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• Post #4292225

  Weird Tales vol 13 number 02 (February 1929) - featured story: THE STAR-STEALERS by Edmond Hamilton. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #EdmondHamilton #HughRankin @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by Hugh Rankin

• Post #4292224

  Born this Day: Sheri Stewart Tepper 7/16/1929 , (d. 10/ 22/2016) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. Shadow's End was nominated for the 1995 Locus Award Please BOOST! SPECIAL SIGNED COLLECTORS EDITION of Shadow's End by Sheri S. Tepper https://astralcomputing.com/books/shadow-end-tepper-easton-press-signed-first-edition or see the full collection here: https://astralcomputing.com #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #covera...

• Post #4292223

  Weird Tales vol XIII number 3 (March 1929) - featured story: The People of Pan by Henry S. Whitehead. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #HenryWhitehead @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by C. C. Senf

• Post #4292222

  Weird Tales vol 13 number 04 (April 1929) - featured story: The Devil's Rosary by Seabury Quinn. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by Hugh Rankin

• Post #4292221

  Weird Tales vol 13 number 05 (May 1929) - featured story: The Scourge of B'Moth by Bertram Russell. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #BertramRussell @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by C. C. Senf

• Post #4292220

  Born this day: 07/29/1929 (d. 12/22/2015) George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, who co-wrote with William F. Nolan the novel Logan's Run, the basis for the MGM 1976 film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clayton_Johnson #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #GeorgeClaytonJohnson @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by William Hofmann

• Post #4292219

  Died this day: 07/30/1975 (b. 05/23/1921) James Benjamin "Jimmy" Blish was an American science fiction writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. "A Case of Conscience" (1959) won the Hugo Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #JamesBlish @books @scifi @Scifiart @scienc...

• Post #4292218

  Weird Tales vol 13 number 06 (June 1929) - featured story: The House of Golden Masks by Seabury Quinn #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by Hugh Rankin

• Post #4292217

  Prices Reduced AGAIN! Please Boost! Only 63 books left in my collection! Get yours before the #AI collapse so you will have something beautiful and long-lasting to read... #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon @books @scifi @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com

• Post #4292216

  Died this day: 07/31/2001 (b. 11/25/1926) - 25th anniversary Poul William Anderson was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Tau Zero was 2nd place for the Hugo in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #PoulAnderson @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Anita Siegel

• Post #4292215

  Weird Tales vol XIV number 1 (July 1929) - featured story: The Corpse-Master by Seabury Quinn. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Cover art by C. C. Senf

• Post #2758678

  Died this day: 05/16/1990 (b. 09/24/1936) Jim Henson, American puppeteer and creator of the Muppets, directed the dark fantasy films The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986), both Hugo Award nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #JimHenson @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Richard Amsel

• Post #2758677

  Weird Tales volume 7 number 1 (January 1926) - featured story: Stealer of Souls by Charles H. Craig. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #CharlesHCraig @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Andrew Brosnatch

• Post #2758676

  #AI #Google #Gemini Pro seems to have gone brain-dead as of this morning. Every daily (simple) prompt I use gives me incorrect results. Seems incapable of following instructions. Had to switch to #Claude Opus just to get my stuff done this morning... 😡

• Post #2758675

  Born this day: 05/17/1954 Colin Greenland is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. Take Back Plenty (1990) won the Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Greenland #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #ColinGreenland @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Glenn Orbik

• Post #2758674

  Weird Tales vol. VII, number 2 (February 1926) - featured story: Red Ether by Pettersen Marzoni. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #PettersenMarzoni @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by C. Barker Petrie Jr

• Post #2758673

  Born this day: 05/18/1969 Ty Franck is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. Leviathan Wakes (2012) was nominated for the Hugo and Locus Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Franck #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #TyFranck @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Daniel Dociu

• Post #2758672

  Weird Tales vol 7 number 3 (March 1926) - featured story: Lochinvar Lodge by Clyde Burt Clason #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #ClydeBurtClason @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Andrew Brosnatch

• Post #2758671

  Died this day: 05/19/1987 (b. 08/24/1915) Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree Jr. was an American SciFi author. Not publicly known until 1977, James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1977) won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #JamesTiptreeJr #AliceBradleySheldon @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.co...

• Post #2758670

  Weird Tales vol 7 number 4 (April 1926) - featured story: Wolfshead by Robert E. Howard. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #RobertEHoward @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by E. M. Stevenson

• Post #2758669

  Weird Tales vol 7 number 5 (May 1926) - featured story: THE GHOSTS OF STEAMBOAT COULEE by Arthur J. Burks #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #ArthurJBurks @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Andrew Brosnatch

• Post #2758668

  Born this day: 05/21/1903 (d. 04/05/1986) Manly Wade Wellman was an American novelist. Nine Yards of Other Cloth (1959) was nominated for the Hugo Award Weird Tales vol 36 number 6 (July 1942) - featured story: COVEN by Manly Wade Wellman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #ManlyWadeWellman @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com Art by Brundage

• Post #2758667

  Born this day: 1956 Robert A. Metzger is an American electrical engineer and science fiction author. Picoverse (2003) was nominated for the Nebula Award. Metzger began writing science fiction stories as a child, but it was not until 1987 that he sold his first science fiction short story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Metzger #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #RobertAMetzger @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomp...

• Post #2442944

  Born this day: 04/22/1944 (d. 04/19/2025) Damien Broderick, Australian SF writer and futurist. His 1980 novel The Dreaming Dragons, on alien artefacts buried under Uluru, was Campbell Memorial runner-up. The Judas Mandala (1982) first used virtual reality in fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Broderick #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #DamienBroderick @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction...

• Post #2323820

  RE: https://bookstodon.com/@astralcomputing/116403771105534152 Born this day: 05/07/1931 (d. 04/14/2019) Gene Wolfe was one of the most acclaimed and complex writers in speculative fiction, best known for his magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun". A master of the unreliable narrator and intricate prose, he won multiple Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers...

• Post #1165905

  Cover of Weird Tales magazine, Vol. II, No. 1, July-August 1923, priced at 25 cents. Cover art by R.M. Mally, illustrating "Sunfire" by Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows Bennett). #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #FrancisStevens @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com

• Post #1165904

  Born this day: 04/12/1921 (d. 02/02/2019) Carol Emshwiller was an American science fiction writer and New Wave pioneer. Her novel The Mount, about humans bred as steeds by alien conquerors, won the Philip K. Dick Award. She won two Nebula Awards for short fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #CarolEmshwiller @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction htt...

• Post #1165903

  Weird Tales, Volume II, Number 2, September 1923, priced at 25 cents. Cover art by R.M. Mally. Featured story: "The People of the Comet" by Austin Hall. #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #AustinHall @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction https://astralcomputing.com

• Post #1165900

  Everyone in cyber security should read Steve Gibson's show notes for tomorrow ASAP! pass it on... please boost. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1074-notes.pdf @hacks4pancakes #cybersecurity #infosec #ai #claude #mythos

• Post #1165899

  Born this day: 04/13/1960 Michel Faber is a Dutch-born author of literary science fiction, based in Scotland. His novel Under the Skin, about an alien who picks up hitchhikers for sinister purposes, became a 2013 film. His SF novel The Book of Strange New Things was shortlisted for the Clarke and Locus Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Faber #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction #MichelFaber http...