The Second Omni book of science fiction

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...

Daniel Joseph Simmons (April 4, 1948 – February 21, 2026) was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. He died in Longmont, Colo...

Ellen Datlow is a leading editor in horror and science fiction, known for anthologies like Final Cuts, Christmas and Other Horrors, and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories. She also edited The Second Omni book of science fiction and the Women Destroy Horror! special issue of Nightmare Magazine.

Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family. His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father. As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs. He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability. He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer. Over the next...

Discover the worlds of Jayge Carr, an author recognized for her science fiction, including "The Second Omni book of science fiction." Her other titles, such as "Rabelaisian reprise," "The treasure in the heart of the maze," and "Leviathan's deep," offer further stories to explore.

John (Patrick) Shirley is an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and...

Michael Bishop is the author of Dangerous Vegetables, a book that explores the surprising world of edible plants. He writes about nature and food with a clear, engaging style.

Michael Swanwick is the author of The End of the World, a collection of stories exploring apocalyptic themes. He's a writer who knows how to craft a compelling narrative.

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.

Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg

Spider Robinson is a writer whose work has appeared in collections like The Hugo Winners, Volume Four. He's known for his science fiction stories.

Walter S. Tevis wrote science fiction that often explored themes of alienation and humanity. His most famous novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth, tells the story of an alien seeking to save his dying planet.

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishi...