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ED EMSHWILLER (1925-1990) Edmund Alexander Emshwiller was born February 16, 1925 in Lansing, Michigan. His father was Errol Emshwiller, born 1896 in Indiana. His mother was Susie MacLellan, born 1895 in Michigan. His parents were married in 1923. He was firstborn of their two children. His little brother Mac Lellan Emshwiller was born in 1928. His father was a veteran of WWI and a teacher at a local college, the Ferris Institute. They lived at 409 Marion Street in Big Rapids City, Michigan. By 1940 his family had moved to Richmond, Virginia, where his father had been hired to work at the U. S. Patent Office. They lived at 1510 Laburnum Avenue. He attended high school and on June 25, 1943, when his Junior semester was over, he enlisted for military service in WWII. His occupation was listed as motion picture projectionist. After the war he attended college and graduated in 1948. He went to Paris in 1949 and studied for one year at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He created a few covers for ...

Google+:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/103998711237758699926/albums/5982913546414373873 Pinterest:  http://www.pinterest.com/hermanschmitz/philip-jos%C3%A9-farmer-gallery/ Philip José Farmer (26 de janeiro de 1918, Terre Haute, Indiana — 25 de fevereiro de 2009, Peoria, Illinois) foi um escritor estadunidense de ficção científica e fantasia. Passou boa parte da vida em Peoria, Illinois, onde veio a falecer.

Link para a galeria no Google+: https://plus.google.com/photos/103998711237758699926/albums/5975511567849851889 No Pinterest:  http://www.pinterest.com/hermanschmitz/larry-niven-gallery/ NIVEN, LARRY (1938- ), USA   Larry Niven began his writing career in the 1960s at a time when manyyounger SF writers were being seduced by the NEW WAVE movement and its emphasis on the SOFT sciences such as psychology and sociology.

Galeria de Capas e Imagens  Google + : https://plus.google.com/photos/103998711237758699926/albums/5971879908921340465 No Pinterest:  http://www.pinterest.com/hermanschmitz/fritz-leiber-galeria-de-capas/ Fritz Leiber Fritz Reuter Leiber Junior (Chicago, 24 de Dezembro de 1910 — San Francisco, 5 de Setembro de 1992) foi um escritor de fantástico, ficção científica e horror estadunidense. Filho do ator Fritz Leiber, ele também atuou em filmes e escreveu alguns roteiros para o cinema. É muito conhecido por sua série de fantasia heroica protagonizada pela dupla Fafhrd e Gray Mouser. Os contos iniciais foram eventualmente reunidos sob nome da série “Swords” (Espadas). Assim foram publicadas as coleções “Swords and Deviltry” (1970), “Swords Against Death” (1970), “Swords in the Mist” (1968), “Swords Against Wizardry” (1968), “Swords and Ice Magic” (1975), “Farewell to Lankhmar” ou “The Knight and Knave of Swords” (1988) e “Swords Against the Shadowland” (2012). Houve tamb...

Link para o álbum: https://plus.google.com/photos/103998711237758699926/albums/5969188476855014913 No Pinterest:  http://www.pinterest.com/hermanschmitz/john-brunner-cover-art-gallery/ Biografia — John Brunner John Kilian Houston Brunner (24 de Setembro de 1934, Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire — 26 de Agosto de 1995) foi um prolífico autor britânico de ficção científica. Brunner escreveu seu primeiro romance, Galactic Storm, aos 17 anos, sob o pseudônimo de Gill Hunt, mas não escreveu em tempo integral até 1958. Serviu como oficial da Royal Air Force de 1953 a 1955, e casou-se com Marjorie Rosamond Sauer em 12 de Julho de 1958. Tendo começado escrevendo space opera convencional, mais tarde começou a experimentar o formato romance. Seu romance Stand on Zanzibar de 1968 ganhou o Prêmio Hugo de 1969 como melhor romance de ficção científica, e é considerado um clássico do gênero. The Jagged Orbit recebeu o British SF Award em 1971. A obra mais conhecida de Brunner é talve...

Harry Harrison Biografía ( March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012): Nació en Connecticut, (EE.UU.) en 1925. Cursó sus estudios en Nueva York, y tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial ha vivido en varios países, hasta asentarse definitivamente en Irlanda. Quizá su obra más conocida es ¡HAGAN SITIO! ¡HAGAN SITIO! Trata de los problemas de un mundo superpoblado en un futuro inmediato, donde se nos muestra el Nueva York de 1999. A mediados de la década de los cincuenta la idea de que la población mundial se duplicaría en el ano 2000 se transformó en un pensamiento común y esa idea se convirtió en pánico para muchos. ¡HAGAN SITIO! ¡HAGAN SITIO! es una de las manifestaciones clásicas de ese terror. Harrison agrega a su novela una lista de unas cuarenta sugerencias para una lectura posterior, que no son obras de ficción y abarcan desde Malthus a Vance Packard y J. K. Galbraith. Fue llevada al cine con el título HASTA QUE EL DESTINO NOS ALCANCE (SOYLENT GREEN, 1973), dirigida por Richard Fleischer y pr...

Robert Silverberg é um escritor norte-americano, nasceu a 15 de Janeiro de 1935, Brooklyn, Nova York, E.U.A.  Veja algumas de suas capas aqui: https://plus.google.com/photos/103998711237758699926/albums/5902751196765844081   Biography Silverberg, Robert (1935– ) Over the course of his 50 years as a writer, Robert Silverberg has proven to be one of the most prolific in the genre, publishing over a hundred science fiction books, not including more than two dozen anthologies of his work. He has also written extensively outside the field, primarily non-fiction, but also including the highly regarded Majipoor series of fantasy novels. Silverberg sold his first short story in 1954, and his first novel—for young adults—a year later. During the 1950s he produced short stories at an incredible pace, more than 40 during 1956 alone. Under a variety of pseudonyms, and often in collaboration with Randall Garrett, he turned out a steady stream of adventure stori...