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Name
  
Vincent Fate

Role
  
Artist

Education
  

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Books
  
Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art

Awards
  
Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, Edward E. Smith Memorial Award

Nominations
  
Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Locus Award for Best Art Book

Vincent Di Fate (born November 21, 1945) is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

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Di Fate was born in Yonkers, New York. He studied at the Phoenix School of Design in New York City and received his MA in Illustration at Syracuse University.

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He broke into speculative fiction pulp magazines with illustrations for three different stories in the August 1969 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, edited by John W. Campbell, and did his first cover illustration for the November issue.

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Di Fate calls his 1997 book Infinite Worlds "the first comprehensive history of science fiction art in America".

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Books

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  • Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware (Workman Publishing Co, 1980), Di Fate and Ian Summers
  • Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art (Penguin, 1997)
  • The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate (Paper Tiger, 2002)

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    Infinite Worlds won the annual Art Book Locus Award.

    Awards

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    Di Fate won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention (for 1978 work) and was nominated ten times from 1972 to 19085. For his lifetime contributions he won the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) from the New England Science Fiction Association in 1987 and the Chesley Award from the fantasy and science fiction artists in 1998. He also won the Frank R. Paul Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction Illustration (1978) and the Lensman Award for lifetime contribution in 1990 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 Worldcon. He won the Rondo at the 2003 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards for his work on the Monster-Mania Convention Program Cover.

    Art collections

  • Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware, (1980) ISBN 0-89480-127-9/0-89480-126-0 (pbk.)
  • Infinite Worlds, (1998) ISBN 0-670-87252-0
  • The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate, (2002) ISBN 1-85585-949-1
  • References

    Vincent Di Fate Wikipedia


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