Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) was born on February 7, 1912, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Adelbert Freely and Bertha Stemm Norton. Norton began her literary career at an early age, serving as the editor of a literary page in her high school's paper called The Collinwood Spotlight, for which she also wrote short stories. During this time, she actually wrote her first book, Ralestone Luck, which was eventually published as her second novel in 1938.

Norton graduated from high school in 1930, and briefly attended Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, intending to become a teacher. However, economic circumstances obliged her to leave school in 1932, and instead, she went to work as a librarian with the Cleveland public library system. She was employed here for a number of years, during which time she worked for some time as a children's librarian for the Nottingham Branch Library in Cleveland. After a brief tenure working at the Library of Congress from 1940-1941, and a failed attempt to operate a bookstore in Mount Rainier, MD, she returned to the Cleveland Public Library. Ill health forced her to retire from the library in 1950. From 1950-1958 Norton was a reader at the SF small press Gnome Press.

In 1934, Norton published her first book, the novel The Prince Commands, being sundry adventures of Michael Karl, sometime crown prince & pretender to the throne of Morvania. She changed her name legally to "Andre Norton" at this point, believing that readers of fantasy (at that time a mainly male audience) would accept her more under a pseudonym that was not clearly female. Between 1934 and 1948 she wrote several additional historical novels. Her first genre novel was the historical fantasy Huon of the Horn (1951), an adaptation of the medieval tale of Huon, Duke of Bordeaux. Although her first actual work of science fiction or fantasy was actually the novella "The People of the Crater", which she published under the name "Andrew North" in the 1947 magazine Fantasy Book.

Norton's first science fiction novel was Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D., which was released in 1952. This inaugurated a fertile and prolific creative period in her life. By the end of her life, Norton had produced (or co-written) novels and short stories in over 20 different series (as well as many individual stand-alone works), those series including Beast Master (1959-2006, the first novel of which was semi-adapted into a film in 1982); Central Control (1953-1955); Crosstime (1956-1965); Forerunner (1960-1985); Mark of the Cat (1992-2002); Moon Singer/Moon Magic (1966-1990); Star K'aat (1976-1981); Time Traders (1958-2002); and Trillium (1990-1993).

Norton's most famous creation is probably her Witch World high fantasy novel and story cycle. The first of the series, Witch World, was released by Ace Books in 1963 and tells the story of Simon Tregarth, a resident from our Earth who, fleeing a group of assassins, is transported to a parallel world where magic rules. Magic in the Witch World is the exclusive province of women, a situation that governs much of the events that play out in the series. The novel was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel and sparked a long-running series on which Norton increasingly cooperated with other authors starting in the 1980s. Witch World, then, is an early example of what later became known as a "shared universe."

Andre Norton's abilities were recognized during her lifetime by her peers and her many fans, as evidenced by her many awards and nominations. She was nominated twice for the Hugo Award (in 1963 for Witch World, and in 1968 for Best Novelette ("Wizard's World") for numerous Locus Poll awards, and for several World Fantasy Awards. Her wins include the 1975 Phoenix Award for overall achievement in science fiction, the Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy Award in 1977 for lifetime achievement, the 1983 Edward E. Smith Award for Imaginative Fiction, the Jules Verne Award in 1984, the 1994 First Fandom Award, and a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 1998. In 1984 she was made a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the first woman to receive this prestigious award (only three other women since Norton have been given this award).

In addition, she was a founding member in the 1960s of the Swordsmen and Sorcerer's Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors that granted entry by fantasy credentials alone. Norton was the only woman among the original eight members.

Norton moved from Florida (where she had lived since 1966) to Murfreesboro, TN in 1987. In her later years, one of her more notable projects was the formation of the High Halleck Genre Writer's Research and Reference Library, a special collections library devoted to science fiction, fantasy, and other genre writing, run by Norton on her own property. The library opened in 1999 and was dispersed after Norton's death. She died of congestive heart failure on March 17, 2005. Her last completed novel, Three Hands for Scorpio, was published a few weeks later on April 1.

In 2005, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America established the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy in Norton's honor. The Norton Award is presented yearly along as part of the Nebula Awards.

The famed British science fiction magazine New Worlds had a long, though erratic publication history. It began life in 1936 as the fanzine Novae Terrae, and in 1939 the editorship passed to John Carnell, who renamed the publication New Worlds. He wanted to transform the magazine into a professional publication, but World War II and Carnell's Army service intervened. In 1946, he began publishing the revitalized magazine with the help of Pendulum Publications. However, after only 3 issues the company went bankrupt, leaving New Worlds without a publisher.

London-based fans of the magazine took up the cause and created a new company, Nova Publications, that would relaunch the journal. Carnell was one of the company's board members, and it was chaired by author John Wyndham. In June 1949, Nova produced the first issue. New Worlds went on to enjoy a good deal of success through the 1950s, publishing works by such authors as J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Arthur C. Clarke, and Brian Aldiss, as well as Wyndham himself. However, declining circulation in the early 1960s nearly caused Nova to close down the magazine; instead, it was bought by publisher Roberts & Vinter.

The publisher hired author, Michael Moorcock, starting with the May/June 1964 issue, as New Worlds' new editor, a post he held until 1969. In 1967, Moorcock rescued the magazine from cancellation (due to R&V's bankruptcy) by obtaining grant funds from the British Arts Council to continue publishing. Moorcock himself contributed many stories to the magazine, his work causing New Worlds to become known as one of the mainstays of the so-called experimental "New Wave" in British science fiction. In addition to his own stories, Moorcock published stories from a number of authors both famous and up-and-coming, including Clarke, John Sladek, Thomas M. Disch, Vernor Vinge, and Terry Pratchett.

Unfortunately, funding issues forced Moorcock to cease publication of New Worlds in April 1970. He did convince Sphere Books (and later Corgi Books) to continue it as a quarterly paperback anthology series, but it ended in 1976 after the tenth issue. From 1978-1979 New Worlds was revived again by Moorcock in a fanzine format, and it ran for four issues. Between 1991-1994, it again began publication as a paperback anthology series by Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Berenice Norwood Napper, wife of Alver W. Napper, and daughter of Rev. James O. Norwood and Mrs. Norwood. Native to Norwalk, Connecticut, she was one in a family of six children and went on herself to be the mother of two children, Patricia and Alver Jr.

Mrs. Napper was a 1940 graduate of Howard University Conservatory of Music and an assistant to the Dean of Women there as well. She went on to later become a teacher, lecturer, and publicist. Heavily involved in her community, she accomplished much by helping with election campaigns and becoming involved with several organizations. She was executive director of Negro activities of the Greenwich Board of Recreation, a playground supervisor for the South Norwalk board of education, executive secretary of the Urban League in White Plains, NY, specialist and field secretary for the National Office of the NAACP, a social worker for the Connecticut Welfare Department, and claims examiner and supervisor for the unemployment division of the Connecticut Department of Labor. She was also Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, a charter member of the Connecticut chapter of Jack and Jill, and founder of the Greenwich Women's Civic Club.

She was also the director for many musical organizations: the Connecticut Chordsmen of Greenwich; the West Main Street Community Center Choral Group; the Crispus Attucks Mens Glee Club; and the First Baptist Church Choir. She was an instructor in piano and voice as well as choir director and organist for St. Francis A.M.E. Zion Church in Rochester, NY.

She was active in many civic organizations in Norwalk and other parts of New England through the Greenwich Planned Parenthood Association, Council of Churchwomen, and in the League of Women Voters. She was a vice-chairman and field organizer for the Republican Party in Connecticut, and also was the first director at the Crispus Attucks Community Center in Greenwich.

Naidish was the first husband of celebrated actress Carol Channing although they divorced in 1946. Naidish spent much of his years in and out of mental institutions diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

James C. Nagle was a professor of Civil Engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) from 1890 to 1913, Dean of the engineering faculty from 1911 to 1913, and director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station from 1917 to 1922.

Sam Moskowitz was born June 30, 1920, in Newark, N. J. He served in the U. S. Army during World War II. He worked in the wholesale food industry for most of his life, but maintained a literary career also. He was a literary agent and science fiction magazine editor, and was very active in the science fiction fan communities. Among others, he was a member of the Science Fiction League, Fantasy Amateur Press Association, First Fandom, Science Fiction Writers of America, Eastern Science Fiction Association and others. His activity was rewarded by a special plaque from the 13th World Science Fiction Convention in 1955 for his history of fan life, The Immortal Storm, the Big Heart Award for contributions to Science Fiction, and was named to the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame in 1979.

Moskowitz was one of the founders of the World Science Fiction Convention, now in its 64th year. He was one of the first, if not the first, to lecture on science fiction to a University class.

Moskowitz was widely recognized as the leading amateur historian of science fiction and fantasy during his lifetime. He wrote many articles in the science fiction magazines, about science fiction and individual authors. In many cases, those were collected into book form later. Moskowitz was also a prolific letter-writer, communicating with many fanzines with comments, corrections of information published in the fanzines, or short articles on the field.

His historical treatments of science fiction and fantasy include The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction (1954); Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction (1963); Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Science Fiction (1966); and Science Fiction in Old San Francisco (1980), and may other titles. Moskowitz frequently published his history and criticism in The Fantasy Commentator, a highly regarded amateur magazine. His final completed book, a history of John W. Campbell, will appear in that magazine beginning in 2006.

