James P. Blaylock (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?177

L, James Warhola, 1986; R, James Gurney, 1984
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Cover for Humunculus. Two men trap another man under a glass container. IN the background there's a skeleton and a dusty shelf. The table contains vials and flasks.

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Cover for The Digging Leviathan. Man reads a paper while digging with his leviathan into the ground. A dog looks on.

A. A. Attanasio (1951-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?108

L, Mick Posen, 1989; R, Rick DeMarco, 1985
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Cover for Radix. A window into a desert landscape with two humans.

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Cover for Beast Marks. Man with a bull head.

George R. R. Martin (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?401

L, Ed Soyka, 1977; R, David Willson, 1986
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Cover for Songs of Stars and Shadows. A spider-like beetle grasps at a flower with a woman with wings inside.

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Cover for Tuf Voyaging. Man sits at a mushroom shaped table and chair. Cat runs nearby. A dome of a city in space looms beyond.

Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?105

L, Don Maitz, 1977; R, Tim White, 1983
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Don Maitz’ cover for the 1st edition of Drinking Sapphire Wine. Woman sits in a bed of flowers drinking a blue liquid from a goblet. Behind her a man stands with sword upraised. There's a computer bank behind them.

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Cover for The Electric Forest. Woman in pillar. Man's face looms sinister. Machine operates at its base.

Engle's interior art for Isaac Asimov's "Let's Get Together" in Infinity Science Fiction (February 1957)
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A man with a suit of some sort looks towards the right. A row of people in their individual squares marches across the image onto the next.

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The continued row of people and nuclear symbols. there's a nuclear bomb explosion in the background.

New history of science fiction purchase!
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Cover for Lavigne's Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction. Cover is a woman's face with visual hints at the cybernetic.

Exploration Log 17: Interview with Loïg J. F. Pascual on 1970s-1980s Feminist Science Fiction Fandoms https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/09/16/exploration-log-17-interview-with-loig-j-f-pascual-on-1970s-1980s-feminist-science-fiction-fandoms/
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Cover for Janus 9 1977. Woman with earrings, headdress, necklace in front of fantastic mountains. A spaceship flies in the distance.

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Cover for The Witch and the Chameleon: "A Feminist View of Science Fiction." Woman's face melds with a chameleon. There's a tree in the distance.

Some of my Star Trek based art.

Enjoy.

#scifiart #scifi #fanart #startrek

Norman Spinrad (1940-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1019

L, Alex Gnidziejko, 1969; R, O'Brien, 1970
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Cover for Bug Jack Barron. A man's face superimposed on the body of a woman.

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Cover for Agent of Chaos. Man with multi-colored balls reaches towards them. Three other male forms within the larger man's cloak reach upward.

Howard Waldrop (1946-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?246

L, Dean Ellis, 1974; R, Don Punchatz, 1990
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Cover for THe Texas-Israeli War: 1999. A tank with the star of david shoots a bunch of native americans on horseback.

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Cover for Night of the Cooters. Man on armadillo shoots at a flying saucer. The armadillo seems to be fighting with a tentacled alien. The alamo is in the distance.

John M. Faucette (1943-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2154

L, uncredited, 1971; R, Frank Kelly Freas, 1968
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Cover for Siege of Earth. Two men with exposed brains walk on a surface with a moon or planet in the distance. Behind them is some sort of lander or pod also with a large eye and an exposed brain.

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Cover for Crown of Infinity. A bunch of ships shoot at a space station or probe.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1942-2025) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?360

L, Gary Friedman, 1978; R, Neal McPheeters, 1988
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Cover for False Dawn. Man with wolf head rides a motorcycle carrying a gun. Behind him buildings burn.

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Cover for Arioso. Man with sword rides a griffin above a Renaissance city.

According to my fancy wall clock that shows the seasons, it's fall. Also the weather is 100% fall-ish now. That means (I hope) more cozy reading time.

The Space Rogues series is 10 rip-roaring scifi adventures.

"the most fun #scifi I've read since The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."

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@reading @bookstodon #scifi #spaceopera

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An overhead shot shows a book titled "THE ADVENTURES OF WIL CALDER" resting on a white surface among autumn leaves, pens, and a keyboard. The book cover features a space-themed illustration with a spacecraft and stars, with the text "SPACE ROGUES Book 1", "THE ADVENTURES OF WIL CALDER", CALDER", and "JOHN WILKER". Scattered around the book are orange, yellow, and brown maple leaves. A white computer keyboard is partially visible at the top, and a yellow pen and a red pen are on the left, with another red pen on the bottom right. 🌱 Energy used: 0.217 Wh

Engle's interior art for Edward Wellen's "Utter Silence" in Infinity Science Fiction (February 1957)
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A whole series of sculpture-like humans simplified, masks, stars, eyes, shapes of potential rockets.

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This connects to the previous image. The entire series of sculpture-like scenes ends with a wall and a more realist man running....

"The hog was deadly dangerous and virtually invulnerable--but Planet Maggie's weird laws were what made the hunt really tough!"

Ed Emshwiller's interior art for Robert E. Gilbert's "Hunt the Hog of Joe" in Infinity Science Fiction (February 1957)
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Woman runs from a giant hog. The hog has substantial teeth and is about to bite a human male.

Leo P. Kelley (1928-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10953

L, uncredited, 1970; R, uncredited (probably Dean Ellis), 1971
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Cover for Time Rogue. Man crouches and looks towards the viewer. He's looking at a series of readings that go past his face. Behind him is a sphere filled with faces.

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Cover for The Coins of Murph. Coins flip across the cover. Behind the coins is a ruined city and three humanoid figures.

Gerard F. Conway (1952-2026) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3287

L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1974; R, Mike Hinge, 1970
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Cover for Mindship. A cluster of faces arrayed against the cosmos look at a spaceship flying by.

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A large hand reaches down and grabs what looks like the flame trail of a spaceship. The cover unfortunately cuts the art off at the worst possible place.

Pat Cadigan (1953-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?96

L, Albert Rocarlos, 1987; R, Joe Burleson, 1983
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Cover for Mindplayers. Woman sits on a beach. Man stands on the shore with waves behind him. His legs are half-way into the sand. There's an ephemeral-like city in the distance.

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Cover fort he June 1983 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. Man and woman pilot a vessel. A green grid stretches into the distance.

Artist Vicente Segrelles (1940-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2188

L, 1977; R, 1979
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Cover for Tod eines Samurai. A seal-like alien with tentacles reclines with many eye socket-shaped head elements. A woman lounges behind he alien.

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Cover for Card's Capitol. Two shuttles with various nacelle flies above a spherical man-made object.