Henry Charles Bukowski

(born Heinrich Karl Bukowski) 
(August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.

Robert Heinlein

 
Science fiction is usually a precursor to pure science. Robert is known as one the father of social science fiction. He  saw  technology controling lives ending society. In a way he was correct because it improved society greatly. His works were nfluenced by current events.

He had contradictory beliefs that the military could play good role and served in Annapolis, Maryland. After his service he got his first job writing scifi in magazine. His fantasies luckily returned and his ability to write about current event in outlandish way.

Robert Heinlein wrote war story about communism such as Starship Troopers. North American Aerospace Defense Command(NORAD) was 7 miles from his Los Angelos home was helpful. Annapolis military carreer short lived. The Puppet Masters was a story about his military career. It also gave him the idea of bionic man gear.

Robert Heinlein was a great inspiration to "The They Shall Walk," movement that give paralyzed people the gift of walking. This is a non-profit organization. It is developing a robotic brace called a life-suit. Then on this subject he writes Stranger in Strage Land.

Robert Heinlein even works on another one of his dreams a hybrid habitat live on moon, which has not come into full fruitipn as of yet. This hapitat has been invented and has both some hard sections and some soft sections. It opens up like a slinky. It even has an airlock to prevent oxygen from escaping when astronauts vacate. So far it is only possibe for going up for approximately a two month mission.

Robert Heinlein predicted cyber space, but died before he saw it in fruition. He died in May 8, 1981 dies in sleep.

Jules Verne
Jules Verne is another famous predictor of the wonders of the future. He still challenges us to see how tomorrow begins with today.

Verne was school dropout. He was realized by Pierre Jules Hetzel. The space shuttles really inspired him.  He imagined cannon that shoots fuel into space.

BEGINNING OF TAZORS
Vernes imagination was not limited to space exploration.  He thought of  electric bullets.

He predicted the use of hydrogen cell engines by 2020 where the fuel cell of the hydrogen car would be like battery. The exhaust would be pure water.

His books were so dramatic that the endings were changed by editor. He
predicted propellor technology.

Jules was shot in 1886 but survived. However the editor that helped make his books less dramatic died a few weeks later. His stories then turn dark and dismal. He destroys his unpublished works. On March 16, 1995 he dies of a diabetic attack. Over 5000 people attend his funeral.

Douglas Adams

(11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.

Amelia Mary Earhart

 

(July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first aviatrix (female pilot) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.During an attempt to make a circumnavigation flight of the globe in 1937 Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island…

HG Wells

"Tomorrow begins with a spark of imagination, the flash insight that shows yesterday limitations and inspires technologies to create new worlds."HG Wells

Herbert George Wells was an artist in the science fiction genra. With his mind blowing advances in thechnology and science in drastic detail, he was haunted by the will of the possiblity of mankind annihilating itself. He had novel prophtic visions of the human race causing their own extinction.

His brother gave him the idea for
The War of the Worlds which was colonizing a peaceful people, the Stenis. While Wells predicted a new type of Warfare as well. Nineteen years later Wells described heatwaves in the book. Einstein has theoretical proof of the idea. A strong lasers that can destroy aircrafts are still being prepare. One can still suffer annihilation from other weaker agent.

He is one of the first to come up with "wormhole." Which in essence meant that you are going faster in less time. Going back in time is a possibility, but you'll have time loops, utterly messing up history, by your very presents there. You could start a ripple effect where the present is impossible.

The Grandfather Paradox which thus means if you go back and kill your grandfather, you would never have been born. So how could it of takin place.

He invented a cloaking field which he called a "Meta Field," but it is a very small, which is now a major theory.

Island Manro-chamira sheep have human stem cells injected certain organs are usable by humans, which inspired "Next" by Michael Crichton.

In the 1920s he advocate for peace. He traveled to Russia for on a mission of peace.

