Müfit Özdeş, 1943'te Ankara'da doğdu. Çocukluğu ve gençliği İstanbul'da geçti. ODTÜ'de Elektrik Mühendisliği ve Ekonomi okudu; ancak 1960'lı yıllardaki gençlik hareketlerine katılarak öğrenimini yarım bıraktı. 12 Mart 1971'den sonra bir süre Beyrut ve Oslo'da yaşadı. 1975'te Türkiye'ye döndü. Bu tarihten beri serbest ticari çevirmenlik yapmaktadır. Evli ve iki çocuk babası olan Özdeş, İstanbul'da yaşamaktadır. Bilimkurguya ilgisi 1940'lardaki "Baytekin" filmleriyle ve 1950'lerde Çağlayan Yayınları tarafından yayımlanan "Yeni Dünyalarda" dizisiyle başlar. İngilizce öğrenimiyle birlikte Amerikan bilimkurgu dünyasıyla tanışmış ve son kırk yılını bir "fan" olarak geçirmiştir. 1983'ten beri bilimkurgu, fantazi ve masal türlerinde yazmaktadır. Bugüne kadar bir masal / fantezi kitabı (Kimin Ağrır O Bağırır, 1991, Kor Yayınları) ile Metis'ten çıkan Asker Kaçağı ve Remzi Kitap tarafından basılan "Bilimkurgu Öyküleri" başlıklı derlemelerde birer öyküsü yayımlanmıştır. Son Tiryaki ise Müfit Özdeş'in ilk bilimkurgu kitabıdır.

Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic." Although her stories have been included in numerous anthologies and a few have had radio and television adaptations, The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (1962) is her only collection of short fiction. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, MacLean concentrated on mathematics and science in high school. At the time her earliest stories were being published in 1949-50, she received a B.A. in economics from Barnard College (1950), followed by postgraduate studies in psychology at various universities. Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later. She married David Mason in 1956. Their son, Christopher Dennis Mason, was born in 1957, and they divorced in 1962. MacLean taught literature at the University of Maine and creative writing at the Free University of Portland. Over decades, she has continued to write while employed in a wide variety of jobs—as book reviewer, economic graphanalyst, editor, EKG technician, food analyst, laboratory technician in penicillin research, nurse's aide, office manager and payroll bookkeeper. photographer, pollster, public relations, publicist and store detective. It was while she worked as a laboratory technician in 1947 that she began writing science fiction. Strongly influenced by Ludwig von Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory, her fiction has often demonstrated a remarkable foresight in scientific advancements.

Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953, a story about murder in a future society where the police are telepathic, and The Stars My Destination, a 1956 SF classic about a man bent on revenge in a world where people can teleport, that inspired numerous authors in the genre and is considered an early precursor to the cyberpunk movement in the 1980s. AKA: Άλφρεντ Μπέστερ (Greek)

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.