Hal Moseley was from Dallas, TX and graduated from Texas A&M College in 1900 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He later became the President of the Association of Former Students serving from 1912-1913.

J. V. Morton, from Dumas Texas, graduated from Texas A&M College Class of 1926 with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. He graduated from TAMC as a first Lieutenant Propt. Officer in the Second Battalion in the TAMC Corps of Cadets at the age of 20. J. V. Morton was a member of the Agricultural Engineering Society while attending TAMC.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia (1981-) was born and raised in Mexico. Since 2008, she has written some 40-odd short stories, many of which have been collected in the anthologies This Strange Way of Dying (2013, a finalist for the 2014 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic), and Love and Other Poisons (2014). In addition, she has edited or co-edited a number of genre anthologies, including, among others, Future Lovecraft (2011, with Paula R. Stiles), Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (2013), Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse (2014), and She Walks In Shadows (2015, with Paula R. Stiles, winner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology).

She has written several novels: her debut, the Mexico City-set fantasy Signal to Noise (2015), was nominated for the 2016 Aurora Novel for Best Novel (in English), the 2016 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and the 2016 Sunburst Award. It won the 2016 Copper Cylinder Award. Her second book, the vampire novel Certain Dark Things was released in 2016. The Beautiful Ones, was published in 2017, the year in which she also published a science fiction novella, Prime Meridian.

Moreno-Garcia's 2019 fantasy novel Gods of Jade and Shadow, based in the legends and myths of Mesoamerica, received critical and popular acclaim (including a nomination for the 2010 Nebula Award), and it won the 2020 Sunburst Award. Her latest genre novel, Mexican Gothic, is a critically-acclaimed horror novel that has been picked up by Hulu for a limited TV series. 2020 also saw the publication of Moreno-Garcia's first nongenre novel, the thriller Untamed Shore, set in 1970s Mexico. Another noir thriller set in Mexico, Velvet Was The Night, was published in August 2021. She published a Mexican reworking of H.G. Wells, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, in July 2022, and in July 2023 released her latest novel, Silver Nitrate, a dark occult thriller based heavily in Mexican horror movies.

Moreno-Garcia is the publisher of the small press Innsmouth Free Press, and co-edits the Jewish Mexican Literary Review with Lavie Tidhar. She also co-edits The Dark Magazine.

Moreno-Garcia has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia; her thesis was entitled "Magna Mater: Women and Eugenic Thought in H.P. Lovecraft". She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Michael Moorcock stands, as an opposite pole, with J.R.R. Tolkien as one of the two most influential writers of fantasy of the last half of the twentieth century. He dominated British fantasy during the 1960’s and 70’s, and continues to be regarded as the most influential writer of sword and sorcery in the UK. He was a central figure in the development of urban fantasy, as well as such tertiary genres as steampunk and gaslight romance. Yet Moorcock’s accomplishments as a writer defy such easy or convenient labels, as has his life. A prolific writer whose work has spanned or blurred most genres, including crime, romance, western, science fiction and mainstream, he is the author of an at times bewildering array of fiction which to date include over eighty novels, not considering varying titles or omnibuses; approximately one hundred and fifty short stories; a play and screenplay; poetry; several graphic novels; comics; and at least one computer game. He was editor of New Worlds, which under his stewardship became the preeminent magazine of science fiction for its day (1964-67), promoting new authors at the time that have since, along with Moorcock himself, come to be identified with the New Wave, including Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delaney, Thomas M. Disch, M. John Harrison, Charles Platt, John Sladek, Norman Spinrad, Gene Wolfe and Roger Zelazny. In addition to his fiction and other editorial activities, Moorcock has written innumerable articles, essays, interviews, letters and reviews throughout his long career, as well as several works of non-fiction, including such critical surveys as Letters From Hollywood and Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy. He has also been actively involved in politics, serving as editor and writer for the Liberal Party from 1962-63, and has long been involved as an advocate of feminism and opponent of pornography. In addition to his writing career, he was a musician and songwriter for several rock bands, including Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Fix, The Greenhorns and Hawkwind.

Michael John Moorcock was born December 18, 1939, in Mitcham, Surrey, to Arthur and June (Taylor) Moorcock. He has been married three times, to author Hilary Bailey in 1962, Jill Riches in 1978, and his current wife, Linda Steele, in 1983. He is the father of three children, two daughters and a son, by his first marriage. After living most of his life in London, where much of his fiction is set, Moorcock moved with his wife, Linda, to Bastrop, Texas in 1994, which has been their primary residence ever since.

