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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 31, 2026

Weird Tales vol XIV number 1 (July 1929) - featured story: The Corpse-Master by Seabury Quinn.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 31, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 31, 2026

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 30, 2026

Weird Tales vol 13 number 06 (June 1929) - featured story: The House of Golden Masks by Seabury Quinn

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 30, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 30, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 29, 2026

Weird Tales vol 13 number 05 (May 1929) - featured story: The Scourge of B'Moth by Bertram Russell.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 29, 2026

Weird Tales vol 13 number 04 (April 1929) - featured story: The Devil's Rosary by Seabury Quinn.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 27, 2026

Weird Tales vol XIII number 3 (March 1929) - featured story: The People of Pan by Henry S. Whitehead.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 16, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Jul 13, 2026

Weird Tales vol 13 number 02 (February 1929) - featured story: THE STAR-STEALERS by Edmond Hamilton.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 28, 2026

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#AI #Canceled #Gemini Pro & #Claude today. Moved my one need for #LLM to an Open Source version running locally on my laptop. The subscription model of these slop generators, is going to fail.... 🤖

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 21, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 21, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 20, 2026

Weird Tales vol 7 number 5 (May 1926) - featured story: THE GHOSTS OF STEAMBOAT COULEE by Arthur J. Burks

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 19, 2026

Weird Tales vol 7 number 4 (April 1926) - featured story: Wolfshead by Robert E. Howard.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 19, 2026

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.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 18, 2026

Weird Tales vol 7 number 3 (March 1926) - featured story: Lochinvar Lodge by Clyde Burt Clason

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 18, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 17, 2026

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Did around 6 hours of Python coding to replace the (daily) #Google #Gemini #AI prompt I have been using. Problem solved. F**k AI I feel much better now. 👍 🤖

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 17, 2026

Weird Tales vol. VII, number 2 (February 1926) - featured story: Red Ether by Pettersen Marzoni.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 17, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 16, 2026

#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...

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 16, 2026

Weird Tales volume 7 number 1 (January 1926) - featured story: Stealer of Souls by Charles H. Craig.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 16, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 11, 2026

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@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social The colors on that image were extremely compressed for some reason... I could not resist, and did some color and de-noise adjustments to it: Art by Milo Winter

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 07, 2026

RE: @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · May 06, 2026

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@Phangurl Planes, Trains and Automobiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planes,_Trains_and_Automobiles Hope you feel better soon.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 22, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 15, 2026

Cover of Weird Tales, Volume 2, Number 4, November 1923

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 15, 2026

Died this day: 04/15/2002 (b. 09/19/1922)
Damon Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic. A noted SF short story master, he is best known for "To Serve Man," adapted for The Twilight Zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Knight

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 14, 2026

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Please BOOST! SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling: https://astralcomputing.com/books/islands-in-the-net-sterling-easton-press or see the full collection here: https://astralcomputing.com #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #BruceSterling @books@a.gup.pe @scifi@a.gup.pe @Scifiart@mastodon.art @ScienceFiction@lemmy.world Art by Kent Bash

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 14, 2026

Born this day: 04/14/1954
Bruce Sterling is an American SF author and a leading architect of the cyberpunk movement. His novel Islands in the Net, a prescient tale of global data networks, won the Campbell Memorial Award.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 14, 2026

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 14, 2026

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Please BOOST! SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION of The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe: https://astralcomputing.com/books/the-shadow-of-the-torturer-wolfe-easton-press or see the full collection here: https://astralcomputing.com #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers #GeneWolfe @books@a.gup.pe @scifi@a.gup.pe @Scifiart@mastodon.art @ScienceFiction@lemmy.world Art by Michael Mariano

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 14, 2026

Died this day: 04/14/2019 (b. 05/07/1931)
Gene Wolfe was an American SF author, one of the finest the genre ever produced. His masterwork, The Book of the New Sun, follows an exiled torturer across a dying far-future Earth. A SFWA Grand Master.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 13, 2026

Weird Tales, Volume II, Number 3, October 1923. Subtitled "The Unique Magazine." Priced at 25 cents. Cover art by R.M. Mally. Featured story: "The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton" by Effie W. Fifield.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 13, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 13, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 12, 2026

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.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 12, 2026

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

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 11, 2026

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).

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 08, 2026

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@npdoty This is because "modern"solder doesn't have lead in it anymore...

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@npdoty Make sure the wires you solder together are not going to vibrate, else the solder join may crack apart. A stiff length of shrink tubing should do the trick... Good luck and have fun! 🤖

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 05, 2026

Born this day: 04/05/1917 (d. 09/23/1994)
Robert Bloch was an American author of horror, crime, and science fiction. He won the 1959 Hugo Award for his story "That Hell-Bound Train". Best known for Psycho, adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bloch

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Apr 04, 2026

Died this day: 04/04/1987 (b. 01/24/1911)
Catherine Moore, as C. L. Moore, was a pioneering American SF and fantasy author. Her 1933 Weird Tales debut Shambleau introduced Northwest Smith and became a pulp classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Mar 30, 2026

Born this day: 03/30/1948 (d. 05/30/2010)
Jeanne Robinson co-wrote the Stardance Trilogy with husband Spider Robinson. Their novella "Stardance," about a dancer in zero gravity communicating with aliens, won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. A choreographer, NASA shortlisted her for a shuttle seat before Challenger ended her bid.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Mar 12, 2026

Born this day: 03/12/1925 (d. 08/15/2012)
Harry Harrison was an American SF author and SFWA Grand Master best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series and Make Room! Make Room!, which inspired the film Soylent Green. He also wrote the Deathworld trilogy and Bill the Galactic Hero, blending satirical wit with classic space opera.

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Walt @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com · Feb 17, 2026

Born this day: 02/17/1912 (d. 03/17/2005)
Andre Norton was the first woman to receive the SFWA Grand Master Award and the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy. Her prolific career produced over a hundred novels; the Witch World series (1963) and SF classics like Star Man's Son 2250 A.D. (1952) influenced many generations of SF readers.

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