- Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The Martian Chronicles", a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451". - George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion. - Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954), an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer, lives near Edinburgh. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. - David Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953, in Newport, Monmouthshire) is a British author, editor and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction newsletter "Ansible", which he describes as "The SF "Private Eye". - 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. - Cordwainer Bird
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of The Outer Limits and Star Trek, edited the multiple award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5. - Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director and producer. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion. As of 2006, "Premiere" listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. "TIME" named him in the '100 Greatest People of the Century'. - Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. - Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which he, along with Fran Walsh, his long time partner, and Philippa Boyens, adapted from the novels by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of "King Kong". Jackson first gained attention with his "splatstick" horror comedies, … - 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. - 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. - Mike Resnick
Resnick Library of African Adventure (Alexander Books) *"Killers in Africa" by Alexander Lake (1995) *"Hunter's Choice" by Alexander Lake (1996) *"A Blonde in Africa" by Laura Resnick (1996) *"The Company of Adventurers" by John Boyes (1997) *"Jungle Man" by Major P. J. Pretorius (2000) *"John Boyes, … - James Blish
James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. - Damon Knight
Damon Knight (September 19, 1922 - April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. - Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. - Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (born November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, California) is a legendary science fiction fan and collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia. Ackerman, known as "Forry" or "4e" or "4SJ", was influential not only in the origination, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, but he was also a key figure in the wider cultural acceptance of science fiction as a respectable literary, art and film genre. - Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a social worker, both of German-Jewish descent. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction ("Psycho"). - Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith was an active British science fiction fan from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, producing science fiction fanzines like "Drilkjis" (with Dave Langford) and "Dot", writing for fanzines ("Nabu", "Space Junk", and others), chairing British science fiction conventions, editing a 1979 anthology of British fanwriting titled "Mood 70", and serving from 1980 to 1982 as editor of "Vector", … - Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, … - Lin Carter
Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. After serving in Korea, he attended Columbia University. He was a copywriter for some years before writing full-time. Carter had a marked tendency toward self-promotion in his work, … - Jack L. Chalker
Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. - Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American hard rock bass guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. He is best known as "The Demon", his blood-spitting, fire-breathing, tongue-wagging act. - Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. - Sam Moskowitz
Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997) was an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer, critic, and historian of the field. As a child, Moskowitz greatly enjoyed reading science fiction pulp magazines. As a teenager, he organized science fiction clubs in the New York City area. While still in his teens, he became chairman of the first World Science Fiction Convention (or Worldcon) held in New York City in 1939. - Bob Shaw
Bob Shaw (December 31, 1931 - February 12, 1996) was an Irish science fiction author and fan. His works include "Light of Other Days" (incorporated into "Other Days, Other Eyes") and "Orbitsville". He was two-time recipient (in 1979 and 1980) of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His short story "Light of Other Days" was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel "The Ragged Astronauts" in 1987. He was born and raised in Belfast. - 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. - Alexei Panshin
Alexei Adams Panshin (born August 14, 1940) is an American author and critic of science fiction (SF). He is perhaps best known for the 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel "Rite of Passage". Panshin is also noted for the cult favorite Anthony Villiers series which consists of three books *"Starwell" *"The Thurb Revolution" *"Masque World" The fourth volume of the series, "The Universal Pantograph", never appeared, … - Ted White
Ted White (born February 4, 1938) is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, known as a science fiction author and editor as well as a music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels as Ron Archer and Norman Edwards. - James White
James White (April 7, 1928 - August 23, 1999) was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories, and novels. He is probably best-known as the author of the Sector General series of novels. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were written as full-length novels. The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last published posthumously in 1999. - 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. - Steven Brust
Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede, and also belongs to the Pre-Joycean Fellowship. He is best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos. His novels have been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Czech, French and Hebrew, as of 2006. - 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, … - Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels ("Brown Girl in the Ring", "Midnight Robber", "The Salt Roads") and short stories such as those in her collection "Skin Folk" often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. - Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders), and for his deadpan comedic delivery. - Jeff Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (born January 10, 1944) is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator, whose work was best known from the 1960s through 1980s. - 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. - Harry Warner Jr.
Harry Warner, Jr. (1922-February 17, 2003) was an American science fiction fan and historian. Warner became active in science fiction fandom in 1936, although he became more and more reclusive as time went on, earning the nickname "The Hermit of Hagerstown" by the 1950s. Beginning in 1939, Warner published "Horizons", a science fiction fanzine, and eventually won two Hugo awards for Best Fan Writer. - Mike Glyer
Mike Glyer is a publisher of the science fiction fan newszine "File 770". He holds the record for being nominated for the Hugo Awards the most times, 45, and has won 8 times. "File 770" won Best Fanzine Hugo in 1984, 1985, 1989, 2000, and 2001, and Glyer won the Best Fan Writer Hugo in 1984, 1986 and 1988. - Steve Stiles
Steve Stiles is a science fiction artist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He studied at the High School of Music and Art and the School of Visual Arts and later wrote about this in his essay, "Art School": :Both were located in Manhattan, where I was, and both had excellent reputations. And so, in 1956, at age 13, I took the entrance exams at M&A, which partly consisted of drawing an arrangement of old shoes and flowers, …
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