Moorcock began his writing career in early adolescence, his first work, Outlaw’s Own, written in 1950. At sixteen, he was briefly editor of Tarzan’s Adventures (1956-57), followed by the Sexton Blake Library (1958-61), and his early fiction, such as the Sojan stories, were heavily influenced by pulp fiction from the earlier half of the twentieth century. His first Elric tales appeared in 1961 and ’62, as well as the first direct mention of the Eternal Champion (1962), concepts and characters that, along with the multiverse—a realm of parallel if not infinite existences where a constant struggle exists between Order and Chaos—were to define most of his fiction during the ‘60’s and 70’s, and continue to inform his fantasy work to the present day. It is the character of Elric that first gained Moorcock an large audience, an often dark parody of Robert E. Howard’s Conan that solidified Moorcock’s identification with sword and sorcery, and that has continued, despite Elric’s many and evolving avatars—Corum, Erekosë, Hawkmoon, Kane of Mars, Von Bek or the commedia dell’ arte masquerade of Elric itself, Jerry Cornelius—or Moorcock’s increasing forays into other areas of fiction, and has influenced, in varying degrees, every author of fantasy that has followed. As John Clute observes in his Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Moorcock “remains the 20th century’s central fantasist about fantasy.”

In addition to his various story cycles revolving around the concepts of the multiverse and the eternal champion, Moorcock has written several other books that have secured his legacy as an author. Behold the Man (1967), a novella and one of his few works that is singularly science fiction, received the Nebula Award in 1968. Gloriana, or the Unfulfill’d Queen: Being a Romance (1978) is a sexual parable set in Elizabethan England, parodying Spenser’s The Faerie Queene as well as heavily acknowledging Meryvn Peake’s Gormenghast. Mother London (1988) is more a mainstream fabulation, a biography of the city presented as masque for which he received considerable critical acclaim. Along with the Jerry Cornelius novel The Condition of Muzak (1977), many feel these four books represent the best of a large and outstanding body of work.

In addition to the Nebula Award for Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock has also been the recipient of the British Fantasy Award on five occasions: in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976. The Condition of Muzak received the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1977. Both the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award were given to Gloriana in 1979. In 1993 Moorcock won the British Fantasy Committee Award and an additional World Fantasy Award in 2000 for lifetime achievement.

1 Clute, John, and John Grant, eds., The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), p. 660

Michael John Moorcock is one of the 20th century's most preeminent science fiction and fantasy authors. Born in London, England on December 18, 1939, he now divides his time between Bastrop, Texas and France.

Moorcock first entered the professional literary scene in 1957 at the age of 17, when he became the editor of Tarzan Adventures. During his editing tenure he published a number of stories devoted to Sorjan the Swordsman, which formed the first of Moorcock's heroic fantasy oeuvre. In these early years he also edited the Sexton Blake Library, a collection of stories based around the popular British literary character once described as "the poor man's Sherlock Holmes". (Moorcock would later use Blake as the basis for his own 'metatemporal detective' Sexton Begg.) In 1958 Moorcock produced his first of many works for the magazine New Worlds, "Going Home".  His first published novel was The Sundered Worlds, originally published in November 1962 as a novella in _Science Fiction Adventures_and expanded into a full-fledged novel in 1965. In 1964 Moorcock became the editor of New Worlds. His editorship marked _New Worlds_as one of the major forces in the development of so-called "New Wave" science fiction, a literary movement that redefined science fiction with a more modernist and experimental style, and that focused less on technological change and development (as does traditional 'hard' science fiction). Although the level of true rupture and opposition between the New Wave and previous generations of SF literature is debatable (as is the degree to which the New Wave actually constitued a "movement"), the New Wave (of which Moorcock and J.G. Ballard are often considered core founders) did produce a number of authors with lasting reputations, including John Brunner,  Samuel Delaney, and Harlan Ellison.

Moorcock is responsible for a large and broad body of work. Notable individual works of his include the 1966 novella "Behold The Man", which won the Nebula Award and which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a man who travels through time and ends up assuming the historical identity of Jesus Christ; Mother London(1988), a Whitbread Prize nominee that disjointedly and chaotically chronicles the history of the city of London and which spawned a partial sequel in 2000, King of the City; the Pyat Quartet, a series of 4 novels written between 1981 and 2006 that relates the life of Colonel Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, a drug-addicted anti-Semitic (despite himself being Jewish) antihero who wanders from Tsarist Russia to the Western world over decades of history; and Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen(1978), a novel set in a re-imagined Elizabethan Britain. _Gloriana_won both the 1979 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the 1979 World Fantasy Award (Best Novel).

