John Wood Campbell, Jr. (June 8,1910 - July 11,1971) was an important science-fiction writer and editor. As a writer he was first influential under his own name as a writer of super-science space opera and then under the name Don A. Stuart, a pseudonym he used for moodier, less pulpish stories. However, Campbell's primary influence on the science-fiction field was as the editor of "Astounding Science Fiction", …

Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 - February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's "Astounding Science Fiction" and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for "Weird Tales", and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. A few of his stories were published under pseudonyms, …

Harry Clement Stubbs (b. May 30, 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts - d. October 29, 2003 in Milton, Massachusetts), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.

Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction. She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic.

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.

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.

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.

Cleve Cartmill (1908 - 1964) was an American author who specialized in writing science fiction 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 due to its detailed description of a nuclear weapon similar to that being developed by the highly classified Manhattan Project. Before embarking on his career as a writer for pulp magazines, …

F. Orlin Tremaine (born January 7, 1899 - dead October 22, 1956) was an American science fiction editor. Tremaine became the second editor of "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1933 following the magazine's purchase by Street and Smith when William Clayton went bankrupt. Tremaine remained editor until 1937, when he was succeeded by John W. Campbell, Jr.. Upon leaving "Astounding", Tremaine was appointed Editorial Director of Street and Smith for a year.

Edd Cartier (born 1914) is an American pulp magazine illustrator. After studying at Pratt Institute in the 1930s he worked for Street and Smith, publishers of the Shadow, to which he contributed many interior illustrations, and the John W. Campbell, Jr.-edited magazines Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown.

Robert Moore Williams, born in Farmington, Missouri, was a US writer, primarily of science fiction. His first published story was "Zero as a Limit", which appeared in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1937, under the pseudonym of "Robert Moore". He was a prolific author throughout his career, with his last novel appearing in 1972. His "Jongor" series was originally published in "Fantastic Adventures" in the 1940s and 1950s, …

J. T. McIntosh is a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor (1925—). MacGregor used the pseudonym for all his science fiction work, which was the majority of his output, though he did publish some books under his own name. His first story, "The Curfew Tolls", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1950, and his first novel, "World Out of Mind", was published in 1953.

Gordon Van Gelder (born 1966) is an American science fiction editor. As of 2005, Van Gelder is both editor and publisher of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". He was also a managing editor of "The New York Review of Science Fiction" from 1988 to 1993, for which he was nominated for the Hugo Award a number of times. After graduating from Princeton University (where he edited a science fiction magazine called "Infinity"), …

Edna Mayne Hull (May 1, 1905, Brandon, Manitoba - January 20, 1975) was a science fiction writer who published under the name E. Mayne Hull. She was also the first wife of A. E. van Vogt, also a science fiction writer. After working as a private secretary for an influential Texan living in Alberta, she moved back to Winnipeg, where she met her future husband, Van. They got married on May 9th, 1939, shortly before his first story "Black Destroyer" was published.

Edward Ferman (born 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher. Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, …

Thomas Calvert McClary (1909-1972) was a US writer. His books include: *"Rebirth" (1944) (originally serialized in 1934 in Astounding Science Fiction) *"Three Thousand Years" (1956)

Joseph Everidge Kelleam (1913-1975), born in Boswell, Oklahoma, was a US writer. His first story, "Rust", appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. His novels include: * "Overloads From Space" Ace Books, 1956, bound dos-a-dos with Ray Cummings' "The Man Who Mastered Time". * "The Little Men" (1960) * "Hunters Of Space" (1960) * "When the Red King Woke" (1966)

Richard DeWitt Miller (1910-1958) was an American writer of science fiction and Forteana. His first sf publication was "The Shapes", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1936. His non-fiction book length works include "You Do Take It With You" (1936), a book about Fortean phenomena. He wrote one sf novel, which was first published in 1938 by Astounding as by Miller alone, under the title "The Master Shall Not Die", …

Anna Hunger was an American writer, whose sole published book length work was "The Man Who Lived Forever", co-authored with R. DeWitt Miller. The book originally appeared in 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction, under the title "The Master Shall Not Die", by Miller alone, but in 1956 it was re-released by Ace Books in their dos-a-dos format, as by Miller and Hunger.