Fantastic Creatures
The Smallest Dragonboy - short story by Anne McCaffrey
The Botticelli Horror - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Kid Cardula - short story by Jack Ritchie
The Man from P.I.G. - novelette by Harry Harrison
Flight over XP-637 - short story by Craig Sayre
The Bees from Borneo - short story by Will H. Gray
The Anglers of Arz - short story by Roger Dee
The Game of Rat and Dragon - short story by Cordwainer Smith
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, Children's stories, American
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Anne McCaffrey, Lloyd Biggle Jr, Jack Ritchie, Harry Harrison, Will H. Gray, Roger D. Aycock, Cordwainer Smith
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. || Lloyd Biggle was born in Waterloo, Iowa. During World War II he served in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division and was wounded twice, leaving him disabled for life.  After the war, he received an A.B. Degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.  He taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s.  He began writing professionally in 1955, and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, All the Colors of Darkness in 1963.  He published two-dozen books, magazine stories, and numerous articles.  He continued writing until his death in 2002. || Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved into editing pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories and Fantastic. In 1954 he married, and their first child was born in 1955. In 1956 he became a full-time writer, and began working on his first book in addition to writing for other publications such as The Saint syndicated comic strips. Over the next decade he and his family moved to several places, including Mexico, England, Italy, back to New York for the birth of their second child in 1959, to Denmark for seven years, back to England in 1965, San Diego in 1967, and finally Ireland in 1975 where they settled. Harrison produced over 60 books, occasionally in collaboration with other well-known writers such as Gordon R. Dickson. || Roger D. Aycock was an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Roger Dee. He primarily wrote science fiction. - Wikipedia