However, Moorcock's most famous and important literary contribution is his creation of the so-called "Multiverse". _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_defines the Multiverse as "a universe consisting of innumerable alternate worlds, all intersecting, laterally and (palimpsest-fashion) vertically. Some of these parallel worlds operate according to SF premises, some - like the worlds in which various avatars of Moorcock's Eternal Champion series play out their linked destinies - operate in fantasy terms. Worlds governed by incompatible premises are not, however, barred from each other and in this sense the overall concept belongs more properly to fantasy than to Sf. Moorcock himself treats his extremely large and varied oeuvre as though all its venues occupy niches in the one multiverse". Thus, all of Moorcock's fictional work can be seen to take place in the same intersecting and overlapping realm.

Key to an understanding of the Multiverse is Moorcock's invention of the "Eternal Champion". The Eternal Champion is an endlessly recurring figure whose destiny is to preserve the universal balance between Law and Chaos (the two forces that dominate Moorcock's cosmology). The Champion does not  necessarily fight for good or evil per se, but instead works to right the cosmic order whenever the balance tips too much towards one side or the other. Moorock's Multiverse is a shared universe, in which he has frequently allowed other authors to write works in.

Moorcock first explicitly introduced The Eternal Champion in the 1970 novel of the same name, this incarnation being identified as John Dakar, a 20th-century human who is unique among Champions as actually being able to know his role, his destiny, and the identity of other incarnations. This novel marked the first of the _Eternal Champion_sequence, which eventually came to encompass numerous novels and stories that chronicle a number of different Champions, including (among others) Dorian Hawkmoon, Graf Ulrich Von Bek, Corum Jhaelen Irsei, Jherek Carnelian, Michael Kane, and Oswald Bastable.

Outside the main _Champion_sequence, Moorcock's most famous protagonists (themselves also incarnations of the Champion) are Elric of Melnibone and Jerry Cornelius. Elric, who first appeared in Moorcock''s story "The Dreaming City", published in Science Fantasy#47 (June 1961), is an antihero who both reflects and satirizes the conventions of heroic sword-and-sorcery fantasy. He is the last Emperor of Melnibone, an island civilization on an ancient alternate Earth. Elric has a notable physical appearance, being an albino, and he is also physically weak and must rely on drugs to retain health and strength. He wields the magical black sword Stormbringer, which brings Elric strength but which can only flourish by eating the souls of the people it destroys. Elric is probably Moorcock's best-known character, and he has appeared in novels, short stories, and comic books.

Jerry Cornelius is another major figure in the Multiverse. He first appeared in the novel The Final Programme(1969) and stars in 3 additional novels published between 1971 and 1977 as well as numerous additional short stories and novellas. Cornelius is a hip, ambigiously sexual secret agent and adventurer whose adventures are odd and highly nonstructured, and  who is something of a clownish figure. He recurs in one form or another throughout many of Moorcock's works (note, for example, that two of Moorcock's other Champions are named Corum Jhaelen Irsei and Jherek Carnelian: the former is an anagram of Cornelius and the latter shares his initals and similar lettering).

In addition to his literary output, Moorcock has also enjoyed a musical career. He has collaborated on numerous occasions with the bands Hawkwind (whose album _The Chronicle of the Black Sword_is based on Elric's adventures) and Blue Oyster Cult. His own musical project, Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix, released the album _New Worlds Fair_in 1975, and has subsequently released Roller Coaster Holiday(2004) and The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions(2008).

Moorcock has received numerous awards and accolades over the course of his career. In addition tothe awards previously mentioned, he has won the August Derleth Fantasy Award four times, the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story ("The Jade Man's Eyes", 1974), the 1977 _Guardian_Fiction Award (for The Condition of Muzak). He has also won the 1993 British Fantasy Ward, the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the 2004 Prix Utopiales "Grandmaster" Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2008 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Moorcock was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002.

Elizabeth Moon, born Susan Elizabeth Norris, is a Texas native and a former Marine. Born in 1945, she grew up in McAllen, TX. Moon attended Rice University in Houston, where she obtained a B.A. in History in 1968; she joined the U.S. Marine Corps in that year and rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

Her professional writing career was launched in 1986, with the publication of the stories "Bargains" in the Sword and Sorceress III anthology and "ABCs in Zero-G" in Analog Science Fiction. Moon published her first novel, the fantasy Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, in 1988; it won the 1989 Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. That novel was the first entry Moon's "Paksenarrion" series, which includes 10 novels and several shorter works. The most recent work in the series was the 2014 novel Crown of Renewal.

Outside the fantasy genre, Moon has built a popular and critically acclaimed career in science fiction, particularly with her military-based science fiction and space operas. Among these are her Familias Regnant 7-novel space opera series (the first, Hunting Party, was released in 1993), and the Vatta's Universe series (7 novels so far from 2003 through 2018). Between 1990-1993, Moon co-wrote with Anne McCaffrey three novels in the Planet Pirates space opera series - Sassinak, The Death of Sleep, and Generation Warriors.

