The Space Opera Megapack: 20 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales
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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. “Old Faithful” (1934) was his first noted story. His first book, People Minus X, was published in 1957, followed by The Planet Strappers in 1961. The 1978 collection, The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun, provides a selection of his early work. Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; the award was later renamed The Raymond Z. Gallun Award.
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. 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.
JAY LAKE is a science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon and works as a product manager for a voice services company.
SHARON LEE and STEVE MILLER author the bestselling Liaden Universe® series. SF convention favorites, they’ve received the Skylark Award for their contributions to the field as well numerous awards for individual works. They live in Maine, with multiple Maine Coon Cat muses. See the website Http://www.korval.com for latest news.
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).
JEAN LORRAH (born 1938) is a science fiction and fantasy author. She has produced several Star Trek novels and often collaborated with Jacqueline Lichtenberg. Her most recent work with Lichtenberg is on the Sime~Gen Universe (available in print and ebook from Wildside Press). Her fantasy series The Savage Empire, is also available from Wildside Press.
C. C. MACAPP, pseudonym of Carroll Mather Capps (1917–1971) was an American science fiction author. He was also a long-time benefactor of San Francisco chess. He was a former president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chess League, and won the Northern California and San Francisco chess championship several times.
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH, a multiple Hugo Award-winner and USA Today bestseller, writes a lot of space opera. Her award-winning Diving series and her bestselling Retrieval Artist series both span galaxies. WMG Publishing publishes both series in trade paperback and ebook, while Audible handles the audio editions. She also writes standalone space opera stories,and so much more.
E. E. “DOC” SMITH (1890–1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.
TIM SULLIVAN, is an American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer. Many of his stories have been critically acknowledged and reprinted. His short story “Zeke,” a tragedy about an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth, has been translated into German and was a finalist for the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. “Under Glass” (2011), a well-reviewed semi-autobiographical short story with occult hints, has been translated into Chinese and is the basis for a screenplay by director/actor Ron Ford. He lives in Florida.
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 (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) 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.” Wildside Press has reprinted many of his novels and is currently adapting the Dumarest books as audiobooks through Audible.
JACK WILLIAMSON (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006)was an American science fiction writer, often called the “Dean of Science Fiction” after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988. He was one of the pioneering authors of space opera, though he went on to write more significant works later in life