ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JOHN GREGORY BETANCOURT is the author of more than 40 books, including 4 well received Star Trek novels, Johnny Zed, Rememory, The Blind Archer, and four prequels to Roger Zelazny’s “Amber” series.

J. F. BONE (1916-2006) was an American science fiction author. His works include The Lani People (1962), Legacy (1976), The Meddlers (1976), and Confederation Matador (1978).

SYDNEY J. BOUNDS (November 4, 1920 – November 24, 2006) was an English author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty novels and hundreds of short stories, many published under pseudonyms or anonymously. He was best known for his science fiction, but also wrote horror, Westerns, mysteries and juveniles.

DAVE CREEK is a regular contributor to Analog. His stories are available on Amazon and in a print and ebook collection, A Glimpse of Splendor and Other Stories. Look for his first novel, Some Distant Shore, available in 2012. Find out more about Dave’s work at www.davecreek.net

JOHN RUSSELL FEARN (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American science fiction magazines. He was legendarily prolific and wrote not only science fiction, but also mysteries and other genre works under a variety of pseudonyms.

LESTER DEL REY (1915-1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

JOHN GLASBY (1928-2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician, he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint. Wildside Press began a reissue program of his best works in 2011..

COSTI GURGU’s more than forty stories have appeared in different European and North American magazines and anthologies, and have won numerous awards. He has two story collections and a novel. “Angels and Moths” made the Tangent Online 2009 Recommended Reading List and won the Galileo Award for the Best Short Story.

COLIN HARVEY

PHILIP E. HIGH (1914-2006) was an English science fiction author. His writing career spanned over 50 years. He published some 14 novels and numerous short stories, many of which are being republished in new collections by Wildside Press.

C.M. KORNBLUTH (July 23, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner and Jordan Park.

FRITZ LEIBER, JR. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of Sword and Sorcery fantasy. But he excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing award-winning work in horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

MURRAY LEINSTER was the nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975), an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays. His most recent collection is The Runaway Skyscraper and Other Tales from the Pulps (2007) which assembled a number of famous as well as several previously-unreprinted tales.

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 (1978), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (1987), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).

MICHAEL McCARTY has been a professional author since 1983. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of articles, short stories and poems. In 2009, he was named as finalist (along with collaborator Mark McLaughlin) in two different Bram Stoker Award categories: Best First Novel of 2008 for Monster Behind The Wheel (Corrosion Press/Delirium Books) and Best Poetry Collection of 2008 for Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster (Skullvines Press). He received the 2008 David R. Collins’ Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. In 2005, he was a Bram Stoker finalist in the nonfiction category for More Giants of the Genre (Wildside Press). Other books include Liquid Diet/Midnight Snack: 2 Vampire Satires (Whiskey Creek Press), Masters of Imagination (Bear Manor Media) and Dark Duets (Wildside Press). Michael lives in Rock Island, Illinois with his wife Cindy and pet rabbit Latte, and is a former stand-up comedian, musician and managing editor of a music magazine.

MARK MCLAUGHLIN is the author of over 20 books including A Hell of a Job and Masters of Imagination. He is a frequent collaborator with Michael McCarty.

H. BEAM PIPER (1904-1964) 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 (in which “Little Fuzzy” takes place) and a shorter series of “Paratime” alternate history tales.

GEORGE H. SCITHERS (1929-2010) was a science fiction fan, author, and 4-time Hugo Award -winning editor (twice for Amra and twice for Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.) As editor emeritus of Weird Tales, he lectured at the Library of Congress in 2008. Wildside Press published his most recent book, Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction, in 2008.

JERRY SOHL (1913-2002) was an American scriptwriter for The Twilight Zone (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, and other shows. He also wrote novels, feature film scripts, and nonfiction.

E. C. TUBB (1919-2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for the Dumarest Saga, an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. Michael Moorcock wrote “His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” Audible has begun work adapting the Dumarest stories into audiobook.

GEORGE S. WALKER writes: “My stories have appeared in Ideomancer, Science Fiction Age, Tomorrow SF, Steampunk Tales, Reflection’s Edge, Helix SF, Electric Spec, Spectra and elsewhere.”

GERALD WARFIELD is a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop. His short story, “The Poly Islands,” won second prize in the 2011 Writers of the Future contest. “The Origin of Third Person in Paleolithic Epic Poetry” took first place in the nationally syndicated Grammar Girl short story contest. We’re sure you’ll be hearing a lot more from this very talented new writer in years to come.

ROBERT F. YOUNG (1915-1986) was an American science fiction writer whose career spanned more than thirty years, starting in 1953 in Startling Stories, then Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s. His short stories, often with a poetic and romantic style comparable to Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon, won him a faithful readership.