On Tuesday March 18, 2014, the American writer Lucius Shepard passed away. He was appreciated in the world of science fiction, horror, and fantasy and occasionally he wrote stories of other genres. Born on August 21, 1943, in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA, he wrote mostly short fiction. Among his science fiction novels, “Green Eyes” and “Life During Wartime” are particularly famous.
Jonathan Allen Lethemwas born on February 19, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. Jonathan Lethem manages to mix various literary genres in a truly unique way. It’s therefore impossible to predict what his next novel will be like. Being surprised is part of the pleasure of reading this author.
In the course of his life, Jonathan Lethem has been married three times: with the artist Shelley Jackson from 1987 to 1997, with Julia Rosenberg from 2000 to 2002 and from 2004 with Amy Barrett, with whom in 2007 he had a son, Everett Barrett Lethem.
Jerrold David Friedman, that’s his real name, was born on January 24, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. David Gerrold started his career as a screenwriter for the original “Star Trek” series. Later, he started writing sci-fi literature as well and is particularly famous for his series of the War Agains the Chtorr.
Robert Charles Wilson was born on December 15, 1953, in Whittier, California, USA. When he was still a child, his family moved to Toronto, Canada, and since then he lived almost always in that country, so much as to become a citizen in 2007. He published several high quality science fiction novels such as the highly acclaimed Spin series.
