@SFRuminations
Good gathering 📚

I enjoyed this graphic non-fiction (is it weird to call them graphic novels?) history of #SciFi in books and many genres by a Canadian artist/author

The History of Science Fiction
a Graphic Novel Adventure
by Xavier M. Dollo
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-History-of-Science-Fiction/Xavier-Dollo/9781643379142
#comics

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The History of Science Fiction a Graphic Novel Adventure Xavier M. Dollo, book cover, after Michelangelo‘s Sistine Chapel, with an image of an early hairy ancestor of humans reaching out to one in a sci-fi space suit. It’s in the style, or might be by the artist who did the comic Valerian.

BT Pride Anthology covers are up for sale!

An 8.5" X 11" matte cardstock prints.

Get your claws on it here:
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#battletech #mechwarrior #pridemonth #scfiart #scifi #tabletopgames #tabletopwargaming #mech #mecha

Walt Miller's interior art for Richard Ashby's "Commencement Night" in Astounding Science Fiction (August 1953)
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Two people -- a man and a woman -- spear fish. It seems like they're on the coastline. There are trees with long pointed leaves framing the scene.

This is a range of my favorite histories of the science fiction genre -- and its pre-history. I did not include any monographs on single SF authors or ultra-focused studies. There are a handful I could not find (hiding in a pile or in a corner of a shelf) that I wanted to include.
#scifi #sciencefiction #history #books

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From L to R starting at the top: Clareson's Some Kind of Paradise, Cheng's Astounding Wonder, Nevala-Lee's Astounding, Westfahl's The Mechanics of Wonder, Abnet's The American Robot, Butler's Solar Flares,Seed's A Companion to Science Fiction, Davin's Partner's in Wonder, Foertsch's Reckoning Day, Zamalin's Black Utopia, Link and Canavan's American Science Fiction, Sharp's Dawionian Feminism and Early Science Fiction,Three Ashley Volumes on the History of SF magazines, Yaszek's Galactic Suburbia,Hammon's Cold war Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, James and Mendlesohn's Science Fiction

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?186

L, Alan Gutierrez, 1985; R, John Jude Palencar, 1994
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for Buter's Clay's Ark. Man walks from crashed spaceship in the desert.

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Cover for Butler's Mind of My Mind. A woman's head is metaphorically layered. An eye in her head sends rays outward.

Lima de Freitas (1927-1998) was born on this day. One of my favorite science fiction cover artists. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?168402

L, 1964; R, 1967
#scifi #sciencefiction #art

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Cover for Jean Hougron's O signo do cão. Two large dirigibles float over a dark moody city

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Cover for Heinlein's Revolta na Lua, 1º volume. Underneath the surface of the moon a huge city stretches.

«A list of #scifi mastorecommendations»

Once again, just to stake it out for now and for some other fine day, some of the works of

Stanislaw Lem

and

the Strugatski brothers

are well worth reading.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

For example (in alphabetical order):

By Lem:
The Adventures of Star Navigator Pirx
Cyberiad
The Invincible
Solaris

By the Strugatski brothers:
A Billion Years till the End of the World
It's Hard to Be a God
Monday Begins on Saturday
Roadside Picnic
A Snail on a Slope

#StanislawLem
#StrugatskiBrothers

@screwlisp

Paul Orban's interior art for Chan Davis' "Share Our World" in Astounding Science Fiction (August 1953)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art

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A man and a roman in front of a rocketship look at the cosmos and other zooming rockets.

What I ended up acquiring from the used book store with $4 and $2 science fiction hardbacks. I fudged my 1985 cutoff date a little... #scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Photo of books on a wood table: Simak's Mastodonia, Knight's The Futurians, Robinson's The Power, Tepper's The Awakeners, Brunner's The SHockwave Rider, Scott's The Kindly Ones, and Tevis' The Steps of the Sun.

David J. Skal (1952-2024) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2383

L, Gerry Daly, 1980; R, Gene Szafran, 1971
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for Scavengers. The outline of a face over a brain.

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Cover for Clarion. A man and a woman near two large pinwheel shapes. There's a hand with an eye in the background.

Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964) was born on this day. Best known for running afoul of the FBI due to his 1944 short story "Deadline" with its discussion of nuclear weapons. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?457

L, William Timmins, 1944; R, Hubert Rogers, 1950
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for the March 1944 issue of Astounding. Weirdly bent humanoid walks near a massive plant. Behind the plant a man with gun lurks.

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Cover for the February 1950 issue of Astounding. Man with militaristic collar looks imperiously. Behind him rockets loom.

"Remember that the large majority of your readers--the large majority--either discriminate or are discriminated against. Keep that in mind all the time. Then write a story that satisfies your conscience" -- Davis (1950)
#scifi #sciencefiction

“Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950) positions science fiction as a vehicle for positive social change. Davis condemns science fiction that perpetuates common stereotypes of race and nationality. #scifi #sciencefiction

Chandler Davis (1926-2022) strikes a fascinating figure. He was a communist activist, science fiction author, fanzine editor, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, and political prisoner. #scifi #sciencefiction

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday morning in Europe #peertube

Broadcast failed ;_;

800UTC Sundays as always.
#RSS: https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
#lisp #gopher #climate
but mainly
#bookstodon : Some notes on my reading of Computer Lib / Dream Machine by Ted Nelson https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116785660095724293
A list of #scifi mastorecommendations: https://gamerplus.org/@Binder@petrous.vislae.town/116785157517130760

Then if we need to fill out time, working on my lispy gopher climate zine concept I have slated for "next week".

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The JNS signature lispy gopher climate banner. LISPY GOPHER SHOW above the lisp alien and gopher standing in front of skull and crossbones http is dead background.

"Write a story that will give a few bigots the jolt they need. Write a story that will open the eyes of the unconsciously bigoted."

Exploration Log 14: Anti-Racism in Chandler Davis’ “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/06/21/exploration-log-14-anti-racism-in-chandler-davis-stereotypes-are-dangerous-1950/

#scifi #sciencefiction

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John Grossman’s cover for vol. 1 of the fanzine Futurist, ed. Redd Boggs (Spring 1950). Cover shows a spaceman with muscles walking towards the spires of a city.

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Photo of The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis on my shelf with other books.

Only $4! Do I really need a hardback when I already own a paperback? (hint: I did)
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Photo of John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider with a bunch of other hardbacks behind it on bookstore shelves.

Hi there! Here’s an #introduction for this new instance.

I’m a soon-to-be 40-year-old #nonbinary #LGBTQIA person from southeastern #finland

I toot in English and Finnish, depending on the subject and what’s on my mind.

I maintain a #pinball #arcade with my partner @apzpins which we’ve been running for soon 15 years. The arcade is also on fedi, but we post in Finnish only, @hopeakuula , in case you’re interested.

We also have an elderly cat Wäinö in our small lovely family, who I toot photos of at times.

My interests include #videogames , I especially enjoy adventure games and RPGs, #animals , #Cats , #Travel , #scifi , #horror , and #crafts , I especially enjoy #knitting , #crochet and #crossstitching

I am a #chef by profession, so #food and #coffee are huge things for me. I sometimes toot about food stuff, and gladly talk about food, food cultures and share experiences.

#cycling is also fun, I mainly do this during the snowless time of the year. My home town has pretty good bike routes and I sometimes toot photos of those.

I’m #autistic , which surely comes off as hyper fixactions and in an unusual way of experiencing, seeing and handling the world and its goings-on.

I take quite a lot of pictures, and usually add those to my toots.
I love to write a lot, so Mastodon is the social media platform for me.
Spoonerisms are a part of my every day life, even if I don’t always say them all out loud xD

I like spring, summer and autumn, writing, my job, animals, my partner and friends and hobbies immensely.

If something sounded great, gimme a follow! It’s nice to meet new people!

I briefly posted about the maps in the French edition of Mark S. Geston’s Lords of the Starship (1967) and Out of the Mouth of the Dragon (1969. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/03/25/fragments-monday-maps-and-diagrams-science-fiction-3-25-19-a-french-edition-of-mark-s-gestons-lords-of-the-starship-1967-and-out-of-the-mouth-of-the-dragon-1969/
#scifi #sciencefiction

Mark S. Geston (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?589

L, John Schoenherr, 1967; R, George Barr, 1972
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for Lords of the Starship. "Who was the real master of the starship "victory"?" An ancient series of tanks with skeleton below the mass of a spaceship.

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Cover for The Day Star. "In the sunset of humanity, a strange duo set out to reconstruct the glories of Earth's triumphs." Man in cap shoots a creepy three-clawed worm-like creature. Other similar warm aliens writhe around it. Another person with cape tends to a woman lying on the desert-like sand.

