- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, and teacher. He is a World Fantasy Award winner, has been nominated for the Hugo Award eight times, and is a Senior Editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books. The former Patrick Hayden changed his last name to "Nielsen Hayden" on his marriage to Teresa Nielsen (now Teresa Nielsen Hayden) in 1979. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. Born Teresa Nielsen, she grew up in a Mormon household in Mesa, Arizona, but was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1980. In her youth, she served as a page in the Arizona House of Representatives. - Ben Bova
Galaxyonline.com, the largest science fiction and science fact related Interactive online network in the universe, announced today that renowned author and futurist Dr. Ben Bova has recently signed on as supersite publisher and senior vice president. - John W. Campbell
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", … - Gardner Dozois
Gardner Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine from 1984 to 2004. - Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is a noted American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited "Galaxy" magazine and its sister magazine "if", winning the Hugo for "if" three years running. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993. - Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939. He began to write while still at school, starting a magazine, Outlaw's Own, in 1950. He continued to produce similar fanzines until 1962. After leaving school, he began to contribute professionally to Tarzan Adventures and edited that magazine from 1957 to 1958, writing for it his first heroic fantasy series. - David G. Hartwell
David Geddes Hartwell (b. July 10, 1941) is an editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet (1971-1973), Berkley Putnam (1973-1978), Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint, 1978-1983, and created the Pocket Books Star Trek publishing line), and Tor (where he spearheaded Tor's Canadian publishing initiative, and was also influential in bringing many Australian writers to the US market, 1984-date), and has published numerous anthologies. - Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey (Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey) (June 2 1915 - May 10 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. According to Lawrence Watt-Evans, his birth name may have been Leonard Knapp or Lester Stamm - Damon Knight
Damon Knight (September 19, 1922 - April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. - Donald A. Wollheim
Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 - November 2, 1990) was a science fiction writer, editor, publisher and fan. He published his own works under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell. A member of the Futurians, he was one of the leading influences on the development of science fiction and science fiction fandom in the 20th century United States. He left Avon Books in 1952 to work for A. A. Wyn at Ace Books, … - Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan (1964 in Belfast -) is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded "Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy", and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. - Anthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher (born William Anthony Parker White was an American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of (mostly) mystery fiction for the "San Francisco Chronicle". In addition to Anthony Boucher, White also employed the pseudonyms Herman W. Mudgett and H. H. Holmes, which were the name and alias, respectively, … - James Morrow
James Morrow (born 1947) is an award-winning fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work not only satirises organized religion but also elements of humanism and atheism. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son, Christopher, and their dogs. Morrow questions not only religious viewpoints but atheistic and humanistic views as well. - Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. - Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction". - Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow (born 1949) is an American speculative fiction editor and anthologist. - Steven H Silver
Steven H Silver is "an accomplished sci-fi fan and bibliographer", publisher, and editor. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer seven times. - Julius Schwartz
Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York. - Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen was a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, and military science fiction / space opera genres. In late 1999 he started an electronic publishing business called Webscriptions, considered to be the first profitable e-book vendor despite not using encryption or DRM. He was considered a controversial figure during his own lifetime, … - Terry Carr
Terry Gene Carr was a U.S. science fiction author and editor. Terry Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He was an enthusiastic publisher of science fiction "fanzines" (fan magazines), which later helped open his way into the professional publishing world. (He was one of the two fans responsible for the famous hoax fan 'Carl Brandon' after whom the Carl Brandon Society takes its name.) Though he published some fiction in the early 1960s, Carr concentrated on editing. - Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg (born March 11941) is a prolific American speculative fiction anthologist. - Judith Merril
Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 - September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist. - Gordon van Gelder
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"), … - Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin was a science fiction editor. Born with dwarfism, she was a fan and regular attendee at science fiction conventions and worked her way up the publishing ladder, starting with work at the SF magazine "Galaxy". Judy-Lynn was friends with Lester del Rey and after the death of his third wife married him. After moving to Ballantine Books, she revitalized the publisher's once-prominent science fiction line there, … - Avram Davidson
Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and was three time winner of the World Fantasy Award in the science fiction and fantasy genre, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" from 1962 to 1964. - Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen (born February 11, 1939 in New York City) is an American author, and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She wrote the Nebula Award-winning "Sister Emily's Lightship" (short story) and "Lost Girls" (novelette), as well as "Owl Moon" and "The Emperor and the Kite", Caldecott Medal winners, the "Commander Toad" series and "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight". - Charles N. Brown
Charles Nikki Brown is the founder and editor of Locus, a news and reviews magazine dealing with the Science fiction and Fantasy genres of literature. He was born on June 24,1937 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the United States Navy and worked as a nuclear engineer before becoming a full time Science fiction editor in 1975. Brown and "Locus" magazine are frequent winners of the Hugo award for Best Semi-prozine - Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, March 12 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel "Make Room! Make Room!" (1966), the basis for the film "Soylent Green" (1973). - H. L. Gold
Horace Leonard Gold (April 26, 1914, Canada - February 21, 1996, Laguna Hills, California) was a science fiction writer and editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved to the United States at the age of two. He was most noted for bringing an innovative and fresh approach to science fiction while he was the editor of "Galaxy Science Fiction". - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as "The Mists of Avalon" and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. In literary circles, she is often referred to by her initials, "MZB," a nickname reinforced by her friend and editor, Donald A. Wollheim. - Stanley Schmidt
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, … - David Pringle
David Pringle (born 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor. Pringle served as the editor of "Foundation", an academic journal, from 1980 through 1986, during which time he became one of the prime movers of the collective which founded "Interzone" in 1982. By 1988, he was the sole publisher and editor of "Interzone", a position he retained until he sold the magazine to Andy Cox in 2004. - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 1960) is an American writer. She writes under varoius pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream. Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her story "Millennium Babies". Received the 2003 Endeavour Award for "The Disappeared" 2002. She is married to fellow writer Dean Wesley Smith; they have collaborated on several works. - Eric Flint
Eric Flint (born California, USA, 1947) is an American science fiction, alternate history, and fantasy author and editor. Some of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures. Flint has a Master's Degree in history specializing in West African history. He left his doctoral program over political issues and supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer. - Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (June 20, 1910-October 29, 2003) was an American science fiction fan and writer, secular and religious publisher, and minister. Born in Palm, Pennsylvania, Eshbach grew up in Reading. He discovered science fiction at age 15 and began writing letters to the professional magazines, then started to write his own stories. The third story he wrote sold to "Science Wonder Stories" in 1929. While still writing his own stories and articles, … - Jack Dann
Jack Dann is an American science fiction writer living in Australia. Dann began publishing science fiction in 1970 with the stories "Dark, Dark the Dead Star" and "Traps," both of which appeared in the Ejler Jakobsson-edited "Worlds of If" and were collaborations with George Zebrowski. Since then, Dann has written or edited over seventy books, including the groundbreaking novels "Junction", "Starhiker", "The Man Who Melted", … - J. Francis McComas
Jesse Francis McComas (June 9 1910, Kansas City, Missouri - April 19 1978, Fremont, California) was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe. He entered publishing in 1941 as a salesman and editorial representative, spending two years in New York with Random House. - Groff Conklin
Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904, Glen Ridge, New Jersey - July 19, 1968, Pawling, New York) was a leading science fiction anthologist. Born Edward Groff Conklin, he edited 41 anthologies of science fiction, 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". - Roger Elwood
Roger Elwood (January 13, 1943 - February 2, 2007) is an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s.
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