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BLACK INFINITY: FIRST CONTACT features 15 strange adventures exploring close encounters with alien life and alien technology by the best writers of yesterday, today and tomorrow, including Robert Silverberg, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Smith, Leigh Brackett, James Dorr, Murray Leinster, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Jason J. McCuiston, Lester Del Rey, Katherine Maclean, Jerome Bixby and others. Includes three special illustrated features: tributes to the original Battlestar Galactica TV series (by author and screenwriter Gregory L. Norris) and producer George Pal's 1953 movie classic The War of the Worlds (by film historian Justin Humphrey, Curator of the Pal Estate); and a look at First Contact in classic cinema, literature, and television. Plus, illustrations by award-winning artist Allen Koszowski, a vintage 1950s comics story by Wallace (Wally) Wood and Joe Orlando, and much, much more!
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious Prix Apollo. He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are Legends and Far Horizons, which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.
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