Editor and author Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (1910-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1611

L, J. W. Scott, 1939; R, Leo Morey, 1936
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for the August 1939 issue of Marvel Science Stories. Man in suit attacks another man with bug eyes, helmet, and cape shooting a ray. There's a blond woman in distress. The ray is shooting at another row of similar men.

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Cover for the October 1936 issue of Amazing Stories. A huge blobby spaceship zooms through the cosmos. It looks like a bloated submarine.

Pamela Zoline wrote the iconic New Wave short story "The Heat Death of the Universe" (1967). Unfortunately, she only wrote a handful more stories over the next multiple decades. My review of "The Heat Death" https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2015/02/24/book-review-best-sf-stories-from-new-worlds-3-1968/
#scifi #sciencefiction

Pamela Zoline (1941-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11115

L, Ron Walotsky, 1970; R, Anita Siegel, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for England Swings SF. Three female faces surrounded by two circles with the British flag. Then two more with Big Ben and then one with what looks like factory tubing or something else. A bit hard to parse.

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Cover for Strangeness: A COllection of Curious Tales. A man's face with a grasshopper for a nose. then the head is attached to a rectangular cube. Then there are two large squat feet and a small man with a bicycle.

Weird Tales vol 11 number 02 (February 1928) - featured story: THE GHOST TABLE by Elliot O'Donnell.

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#Elliot O'Donnell
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com

Cover art by C. C. Senf.

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Weird Tales vol 11 number 02 (February 1928) - featured story: THE GHOST TABLE by Elliot O'Donnell. Cover art by C. C. Senf. The tagline reads The Unique Magazine. Other contributors listed are H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Cummings, Seabury Quinn, Frank Owen, and Wilfred Talman. John Martin Leahy is also listed. The cover price is 25¢, with the note 30¢ IN CANADA. An artist signature is visible in the bottom right corner of the illustration, though the text is illegible. The illustration depicts a man and a woman in an indoor setting. The man has dark hair and wears a dark brown coat. He holds a silver-colored handgun in his right hand, pointing it toward the left. His left arm is wrapped around the waist of a woman. The woman has blonde, curly hair and wears a light blue, sleeveless dress. Her right arm is raised with her $hand$ open, and her left arm rests against the man's chest. Behind the man, a dark, black creature with a long neck and a snout, resembling a large feline or serpent, emerges from the lower left. The creature's head is positioned near the center of the frame, facing right with its mouth open. In the upper left, a small, dark green plant sits in a light-colored pot on a brown pedestal. The background includes a white wall and a vertical green curtain on the right. The floor is covered by a red rug with dark patterns. The entire scene is framed by a thick red border.

Some Sci-Fi shower thoughts: I think the ideological division between #StarWars and #StarTrek can be summed up by the fact that there is no analogue for The #Jedi in Star Trek. In the original Star Wars films, the Jedi and #TheForce is left as some unexplained magical property which some of the characters just have, and it is strongly implied that this property is inherited. Star Trek, on the other hand consistently shows time and again the old atheist adage that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.“

In Star Trek they never ascribe some unexplained telekinetic power or mind-reading ability to some magical “force,” there is always some Sci-Fi mumbo-jumbo explanation given, usually involving some make-believe wave/particle energy field. And if the “magic” power ever takes the characters by surprise, they study it to figure out how it works, especially if the “magic” is being used by an alien adversary against them. The lesson Star Trek teach us is that there is no real magic anywhere in the universe, only the yet-to-be explained, and that doesn’t make the universe any less awe-inspiring.

I lost all enthusiasm for Star Wars the day I saw George Lucas posing in a publicity photo with the Disney mascots, when the Disney Corporation bought the entire Star Wars franchise, so I really haven’t been paying attention. (I’ve been told I would very likely enjoy the “Andor” series, though I haven’t watched it.) Maybe the franchise writers have tried to canonicalize some scientific explanation for The Force beyond the “midichlorians” mentioned in the prequel series? I don’t know, or even really care at this point.

