Born this day: 04/14/1954
Bruce Sterling is an American SF author and a leading architect of the cyberpunk movement. His novel Islands in the Net, a prescient tale of global data networks, won the Campbell Memorial Award.

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Died this day: 04/14/2019 (b. 05/07/1931)
Gene Wolfe was an American SF author, one of the finest the genre ever produced. His masterwork, The Book of the New Sun, follows an exiled torturer across a dying far-future Earth. A SFWA Grand Master.

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Weird Tales, Volume II, Number 3, October 1923. Subtitled "The Unique Magazine." Priced at 25 cents. Cover art by R.M. Mally. Featured story: "The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton" by Effie W. Fifield.

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Born this day: 04/13/1960
Michel Faber is a Dutch-born author of literary science fiction, based in Scotland. His novel Under the Skin, about an alien who picks up hitchhikers for sinister purposes, became a 2013 film. His SF novel The Book of Strange New Things was shortlisted for the Clarke and Locus Awards.

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Weird Tales, Volume II, Number 2, September 1923, priced at 25 cents. Cover art by R.M. Mally. Featured story: "The People of the Comet" by Austin Hall.

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