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Fallen Autumn leaves.

The first frost.

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More Autumn leaves.

This week's Artist's Palette for a current painting.

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He's back!

The Magick Garden's Autumn Gremlin!

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Autumn leaves.

Always an inspiration - colours!

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Autumn light.

Ready for Michaelmas pasturing . . . . . .

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Peter Andrew Jones illustrated the cover of an Italian edition of "To live forever", translated as "Stato Sociale: Amaranth". In it, a town called Clarges is a calm and peaceful place amid a chaotic world, but the inhabitants are obsessed with living longer, thanks to existing medical technology. However, to curb overpopulation, only important collaborators are worthy of deserving it, while those who do not collaborate are murdered. The top prize in this dispute is Amaranth, true immortality obtained by a fortunate few. In the cover art, it is understood that the carousel horse (in the foreground) escapes from the figure of death (in the background), but such escape is merely cyclical, being a beautiful metaphor for life.

Peter Andrew Jones may want to convey exactly that message to us: since we have no access to the Amaranth of the work of fiction, we will never escape death. So let everyone enjoy it while the carousel spins.

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Vance first made a profit by selling a story to Twentieth Century Fox, who also hired him as a scriptwriter for the television series "Captain Video". Vance's first publications were stories released in science fiction magazines, which made him well known. From there he published novels and novellas, many of which were translated into several languages, such as German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

Vance was an award-winning author and won three "Hugo Awards" (in 1963 for "The Dragon Masters", in 1967 for "The Last Castle" and in 2010 for his memoir "This Is Me, Jack Vance! "), an "Edgar Award" (with "The Man in the Cage" in 1961), a "Nebula Award" (with "The Last Castle" in 1966), a "Jupiter Award" (in 1975), a "World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement" in 1984, a "World Fantasy Award" (with "Lyonesse: Madouc" in 1990), was guest of honour at the "World Science Fiction Convention" in 1992, and entered the "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" in 2001. Although blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the help of a software (BigEd). His lifetime output totals almost 90 books.

The “New York Times Magazine” ranked Vance as a distinguished but underrated author in American literature. Authors such as George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Bear and Steven Gould admit that Vance was a great inspiration to them.

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When Vance's grandfather passed away, the author had to drop out of college and work to help support the household in various ways: as a bellboy, in a cannery and on a gold dredger. Sometime later, Vance entered the University of California, Berkeley, and studied mining engineering, physics, journalism and English. While writing his first science fiction texts, Vance received his first negative review, coming from a professor. Vance graduated in 1942.

In print, he made his debut with "The World-Thinker", a short story published in "Thrilling Wonder Stories" in the summer of 1945. In 1946, Vance met and married Norma Genevieve Ingold.

His favourite recreation was boats and travel, and so he worked as a sailor, shipowner, surveyor, potter, and carpenter, until he fully established himself as a writer, which did not occur until the 1970s. Vance and his family even took a trip around the world, and spent several months in places like Ireland, Italy, India, South Africa and Tahiti. He also loved music, and thanks to this he published jazz reviews for "The Daily Californian" (his university newspaper).

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John Holbrook Vance was born on 28th August 1916 in San Francisco, and died on 26th May 2013 in Oakland, both in California. He was an American writer who explored literary genres such as mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. In most of his work he signed as "Jack Vance", but he also wrote several other texts under other pseudonyms.

Vance grew up in a large house in San Francisco on Filbert Street. His parents divorced and his father left the family to live on his ranch in Mexico. Vance's mother moved with her family to his maternal grandfather's ranch in California near Oakley on the Sacramento River Delta, where years later in 1962, with his friends Frank Herbert and Poul Anderson, he built a houseboat. There, Vance fell in love with the place, his mother's large collection of books (which included authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne) and pulp fiction magazines.

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Finally, the author of the article highlights his favourite artwork of Jones: the "Snow Witch" cover of the second edition of the "Warlock" magazine, from 1984, which shows that the artworks of Peter Andrew Jones have survived well over time.

Would they be classics of the contemporary or of the future?

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Due to his impactful artwork on the world's 1st gamebook ("The Warlock of Firetop Mountain"), which in August 2022 turned 40 years old, as well as others in the series, the constant appeal from cover to playful text contributed greatly to the success of this part-book-part-game collection.

The choice of Peter Andrew Jones for this series was not by chance, since the 1970s the artist was already a name of prominence in "Fantasy Art" and, in 1980, his creations were part of numerous covers of games for consoles and computers.

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The news website "An Sionnach Fionn" once published a short article on Peter Andrew Jones. Focusing on the gamebook boom of the 80s and 90s, the article extols the fact that a whole generation of young readers easily recognised the artwork of the British artist of the pioneering “Fighting Fantasy” series.

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A calmer autumn sunrise today.

Inspirational calm!

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Another inspirational Autumn sunrise.

(Complete with circling crows).

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"The Second Experiment" tells the story of Rya, the last descendant of the lineage of the ROIISS, formerly the masters of the universe.

She travels with her faithful robot named Tec to a star with nine planets, bound for the 3rd planet, since there was life on it.

Peter Andrew Jones has gifted this work with art loaded with nonsense. However, it is not a random choice of elements, but a combination that shocks, bothers, amuses and attracts the reader to its content.

After all, it's not every day that we can see a winged tyrannosaurus rex hitching a ride on a spaceship.

Creativity is certainly not lacking here.

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J. O. Jeppson began dating Isaac Asimov in 1970, immediately after his separation with Gertrude Blugerman. They married three years later.

Jeppson's first novel was “The Second Experiment” in 1974. She incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, human identity and other ideas related to psychiatry into her writing, thanks to her experience as a psychiatrist.

Her husband claimed that the books Jeppson coauthored with him had only minimal input from him, and Isaac's name was only there to improve sales.

After Isaac's death, she took over the editorship of his popular science column in the "Los Angeles Times".

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Having initially attended classes at Wellesley College, J. O. Jeppson later graduated from Stanford University. After that, she earned her master's degree from New York University School of Medicine, completing a residency in psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital.

Subsequently, in 1960, she graduated from the William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis, and continued working there until 1986. She maintained the practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis under the name Janet O. Jeppson and published medical papers under that name after marrying Isaac Asimov.

Jeppson's first publication was sold to “The Saint Mystery Magazine”, released in the May 1966 issue.

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J. O. Jeppson, pseudonym of Janet Opal Asimov, was born on 6 August 1926 and died on 25 February 2019. She was a US science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, having dabbled in children's science fiction in the 1970s.

As her own surname makes clear, she was married to Isaac Asimov for almost twenty years, until Isaac's death in 1992. Together they collaborated on several science fiction books aimed at young readers, such as the "Norby" series.

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Peter Andrew Jones highlights the protagonist's car/spaceship in the foreground of his artwork. It is in full start-up, with headlight and pilot's gaze synchronised ahead. In the distance is a competing pilot who appears to fire a guided missile at the player, who seems not to wait to see what happens to him, a decision confirmed by the golden trail left by the flaming tail. This race and chase scene overflows with action, which levels gamers and art lovers alike as bleacher fans for this dynamic work of art

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The screen has an interface that allows the player to observe opponents and offers warnings when competitors approach, as well as a navigator that talks to the player.

Matrix Marauders has received mixed reviews from "Kultpower", "Datormagazin" and "CU Amiga" magazines

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According to Psyclapse, Matrix Marauders, released in June 1990 for the Atari ST and Amiga consoles, is a "super fast 3D abstract computer racing game".

The game takes place in the future, where the player takes part in a racing challenge, in which he/she pilots cars in a speed test to see who can reach the finish line first. The cars have power-ups, capable of helping the competitors, which can be used or fired during the game, which makes the game also incorporate elements from the early days of 1st person shooter games. However, there are holes in the tracks that must be jumped over.

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The previously widely used tumblr page >
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featured, like many other blogs already reviewed here,
a collection of Peter Andrew Jones' mainstream.

In this page, the user Kgthunder selected works that ranged from fantasy to science fiction, being possible to know artworks used as cover art for Lone Wolf gamebooks series, science fiction books of renowned authors of the last century and even game covers of the very first home computers and cards from Battlecards.

The replication of some of the artist's most important creations in this blog page only confirms how remarkable his art was for the generation that grew up with his works from the 70's on, since the hundreds of likes and comments on the 10 images posted there. - - - - - - - - -

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In 1964, Ballard's wife Mary died suddenly of pneumonia. Ballard went on to raise his three children - James, Fay and Bea Ballard - alone, never having married again, although he did date Claire Walsh for the rest of his life.

