La Tercera Fundación

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “...And Comfort to the Enemy”

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “Lost Newton”

Analog cover illustrating Stanley Schmidt’s “The Unreachable Stars”

Interior magazine artwork for “A Flash of Darkness”, Stanley Schmidt’s first published sf story (Analog 1968)

Stanley Schmidt sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/schmid... was born on this day, so here’s some magazine artwork for his stories (Artist: 1-3 Frank Kelly Freas, 4 Leo Summers):

Cover for Elizabeth Moon’s “Remnant Population”

Interior magazine artwork for Elizabeth Moon’s “The Perfect Hero”

Interior magazine artwork for Elizabeth Moon’s “Creative Criticism”

Cover for Elizabeth Moon’s “La Résistante”

Elizabeth Moon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moon_e... was born on this day, so here’s some related artwork (Artist: Fred Gambino, Gregg Hinlicky, Annie Lunsford and Antoine Poulain):

Elizabeth Moon - Alt64-wiki (1945)

Hoy, 7 demarzo, es el cumpleaños de Elizabeth Moon.

Cover to "Other Worlds" by Cyrano de Bergerac (a 1976 edition)

From “The Comical History of the States and Empires Of The Worlds of the Moon and Sun. Written in French by Cyrano Bergerac. And newly Englished by A. Lovell", a 1687 edition

From "L'autre monde ou Les états et empires de la Lune et du Soleil" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1947 edition

From "L'Autre Monde" by Cyrano de Bergerac, a 1944 edition

Cyrano de Bergerac sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cyrano... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Tim White, [possibly FH van Hove], Jacqueline Charmot and Maurice de Becque):

Cover for "Avatars Inc" edited by Ann Vandermeer

Cover for "Irmãs da revolução: antologia de ficção especulativa feminist" edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer

Cover for "Mennyms Under Siege" by Sylvia Waugh

Cover for "Earthborn" by Sylvia Waugh

Ann VanderMeer sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vander... was born and Sylvia Waugh sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/waugh_... died on this day, so here's some of their book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify], [couldn't identify], Patrick Benson and Martin Matje):

Guillem Sánchez - Alt64-wiki (1963)

Hoy, 6 de marzo, es el cumpleaños de Guillem Sánchez.

Recomendamos, este mes de la comunicación especialmente, su relato con Eduardo Gallego "Dar de comer al sediento" (1997), anticipación del desproposito comunicativo que es la IA.

Presentación de la reedición de un clásico de la moderna ciencia ficción vasca: 'Si Sabino viviría', de Iban Zaldua. Una obra satírica que cumple 20 años y vuelve a estar disponible gracias a esta tercera edición. No se lo pierdan

Sábado 7 de marzo 12:30h en Zapateneo (Vitoria)

✨Cuentos completos de Saki.

🎨Ilustración de cubierta de Javier Olivares, como siempre en la colección Valdemar/Selecta.

📖En abril en las mejores librerías.

Dan Simmons, In Memorian Recuerdo de un escritor con una obra enormemente coherente en la diversidad de historias que forman su legado. Sigue leyendo →

Hoy en C recuerdo a Dan Simmons a partir de dos motivos: la inclusión del elemento fantástico en El Terror y los cuentos de terror con los que, sobre todo, se dio a conocer a lo largo de los años 80. Dos cuestiones por las cuales merece la pena volver a leerlo, aparte de Los cantos de Hyperion.

Illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1988 for ‘The Last Impression of Linda Vista’ by Howard V Hendrix

Another illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, May-June 1988 for ‘The Last Impression of Linda Vista’ by Howard V Hendrix

Illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1991, for Singing the Mountain to the Stars by Howard V. Hendrix

Another illustration from Aboriginal Science Fiction, January-February 1991, for Singing the Mountain to the Stars by Howard V. Hendrix

Howard V Hendrix sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hendri... was born on this day, so here's some interior magazine art for his stories (Artist: 1&2 Cortney Skinner, 3&4 Wendy Snow-Lang):

Asimov's over illustrating 'A Touch of Lavender' by Robin Hobb [as by Megan Lindholm]

Cover for "O Assassino do Rei" by Robin Hobb

Cover for "L'Assassin Royal - deuxième époque 2" by Robin Hobb

Cover for "La Conquête de la liberté" by Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hobb_r... also known as Megan Lindholm, was born on this day, so here's some related artwork: (Artist: Wayne Barlowe, Marc Simonetti, [couldn't identify] and Mathias Bonnard):

The cover for Mike Resnick's "The Goddess of Ganymede"

The cover for Mike Resnick's "Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future"

The covers for Mike Resnick's "Santiago"

The cover for Mike Resnick's "Stalking the Unicorn"

Mike Resnick sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/resnic... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Jeff Jones, Michael Whelan, Philippe Gauckler and Boris Vallejo):

Mike Resnick - Alt64-wiki (1942 - 2020)

Hoy, 5 de marzo, es el aniversario del nacimiento de Mike Resnick (1942 - 2020)

alt64.org/wiki/index.p...

Ha muerto Joseba Paulorena, escritor, editor y miembro de la Terbi (Tertulia Literaria de Ciencia Ficción de Bilbao)

Dentro hilo

Cover to Analog, September 1976, illustrating 'Weather War' by William E Cochrane

Interior magazine artwork for 'A Little Edge' by William E Cochrane [writing as S Kye Boult]. As so often happens the two-page illustrations don't match up!

