Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature (No Film or TV)

This set from Israel, issued in 2000 (sg1504-1506) depicting: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, The Time Machine by H.G. Well, Journey to the Moon by Jules Verne.

These arrived in the post today... New stamp from the USA celebrating science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K Le Guin. The Stamp depicts a scene from her book 'The Left Hand of Darkness' behind her portrait.

Thought I'd have a dig for some less known stamps and found these in my collection from Denmark, from a set commemorating Hans Cristian Andersen's fairy stories:

Scott #1653, 2013 - Scene from "The Tinderbox"


Scott #1654, 2013 - Scene from "The Flying Trunk"

After recent history in a country that shall go unnamed I am not sure The Handmaid’s Tail should be considered science fiction. 

I haven't had anything to post in this thread for a while... but picked this up at London22 today:

Souvenir sheet issued by Alderney (part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands) in 2006 (SG:GG-AL MSA273) commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of T.H.White who lived the last 20 years of his life on Alderney. Showing characters from Arthurian legend which he wrote about in his "Once & Future King" books. 

I've always been a big science fiction reader, and when I was younger I attended some SF conventions. I think that's where I got both of these covers. The first is really neat. It starts with a pictorial cancel from the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention, held in Baltimore, on a holographic space-station envelope that was issued by USPS a few years earlier (Sc U639). Then, later that year, a FDC cancellation was added for Scott 3238, from the Space Discovery series issued in Florida. Very cool combination!




The second one is an FDC for all five stamps in the Space Fantasy series, issued in 1993 in Huntsville, Alabama (Sc 2741-45). The cachet is nice, although it's partially covered by the selvage.



Onward and upward to the stars through stamps!

Russian / American author Ayn Rand is best known for her novels 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged' (which included elements of science fiction), but one of her earliest novella's 'Anthem' was set in a dystopian future, which very much allows her into this topic.

This stamp (Scott 3308) was issued 22/4/1999 as part of the Literary Arts series. 

Ernt Theodor Amadeus (Wilhelm) Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a Prussian author of fantasy & gothic horror (as well as an artist, a composer & a judge!) known for his supernatural and often macabre stories. 

This stamp (Michel DE-BE 426) was issued in Berlin on 31/12/1991 to commemorate his 150th death anniversary.

The Ursula K. Le Guin stamp discussed upthread has grown on me in the year and a half since it was issued. Not my favorite design, but still, how cool to see one of our most visionary science fiction writers honored this way?

I recently picked up a collection of her short stories that I haven't read yet, which inspired me to clip a nice plate block from the half-used sheet I'd been using for occasional postage since 2021. Here, too, is a very nicely done maxicard-style FDC by Dragon Cards.