Harry Bates (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1900 - September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. He was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III. Bates began working for William Clayton in the 1920s as the editor of adventure pulp magazines. When Clayton proposed a period adventure magazine, Bates suggested several alternatives that he felt would be easier to edit and "Astounding Science Fiction" was the result.

Stanley Albert Schmidt (March 7, 1944-) is an American science fiction author, and since 1978 has been the editor of the SF magazine "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1966. He then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. After receiving his degree, he became a professor at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, teaching physics, …

Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 - 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas (pronounced like the English word "freeze") was educated at Lafayette High School in Buffalo, where he received training from long-time art teacher Elizabeth Weiffenbach.

Nat Schachner (full name Nathaniel Schachner; January 16, 1895 - 1955), also appearing as "Nathan Schachner" and under other bylines, was an American author. His first published story was "The Tower of Evil," written in collaboration with Arthur Leo Zagat and appearing in the Summer 1930 issue of "Wonder Stories Quarterly". Schachner, who was trained as a lawyer and a chemist, achieved his greatest success writing biographies of early American historical figures, …

William Tenn is the pseudonym for the science fiction work of Philip Klass. Born May 9, 1920, in London, England, he moved before his second birthday with his parents to New York where he grew up in Brooklyn. After serving in the United States Army during World War II as a combat engineer in Europe, he held a job as a technical editor with an Air Force radar and radio laboratory and was employed by Bell Labs.

Mark Clifton (1906 - 1963) was an American author and businessman. He wrote science fiction and most of his stories fit into one of two series. The "Bossy" sequence, was written alone and in collaboration with both Alex Apostolides and Frank Riley. The "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is lighter in tone was mostly written solo, including the novel "When They Come From Space" although there was one collaboration with Apostolides.

Christopher Anvil (born 1922) is a pseudonym used by author Harry C. Crosby. He began publishing science fiction with the story "Cinderella, Inc." in the December 1952 issue of the science fiction magazine "Imagination". By 1956, he had adopted his pseudonym and was being published in "Astounding Magazine".

Joan D. Vinge (born 2 April 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American science fiction author. She is known for her Hugo Award-winning novel "The Snow Queen", its sequels, and her series about the telepath named Cat. Vinge studied art in college, but eventually changed to a major in anthropology, and received a B.A. degree from San Diego State University in 1971. Her first published story, "Tin Soldier", a novelette, appeared in "Orbit 14" in 1974.

L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr. (b. 1943 in Denver, Colorado) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series "The Saga of Recluce". He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, …

Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942, Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received his BA from Harvard College. He has written numerous short stories for the science-fiction magazines "Analog", "Galaxy", and "Omni", as well as mystery shorts for "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine".

Michael A. Burstein is an American writer of science fiction. He was born in New York City, and grew up in the neighborhood of Forest Hills in the borough of Queens. He attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan. In 1991 he graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Physics, and in 1993 he earned a Master's in Physics from Boston University. In 1994 he attended the Clarion Workshop.

Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a science fiction author who was born in Grenada in the Caribbean. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio. Buckell attended Clarion East in 1999. Not long after that he made his first sale, "Fish Merchant", to Scott Edelman at "Science Fiction Age". The story appeared in the March, 2000 issue. About the time of the sale, his story "In Orbite Medievali" won a quarterly contest for the Writers of the Future.

P. J. Plauger is an author and entrepreneur. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style, software tools, and the C programming language. He founded Whitesmiths, the first company to sell a C compiler and Unix-like operating system (Idris). He has since been involved in C and C++ standardization and is now the president of Dinkumware. Plauger wrote a science-fiction short story, "Child of All Ages", …

David M. Alexander, born in 1945, upstate New York, is a writer of science fiction and mysteries. He has published mystery novels such as "My Real Name Is Lisa" and science-fiction and fantasy novels such as "Fane" and "The Chocolate Spy". His latest novel (under the pen name David Grace) is a mystery/thriller, "The Eyes Of The Blind." He has also written over half a dozen science-fiction stories for "Analog" magazine, …