(2017, photo by DianeAnna) Happy birthday to Bernd Perplies! Bernd Perplies is a german writer, translator and journalist from Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. Bernd Perplies studied Film Science, Germanistics, Book Sciences and Psychology in Mainz. He was then employed by the German Film Institute in Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as an editor of filmportal.de […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Tim Bradstreet! Eisner Award nominated illustrator ,Tim Bradstreet, was born February 16, 1967 in Cheverly, Maryland. Primarily a self-taught illustrator, he has been working professionally since graduating from high school in 1985. Forgoing institutional art instruction, Tim joined Fantasmagraphics in 1986, where he worked for two years with fellow […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Paula M. Block! Paula M. Block oversees licensed Star Trek publishing for Paramount Pictures and, as of 2006, CBS. She has worked closely with the editors at Pocket Books since 1989, and is perhaps best known to fans for her role in co-editing Pocket’s Strange New Worlds series – […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Vornholt! John Vornholt is the acclaimed author of numerous Star Trek novels, including Gemworld Books One and Two, Sanctuary, Mind Meld, Masks, Contamination, Antimatter, Rogue Saucer, and The Dominion War Books One and Three. He lives in Arizona with his wife and two sons. Check out the John […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Andre Bormanis! André Bormanis was the science consultant on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for all of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He served as story editor on the first season, as executive story editor on the third season, […]
(From photographer Daniel Reichert for the bio of Ethan Phillips.) Happy birthday to Ethan Phillips! Ethan Phillips was born into a restaurant family. His father was the owner of the famous New York steak house Frankie and Johnnie’s, which still serves up the most delicious sirloin in all of Manhattan. Striking out on his own, […]
(Image Credit: Gage Skidmore) Happy birthday to Brent Spiner! Robot Author Check out the Brent Spiner credit page to view more updates and a full list of credits! Find Brent Spiner’s work on Amazon.com
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeffrey Lang! Jeffrey Lang is the author of several Star Trek novelizations. He currently lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with his partner Helen, and his son, Andrew. He also wrote the short story “Dead Man’s Hand” in the DS9 anthology The Lives of Dax. Check out the Jeffrey Lang […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Sonia Hillios! Sonia R. Hillios (born 27 January 1961; age 63) is a comic book and novel cover painter. She got her break in the early 1980s and began a career of painting cinematic art and covers for science fiction franchises such as The Crow, Star Trek, Star Wars, […]
(Image Credit: Mike Muegel) Happy birthday to David Gerrold! David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie Was One, and the Chtorr, Dingillian, and Star Wolf series. He also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek, which was voted the most popular Star […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Peel! John Ronald Peel is a Star Trek author from Nottingham, England. He moved to the USA in 1981 and sold his first professional piece of writing to Marvel Comics. Over the next few years, he became friendly with Terry Nation (creator of Daleks for Doctor Who) through […]
() Happy birthday to Derek Tyler Attico! Derek Tyler Attico is a speculative fiction author, essayist, and award-winning photographer. In fiction, Derek has won the Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild of America, and he is a two-time winner of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds short story contest (“Alpha & Omega,” “The […]
(Photo by Geoffrey Thorne) Happy birthday to Geoffrey Thorne! Geoffrey A. Thorne is a prolific science fiction author and screenwriter who has written a number of short stories for the Star Trek anthologies and the novel Sword of Damocles. He also wrote an unproduced episode of TNG, The Rivals, not to be confused with the […]
() Happy birthday to Scott Tipton! Scott Tipton is a comic book writer and comic historian. He has worked primarily for IDW Publishing, working on a number of their Angel titles, including several with David Messina. He has also worked on a few of the Spike titles for the same company. He, along with his […]
(Larry Nemecek and Kim Stinger speaking at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore. ) Happy birthday to Larry Nemecek! Larry Wayne Nemecek is a noted Star Trek author, editor, archivist, consultant, and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinator Janet Nemecek. A native Oklahoman, […]
(Image by Umm10 ) Happy birthday to Una McCormack! Una McCormack is the British author of several Star Trek novels and stories. She has also written a number of Doctor Who novels and short stories. She lives and works in Cambridge, England, and has taught at the world-famous university there. Check out the Una McCormack […]
(John Jackson Miller at the 2022 MidSouthCon in Memphis, Tennessee on 27 March 2022. Image by Fourthords ) Happy birthday to John Jackson Miller! John Jackson Miller is an American science-fiction author, comic book writer, and commentator, known for his work on the Star Wars franchise and his research into comic book circulation history, as […]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo#/media/File:BorisVallejo.jpg by StefanServos) Happy birthday to Boris Vallejo! Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.[3] His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Robert E. Vardeman! Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes credited as Vardebob) is a fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer who has also written a couple of Star Trek novels. Vardeman was born in Palo Pinto, Texas, but has lived much of his life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has degrees […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Susan Shwartz! Susan Shwartz is a novelist and short story writer. She and co-author Josepha Sherman have written several Star Trek books, mostly concerning Vulcans and their Romulan cousins. Check out the Susan Shwartz author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Susan […]
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