Galaxy
Horace L. Gold - essay by Frederik Pohl
Gold on Galaxy - essay by H. L. Gold
Coming Attraction - short story by Fritz Leiber
To Serve Man - short story by Damon Knight
Memoir (To Serve Man) - essay by Damon Knight
Betelgeuse Bridge - short story by William Tenn
From a Cave Deep in Stuyvesant Town — A Memoir of Galaxy's Most Creative Years - essay by William Tenn [as by Philip Klass]
Cost of Living - short story by Robert Sheckley
Memoir of Galaxy Magazine - essay by Robert Sheckley
The Model of a Judge - short story by William Morrison
Memoir (The Model of a Judge) - essay by William Morrison
The Holes Around Mars - short story by Jerome Bixby
Memoir (The Holes Around Mars) - essay by Jerome Bixby
Horrer Howce - short story by Margaret St. Clair
Memoir (Horrer Howce) - essay by Margaret St. Clair
People Soup - short story by Alan Arkin
Memoir (People Soup) - essay by Alan Arkin
Something Bright - short story by Zenna Henderson
The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - novelette by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith [as by Cordwainer Smith]
The Deep Down Dragon - short story by Judith Merril
Memoir (The Deep Down Dragon) - essay by Judith Merril
Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - novelette by Algis Budrys
Memoir: Spilled Milk - essay by Algis Budrys
The Place Where Chicago Was - novelette by Jim Harmon
Memoir (The Place Where Chicago Was) - essay by Jim Harmon
The Great Nebraska Sea - short story by Allan Danzig
Memoir (The Great Nebraska Sea) - essay by Allan Danzig
Oh, to Be a Blobel! - novelette by Philip K. Dick
Memoir (Oh, To Be a Blobel!) - essay by Philip K. Dick
Founding Father - short story by Isaac Asimov
Memoir (Founding Father) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Introduction to Founding Father 1968)
Going Down Smooth - short story by Robert Silverberg
Memoir (Going Down Smooth) - essay by Robert Silverberg
All the Myriad Ways - short story by Larry Niven
Memoir (All the Myriad Ways) - essay by Larry Niven
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Memoir (Galaxy Book Shelf) - essay by Algis Budrys
Galaxy Book Shelf (Galaxy, September 1969) - essay by Algis Budrys
Slow Sculpture - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Memoir (Slow Sculpture) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
About a Secret Crocodile - short story by R. A. Lafferty
Memoir (About a Secret Crocodile) - essay by R. A. Lafferty
Cold Friend - short story by Harlan Ellison
Memoir (Cold Friend) - essay by Harlan Ellison
The Day Before the Revolution - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gift of Garigolli - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - novelette by John Varley
Note (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank) - essay by John Varley
Horace, Galaxyca - essay by Alfred Bester
American Science fiction, Galaxy magazine, Indexes, Science fiction, history and criticism, Fiction, general
Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Fritz Leiber, Damon Knight, William Tenn, Robert Sheckley, William Morrison, Jerome Bixby, Margaret St. Clair, Alan Arkin, Zenna Henderson, Cordwainer Smith, Judith Merril, Algis Budrys, Jim Harmon, Allan Danzig, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, James Tiptree, Jr., Theodore Sturgeon, R. A. Lafferty, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Varley, Alfred Bester, H. L. Gold, Genevieve Collins Linebarger
Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York.  His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven.  He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family.  As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians.  His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old.  In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact.  In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them.  He married his first wife in 1940.  In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent.  During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945.  He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945.  In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf.

In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine.  In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines.  In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books.  He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 1976 and 1977 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978.  He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984.  He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois. || 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. || 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. || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer. || Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.

Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. || Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby || Margaret St. Clair was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard.  - Wikipedia || Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. With a film career spanning six decades, Arkin is known for his performances in Popi; Wait Until Dark; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Catch-22; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; Glengarry Glen Ross; Thirteen Conversations About One Thing; Little Miss Sunshine; and Argo.

He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his performances in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Argo. || Algis Budrys (Algirdas Jonas Budrys) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. || American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio. || Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature of drug abuse, paranoia and schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS.

Source and more information: [Wikipedia (EN)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) || 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. || 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 || 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 || 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. || Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York.  He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy."  His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon.

As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever.  From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.  A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter."  

He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940.  That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year.  He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter.  He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951.  In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels.  In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960.  In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise.  He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone.  At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive.

His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death.  He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon. || Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, a history book, and several novels of historical fiction. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty) || Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a Jewish-American family.  His family moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949 after the death of his father.  As a child, he performed in minstrel shows, and frequently ran away from home, taking odd jobs.  He attended Ohio State University but was expelled after 18 months for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability.  He moved to New York City in 1955 to become a science fiction writer.  Over the next two years, he published more than 100 short stories and articles.  In 1957, he joined a street gang in Brooklyn as research for his novel Web of the City/Rumble and short story collection The Deadly Streets.  In the late 1950s, he wrote erotic fiction under the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird.  Later, he used the pseudonym for works that he felt were warped beyond his original intention by editors or producers.

He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1957 and returned to New York in 1960, before moving to Chicago, to write for Rogue magazine and work as an editor for Regency Books.  In 1962, he moved to California and began writing for Hollywood film studios in.  His first screenplay was for the film The Oscar.  He also wrote scripts for television shows such as The Flying Nun, Burke's Law, Route 66, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Cimarron Strip.  
During the late 1960s, he also wrote a column about political and social issues in television for the Los Angeles Free Press titled "The Glass Teat."

Ellison has won ten Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, and five Bram Stoker Awards (presented by the Horror Writers Association) including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.  He has written nine novels, hundreds of short stories, and many articles and essays.  He continues to write from his home in Los Angeles, California with Susan, his fifth wife. || "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a volume of poetry, Incredible Good Fortune, the novel Lavinia, and an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl. She lives in Portland, Oregon." - [source][1]


  [1]: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Biography-70Word.html || Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. - Wikipedia