John Schoenherr was the artist who did all the paintings and illustrations for Dune when it was serialized in Analog. The first edition cover art for Dune is Schoenherr

I haven't read "The Planet Strappers,' but it reminds me of the naive SF we had way back when before we knew going to the moon would be such an industrial strength undertaking. Back then there were SF novels that helped you day dream about building your own rocket ship and going all over the solar system on your own and possibly meeting alien beings. My first science fiction as a kid was Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet series beginning with "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet" I remember reading that one until the wee hours of the night (which pissed my Dad off). Man, those were wonderful day dreams to have back then. Before puberty I had something like eidetic memory, where if I imagined something, it would appear right in front of me as if it almost really existed. Reading SF novels was like opening up someone else's frozen day dreams. Went away after puberty and I finally became a good student in school. ... All these names I never heard of. So many people writing their hearts out for SF and so few are ever remembered. A lot of the culture we grow up with dies with us when we're finally planted. .. I would love to read Gaget Man. I'd like to compare the author's take on West Coast life then compared to what we have now. .... All those science fiction paper back covers from the 60's and 70's. You'd be taking a hit of LSD just by looking at them. It will get replaced by generic AI art. ...

10:18 Rather than Picard, I thought it more resembled Hume Cronyn (Cocoon & World According to Garp).

I don't have any novels or novellas from Felix Gotschalk, but I know the author for having written one of my favorite SF short stories of all time, The Exam, from the fourth of Silverberg's New Dimensions anthologies. The guy was primarily a psychologist, and drew writing inspiration from that.

“Fail Safe” was a book/movie about an almost-World War 3 nuclear scenario. Imagine a serious Dr Strangelove

I don't have any books in G... as far as I know😂

Gallun isn't widely remembered now. I can highly recommend Ballentine's Best of Raymond Z. Gallun (from which I learned it's pronounced Gah-LOON).

Huh. I thought i would have a bunch of Gs. Nope, couple of Neil Gaimans, Stephen Goldin, a few Colin Greenwoods, a few Mary Gentles, several William Gibsons, a few Gary Gibsons. Hmm maybe i do have a bunch after all....