Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She wrote a play that opened on Broadway in 1935. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943...
Cynthia Ward is an author whose work you'll find in collections like Fantastic Stories Presents Science Fiction Super Pack #1. She's a writer of science fiction, and we think you'll enjoy her stories.
Donald Allen Wollheim was an American science fiction author, editor, and publisher.
Gregory Kern is a pseudonym of E. C. Tubb.
Edwin Charles Tubb was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, using 58 pen names over five decades of writing, although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers. Tubb wrote 17 Cap Kennedy novels, all under the pseudonym Gregory Kern. - Wikipedia
Edgar Pangborn was an American writer of mystery, historical, and science fiction.
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...
Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelanc...
Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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...
James C. Stewart is the author behind The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK®. He's a writer who knows his way around a good sci-fi story.
Jason Andrew is the author behind the horror novel Whispers from the Abyss and the extensive collection The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK. He also wrote Fear and Loathing in Bat Country, showcasing his range in speculative fiction.
John Gregory Betancourt is an editor and author who specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is the creator of the Megapack anthology series and served as the editor for the revival of Startling Stories Magazine. His notable collections include The Ultimate Zombie and The Wildside Book of Fantasy.
> John Russell Fearn was a prolific science fiction and detective story writer who penned numerous books under a variety of pseudonyms. Each name signaled the genre in which he was working: Hugo Blayn, Spike Gordon and Dennis Clive for crime thrillers; Volstad Gridban, Vargo Statten, and Thornton Ayre for sci-fi pulp; John Slate for the detective novels featuring Maria Black; and many others. In some cases he blended sci-fi elements or, more accurately, scientific detection into his mystery nove...
Katherine MacLean is the author of the science fiction collection Laughing Space. Her stories explore the human condition with a sharp, imaginative touch.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as [Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)][1], [Cat's Cradle (1963)][2], and [Breakfast of Champions (1973)][3]. He was known for his humanist beliefs as well as being honorary president of the American Humanist Association. He is widely considered one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century.
[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98474W/Slaughterhouse-Five...
Mary A. Turzillo is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2000 for her story "Mars is No Place for Children," published originally in Science Fiction Age, and her story "Pride," published originally in Fast Forward 1, was a Nebula award finalist for best short story of 2007. Mary T. Brizzi is a pen name used by Mary A. Turzillo.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Turzillo), 7 February 2022
Milton Lesser was a writer whose stories often appeared in science fiction magazines like Worlds of If. His work is a great find for anyone who enjoys classic speculative fiction.
Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed t...
Ray Cluley writes chilling horror and imaginative science fiction. Look for his collection Body Shocks, or his stories in The Fourth Science Fiction MEGAPACK and Great British Horror 1.
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...
