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Quote:Hannes Bok (1914-1964)
Hannes Bok was a cover artist, illustrator, author, and astrologer. He has been described as the 'master of macrebe'. His work graces the cover of many early pulp magazines, but was seen by some as the 'bad boy' of science fiction. He lost hundreds of commisions because he would not let editors tell him what to do. Still, he painted almost 150 covers for pulp magazines, as well as hundreds of black and white illustrations, which it seems many prefer to his color work. His overall work is described as "highly stylized, and his human figures are angular and almost Byzantine" (Nicholls 80). His first artwork was the cover of Weird Tales (Dec. 1939). As a writer he did "The Alien Vibration","Web of Moons", "Beauty", and a novellette "Dusk on the Moon". He wrote "Starstone World" in the Science Fiction Quarterly (Summer 1942). He was a great admirer of A. Merritt, and completed and illustrated two of Merritt's books after his death in 1943. These were The Black Wheel (1947), and The Fox Woman and The Blue Pagoda (1946). He wrote 13 articles about astrology for Mystic Magazine. He shared a Hugo award with Emsh in 1953 for best cover artist. Two of Bok's novels were published after his death, The Sorcerers Ship and The Blue Flamingo. Dolbokgov is a pseudonym of his, though it is also used by Boris Dolgov. And the Flights of Angels: the Life and Legend of Hannes Bok was published in 1968 by his friend Emil Petaja.
The Blue Flamingo was retitled "The Golden Staircase" by Ballentine Books Adult Fantasy series *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
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