#SciFi #Fantasy #Movies #TV #Fiction

My review of Adlard's Interface (1971) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2015/11/29/book-review-interface-mark-adlard-1971/
#scifi #sciencefiction

My review of Nesvadba's In The Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman (variant title: The Lost Face) (1964, trans. 1970) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/05/12/short-book-reviews-lloyd-biggle-jr-s-the-world-menders-1971-pamela-sargents-the-sudden-star-variant-title-the-white-death-1979-josef-nesvadbas-in-the-footsteps-of-the-abominable-snowm/

Czech SF in translation!
#scifi #sciencefiction

Josef Nesvadba (1926-2005) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1722

L, Rodney Matthews, 1979; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1962
#scifi #sciencefiction #Czech #books

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Cover for the collection In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman. Two aple-like/Yeti creatures stand in a snowy crag. Both hold spears and another a dead piece of game.

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Cover for the February 1962 issue of F&SF. Blond-hair woman surrounded by a thorned vine stands near a pillar. Behind her an army throngs.

Mark Adlard (1932-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?126

L, Eddie Jones, 1973; R, Paul Alexander, 1977
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for Beyond this Horizon. Spaceman with a clear helmet that covers his entire shoulders for 360 views is superimposed on a tableau of a spherical space station and spaceships.

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Cover for Interface. Rows of identical men seems to be part of a vast machine/gear system.

Brian Ball (1932-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?92633

L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1973; R, Chris Foss, 1973
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for Planet Probability. Armored man with gun and robot look at a woman with multi-colored hair and starts around her body. There's a palm tree in the background and a tied up man.

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Cover for Singularity Station. A bunch of spaceships appear to be engaged in a battle.

#DoctorWho accounts to follow:

@DoctorWho - Doctor Who discussion group
@WhoNews - Unofficial Who news
@guide - Helping keep track of all Who releases on video, audio, books etc.
@doctorwho.isbrill.com - Who fan site
@DoctorWhoQuotes - Quotations from Who
@diddlydum - Doctor Who podcast
@whoshepodcast - UK-based Doctor Who podcast
@radiofreeskaro.com - Canadian podcast on Doctor Who
@homtrek - Discussing every era of Doctor Who & Star Trek

#SciFi #DrWho

Film director and artist twins Steve and Tim Quay (1947-) were born on this day. Known as The Brothers Quay. They also designed a handful of SF covers: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?65161

L, 1977; R, 1974
#scifi #sciencefiction #art

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Cover for Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Man walks through a bleak passage way. Search lights are on each building.

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Cover for Moorcock's The Land Leviathan. A huge pyramidal structure + a brutalist cube building.

Artist Wallace Wood (1927-1981) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?915

L, 1959; R, 1958
#art #artist #scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for Galaxy Magazine, February 1959. A robot fizes another robot. A man runs in the background.

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Interior art selection for Paul Flehr's Seven Deadly Virtues (i.e. Frederik Pohl). Two people in space suits kiss. A man looks on. There are mushrooms and people in the distance on a what looks like a boat.

Garen [Clara] Drussaï (1916-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13503

L, Dick Shelton, 1956; R, George Gibbons, 1952
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for the August 1967 issue of F&SF. Man raises hand that seems contorted in pain. There's a flying saucer and a ray of light.

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Cover for the August 1952 issue of F&SF. A man looks out at a bleak lunar landscape with mountains and canals.

Dean Ing (1931-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1428

L, uncredited, 1983; R, Larry Elmore, 1987
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for Pulling Through. Man looks at a nuclear explosion while petting a large wild cat. He has a gun over his shoulder and a zippy porsche-style car.

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Cover for Firefight 2000. Futuristic tanks explode and fire missiles in a wintery wilderness.

John Hersey (1914-1993) was born on this day. He wrote a handful of SF works: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5666

L, Sanford Kossin, 1961; R, René Magritte, 1974
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for The Child Buyer. Man in dark coat looms over a child with an open book.

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Cover for My Petition for More Space. A housing block and figures of men with hats spread out across the entire area -- floating in the air.

Howdy, space nerds 👋

Giving this Mastodon thingy a go.

Into...
#music #scifi and #gaming ...mostly.
You'll often find find me void-screaming, ratbagging & disobeying.

also like
#nature #photography #vanlife
#dogs #vinyl #roadtrip #auspol #consumeractivism

Curretly immersed in #spaceengineers and building a re-imagined Jupiter 2 from the 1965 series Lost In Space. 👇

Where my engineers at?

