Speculations
Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction -  Isaac Asimov
Nor Iron Bars a Cage -  Roger Robert Lovin
Surfeit - [Humanx Commonwealth] - Alan Dean Foster
The Winds of Change -  Isaac Asimov
Harpist - Joe L. Hensley
Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers - R.A. Lafferty
The Hand of the Bard - short story by Mack Reynolds
The Man Who Floated in Time - Robert Silverberg
Flee to the Mountains - Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Last Day - Gene Wolfe
The Newest Profession - Phyllis Gotlieb
A Break for the Dinosaurs - Jack Williamson
Event at Holiday Rock - Jacqueline Lichtenberg
A Touch of Truth - Alice Laurance and William K. Carlson
"Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" - Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
…Old…As a Garment - Zenna Henderson
Flatsquid Thrills - Scott Baker
The Mystery of the Young Gentleman - Joanna Russ
Biographies of the Authors 
To Break the Code
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Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance, Scott Baker, Alan Dean Foster, Phyllis Gotlieb, Zenna Henderson, Joe L. Hensley, R. A. Lafferty, William K. Carlson, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Roger Lovin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, Mack Reynolds, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe
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. || Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. ([Source][1])


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster || 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) || Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. || 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.

([Source][1])


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg || Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*.

Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic faith. 

Primarily recognized for his science fiction and fantasy works, Wolfe received a litany of recognition in those genres including the British Science Fiction, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Awards. In 2012 he was recognized as the 29th Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 

Information from [Tor Publishing][1] and [The New Yorker][2].


  [1]: https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/
  [2]: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius