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  1. 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

  2. A nostalgic illustration of a cluttered book interior, filled with digital artifacts from a bygone era.

    #cyberpunk #illustration #bookart #digitalmemory #vintage

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Born this day: 08/27/1929 (d. 11/12/2007) Ira Marvin Levin was an American novelist. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972).

    Rosemary's Baby was the best-selling horror novel of the 1960s, selling over four million copies.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Levin

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

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    Cover art Paul Bacon

  12. Died this day: 08/19/2017 (b. 08/18/1925) Brian Wilson Aldiss was an English writer, named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1999. He wrote the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Al

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

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  13. About the art process behind my book covers…and a question...

    I began abstract painting around 2015–2016 after many years of realistic pen and ink sketching connected to my architectural work. Over time, colour, geometry, and nature shifted my practice toward abstraction.

    In 2022, I gave an artist talk at the Lundt‑Glover Gallery in Chatham, NJ, hosted by the Art League of the Chathams, where I discussed my work at the time, including digital developments in NFTs and my decision not to pursue that direction.

    Later that year, I began the 27‑painting series that my current ecofiction trilogy covers are based on, using four panels from that show as the starting point for the newer work.

    Three good things:
    1. Making art.
    2. Sharing art.
    3. Selling art to pay for more art supplies!!!

    Watch the full 38‑minute talk here: youtu.be/X400L4JI-LQ

    The piece shown, Wellness, was part of the solo show and later became the cover for our ASEI Arts international charity anthology, Anthology House Vol. 2, created to benefit UNICEF.

    A question for my art and book lover peeps here: when you think about art and the art of book covers, what lights you up, what inspires you, and what are you drawn to reach out for?

    #AbstractArt #ArchitectureFiction #ArtSupplies #ArtistTalk #AuthorReading #BookArt #BookTrilogy #CliFi #ClimateFiction #DesignThinking #Ecofiction #HopePunk #MixedMediaArt #NFT #NFTArt #ReikiArt #ScribesAndMakers #SolarPunk #Sustainability #SystemsThinking #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #WritersCoffeeClub @ThreeGoodThings

  14. In May I spent a week in Cheryl Jacobsen's Gothic & Vellum class with Friends of Calligraphy, learning to write and paint directly on parchment. This book seemed to magically come together over the week. The fish just seemed to be calling me through the hole in the parchment. My favorite part of working on skin was turning its “flaws” into features.

    "The Fish" is finished and available for purchase — contact me, if you're interested.

    I've also got a second skin in the studio waiting to become the next book. Just need the time.

    #calligraphy #handlettering #bookart #parchment #manuscriptbook

  15. 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

  16. 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