Anderson, Poul William 1926 2001 en 4 7312 Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Poul Anderson also authored several works of fantasy. He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married the former Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear. He was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. In addition, he was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. He died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Source: Wikipedia Robinson, Frank M. 1926 en 1 469 Frank M. Robinson (born August 9, 1926) is an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer. Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis. He was drafted into the Navy for World War II, and when his tour was over went to college where he majored in physics. Then, according to his official website, he could find no work as a writer, and wound up back in the Navy to serve in Korea, where he managed to keep writing, read a lot, and was published in the magazine Astounding. After the Navy he went to graduate school in journalism, then worked for a Chicago-based Sunday supplement. Soon after he switched to Science Digest, where he worked from 1956-1959. From there, he moved into men's magazines: Rogue (1959-65) and Cavalier (1965-66). In 1969 Playboy asked him to take over the Playboy Advisor column. He remained with Playboy until 1973, when he left to write full time. After moving to San Francisco in the 1970s, Robinson, who is gay, was a speechwriter for gay politician Harvey Milk; he also has a small role in the film Milk. As of 2008, he is the author of 16 books, the editor of two others, and has penned numerous articles. Three of his novels have been made into movies. The Power (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as The Power. The technothriller The Glass Inferno was combined with Richard Martin Stern's The Tower to produce the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno. The Gold Crew co-written with Thomas N. Scortia, was a tense nuclear threat thriller and was filmed as an NBC miniseries re-titled The Fifth Missile. Besides The Glass Inferno and The Gold Crew he collaborated on several other works with fellow author Thomas N. Scortia, including The Prometheus Crisis, The Nightmare Factor and Blow-Out. More recent works include The Dark Beyond the Stars, and an updated version of The Power (2000) which closely followed Waiting (1999), a novel with similar themes to The Power. His newest novel is a medical thriller about organ theft called The Donor.