Great Science Fiction
White Creatures - short story by Gregory Benford
The Singing Diamond - short story by Robert L. Forward
Publish and Perish - short story by Paul J. Nahin
Skystalk - novelette by Charles Sheffield
The Universal Library - short story by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904)
Long Shot - short story by Vernor Vinge
Blackmail - short story by Fred Hoyle
Jeannette's Hands - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham]
The Warm Space - novelette by David Brin
The Wind from the Sun - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
Industrial Accident - novelette by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy]
Choice - short story by John R. Pierce
The Winnowing - short story by Isaac Asimov
Dr. Snow Maiden - short story by Larry Eisenberg
On the Fourth Planet - short story by J. F. Bone
Learning Theory - short story by James McConnell [as by James V. McConnell]
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
Transfusion - novelette by Chad Oliver
In the Beginning - short story by Morton Klass
Modulation in All Things - short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
The Bones of Charlemagne - novelette by Mario Pei [as by Mario A. Pei]
Science fiction, Scientists' writings
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, Paul J. Nahin, Charles Sheffield, Kurd Laßwitz, Fred Hoyle, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, G. Harry Stine, J. R. Pierce, Larry Eisenberg, Jesse F. Bone, James Tiptree, Jr., Morton Klass, Suzette Haden Elgin, Mario Pei
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. || 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. || 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 || Paul J. Nahin is an American electrical engineer and author. || Sir Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory (a term coined by him on BBC Radio) in favor of the "steady-state model", and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. He spent most of his working life at St John's College, Cambridge and served as the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge.

Hoyle also wrote science fiction novels, short stories and radio plays, co-created television serials, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. || 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 || George Harry Stine was raised in Colorado Springs. He earned a degree in physics from Colorado College in Colorado Springs. After graduating, he worked at White Sands Proving Grounds, first as a civilian scientist and then, from 1955–1957, at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division. 

Together with Orville Carlisle, he founded Model Missiles Inc., the first manufacturer of model rockets. Stine also founded the National Association of Rocketry and served as its president until the late 1960s. He wrote several books about rockets, as well as science fiction under the pseudonym Lee Correy. || 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. || Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Wilkins) was an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. - Wikipedia