The cover for 'Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life' by George Gamow

Interior illustration to 'Mr Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life' by George Gamow

William E Cochrane sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cochra... died and George Gamow sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gamow_... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Frank Kelly Freas, Vincent Di Fate, [couldn't identify] and Charles Lehman). 'S Kye Boult' a Cochrane pseudonym:

Cover for Jon Hartridge's "Binary Divide"

Cover for Jon Hartridge's "Earth Jacket"

Cover for "How Britain Won the Space Race" by Desmond Leslie and Patrick Moore

Cover for "Killer Comet" by Patrick Moore

Jon Hartridge sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hartri... and Patrick Moore sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moore_... were born on this day, so here are some related book covers (Artist: Paul Davis, [couldn't identify], Alan Cracknell and Peter Elson):

Issue 61 Coming Fairly Soon... A blog about ghost stories, weird fiction, quiet horror, and related matters.

Supernatural Tales 61 is out, including my new short story "The Miniaturist." suptales.blogspot.com/2026/02/issu...

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En estos momentos, cuarto de millón de bots consultan las novedades en punlicaciones de literatura fantástica en español.

Illustration for 'The Secret of the Locked Laboratory' by Bruce Crandall

Illustration for 'They Die on Mars' by Phyllis L Kaye

Another illustration for 'They Die on Mars' by Phyllis L Kaye

Illustration for 'The Murder Machine' by Phyllis Kaye

Magazine artwork for authors without a SFE entry, from 'Fantastic Science Fiction' (1952): 1 Bruce Crandall, 2-4 Phyllis Kaye (quite possibly pseudonyms). There were only two issues (the SFE calls it an "inferior magazine, whose stories featured formulaic, simplistic and chauvinistic adventure").

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Ambuscadă pe Ornella"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Der Tod der Großen Schlange"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Der Neue Sonnenstaat"

The cover for Daniel Walther's "Kanonenboot "Panik""

Daniel Walther sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/walthe... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: [couldn't identify, though style looks familiar], Marcus Boas, Barclay Shaw and Helmut Wenske):

Cover to William Henry Fleming Bird's "Operation Orbit" (writing as 'Kris Luna')

Interior magazine illustrations for Gregory Feeley's story "The Boulevard of Broken Domes"

Interior magazine illustrations for Gregory Feeley's story "Reversals"

Cover to Tony Russell Wayman's "Dunes of Pradai"

William Henry Fleming Bird sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bird_w... Gregory Feeley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/feeley... and Tony Russell Wayman sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wayman... were born on this day: some related art (Artist: Gordon C Davies, SMS, Ron Miller, [uncredited]) 'Kris Luna' a Bird pseudonym:

Ric Binkley's cover for 'Galactic Patrol' by Edward E Smith

Ric Binkley's cover artwork for 'The Space Egg' by RR Winterbotham [as by Russ Winterbotham]

The cover for 'La Chaussée des Géants' by Pierre Benoit

The cover for 'SF Reprise 3', edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli

Artist Ric Binkley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binkle... was born, whilst author Pierre Benoit sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benoit... and author/editor Kyril Bonfiglioli sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bonfig... died on this day, so here's some related art (Artist: 1&2 Ric Binkley; 3&4 [couldn't identify]):

📕 ¡NUEVO LIBRISIMO! Es el #46, con Maielis Gonzálezález Maielis González, que nos presenta en esta ocasi[on su nueva novela de #cienciaficcion NUCLEAR, publicada por Yegua de Troya de @penguinlibros.bsky.social

youtu.be/vlIBA3YEI6M

The cover to Ann Leckie's 'Ancillary Mercy'

The cover to - I think - the Thailand edition of Ann Leckie's 'Ancillary Justice'.

The cover to Hiroyuki Morioka's ささやかな戦い

The cover to Hiroyuki Morioka's 星界の紋章

Ann Leckie sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leckie... and Hiroyuki Morioka sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moriok... were born on this day, so here are some of their covers (Artist: John Harris, [couldn't identify], 赤井孝美 and [couldn't identify]):

From the opening credits of the 2025 anime tv series 'Sanda'

Image from the 2025 anime tv series 'Sanda'

Cover to Whiz Comics #41

This week's new SFE entries are here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - Lokenath Bhattacharya, D Donnell, Phillip Fracassi, Maja Lidia Kossakowska, Tom Lehrer, Marius and John S Marr; live action tv series "Flight" (1958-1959); anime tv series "Sanda" (2025) and US comic "Whiz Comics" (1940-1953):

Cover to one of the Ace Double editions of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to a UK paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to an Italian paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

Cover to another UK paperback edition of 'Dr Futurity' by Philip K. Dick

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):

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for On Spec, Winter 2002

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Abhorsen Trilogy' by Garth Nix

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Time Quartet' by Madeleine L'Engle

Diane and Leo Dillon's cover for 'The Porcelain Cat' by Michael Patrick Hearn

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).

Este 2 de marzo, hace 44 años que murió,
🖋️ Philip K. Dick
Toca sugerir #CineYLiteratura
3 #películas que dieron visibilidad a su obra:
y también a la #CienciaFicción
🎞️ Blade Runner, 1982 🎥 Ridley Scott
🎞️ Desafío Total, 1990 🎥 Paul Verhoeven
🎞️ Minority Report, 2002 🎥 Steven Spielberg
#CulturaPopular