Norton, Andre Alice 1912 2005 en 13 35910 Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005), science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction), was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. She published her first novel in 1934. She was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and she won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983. She wrote under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston. Source: Wikipedia Sheckley, Robert 1928 2005 en 10 9514 Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. There are those who were shocked he was not given the Grand Master Award instead. Commented one scholar, "Kingsley Amis' critical overview of Science Fiction named Sheckley as our field's brightest light. But Sheckley was a humorist, and nowadays this is how our Mark Twains are treated." Source: Wikipedia Dorman, Sonya 1924 2005 en 1 604 Sonya Dorman (1924 - February 14, 2005) is the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005, aged 80. She is perhaps best known as a poet. This might be her most noted ability outside of the world of science fiction. However one of her poems Corruption of Metals received honors within SF circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her best well-known work of science fiction is the story "When I was Miss Dow", which has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree, Jr. retrospective award nomination. She also appeared in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions, with the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" Harness, Charles Leonard 1915 2005 en 1 498 Charles Leonard Harness (December 29, 1915 - September 20, 2005) was an American science fiction writer. He was born in Texas, earned degrees in chemistry and law, and worked as a patent attorney in Connecticut and Washington, DC, for 35 years. Harness' first story, "Time Trap" (1948), is unusual for a first story in that it shows many of his recurring themes, among them art, time travel, and a hero undergoing a quasi-transcendental experience. Several of Harness' works draw on his background as a lawyer. Among his best known stories are "The Rose", "An Ornament to his Profession", "The Alchemist", and "Stalemate in Time". Brian Aldiss mentioned Harness' Flight into Yesterday as a leading example of the "widescreen baroque" style in science fiction, along with Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. His story "The New Reality" has been called "SF's best Adam & Eve story" by Brian Stableford. His novel Redworld is one of the very few science fiction novels where all characters are aliens. Harness' ideas influenced numerous writers and he continued to write up to 2001, gathering nominations for multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. In 2004 he was named Author Emeritus by SFWA, but he declined the banquet invitation due to being unable to travel and was honored by SFWA as an "Author of Distinction". His admirers find his relative obscurity extremely perplexing. Source: Wikipedia