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  1. 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

  2. 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

  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: 09/05/1992 (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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  6. 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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  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: 09/02/1973 (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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  10. 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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  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Died this day: 08/31/1965 (b. 05/02/1890) Edward Elmer "DOC" Smith was an American science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman series. The Lensman series was a runner-up for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, losing to the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Sm

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

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    Cover art by Leo Morey

  14. Born this day: 08/30/1797 (d. 02/01/1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_She

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

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    Cover art by Joe Weems

  15. Born this day: 08/28/1916 (d. 05/26/2013) John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 15th Grand Master in 1997. The Dragon Masters won the Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction in 1963.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Van

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

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    Art by Jack Gaughan

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Born this day: 08/02/1954
    Kenneth Macrae MacLeod is a Scottish science fiction writer. The Sky Road and The Night Sessions won the BSFA Award. His novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacL

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

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    Cover art by Lee Gibbons

  19. Died this day: 07/11/1971 (b. 06/08/1910) John W. Campbell was an American science fiction writer & editor of Astounding Science Fiction. His novella Who Goes There? (1938) was adapted as the films The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982).

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._

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

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    Book Art: Hannes Bok
    Poster Art: Drew Struzan

  20. 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

  21. Born this day: 05/03/1985
    Becky Chambers is a two-time Hugo Award-winning author renowned for her hopepunk science fiction. Her Wayfarers series and Monk and Robot novellas are celebrated for their character-driven optimism, diverse worldbuilding.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Ch

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

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    Art by Christopher Turner