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Gardner Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. A subtle writer with a distinctive prose style who has mainly worked in shorter forms, he has won the Nebula Award for best short story twice -- for "The Peacemaker" in 1983, and for "Morning Child" in 1984. His short fiction has been collected in The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams (a best-of collection), Slow Dancing through Time ...

Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0. O'Reilly was initially interested in literature upon graduating from high school, but after graduating from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Classics he became involved in the field of computer manuals. He defines his company not as a book or online...

Burton Watson (born 1925) is a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry. Watson was born in New Rochelle, New York. He dropped out of high school at age 17 to join the Navy in 1943 and was stationed on repair vessels in the South Pacific. His first experiences in Japan came in 1945 when he was stationed on a ship at Yokosuka Harbor. After experiencing Japan on his weekly shore leaves, he eventually returned to the United States to attend Columbia University, where he majored in...

Martin Harry Greenberg (born March 11941) is a prolific American speculative fiction anthologist. Greenberg took a doctorate in Political Science in 1969, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay since 1975. His first anthology was Political Science Fiction (1974, with Patricia Warrick), intended to be used as a teaching guide, then continuing with a sequence of educational anthology titles under the series name Through Science Fiction. In the late 70s Greenberg began...

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award. Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines in his early teenage years. He attended Columbia University, receiving an A.B. in English Literature in 1956, but kept writing science fiction. His first published novel, a children's book called...

Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born 1949) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self. Flanagan earned his Ph.D from Boston University and his Bachelor of arts degree from Fordham University. Flanagan has written extensively on consciousness....

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, (Borsa Italiana:MNDI) is the second most important publishing company in Italy. Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 for the publishing of the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. It is controlled by Fininvest, Silvio Berlusconi's family holding company. Marina Berlusconi is the chairman. Italy Court of Cassation, in a sentence issued 13 July 2007, sanctioned that Mondadori was acquired from Fininvest, Berlusconi's media...

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Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino on October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005), was a prolific American author and screenwriter. Though he was a successful and well-known writer using the Evan Hunter name (a name he legally adopted in 1952), he was perhaps even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction beginning in 1956. Evan Hunter was born and raised as Salvatore Lombino in New York City, living in East Harlem until the age of 12, at which point his family moved...