Moon's 1996 SF novel Remnant Population was nominated for the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is unusual in the genre for featuring an elderly woman as the story's heroine. Additionally, her stand-alone novel The Speed of Dark was a finalist for the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel; the book is notable for its inclusion of an autistic protagonist, still rare in SF. In 2007 Moon was awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Award, which honors "outstanding published works in hard science fiction or technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.”

Harold Monro (1879-1932) was a British poet, literary critic, and owner of the famous Poetry Bookshop, where renowned poets came to connect with the London public. Monro, a poet of modern verse and an avid promoter of British literary arts, founded three leading literary periodicals, including The Poetry Review.

He became proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in 1912, and through this venue became influential in the lives of many important modern poets, including Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Anna Wickham. He was reluctantly called up to fight in World War I from 1917 to 1919, after which he returned to continue his literary and business career. Monro was a conflicted homosexual who married twice; once in 1903 and again in 1920.

His second marriage was to his assistant, Alida Klemantaski, who enjoyed participating in Monro's intellectual and business pursuits. Poor health and alcoholism contributed to his early death at the age of 47. Monro is not well remembered by literary history, though devotees such as Dominic Hibberd have helped to resurrect the memory of this influential and talented literary professional.

Dr. Joseph Sayers Mogford "Cotton Joe" was an agricultural professor at the College of Texas A&M from 1925-1959. His main research was cotton production and wrote a plethora of textbooks on cottonseed production.

Mogford was born on October 15, 1893, in Menard, TX. He attended the College of Texas A&M and received his BS in Agriculture in 1916. He joined the army during World War I and fought with the French as a second lieutenant. Mogford continued his studies with a Master's degree in 1920 and served for over ten years as an inspector for the State Seed Board of Texas. He was also a member of the Sul Ross Lodge and was the class agent for the Former Student Association class of 1916.

Mogford passed on March 4, 1989, in Bryan, TX.

Laura J, Mixon was born in New Mexico on December 8, 1957. She is trained as a chemical and environmental engineer, and in the 1980s served a stint in the U.S. Peace Corps in East Africa.

Mixon's first published work was the SF novel Astropilots(1987) written for the young-adult series 'Omni Odysseys'. She has also written the Avatars Dance series of novels, which include Glass Houses(1992), Proxies(1998), and Burning The Ice(1992). In 1997 she co-wrote the novel _Greenwar_with her husband, fellow SF writer Steven Gould. In 2011, Mixon published the first of a new series, Wave, under the pseudonym M.J. Locke _._The first book in the series is entitled Up Against It.

Mixon has also written several short stories, including two - "The Lamia's Tale" and "A Dose of Reality" (with Melinda M. Snodgrass) for the George R.R. Martin-edited _Wild Cards_shared universe of novels and stories.

_Up Against It_was nominated for the 2012 James Tiptree Award for Gender-Bending SF. Mixon won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer for her online essay "A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names ".

Son of Alva Mitchell, a professor and later department head in the Department of Drawing at Texas A&M University.

Robert Duncan Milne, a Scottish emigrant who settled in San Francisco after attending Oxford and traveling around the West Coast of America. He had an engineering background and his science fiction stories usually are very technically detailed. He became part of the Bay Area writing culture and contributed frequently to periodicals, especially The Argonaut.

"One of the greatest idea-men in the history of science-fiction, in this respect on a par with H. G. Wells, but his literary abilities did not match his ideas. His stories are often flat and a little crude, without the finish attained in the work of certain of his West Coast colleagues." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: the Early Years, p. 502.

David B. Mellor attended Texas A&M University and graduated in 1957. He was an employee of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service after that, before he retired in February of 1990. He married in 1962 and divorced in 1979, and has one son. He joined the Texas Folklore Society in 1968, started The Brazos Corral of The Westerners in 1981, and joined the Western History Association in 1981. He joined the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in 1986 after receiving information on the organization during a WHA meeting in Billings, Montana. He has also been a member of the Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library.

Mebane was a Texas cotton breeder from Lockhart who developed a new form of stormproof cotton in 1897, which was named Mebane Triumph Cotton. Mebane started collecting cultivator seeds from around the United States in 1873.

Mildred Watkins Mears (25 August 1888- 7 October 1975), known as "Minnie," was the daughter of a pioneering family who, in 1867, settled in Pidcoke Texas, a small town in Coryell County, Texas. In 1894, after the death of Mildred Mears' father, her mother, Rosa Belcher Watkins, remarried and, in 1902, the family moved to nearby Mound, Texas. In Mound, Mears' interest in the historic past of the area was nurtured, as she spent time during her childhood exploring the ruins of the old Fort Gates.

