From wikipedia: Charles Platt (born in London, England, 1945) is the author of 41 fiction and nonfiction books, including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Protektor (published in paperback by Avon Books). He has also written non-fiction, particularly on the subjects of computer technology and cryonics, as well as teaching and working in these fields. Platt relocated from England to the United States in 1970 and is a naturalized U. S. citizen. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See: Charles Platt, born 1869

Götz Roderer is a German physicist and occasional science fiction author. He has contributed several times to the 'Perry Rhodan' franchise.

Following the examples of independent comic creators such as Dave Sim and Jeff Smith, he decided to publish Strangers in Paradise himself through his own Houston-based "Abstract Studios" imprint, and has frequently mentioned a desire to do a syndicated cartoon strip in the authors notes at the back of the Strangers in Paradise collection books. He has also mentioned his greatest career influence is Peanuts' Charles Schulz.[1] Some of Moore's strip work can additionally be found in his Paradise, Too! publications. His work has won him recognition in the comics industry, including receiving the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for Strangers in Paradise #1-8, which was collected in the trade paperback "I Dream of You". It was announced on June 15th, 2007 that Moore would be taking over for Sean McKeever as writer of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane series starting with a new issue #1. On July 27th, Marvel announced that Moore would also take over for Joss Whedon as writer of Marvel's Runaways.[2] On November 19th, 2007 Terry Moore announced in his blog that his new self-published series would be named Echo and its first issue would appear on March 5th, 2008.[3]

Peter Nuyten studied graphic design between 1988 and 1992, after which he became a freelance designer. In the 1990s, he was member of Studio Iris in Nijmegen, and published his comic 'Arak' in the studio's small-press magazine of the same name. He has done illustration assignments for educational books, children's books and history related topics. He was a member of Studio Jan Kruis from the start in 1999, where he worked on the 'Jan, Jans en de Kinderen' comic for Libelle magazine. When the studio closed down in 2007, he continued to work on the comic as an inker on a freelance base. The first book of historical comic 'Auguria' was published by Silvester in 2010. In the following year, Nuyten turned to the western genre and published 'Apache Junction', about the merciless hunt of the American army for Apache guerrillas.