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  1. Born this day: 09/11/1952
    Sharon Lee is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author. Co-author (with Steve Miller) of the Liaden universe novels and stories. Her story; A Matter of Ceremony, was featured in Amazing Stories May 1980, nominated for the Balrog Award in 1981.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_L

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #SharonLee @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by David Mattingly

  2. Born this day: 09/11/1952
    Sharon Lee is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author. Co-author (with Steve Miller) of the Liaden universe novels and stories. Her story; A Matter of Ceremony, was featured in Amazing Stories May 1980, nominated for the Balrog Award in 1981.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_L

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #SharonLee @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by David Mattingly

  3. Born this day: 09/11/1952
    Sharon Lee is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author. Co-author (with Steve Miller) of the Liaden universe novels and stories. Her story; A Matter of Ceremony, was featured in Amazing Stories May 1980, nominated for the Balrog Award in 1981.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_L

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #SharonLee @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by David Mattingly

  4. Born this day: 09/11/1952
    Sharon Lee is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author. Co-author (with Steve Miller) of the Liaden universe novels and stories. Her story; A Matter of Ceremony, was featured in Amazing Stories May 1980, nominated for the Balrog Award in 1981.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_L

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #SharonLee @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by David Mattingly

  5. Born this day: 09/10/1953
    Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Mindplayers was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #PatCadigan @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Albert Rocarlos

  6. Born this day: 09/10/1953
    Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Mindplayers was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #PatCadigan @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Albert Rocarlos

  7. Born this day: 09/10/1953
    Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Mindplayers was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #PatCadigan @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Albert Rocarlos

  8. Born this day: 09/10/1953
    Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Mindplayers was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #PatCadigan @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Albert Rocarlos

  9. Born this day: 09/09/1900 (d. 12/20/1954) James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter, best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon & Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Lost Horizon was the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JamesHilton @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  10. Born this day: 09/09/1900 (d. 12/20/1954) James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter, best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon & Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Lost Horizon was the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JamesHilton @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  11. Born this day: 09/09/1900 (d. 12/20/1954) James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter, best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon & Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Lost Horizon was the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JamesHilton @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover art "Unknown"

  12. Born this day: 09/09/1900 (d. 12/20/1954) James Hilton was a British-American novelist and screenwriter, best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon & Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Lost Horizon was the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hi

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JamesHilton @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover art "Unknown"

  13. Died this day: 09/08/2017 (b. 08/07/1933) Jerry Eugene Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. "The Mote in God's Eye" was Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus Awards.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Po

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JerryPournelle @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover artwork by Robert Anthony

  14. Died this day: 09/07/1976 (b. 02/11/1920) - 50th anniversary. Daniel Francis Galouye was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_F

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #DanielFGalouye @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Malcolm Smith

  15. Died this day: 09/06/1950 (b. 05/10/1886) William Olaf Stapledon was an English SF author. First to describe what are now called Dyson spheres. "Odd John" explores the theme of a man whose supernormal human mentality leads to conflict with normal human society.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Sta

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #OlafStapledon @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover art by Eric Fraser

  16. Died this day: 09/05/1992 (b. 12/24/1910) Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
    Multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winner, his first SF novel The Big Time won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1958.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Le

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #FritzLeiber @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  17. Died this day: 09/02/1973 (b. 01/03/1892) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R.

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JRRTolkien @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  18. Died this day: 09/02/2013 (b. 11/26/1919) Frederik George Pohl Jr. was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan. His novel Jem (1979) was the winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and sixth place for the Locus Award.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #FrederikPohl @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  19. Born this day: 09/01/1964
    Martha Wells is an American writer of science fiction. Winner of four Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards and three Locus Awards for her science fiction series The Murderbot Diaries.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_W

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #MarthaWells @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover art by Jaime Jones

  20. Born this day: 09/01/1942
    Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction, including the Hugo Award–winning novel Downbelow Station (1981).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Ch

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #CJCherryh @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by David Mattingly

  21. Born this day: 08/22/1920 (d. 06/05/2012) Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 10th SFWA Grand Master. The Martian Chronicles was nominated for the 1981 Hugo (4th place)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Brad

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #RayBradbury @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Art by Arthur Lidov

  22. Born this Day:
    John Wyndham 7/10/1903 (d. 3/11/1969) was an English science fiction writer. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known work was The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyn

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #JohnWyndham
    @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Poster Artist: Joseph Smith

  23. RE: writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart

    My Ko-fi supporters (one time or monthly) can also get 5% OFF from all of my shop items with a very special code. <3

    ko-fi.com/hiisikolo_art/link/B

    So if you don't yet need a cover, but might want to buy one later you can follow my Ko-fi now, drop me a brain cell, and later use the code to buy a cover, or some other art piece you like!

    #art #Bookstodon #BookArt #Shop #Fantasy #Horror #SciFi #BookCoverSale #NoAI #HumanArtist

  24. Born this day: 06/18/1957
    Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. Generosity: An Enhancement (2011) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #RichardPowers @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  25. Born this day: 06/13/1963
    Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her bestselling "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2005) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and Campbell Memorial Awards

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_N

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #AudreyNiffenegger @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover design by Linda Lockowitz

  26. Born this day: 06/13/1963
    Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her bestselling "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2005) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and Campbell Memorial Awards

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_N

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #AudreyNiffenegger @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover design by Linda Lockowitz

  27. Born this day: 06/13/1963
    Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her bestselling "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2005) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and Campbell Memorial Awards

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_N

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #AudreyNiffenegger @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover design by Linda Lockowitz

  28. Born this day: 06/13/1963
    Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her bestselling "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2005) was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and Campbell Memorial Awards

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_N

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #AudreyNiffenegger @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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    Cover design by Linda Lockowitz