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New history purchase! #history #USA #UnitedStates

Nelson S. Bond (1908-2006) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Jack Gaughan, 1965; R, Hubert Rogers, 1941 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Steven Brust (1955-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Stephen Hickman, 1984; R, Rick Berry, 1992 #fantasy #books

Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Davis Meltzer, 1977; R, Michael Whelan, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Artist Vincent Di Fate (1945-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1972; R, 1973 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Molly Gloss (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Shelley Eshkar, 1997; R, Gary Freeman, 1986 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Molly Gloss (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Shelley Eshkar, 1997; R, Gary Freeman, 1986 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Check out my latest joint review with @joachimboaz.bsky.social on Izumi Suzuki's disturbing and fascinating "Terminal Boredom": sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s... Japanese #SFinTranslation

As of today, the publishers with the most #SFinTranslation in 2025 are: @ndbooks.bsky.social (6) @twolinespress.com (4) @honfordstar.bsky.social (4) Thanks for all the great books!!! 🎉

I do not understand authors, broadcasters, voice artists, YouTubers, ANY creative artists using quick and cheap AI for their cover images and not realising: it will be you next.

Edward Blair Wilkins' cover art detail for the 1983 edition of K. H. Scheer's Die Großen in der Tiefe (1961) #scifi #sciencefiction #books #art

Our book comes out this week!!!

A Sweet Sweet Summer by Jane Gaskell Alien invasion and the local Nazis complicate Pelham "Rat" Garfield's simple dream of being a successful pimp. jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/track

Wallace Saaty's interior art for Laurence Manning's "The Living Galaxy" in Wonder Stories (September 1934). The story contains a very early reference to a generation ship. #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Frank R. Paul's interior art for Charles de Richter's La menace invisible (translated by Fletcher Pratt as The Fall of the Eiffel Tower) in Wonder Stories (September 1934) #scifi #sciencefiction #book

Japanese #SFinTranslation

Happy Control Panel Saturday, with this tiny frontal lobe control room from Roger Dean’s 1973 cover art for 'Gold the Man,' by Joseph Green

I am reminded of Gerard F. Conway's short story "Funeral Service" (1972) in which the mind of a dead relative is implanted into a robot. The main character wants to reconcile with his dead father. Of course real connection with a simulacra is impossible.

In honor of J. G. Ballard's birthday, two french editions of his work. L, Wojtek Siudmak, 1986; R, Marcel Laverdet, 1980 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #books

Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with @rachelcordasco.bsky.social ). sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...

J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Chris Foss, 1978; R, James Marsh, 1985 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Frank Utpatel, 1947; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1962 #scifi #fantasy #books #sciencefiction

Joseph Payne Brennan's "Recognition of Death" in Fire and Sleet and Candlelight, ed. August Derleth (1961) #poetry #fantasy #books

Michael Bishop (1945-2023) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Gene Szafran, 1975; R, H. R. Van Dongen, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Paul Cook (1950-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, James Gurney, 1984; R, John Hamagami, 1986 #scifi #sciencefiction #Books

Bruce Pennington

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970 #scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature

Artist Ian Miller (1946-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... #scifi #sciencefiction Cover: 1975

Mack Reynolds (1917-1983) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Vincent Di Fate, 1976; R, Paul Lehr, 1979 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Howard Fast (1914-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Karel Thole, 1970; R, Ed Emshwiller, 1959 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

The World at the End of Time by Frederik Pohl Humanity caught in the crossfire of a cosmic war. jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/forev...

Veteran's Day is a good time to remember that one of the worst things about a war is the suffering that continues after its end. In 2016, I looked at four memoirs by women who dealt with the aftermath of World War Two and its victims. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Carl Smith's cover art detail for the science fiction anthology Spectrum 5, ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (1969) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Alfred Coppel (1921-2004) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Ed Emshwiller, 1952; R, Uncredited, 1971 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Artist A. J. Donnell (1905-1991) was born on this day. List of covers: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1948; R, 1949 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Ben Bova (1932-2020) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Pamela Lee, 1992; R, uncredited, 1982 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1988; R, Charles Mikolaycak, 1982 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Post you from a different era. Freshman in college. Bored. Lonely. Before I found my peoples..... Circa 2006

Artist Gary Ruddell (1951-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1985; R, 1987 #scifi #sciencefiction #books #fantasy #art

David I. Masson (1915-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Vincent Chong, 2012; R, Richard Powers, 1972 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Sarban (1910-1989) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Richard Powers, 1960; R, uncredited, 1967 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Worth noting that our most frequent contributor to this list, @joachimboaz.bsky.social found the *earliest* example I know of. It's an anti-union book called "The Commune in 1880. Downfall of a Republic," by someone using a pseudonym "A. Spectator." play.google.com/books/reader...

Updated our list of labour unions in SFF. Always looking for more examples to add to the list. List on our blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... List on Google Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Ron Walotsky's cover art detail for Michael Bishop's brilliant collection Catacomb Years (1979) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

"Annie signed on a bride ship for Mars, There were forty brides. And when she got there, thirty-nine men were waiting." Uncredited interior art for Rosel George Brown's "Virgin Ground" in If, ed. Frederik Pohl (February 1959) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

”Whatcha reading tabby friend?” #scifi #sciencefiction #cat #caturday #cats

Go watch Punishment Park (1971)!

I saw Frankenstein (2025) in theater last night -- I loved the visuals and the two main actors (Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi). I struggled with some of the narrative choices, the score, and the cheesy melodrama.

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Richard Powers, 1963; R, John Berkey, 1987 #scifi #sciencefiction #Books