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Rory Harper (born 1950) is an American science fiction writer and community activist living in College Station, Texas.
He was born in Beaumont, Texas, and attended the University of Houston but did not graduate. He was one of the founders of Houston's Inlet Drug Crisis Center, where he worked with harm reduction pioneer David F. Duncan.
He has published science fiction and horror short stories in many science fiction magazines, some of which have been anthologized. His one novel, Petrogypsies was published by Baen Books in 1989 and has since become a cult novel in and around the Texas oilfields. DarkStar Books released a new, partially illustrated trade paperback edition of Petrogypsies in December 2009, and plans to continue the series with two more volumes (Sprocket Goes International, Sprocket Goes Interstellar) in 2010 and 2011.
Harper is one of a group of regular contributors to the Eat Our Brains blog.
Pat Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.
Charles Sheffield was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.
Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps.
Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She is a faculty member at the University of Kansas.
Charles Lewis Grant was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror". He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.
A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet. Science fiction magazines traditionally featured speculative fiction in short story, novelette, novella or novel form, a format that continues into the present day. Many also contain editorials, book reviews or articles, and some also include stories in the fantasy and horror genres.
Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and business partner of Isaac Asimov.
John F. Moore is an American engineer and a writer of fantasy and science fiction primarily under the short name John Moore.
Steven Charles Gould is an American science fiction writer and teacher. He has written ten novels. He is best known for his 1992 novel Jumper, which was adapted into a film released in 2008.
Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and critic in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. Schweitzer is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of collections of essays on various writers within his preferred genres.
Laura J. Mixon is an American science fiction writer and a chemical and environmental engineer. In 2011, she began publishing under the pen name Morgan J. Locke. Under that name, she is one of the writers for the group blog Eat Our Brains.
Lisa Mason is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and urban fantasy. She lives in Piedmont, California with her husband, the artist and jeweler Tom Robinson. She is a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and graduate of the University of Michigan, the College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, and the University of Michigan Law School. She practiced law in Washington D.C. and San Francisco. To have more time to write, she transitioned to Matthew Bender and Company, a national law book publisher, where she started as a legal writer and rose to an executive editor. Many of her novels take place in the vicinity of San Francisco, California, either in the future or in the past through time travel. Her early works are recognized as cyberpunk. She has also written paranormal romance, historical romantic suspense, comedy, and a screenplay.
Steven R. Boyett, also known as DJ Steve Boyett, is a writer and disc jockey based in Northern California.
Petrogypsies is a science fiction novel by Rory Harper. It incorporates a short story that was published in 1985 in Far Frontiers, vol 2. The novel's plot focuses on a group of oil field workers in an alternate Texas who use giant, semi-sentient, worm-like creatures—possibly of extraterrestrial origin—to drill their wells, and on Sprocket, the team's drilling beast.
In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.
A bibliography of works by American science fiction author Gregory Benford.
List of the published work of Robert Silverberg, American science fiction author.
A partial bibliography of American science fiction author Nancy Kress.
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