Cover for Moorcock's Behold the Man. Man in suits sits under a looming cross with a chalace and candle.
Cover for Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld. A sphere of eyeballs surrounded by clouds.
Artist Bob Haberfield (1938-2021) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1970; R, 1972
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Cover for Smith's Galactic Patrol. Spaceman float towards a spaceship. Cosmos behind them...
Cover for Clark'e Sands of Mars. A spaceship voyages to mars.
Artist Ric Binkley (1921-1968) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1950; R, 1952
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Cover for A Voyage to Arcturus. A man and woman ride a dragon creature.
Cover for Devil's Tor. Inset art illustrates the titular "tor" on a hill.
David Lindsay (1876-1945) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Bob Pepper, 1968; R, uncredited, 1932
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Pat Frank, of course, wrote Alas, Babylon (1959) sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/08/04/b...
Cover for Pat frank's Forbidden Area. Seven people -- 6 men and 1 women -- crouch around a map. The woman is pointing at an area.
Cover for Eric Frank Russell's Men, Martians and Machines. A man stands with shield on a planet. There are similar people behind him. There is also a rocket ship.
New purchases: Eric Frank Russell, Ben Bova, Pat Frank, and John Collier -- > sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/03/02/u...
For my initial thoughts, cover citations, back cover blurbs, etc., check out the link.
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Cover for The City Man. A bucolic cabin in the snow. Behind it is a looming arcology, the cosmos, trees, and a mountain. A person gets water from a frozen lake.
Cover for The Wandering Variables. A woman's head -- she's green. Various male faces behind her. And dots places on a grid (the wandering variables I suppose...)
Louis Trimble (1917-1988) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1972; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1972
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Cover for Rus' Picnic on paradise. Lower square is filled with various figures moving across snow. The upper square is a checkerboard pattern that becomes more and more irregular.
Cover for Vinge's The Snow Queen. A series of women three women. THe bottom one has a mask placed on her by another with moth-like winged hat. Then on top the woman is luminous. There's a city and other faces behind them.
Artist Leo Dillon (1933-2012) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, 1968; R, 1980
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I pretty sure l once owned THE BODYGUARD - bought it purely on the basis of the cheap by effective cover design - but l cannot remember ever reading it.
Check out the subtweets -- all the books I've covered mentioned in the monograph.
Compton, D. G. Chronocules (variant title: Hot Wireless Sets, Aspirin Tablets, the Sandpaper Sides of Used Matchboxes, and Something that Might have been Castor Oil) (1970) Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966) The Missonaries (1972) The Quality of Mercy (1965) The Silent Multitude (1966) The Steel Crocodile (1970) Synthajoy (1968) The Unsleeping Eye (variant title: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe) (1973)
D. G. Compton's work is covered. The rightful 2021 winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award sciencefictionruminations.com/science-fict...
Neither is Dave Wallis' wonderful Only Lovers Left Alive (1964) -- another effective invocation of the end of the UK's preeminence on the global stage. The old generation literally cannot help but commit suicide leaving the world to the young. sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/10/14/b...
M. John Harrison's first novel The Committed Men (1971) was not mentioned. Highly recommended! sciencefictionruminations.com/2016/10/09/b...
Unfortunately, the monograph itself is very very expensive. I waited for three years to snatch a lucky cheap(er) cover. Get it from your library. ILL it!
Obviously a lot of Ballard, Brunner, etc. feature but everyone knows them -- I hope.
As you can tell, I love a good British post-WWII dystopia. And bought quite a few that I had not heard of after reading the book.