The Mears family relocated to Gatesville after Mildred Mears' step-father won a seat in the State legislature, and sold the farm in Mound. Thus, though Mears began her formal education in a one-room school in Pidcoke, she ultimately graduated valedictorian of the Gatesville High School class of 1909. After graduating from the University of Texas, Watkins returned to Gatesville to teach mathematics, a position she held from 1910 to 1925.

During World War I and World War II, Mears served as boy's basketball coach of the high school, manager of the Gatesville Chamber of Commerce, assisted the Draft Board, worked for the American Red Cross, and was a member of the U.S.O. She was also named an honorary member of Delta Kappa Gamma, a national teachers organization.

In 1936, Mears was a representative from Coryell County to the Texas State Centennial Board and later, in 1954, served as advisor to the Coryell County Centennial Council. In 1960, she wrote a historical play, "Our Christian Heritage," which was performed in the Gatesville public schools, and won an award nomination from the Valley Forge Freedom Foundation. Mears served for many years in the Gatesville Historical Society and, in 1963, published the 253-page Coryell County Scrapbook published in Waco at the Texian Press.

Mildred Watkins was married to lawyer and legislator, Thomas Robert Mears, who died in 1967.

Clyde McQueen (b. 1926 ), a native of Lufkin, Tex., received a B.S. in Agriculture in 1950 from Prairie View College, a M.S. of Education from Pairie View A & M University in 1957 and a M.U.P. in Urban Planning from Texas A & M University in 1970. For most of his career, he worked for the U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service. From 1965 to 1972 he worked as a Soil Conservationist in Brazos, Burleson and Waller counties, Tex. In 1972, he was transferred to Temple, Tex. with an assignment to work in the rural development area. It was during this time that he "became a student of Texas history and the growth and development of its economy." He retired from the Soil Conservation Service on 3 July 1984 after thirty-one years of service to the federal government. Later, as an independent researcher, McQueen published the results of a survey he had conducted from 1988-1997 of African American churches in Texas, titled Black Churches in Texas. A Guide to Historic Congregations (Texas A & M University Press, 2000).

Victoria McManus is a resident of Philadelphia, PA. She writes both fiction and nonfiction, under the names Victoria Janssen and Elspeth Potter, and includes both novels and short stories. Her first novel was the alternate-world fantasy The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover (2008), which has been translated into French, German, and Russian. Her next novel, The Moonlight Mistress (2009), features the early days of World War One and werewolves; it has been translated into Italian and has an electronic-only sequel available, “Under Her Uniform.” McManus' third novel The Duke and the Pirate Queen (2010), is a sort-of sequel to The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, focusing on different characters. In 2021-2022, under the name of Victoria Janssen, she released A Place of Refuge, a new science fiction queer romance space opera consisting of three books: Finding Refuge, Accepting Refuge, and Embracing Refuge.

Her first published short story was "Water Music" (2000), which appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001 from Cleis Press, and she has since written a number of other stories that have been anthologized in various erotica collections. Her nonfiction mostly appears at the blogs Heroes and Heartbreakers (romance) and The Criminal Element (mystery, suspense, and thrillers). She also reviews anonymously for Publishers Weekly.

Robert McKay was born on June 4, 1921, in Maysville, NY. He wrote several novels during the course of his career, mostly about teenage life in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Troublemaker (1973), The Running Back (1979), and Dave's Song (1982). Skean (1976) was McKay's only science fiction novel.

Peter M. McIntyre attended the University of Chicago culminating in 1973 with his Ph. D. He went on to do experiments with colliding beams at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland until 1975 when joined Havard University as an Assistant Professor. He would continue is work at both CERN and Fermilab through the late 1970s that would lead to the discorvery of weak bosons at CERN in 1982. In 1980 Dr. McIntyer joined the faculty at Texas A&M as an Associate Professor and continued his work in the field of high energy particle physics and participated in the construction and operation of the Collider Detctor at Fermilab. Dr. McIntyre was amoung the first to propose the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider and was a co-author of the Texas SSC site proposal

Louis Lowry McInnis was born in Jackson, Mississippi on March 24, 1855. He graduated from the State University at Oxford, Mississippi in 1871. He started work at Texas A&M College on November 9, 1877, as an adjunct professor of ancient languages. Later he served as acting professor of mathematics and as chairman of the mathematics department. McInnis also served as the Secretary to the Board, Treasurer of the College, Vice-Chairman of the Faculty, and then Chairman of the faculty. He was acting President of Texas A&M while also serving as chairman of the faculty from January 24, 1888, to July 1, 1890.

McFarlin was a farmer in Dallas County, Texas, who owned Rice Valley Farm during the early 1900s. He attended (dates unknown) the College of A&M and later decided to donate his land to the College in his will. The Former Student Association worked with McFarlin in order to create a student loan fund for A&M students.

