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Linwood Vrooman Carter, aka Lin Carter. was an editor, American author of heroic fantasy and science fiction, and fantasy scholar. He produced many novels and has been criticized as more concerned with quantity than quality.
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Robert E. Howard was a short-lived but influential writer of fantasy; he was the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. He wrote for pulps and added a few stories to the Cthulu mythos. His most famous works centre on his original character Conan ( famously adapted in film as Conan the Barbarian by Arnold Schwarzenegger).
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Raymond King Cummings wrote over 750 stories and was a quintessential pulp author. His work was sometimes mechanical and he wrote primarily space romances and adventures when working in the sci-fi genre.
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Alicia Austin is a science fiction and fantasy illustrator who has illustrated works by Poul Anderson, C.L. Moore, Andre Norton, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among others. (Wikipedia - Alicia Austin)
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Charles Schneeman was a cover and interior artist for pulp magazines.
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Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, aka H.W. Wesso, was a popular German-born artist for pulp magazines. He used black and white drawings and watercolours in work for titles like Astounding Stories of Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
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Margaret Brundage was a pulp cover artist best known for her erotic pastel covers for Weird Tales, which featured nudity and often damsels-in-distress.
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Curtis Charles Senf was a pulp cover artist born in Russia. He drew 45 covers for Weird Tales (source: https://www.pulpartists.com/Senf.html)
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Miriam Allen deFord was a newspaper reporter and author of mystery and science fiction stories. She came to writing sci-fi later in her life but published over thirty stories.
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Gertrude Barrows Bennett, aka Francis Stevens, was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. She pioneered a dark fantasy style and wrote to high acclaim. Her work was published in pulp magazines and as novels.
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Frederick Orlin Tremaine was an editor and writer of science fiction. He published short fiction himself and edited fifty issues of Astounding Stories/Astounding Science Fiction, leading it through a period as a pre-eminent magazine of its day; he chose John W. Campbell, Jr. as his successor.
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Clifford Donald Simak was a newspaperman and writer of science fiction who was part of John W. Campbell Jr.'s writers in the Golden Age of SF; he continued to publish short fiction and novels into the 1970s. His works were often set in Wisconsin, and were nostalgic and emotional, in praise of rural values without much violence. He is the winner of an International Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award, among other accolades.
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August William Derleth was an American science fiction writer and editor. He is well-known as a devoted fan of Lovecraft, and co-founded Arkham House Press to publish Lovecratf's stories. He edited anthologies of sci-fi and weird fiction. He also wrote his own stories for pulps like Weird Tales and Strange Stories, as well as many novels in the detective genre.
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Howard Vachel Brown was an artist who drew covers for Scientific American, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and Astounding Science Fiction, among others. He was one of the "Big Four" science fiction illustrators of the 1930s. His style is dramatic and uses a softened colour palette.
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Raymond Zinke Gallun was a prolific writer of short stories for pulp serials, particularly Astounding. Between 1929-1942 he published over 120 stories in pulps. His work shows interest in biology and genetic engineering.
He also wrote under the names Arthur Allport, E.V. Raymond, Dow Elstar, and William Callahan
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Jules Verne was a French playwright and novelist. His work often deals with the ways science might enable marvelous exploration, as in his novels Journey to the Centre of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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Herbert George Wells was a British writer of some of the earliest modern science fiction. Wells wrote many utopian works of technologically advanced futures, and also pioneered the concept of aliens as invading forces to Earth. His most well-known works include The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and War of the Worlds, famously adapted as a radio play that fooled many people into thinking Earth had actually been invaded by aliens.
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Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction writer. His first published story, in Amazing Stories, introduced Buck Rogers, an adventure hero whose exploits in space were adapted into comic strips, film, video games, and television. Nowlan's works had great influence on the interstellar space opera genre.
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Andre Norton, born Alice Mary Norton, was a librarian turned author who wrote children's and adult SFF and history. She sometimes wrote under pen names Andrew North or Allen Weston. Her work often deals with the maturation of a young protagonist depending on appreciating some aspect of history in their world. Her Witch World series marked a turn to fantasy. Norton wrote the first novel based on Dungeons and Dragons. She has won many awards, was a co-founding member of the Swordsman and Sorcerer's Guild in America, and was the first woman to be named SFWA Grand Master and to be inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She has been called the Grand Dame of SFF (Wikipedia - Andre Norton).
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Laurence van Cott Niven, aka Larry Niven, is an American author of hard scifi stories and novels. He is a winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, among other honours. His Tales of Known Space sequence, which includes his best known novel, Ringworld, is a work of future history with considerable influence over the scifi published since. His best known short work is perhaps Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, in which he considers the problems of Superman having sex with mortal women.
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Frank Belknap Long was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction writer. He authored hundreds of short stories for serials, as well as novels. He was a friend and mentee of Lovecraft, and contributed stories to the Cthulu Mythos.
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Seabury Quinn was an American author of science fiction and detective fiction. He wrote mainly for pulp serials, and also had a career as a lwayer. His most famous stories involved the detective Jules De Grandin. (Wikipedia - Seabury Quinn)
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Katherine MacLean was an American writer of science fiction, primarily short stories. Her first work published work appeared in Astounding in 1949.
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Judith Merril, born Juliet Grossman, was an American/Canadian early woman writer of science fiction. She published stories in pulp serials and was an anthologist of SFF. She was briefly married to fellow scifi author Frederik Pohl.
The Toronto Public Library's special collection in science fiction and fantasy is named in her honour.
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Raymond Douglas Bradbury was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He wrote a fanzine, Futuria Fantasia, before beginning to publish himself in pulp serials. Many of his short stories were in The Martian Chronicles, which has been adapted as a tv miniseries.
His most famous work, Fahrenheit 451, is a curriculum standard in English speaking countries. He has had great influence on the SFF genres and is credited in his New York Times obituary with "bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream."