Astronauts & Androids

Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays,...

George H. Scithers was an American science fiction fan, author and editor. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which was established by author Fletcher Pratt in 1944, and which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. A long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), Scithers published a fanzine starting in the 1950s, wrote short stories, and moved on to edit several prominent science fi...

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of...

Sherwood Springer is the author of the science fiction novel Laughing Space. He writes stories that explore the funny side of the cosmos.