Dangerous vegetables
American Science fiction, English Short stories, English Science fiction, American Short stories, Vegetables
Ray Bradbury, Fred Saberhagen, Michael Bishop, Eric Temple Bell, John Christopher, Bentley Little, David Drake, Jack Sharkey, Mildred Johnson,  Carol Carr, Al Sarrantonio, Lawrence Schimel, Lawrence Schimel, Edward Wellen, Frank Belknap Long, David J. Schow, Donald Wandrei, Bill Pronzini, John D. MacDonald
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. 

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. 

In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 2004. 

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  [1]: http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html || The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away.

Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.

Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.

Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.

http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/ || John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania.  He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself.  While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937.  He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University.  During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far East.  In 1945, he wrote a short story for his wife and mailed it to her.  She submitted it to the magazine Story, and it was published.  When he returned home after the war, he wrote full-time, often working 14 hours every day.  After five months without another success, he sold a story to the pulp magazine Dime Detective, and he continued to write for detective, mystery, adventure, sports, western and science fiction pulps.  In 1950 his first novel, The Brass Cupcake, was published.  In 1953, he began specializing in crime thrillers, producing some of the most-respected novels in the hardboiled style.  Several of his novels have been made into films.