The Future Makers

1940-04-02 – 2007-11-19

> Peter Haining ist ein bekannter Autor und Herausgeber makaberer Literatur. Seine Bücher wurden in mehreren Sprachen auf der ganzen Welt veröffentlicht. > > Er lebt in Suffolk, England, und ist Besitzer einer umfangreichen Bibliothek mit seltenen Büchern und Schriften, woraus er eine ganze Menge seines Arbeitsmaterials bezieht. Außerdem kennt er viele große Autoren dieser Literaturgattung persönlich. > > Unter Kennern hat sich Peter Haining in Deutschland bereits einen Namen ge-macht. Nachdem schon mehrere Gruselanthologien für Erwachsene von ihm veröffentlicht wurden, werden jetzt in der Reihe »Hainings Gruselkabinett« Gruselanthologien für Jugendliche und Erwachsene herausgegeben. > …

26 February 1918 – 8 May 1985

Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York. He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy." His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon. As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever. From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science F…

22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012

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 s…