Wells then got involved with cinema putting his own stories into movie strips
He sees science as mans most powerful tool, but warns us to use it wisely. Herbert died on August 13, 1979.

Ward Foley

He was born with multiple birth defects and very little chance to live. But he did, only to undergo decades of surgery, agonizing rehabilitation, ridicule, and humiliation. He was also severely burned in a deep fryer, beat up, and almost killed by a drunk driver, but that’s not what this book is about.

Arthur C. Clarke

What is the future of humanity?

Clark would use his imagination as a boy to travel in wonderment. As a teen he joined British International Society. He predicted much of the feats of the space program. Kepler went up soon after and this was in the first satelite to solely be sent for the search extraterrestrials. Kepler has cataloged over 1200 planetary candidates so far.

He sees a plave for man above the stars and dreams of visiting them. Since he loved ocean as well. He even started underwater safaris.

He founded commercial space travel. He even proposed a space elevator. This would have to go the same velosity as the Earth. A cable has to be light but strong so it won't snap.

More then 60 university's in America alone are working on the space elevator. This forsesus to think about evolition
How did we get here.

In London 1941 eight of the most devestating months of Nazi bombing leaves 200,000 dead. Clarke escapes to hills outside city. He looks beyond destruction and sees alien fighting
British interpoanetary society. In his late teens joins the fledging inner space society - organization of who shaped a  common goal. In honor of Arthur 100 feet above the Earth is known as the Clark Belt.

Leo Tolstoy

(9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the world’s greatest novelists. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

(June 24, 1842Disappeared: December, 1913) An American editorialist, journalist, short story writer. Today, he is best known for his short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and his satirical lexicon, The Devil’s Dictionary. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country’s ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace.

Isaac Asimov

Are robots the key to human problems or the end to our civilization? There are many varieties such as: caregiving robots. These robots moniter personal space and they even imatate movements. In 1961 Ford takes a robot and puts it to work in a factory.

Surgical robots are taking the place of some doctors. Robots are tools we have.
They are used in military for bomb removal. Robots are percieved as soldiers. They make it easier to start war, that is truly scary.

When it came to the space reace Asimov believed that when the Soviets got into space humanity got into space. His studdies of space makes him an expert other scifi writers called when they needed help on their stories.

Carl Gustav Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as “by nature religious” and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization. 

Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

 
(13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) (aged 44) A Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His most well known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 

Aldous Leonard Huxley

(26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, humanist, pacifist, and satirist. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

Benjamin Franklin

(January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was a scientist, inventor, writer, printer, and the first American Ambassador to France, as well as being a signer of both the American Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

Bob Dylan

(Born: May 24, 1941) Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan’s early songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’”, became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements.

 

Rosanne Cash

She is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 (October 15, 1844August 25, 1900) (aged 55) A 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism

Mary Shelly

Studying the dead is crucial if one wishes to unlock life."  Mary Shelly first author of scifi.  She was a science teacher that ran electrical current through human body and it moved. Electricity is key of life. Mary's mother died when she was born, thus creating the obsession with death. She lost all her children and her family. She died at 53 of a brain tumor.

"How will the world change when computers become smarter than humans?"Bluejean, an IBM supercomputer, is used to create artificial life. PGD, Plantation Genetic Diagnosis, now insures parents they have healthy babies the genetic.- Author Unknown.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Charles Monroe Schultz was born on November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died on February 12, 2000  in Santa Rosa, California at age 77. He was a cartoonist most famous for creating,  "The Peanuts." He was one of the most influential people of his time. The cartoonist who does "Calvin and Hobbes,"  Bill Waterson has said, "Peanuts pretty much define the modern comic strip, so even now its hard to see it with fresh eyes." Schulz’s first regular cartoons, Li’l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

JRR Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Caroline Ferguson Gordon

(October 6, 1895 – April 11, 1981) was a notable American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards, a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O. Henry Award…

Maya Angelou

 (born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years… Source