Stephen Hickman (1949-2021)

Another sad loss to the sf/fantasy community: the noted artist (and sculptor) Stephen Hickman died on 16 July 2021 at the age of 72. In a professional career that began in the early 1970s he won the inaugural Jack Gaughan Award, six Chesley Awards – including the lifetime artistic achievement honour in 2000 – and a 1994 Hugo for the Space Fantasy postage stamps he created for the US Postal Service. The cover shown here, for Gryphon (1989) by Crawford Kilian, was a Chesley winner as best paperback cover.