Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #3

American writer and physician

Frank Belknap Long penned tales of science fiction and horror. His collection, Dangerous Vegetables, showcases his knack for the strange and unsettling. A true master of the genre, Long's stories are a must-read for fans of classic speculative fiction.

Fredric Brown was born in Cincinnati. He wrote science fiction and mystery fiction. His first novel, What Mad Universe, a popular parody of pulp science fiction, was published in 1949.

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His work focused on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking explorations of utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric perspective. He was a popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fiction and fantasy magazines.

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband...

Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional char...

Robert E. Howard is the mind behind the dark and thrilling tales of Solomon Kane. His work often explores themes of adventure and the supernatural. You'll find his stories in collections like The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane.

Walter M. Miller Jr. is the author of the classic science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. His work often explores themes of religion, history, and the future of humanity.

About the Author William F. Nolan is best known as the creator and coauthor of Logan's Run, a bestselling science fiction classic that was made into a hit film, a television series, and a sequence of comic books. He is the author of 13 novels and scores of short stories, and is the editor of more than two dozen books in the fields of science fiction, horror, western, and suspense. He is a two-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was voted the...