The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
"The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (novelette)
"Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell (short story)
"Exploration Team" By Murray Leinster (novelette)
"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke (short story)
"Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson (short story)
"The Big Front Yard" By Clifford D. Simak (novelette)
"That Hell-Bound Train" by Robert Bloch (short story)
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes (short story)
"The Longest Voyage" by Poul Anderson (short story)
"The Dragon Masters", by Jack Vance (short story)
"No Truce With Kings", by Poul Anderson (short story)
"Soldier, Ask Not", by Gordon R. Dickson (short story)
""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman", by Harlan Ellison (short story)
"The Last Castle", by Jack Vance (novelette)
"Neutron Star", by Larry Niven (short story)
"Weyr Search" by Anne McCaffrey (novella)
"Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip José Farmer (novella)
"Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (novelette)
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison (short story)
"Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg (novella)
"The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson (novelette)
"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" by Harlan Ellison (short story)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany (short story)
American Science fiction, Short stories, Science fiction
Isaac Asimov, Walter M. Miller Jr., Murray Leinster, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Bloch, Daniel Keyes, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953.

Clarke emigrated from England to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1956, largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his fame later on in the 1980s, from being the host of several television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death.

Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.

---From Wikipedia || Avram Davidson was born in Yonkers, New York.  He was educated in public schools, then studied anthropology at New York University before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942.   He served as a hospital corpsman (medic), first with the Naval Air Corps, and then with the Fifth Marines.  After the war, he travelled in England, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean before returning the the U.S. to resume his education.  He continued his education at several schools, but never earned a degree.  In 1950 he returned to the U.S. to study at an agricultural school, then went to Israel to become a shepherd.  He returned to New York City shortly after and began his writing career as a Talmudic scholar, publishing short stories and several essays in Orthodox Jewish Life beginning in 1949 and in Commentary beginning in 1952, under the name A. A. Davidson.  He was very active in the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City during this period.  His first published science fiction story, "My Boy Friend's Name is Jello," appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1954.  In 1961 he met Grania Kaiman, and they were married in early 1962, and had a son in November 1962.  He became editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1962-1965.  In 1963 he and his family moved to Milford, Pennsylvania, but had several disagreements with their landlord which resulted in them being evicted, so they moved to Amecameca, Mexico.  In June 1964, Grania moved back to California, while Avram stayed in Mexico with their son.  In 1965, he relocated to British Honduras (now Belize), then to California in 1970, where he began to study and then converted to Tenrikyo, a panentheist Japanese New Religion.  In 1971 he moved to Sausalito, California, close to San Francisco.  In his later years, he lived in Bremerton, Washington, where he died in 1993, aged 70.

Over the course of his writing career, he wrote 20 novels and collaborated on several more, but he was best known for his short science fiction stories.  He was recognized with a Hugo Award, a World Fantasy Award (including the prestigious Life Achievement Award), and an Edgar Award.  He was survived by his his ex-wife Grania Davis, who continues to edit and release his unpublished works. || Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre. || Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of German-Jewish Americans.  During the 1930s, he was an avid reader of Weird Tales magazine and H. P. Lovecraft in particular.  He wrote to Lovecraft, who responded with advice on writing, and Bloch sold his first published short story, "The Feast in the Abbey" to Weird Tales when he was just seventeen.  He continued to write for Weird Tales and went on to become one of its most popular authors, while also contributing to other magazines.  In 1946, his first published novel, The Scarf, was released.  He received the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1959 for “That Hell-Bound Train” (1958).  Also in 1959, he published one of his best-known novels, Psycho, which was adapted for the screen in 1960 by Joseph Stefano, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  He wrote the screenplay for the movie The Night Walker (1964), and he also wrote three scripts for the television show Star Trek.  Over the course of his career, he wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, mostly in the crime fiction, science fiction and, horror fiction genres. || 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 || John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. || Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.

Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic.

Source: Wikipedia || Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters.

Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books that tie all classic fictional characters together as real people and blood relatives resulting from an alien conspiracy; his works such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life make Farmer the ultimate grandfather of the modern literary mashup. - Wikipedia || Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. 

**Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia. || 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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