Alfred Elton van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba. Early in his career he wrote for true confession pulp magazines like True Story, but in the late 1930s he began writing science fiction, which he was more interested in. His first published SF story, "Black Destroyer" was published in 1939, and is considered to be one of the first works of the Golden Age of science fiction. In 1941 he left his job at the Department of National Defence to...
Alan Bloch is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction.
American writer and physician
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Albert Hernhuter is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the vast possibilities of science fiction. If you're looking for a collection of imaginative short stories, his work is a great place to start.
Anthony Boucher (born William Anthony Parker White) was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. - Wikipedia
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,...
Arthur Feldman is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction in bite-sized stories.
Arthur Porges brought us "Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales," a collection that showcases his knack for the genre. If you enjoy imaginative stories that pack a punch, you'll find a lot to like here.
Avro Manhattan is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who explores the imaginative possibilities of science fiction.
American poet, fiction writer and publisher
Cleve E. Cartmill was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cleve Cartmill affair", when his 1944 story "Deadline" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon similar to that being developed by the highly classified Manhattan Project. - Wikipedia
Edward Groff Conklin was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia University in 1927. He was a leading science fiction anthologist, having edited 41 anthologies of science fiction. He also wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects. From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction.
Cyril M. Kornbluth was a writer of sharp, often satirical science fiction. His collection, Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, showcases his skill with the genre.
Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon. He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City. His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941. In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60. He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954. In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference. Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science f...
Donald Allen Wollheim was an American science fiction author, editor, and publisher.
Edward G. Robles Jr. is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the imaginative possibilities of science fiction.
English science fiction writer
Evelyn E. Smith is the author of Fifty short science fiction tales. She's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction.
Frank M. Robinson is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who knows his way around a good sci-fi story. You'll find plenty of imaginative ideas packed into his short 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.
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term.
Source: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia.
H. B. Hickey is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. If you enjoy imaginative stories that explore the future, you'll find a lot to like here.
Howard Schoenfeld is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the imaginative possibilities of science fiction.
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...
Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.
Source: [Jack Finney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney) on Wikipedia.
Jack Lewis is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He writes science fiction stories that are short and to the point. If you like quick reads in the sci-fi genre, you'll enjoy his work.
James Causey is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He writes engaging stories that will appeal to fans of the genre.
James H. Schmitz is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the boundless possibilities of science fiction. If you're looking for imaginative stories, his work is a great place to start.
John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself. While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937. He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University. During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far...
John P. McKnight is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who enjoys exploring the imaginative possibilities of science fiction.
Karen Anderson is a pseudonym of June Millichamp "Karen" Kruse Anderson. She is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. - Wikipedia
Lawrence L. LeShan is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the imaginative possibilities of science fiction.
Lion Miller is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. If you enjoy quick, imaginative journeys into the future and beyond, you'll find a lot to like in his collection.
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.
Margaret St. Clair was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. - Wikipedia
Marion Gross is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. If you enjoy imaginative stories that explore the possibilities of science and the future, you'll want to check out this collection.
Mildred Clingerman was a writer whose imagination soared, especially in the realm of science fiction. Her collection, Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, showcases her knack for crafting engaging stories within the genre.
Peter Grainger is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the universe of science fiction.
British journalist and writer
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kr...
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Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer, born in Butler, Missouri. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1929 and served in the Navy until 1934, afterwards studying mathematics and physics briefly at UCLA. He sold his first story, "Life-Line", to Astounding Science Fiction in 1939 and became one of that magazine's leading contributors. In the late 1940s he was among the first science fiction authors to place work in general-interest magazines such...
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
Roger D. Aycock was an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Roger Dee. He primarily wrote science fiction. - Wikipedia
Sydney Fowler Wright was born in the Kings Norton district of Birmingham. He attended school until age eleven, at which point he worked full time. He spent his spare time studying literature, and in 1917 he helped found the Empire Poetry League and edited its journal, Poetry. In 1918, his first wife, Nellie, died, and two years later he married Truda Hancock. In the 1920s, he began writing science fiction. In 1924, his novel, The Amphibians was published. He continued to write and publish sc...
Stuart Friedman is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction.
Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon.
As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of r...
Walt Sheldon is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly knows his way around a good sci-fi story. If you're looking for some quick, imaginative reads, his collection is a great place to start.
Wayland Hilton Young is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction.
William Tenn is a science fiction writer whose work is celebrated for its wit and sharp observations. You'll find his stories collected in Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales, a great place to start if you enjoy clever, thought-provoking science fiction.
Will Stanton is the author behind the science fiction collections Mutants and Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the stranger corners of the genre.
Winston K. Marks is the author of Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. He's a writer who clearly enjoys exploring the possibilities of science fiction.