The McFarlin Student Loan Fund is a memorial fund created in 1933 and implemented in 1935-36. It was created from sales from the McFarlin Rice Valley Farmland run by the Association of Former Students Chairman Marion S. Church and Secretary E. E. McQuillen.

Henry B. McElroy (Mac) was born on September 28, 1897, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although he was born up North, he was still very well-known in the South, especially at Texas A&M. McElroy not only graduated from Texas A&M College in 1938, but he also worked there as the Assistant Information Director. During his career at Texas A&M, McElroy wrote various articles on sports, events at Texas A&M, and events across Texas.

McElroy wasn't just an information director, but he was also a correspondent for the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, and several Texas newspapers. He was the co-founder of the projection of football statistics, and he was on the All-American Board of Boston Record.

Along with writing articles for newspapers, McElroy wrote articles for magazines such as "Esquire", and he co-authored the book "The Twelfth Man". McElroy was also a veteran of both World Wars.

After working at Texas A&M for several years, opened a public relations firm in Houston, Texas. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, and in 1969 he was inducted into the Helms Athletic Hall of Fame.

Upon retirement, he moved back to College Station where he was on the council for the nominations to the Texas A&M Hall of Fame. On March 25, 1976, McElroy passed away.

Anne McCaffrey was one of the most popular and revered science fiction writers of the 20th century. Born on April 1, 1926, in Cambridge, MA, she graduated in 1947 from Radcliffe College with a B.A. in Slavonic languages and literature. Before becoming an author, she worked as a copywriter, studied theater and voice, and even directed several operas and operettas.

McCaffrey embarked on her long literary career, which grew to encompass hundreds of novels (many co-written) and short stories with the publication of her story "Freedom of The Race" in the October 1953 issue of Science-Fiction Plus. Her first major literary achievement was the 1961 story "The Ship Who Sang", published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and which was the first work in her heralded "Brain & Brawn Ship" series of novels, novellas, and stories. The series takes place in McCaffrey's Federated Sentient Planets Universe and concerns a society in which physically (but not mentally) disabled people can be encapsulated in shells and their brains made to operate spaceships, computers, and even entire cities. (The main character of The Ship Who Sang, her collection of the first stories in the series, is Helva, whose brain is connected to a starship. Helva can be considered one of the earliest cyborgs in science fiction literature.) McCaffrey wrote the series between 1961 and 1994. The longest story in the series, "Dramatic Mission" was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1970.

McCaffrey is most famous, however, for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Pern, a distant planet settled long ago by humans from Earth, is inhabited by flying creatures termed 'dragons' by the inhabitants. Humans learn to communicate telepathically with the dragons and ride them, protecting the surface of Pern from the Thread, a species of destructive spore that periodically falls to Pern from a neighboring planet. The first book in the series, Dragonflight, was published in 1968: the first story in the book, "Weyr Search" had been published the year before and had won the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novella. (It was the first win by a woman of a Hugo.) The second story, "Dragonrider", won the 1969 Nebula for Best Novella, marking the first win by a woman for a Nebula as well.

The Pern series eventually grew to include over 20 novels and several additional short stories (from 2003, the books were co-written by McCaffrey's son Todd). The original trilogy also includes Dragonquest (1971) and The White Dragon (1978). Some of the later books include the Harper Hall trilogy (1976-1979), Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (1983), Dragonsdawn (1988), and The Dolphins of Pern (1994). The series has enjoyed an intense following since its inception.

Other series by McCaffrey include the Crystal Universe trilogy (1982-1992), the Talents Universe series (1959-2000), the Doona series (1969-1994), and the Acorna Universe series (1997-2007). McCaffrey has won a great many awards during the length of her career. Besides the ones mentioned above, these include the 1976 Skylark Award, the 1979 Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction and the 1979 Gandalf Award for Book-Length Fantasy for The White Dragon, the 1980 Balrog Award for Best Novel for Dragondrums, the 1986 SFBC Book of The Year Award for Killashandra, the 1989 SFBC Book of the Year Award for Dragonsdawn, the 1990 SFBC Book of the Year Award for The Renegades of Pern, the 1991 HOMer Award for Best SF Novel and the 1992 SFBC Book of the Year Award for All The Weyrs of Pern, the 1993 SFBC Book of the Year Award for Damia's Children, the 1994 SFBC Book of the Year Award for The Dolphins of Pern, the 2000 BFA Karl Edward Wagner Award, and the 2007 Robert A. Heinlein Award. In 2005 she was made a Grand Master by the SFWA (only the third woman to be so honored, after Andre Norton and Ursula K. Le Guin).

McCaffrey married H. Wright Johnson in 1950, with whom she had three children (Alec, Todd, and Georgeanne). The two were divorced in 1970. She moved from the United States to Ireland in 1970 and resided there until her death on November 21, 2011.