John Kilian Houston Brunner was born on September 24, 1934 in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England. During his career he wrote a lot of novels and short fiction, especially science fiction and occasionally fantasy. His most famous novels are: “Stand on Zanzibar” (1968), winner of the Hugo BSFA awards, “The Jagged Orbit (1969) and “The Sheep Look Up” (1972).
Clifford Donald Simak was born on August 3, 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin, in a rural community that influenced the setting of many of his stories. He was a journalist but he’s especially famous as a science fiction writer. In years in which aliens were generally villains, Simak saw them in a more positive way. Among his many famous novels, there are “City” and “Way Station”. Simak died on April 25, 1988.
Harlan Jay Ellison was born on May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He’s famous as a writer and screenwriter. He wrote many science fiction stories, often winners of Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, but also detective stories, thrilles and other genres. In 1967, Harlan Ellison was the editor of the famous anthology “Dangerous Visions”, which represents.
Working for television, Harlan Ellison wrote screenplays for several TV shows includining the original “Star Trek” series and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”. He was also the creative consultant for the version of the ’80s of “The Twilight Zone” and later for “Babylon 5”.
Henry Beam Piper was born on March 23, 1904 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA. Some sources report his name as Horace, a confusion he generated himself. It seems that Piper didn’t like his first name so he wrote under the name H. Beam Piper and said the H. stood for Horace. During his life, tragically ended with his suicide, he wrote many science fiction stories in the Terro-Human and the Paratime cycles.