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Space engineers 2 build - Jupiter 2 front view

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Space engineers 2 build - Jupiter 2 - lift off

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Space engineers 2 build - Jupiter 2 rear view

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Space engineers 2 build - Jupiter 2 upper deck hatch

Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?257

L, Frank R. Paul, 1926; R, Jack Gaughan, 1967
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for the Nov. 1926 issue of Amazing Stories. A group of people raise their arms (and children) at a hulking spaceship in dock.

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Cover for S. O.S. From Three Worlds. Man with monkey-like alien on his back. Spaceship in distance. Stylized landscape of ribbons

The perfect summer morning! #scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Photo on a wood table -- two volumes of a Simak collection (The Worlds of Clifford Simak and Other Worlds of Clifford Simak), a coffee press, pencil, and a blue coffee cup.

https://michal.sapka.pl/2026/dune-first-trilogy/

#dune #scifi #herbert #books

Eddie Jones' cover art detail for the 1979 German edition of Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky (1950)

German title: Farmer im All
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Man in a strider-like harvest device. There's a city in the background against a mountain. A spaceship launches. And a moon is in the distance (and another large planet with a red storm -- but sans rings)

My review of John Brunner's Bedlam Planet (1968) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2017/04/20/book-review-bedlam-planet-john-brunner-1968/
#scifi #sciencefiction

Atelier Heinrichs & Bachmann's cover art detail for the 1971 German edition of John Brunner's Bedlam Planet (1968)

German title: Die Pioniere von Sigma Draconis
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art

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A large collection of divergent elements. Storm clouds, a sphere with emanating spheres, a crowd of humans in the bottom , a woman lays in a tube with other tubes around her face, and a spherical helmet or gun-turret like object.

Grab your copy of the Regrets Station Series, on RebeccaSeneseBooks.com! #books #booklovers #amreading #scifi #sciencefictionbooks #spaceopera

Short Story Reviews: Clifford D. Simak’s “Madness from Mars” (1939) and “Hermit of Mars” (1939) https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/06/14/short-fiction-review-clifford-d-simaks-madness-from-mars-1939-and-hermit-of-mars-1939/
#scifi #sciencefiction #pulp

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Cover for the April 1939 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. A large man lays down. Little humanoid aliens with bald heads inspect him, one drills or examines into his ear with a futuristic devices. two additional small humans, which look more like astronauts, walk on his chest.

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Cover for the June 1939 issue of Astounding. A man grabs the wrist of a woman attempting to smoke inside of a quarts igloo on Mars. If she smokes it'll overload their oxygen system.

Artist and author James Gurney (1958-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1829

L, 1992; R, 1984
#scifi #sciencefiction #art

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Cover for Dinotopia. A procession with dinosaurs and happy festive people with flags and instruments. There's a classical style edifice in the background with columns.

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Cover for Llewellyn's Salvage and Destroy. A pensive man with helmet stands in a field. There are multiple figures behind him. A monstrous spaceship looms in the sky.

Harry Turtledove (1949-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?148

L, Romas Kukalis, 1986; R, David Schleinkofer, 1988
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #books

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Cover for The Misplace Legion. Two soldier lift up swords -- one is dressed like a Roman, the other a Gaul. Behind them soldiers stand. Lightning zips around their swords.

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Cover for Noninterference. Futuristic soldier stands in what looks like a pueblo.

Artist Peter Goodfellow (1950-2022) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25963

L, 1976; R, 1977
#scifi #sciencefiction #art

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Cover for Fast's A Touch of Infinity. A man sits at a desk in the desert. Cacti are in the distance. There's a chair at his desk. A cactus in a pot on his desk. The window looks out at a city.

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Cover for Disch's Camp Concentration. In a prison cell behind bars a brain is hooked up to wires. Through the bars you see a US flag, a fence, and a desert landscape with mountains. The same landscape is visible on the brain itself.

Laurence Yep (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?708

L, Gene Szafran, 1971; R, John Schoenherr, 1969
#scifi #sciencefiction

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Cover for the anthology Protostars. Woman holds her knees in a galactic swirl.

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Cover for World's Best Science Fiction 1969. A lonely tower in a desert plain. Two figures stand at its base.

Stephen Tall (1908-1981) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?608

L, Richard Powers, 1975; R, Jack Gaughan, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books

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Cover for Tall's The Stardust Voyages. A surreal Powers cover with what looks like a robotic machine with four legs and a variety of spheres and circles and lines connecting each.

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Cover for the April 1970 issue of Galaxy. What looks like an amoeba, Earth, and red galactic clouds -- a bit hard to parse.