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Phoenix Award
The Phoenix Award is given annually by DeepSouthCon, a bidded convention held in different states of the former Confederacy. It is a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction professional.
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Richard C. Meredith
Richard Carlton Meredith (1937 – 1979), also known as Richard C. Meredith, was a science fiction author.
Meredith was born on October 21, 1937, in Alderson, West Virginia in the United States, the first son of Joseph and LaVon Meredith. During World...
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R. A. Lafferty
Raphael Aloysius 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, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of...
Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann (October 12, 1928 - May 5, 1976) was an American poet, critic and fantasy author.
His criticism includes works on the poetry of H.D. and Christina Rossetti.
Swann's poetry consists largely of short, whimsical pieces evoking a...
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Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of...
Frank Kelly Freas
Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.
Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas (pronounced like...
Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.
Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a...
Wilson Tucker
For the football player, see Bob Tucker (American football).
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker (November 23, 1914 – October 6, 2006) was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote as Wilson Tucker.
He was also a prominent...
Charles L. Grant
Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey-September 15, 2006) was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel...
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the...
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Hugh B. Cave
Hugh Barnett Cave (July 11, 1910–June 27, 2004) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.
Born in Chester, England, Hugh B. Cave moved during his childhood with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, following the...
Karl Edward Wagner
Karl Edward Wagner (4 December 1945 – 13 October 1994) was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment...
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Jo Clayton
Jo Clayton (February 15, 1939–February 13, 1998) was an American fantasy and science fiction author.
She was born in Modesto, California, and she was raised in the area along with two sisters by her farmsteading parents. Their parents arranged for...
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Jack L. Chalker
Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction...
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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As a science fiction author,...
Michael Bishop
Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has created a body of work that stands among the most admired in modern science fiction and fantasy...
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Mary Elizabeth Counselman (November 19, 1911 – November 13, 1995) was an American writer of short stories and poetry.
Mary Elizabeth Counselman was born on November 19, 1911. She later moved to Gainesville, Georgia where her father was a faculty...
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John Kessel
John Kessel (b. 24 September 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story author with several longer works to his credit. He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his novella "Another Orphan,...
Doug Chaffee
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Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton (b. February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – d. March 17, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre...
David Drake
David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.
Drake graduated Phi Beta...
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Sharon Webb
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Andrew J. Offutt
Andrew Jefferson Offutt (born August 16, 1934 in a log cabin in rural Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has his name...
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker and conservative political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel...
George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published...
Gerald W. Page
Gerald W. Page (born August 12, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery and horror. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on August 12, 1939. He sold his first story to the magazine Analog where it appeared in 1963.
Page...
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Terry Bisson
Terry Ballantine Bisson (born February 12, 1942, Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories. Several of his works, including "Bears Discover Fire", have won top awards in the science...
Robert R. McCammon
Robert R. McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parent's divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A...
Brad Strickland
William Bradley Strickland (1947-) is an American author known primarily for his fantasy and science fiction. He was born in New Holland, Georgia.
His first novel, To Stand Beneath the Sun, was published in 1985. Since, he has written or co-written...
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Toni Weisskopf
Toni Weisskopf (born 1965) is a science fiction editor and the publisher of Baen Books.
Weisskopf is an alumna of Oberlin College, from which she graduated in 1987. She was immediately employed by Baen Books, where she served as executive editor up...
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Robert Adams
Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he...
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Darrell C. Richardson
Dr. Darrell Coleman Richardson (1918 - 2006) was an American Baptist minister, bibliographer and author of 44 books. He served as Director of the National Fantasy Fan Federation and was involved in the Cincinnati Fantasy Group and the Memphis...
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Jack C. Haldeman II
Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II (December 18, 1941 - January 1, 2002) was an American biologist and science-fiction writer. He was the older brother of SF writer Joe Haldeman.
Jack Haldeman studied environmental engineering and biology at the...
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James P. Hogan
James Patrick Hogan (born 27 June 1941) is a British science fiction author.
Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked various odd...
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David Weber
David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs".
Previously the...
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Brad Linaweaver
Bradford Swain Linaweaver (born September 1, 1952) is a Nebula Award finalist for the novella version, and Prometheus Award winner for the novel version of Moon of Ice. His other novels include Sliders (based on the television series) and The Land...
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Allen Steele
Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958) is an American science fiction author.
Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night....
Danny Frolich
Danny Frolich (a/k/a Dany Frolich) is an American artist from New Orleans. He was active in science fiction fanzines of the early 1970s, and in the short-lived New Orleans underground comix scene of that era, primarily as a contributor to the...
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Sharon Green
Sharon Green (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and romance.
She is a graduate of New York University. She is divorced with three adult sons.
Green has published many works of fantasy/science fiction...
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Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American fantasy artist, known for his work for Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance, and for his comic series SnarfQuest.
Larry Elmore grew up in Grayson County in midwestern Kentucky. His...
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Rick Shelly
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Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States.
Wilson's cartoons and illustrations are drawn in a playfully grotesque style, and have a dark humor that is often compared to...
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt (born 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in The...
Tom Deitz
Thomas Franklin Deitz (January 17, 1952 – April 27, 2009) was an American novelist from Georgia. He had a B.A. and M.A. in medieval English from the University of Georgia. He was the author of the "Soulsmith Trilogy," comprising the books Soulsmith,...
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Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen (October 22, 1943 Pennsylvania – June 28, 2006 Raleigh, North Carolina) was a noted U.S. science fiction (SF) publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure,...
