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  1. 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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  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Died this day: 09/08/2017 (b. 08/07/1933) Larry Niven is an American hard SF writer. His novel Ringworld (1970), a vast artificial habitat circling a distant sun and set in his Known Space future history, swept the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ni

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

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    Art by Dean Ellis

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Tomorrow we release the second part of
    "The Offer" over on The Dominant Ones Substack. The post goes live at 9 am est. Want to catch up and subscribe? Follow the link here:
    edge400.substack.com/s/act-two
    #fiction #writing #lightnovel #ongoingstory #scifi #substack #OC #coverart #ongoing

  22. The final cover art is here🍄

    That specific melancholic-chill density is officially locked in🌑

    I'm not spoiling the track title until the distributor approves it tho c;

    The full high-res version and Unity project files are waiting on my patreon:
    bit.ly/4sLUX6x

    #gameDev #Indiedev #Unity #DigitalArt #Ambient #TransArt #MastoArt #Ukraine #NewMusic #SoundDesign #ArtWork #Atmospheric #CoverArt #IndieMusic #VGM

  23. Born this day: 04/01/1942
    Samuel Delany is a New Wave SF pioneer who published his first novel at twenty. Winner of four Nebula and two Hugo Awards, his works include Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection. His dense, ambitious Dhalgren remains one of SF's most debated novels. Named SFWA Grand Master in 2013, he turns 84 today.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #SamuelDelany @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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  24. I’m currently scouring the internet for multiple sources of the #SgtPepper cover that I can combine into the fullest version of the cover possible. This is why it takes me so long to sort through my #Music collection, I’m obsessed with finding or recreating the best #CoverArt. #TheBeatles