The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction
Science fiction
Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, James Tiptree, Jr., Barry N. Malzberg, Suzy McKee Charnas, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Walter Jon Williams
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) 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. || Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 - May 1987), aka James Tiptree, Jr., was an American science fiction writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Herbert Bradley, a lawyer, African explorer, and naturalist, and Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific writer.  As a child, she travelled the world with her parents, including an African safari in 1921-22.  Initially, she worked as a graphic artist and a painter.  In 1934 she married William Davey, and they divorced in 1941.  Also in 1941, she became an art critic for the Chicago Sun, but she left that position in 1942 to join the U.S. Army Air Forces photo-intelligence group.  In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D. Sheldon, and became Alice Sheldon.  In 1946 she was discharged from the Army, and she and her husband started a business.  Her first published story, "The Lucky Ones," appeared in The New Yorker in November of 1946

In 1952 she joined the C.I.A. as an agent in the Near East.  She resigned in 1955 to enrol in American University.  She earned her B.A. in 1959, then her doctorate in Experimental Psychology from George Washington University in 1967.  She began writing science fiction using the pseudonym "James Tiptree Jr."  Although her true identity became known in 1977, she continued using the Tiptree pseudonym name for another decade.  In May of 1987, at age 71, she took the life of her 84-year-old husband and then took her own.

Over the course of her career she wrote almost one hundred short stories and several novels.  She received two Hugo Awards: 1974 Best Novella for "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", and 1977 Best Novella for "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"  She received three Nebula Awards: 1973 Short Story for "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death," 1976 Novella for "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" and 1977 Novelette for "The Screwfly Solution" (published under her other pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon).  She also received the World Fantasy Award in 1987 for the collection Tales of the Quintana Roo. || Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.

Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.

Source: Goodreads || Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children). His most recent work is the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land. Greg Bear has written over 50 books in total. Greg Bear was also one of the five co-founders of the San Diego Comic-Con. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Bear) || Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford) is an astrophysicist and science fiction author who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.  He is also a contributing editor of Reason magazine.  Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, a series that postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.

Greg was born in Mobile, Alabama.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Oklahoma, followed by his Masters and then his Doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.  Having published more than 200 scientific papers, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics.

Greg is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and has also won the John W. Campbell Award, the Australian Ditmar Award, the Lord Foundation Prize, and the 1990 United Nations Medal in Literature.  

Source: Secular Policy Institute || Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg || American science fiction writer || American science fiction writer || American fiction writer.  Walter Jon Williams (born October 28, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, in particular, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984), a series of historical novels set during the age of sail.