"Vermilion Sands" is a collection of Ballard's science fiction short stories, first published in 1971. Its stories take place in a fictional holiday resort called Vermilion Sands, which resembles, among other places, Palm Springs in Southern California. The characters are usually the rich and dissatisfied, or people who live off them, as well as parasites of various kinds. Peter Andrew Jones has brought this place to life with cover art that nicely portrays the desert climate and some of the eccentric characters of this space. Only a creative mind like PAJ's (and Ballard's) to break the stereotype of the Californian resort by colouring it with the red of the post-apocalypse and decorating it with rare and oddball plantings. Certainly, this surreal combination of the visual and written texts come to expand (and blow up) the mind of the average reader.

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Ballard's first novel was “The Wind from Nowhere”, successfully published in January 1962, when he resigned from his job at “Chemistry and Industry” to become a full-time writer. Although Ballard published several novels and short story collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he became a best-selling author with “Empire of the Sun” in 1984, based on his years in Shanghai and the Lunghua internment camp, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. His subsequent books have not, unfortunately, achieved the same degree of success. Even so, Ballard continued to write until the end of his life, occasionally contributing journalism, and criticism to the British press, moving away from science fiction and towards the traditional detective novel.

In 1964, Ballard's wife Mary died suddenly of pneumonia. Ballard went on to raise his three children - James, Fay and Bea Ballard - alone, never having married again, although he did date Claire Walsh for the rest of his life.

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Ballard's father was James Ballard, a chemist for a Manchester-based textile company. His mother's name was Edna. Ballard was born and raised in the international settlement in Shanghai, an area under foreign control. He studied at the Cathedral School. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ballard's family had to temporarily evacuate their suburban home and rent a house in downtown Shanghai to avoid the shells fired by Chinese and Japanese forces.

After the Japanese attack on Hong Kong and the Japanese occupation of the international settlement in Shanghai in early 1943, Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre with his parents and younger sister. For the remaining two years of World War II, they lived at the internment camp in a two-floor residence for 40 families.

He went on to attend school in the camp. Ballard's experience of the atrocities of war inspired much of his writing. In 1960, Ballard moved with his family to Shepperton in Surrey, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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James Graham Ballard, better known as J. G. Ballard, was born on 15 November 1930, and died on 19 April 2009. He was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist. His works explored the relationships between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass media. He published post-apocalyptic novels and experimental short stories, some quite bizarre. The literary distinctiveness of Ballard's fiction gave rise to the adjective "Ballardian", meaning "resembling or suggestive of dystopian modernity, the bleak man-made landscapes and psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments in Ballard's works".

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Asimov attended science fiction conventions and was always very accessible to the public. He used to patiently answer tens of thousands of questions and other mail with postcards and enjoyed signing autographs. Although he enjoyed showing off his talent, he rarely seemed to take himself too seriously.

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During World War II Asimov served the country for three years, and then in the army for nine months, becoming a corporal. After 1958, he left his position as a university professor to become a full-time writer. He was also a longtime member and vice president of Mensa and president of the American Humanist Association. One of Asimov's closest friends was Gene Roddenberry, creator of "Star Trek", and for his suggestions on the series Asimov is listed in the series credits.

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Around the age of nineteen, Asimov began selling his texts to magazines, such as “Astounding Science Fiction”. He studied at Columbia University, where he undergraduated in 1939, and then earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the Boston University Medical School, with which he remained associated thereafter. He married Gertrude Blugerman on 26 July, 1942 and they had two children, David and Robyn Joan. In the year 1973, Asimov divorced Gertrude and married Janet Jeppson.

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Asimov's parents were Judah Asimov, a merchant and miller, and Anna Rachel Berman-Asimov, a housewife, from a traditional Jewish family. They emigrated to the United States in 1923, settling in New York City. Asimov learned to read on his own and grew up bilingual in Yiddish and English. From his parents' candy shop Asimov read the pulp science fiction magazines they also sold. At the age of eleven he was already writing his own stories. He attended the city's public schools

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Isaac Asimov (originally Isaak Yudovich Ozimov) needs no introduction. This famous writer was born in Petrovitchi (a village in the former Soviet Union) on January 2, 1920, and died in Brooklyn, New York, on April 6, 1992. He was an American writer and biochemist, but became famous as a science fiction writer, being considered one of the three pillars of this literary strand, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. His magnus opus can be considered the "Foundation" saga, but he also published hundreds of other works, in the most diverse areas.

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Even more unprecedented heat.

Time to get out into the garden studio . . . . . . . . !

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Summer.

Unprecedented heat . . . . . . . . !

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A Dragon a Day" for 30 days.
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