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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JOHN GREGORY BETANCOURT, in addition to being a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author for various Star Trek novels and the 4-volume continuation of Roger Zelazny’s “Amber” series, has published more othan 40 books and 100 short stories in the field. He won the Black Orchid Novella Award for his mystery story “Horse Pit” a few years ago. He doesn’t find much time to write these days, since he’s kept busy as publisher of Wildside Press, but he tries to write at least one story each year. He penned “Try, Try Again” as an original contribution to this volume (he’s a big fan of time travel stories).

The late REGINALD BRETNOR (1911-1992) was never a prolific writer—he wrote only a handful of books and about 100 short stories (and more than 120 short-short “Feghoots” under his GRENDEL BRIARTON pseudonym)—over a 45-year writing career. In addition to wars, weaponry, and science fiction, Bretnor’s broad interests included cats. (And puns. Did we mention the horrible puns?)

DAMIEN BRODERICK (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of more than 50 books. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term “virtual reality,” and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the technological Singularity in detail. Check out his latest book, Adrift in the Noosphere, now available from Wildside Press.

AUGUST DERLETH (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the U.S. that had only been readily available in the U.K.), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction and biography.

RICHARD A. LUPOFF has written sixty volumes of fantasy, mystery, science fiction, horror, and mainstream fiction. His recent books include the collection Killer’s Dozen, Quintet: the Cases of Chase and Delacroix, Before 12:01 and After, The Universal Holmes, Terrors, Visions, and Dreams. His nine-volume mystery series involving Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum was reissued by Wildside Press in 2013.

RAYMOND Z. GALLUN (March 22, 1911 - April 2, 1994) was an American science fiction writer. He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s.

DAVID GRACE is the author of thirteen novels, two collections of crime short stories and five collections of science fiction short stories. His novels are available in paperback from Wildside Press and in ebook form from most major ebook stores. His author page can be found at davidgraceauthor.com.

EDMOND HAMILTON (1904 – 1977) was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the short story “The Monster God of Mamurth”, which appeared in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales. Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton would publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales between 1926 and 1948, making him one of the most prolific of the magazine’s contributors.

Hamilton became a friend and associate of several Weird Tales veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline; most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson records in his 1984 autobiography Wonder’s Child. Through the late 1920s and early ’30s Hamilton wrote for all of the SF pulp magazines then publishing, and contributed horror and thriller stories to various other magazines as well.

In 1946 Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman. One of his best known Superman stories was “Superman Under the Red Sun”, which appeared in Action Comics No. 300 in 1963 and which has numerous elements in common with his 1951 novel City At World’s End.

C. M. KORNBLUTH (July 2, 1923[1] – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians.

EDWARD M. LERNER worked in high tech for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior VP. His novels range from technothrillers, like Small Miracles and Energized, to traditional SF, like the InterstellarNet series, to, collaborating with Larry Niven, the space epic Fleet of Worlds series of Ringworld companion novels. Check out his ebooks (also availabe in paperback) from Wildside Press, which include Creative Destruction, Countdown to Armageddon, and A Stranger in Paradise.

FRANK BELKNAP LONG (1901–1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).

WILLIAM F. NOLAN (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Nolan is perhaps best known for coauthoring the novel Logan’s Run, with George Clayton Johnson, but has written literally hundreds of pieces, from poetry to nonfiction, to prose.

PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN is best known as the creator of comic-book (and movie serial) hero Buck Rogers. The original Buck Rogers is featured in his story here, as Buck travels from the 20th century to the 25th century through the properties of an unknown gas.

H. BEAM PIPER created quite a few memorable stories and novels, including the classic Little Fuzzy. Many of them are collected in The H. Beam Piper Megapack, available where you purchased this ebook.

DALLAS McCORD “MACK” REYNOLDS (November 11, 1917 – January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His work is noteworthy for its focus on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thought-provoking explorations of Utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric, perspective. He was a considerably popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fiction and fantasy magazines.

JAMES H. SCHMITZ (October 15, 1911–April 18, 1981) was an American science fiction writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Schmitz wrote mostly short stories, which sold chiefly to Astounding Science-Fiction (which later became Analog Science Fiction and Fact), and to Galaxy Science Fiction. Gale Biography in Context called him “a craftsmanlike writer who was a steady contributor to science fiction magazines for over 20 years.”

H. BEAM PIPER (March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of “Paratime” alternate history tales. Many of his books, including Little Fuzzy, Six-Gun Planet, Space Viking, and collections of his short stories, are available from Wildside Press. A collection of his work is also available as part of the “Megapack” series, The H. Beam Piper Megapack.

DARRELL SCHWEITZER is an American writer, editor, and essayist in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. Schweitzer is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of collections of essays on various writers within his preferred genres, many of which are available from Wildside Press. His most recent book is a collection of sword & sorcery stories, Echoes of the Goddess, available in print and ebook from Wildside Press.

CLIFFORD D. SIMAK (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.