C.S. Haviland, Fantasy Author

I'd like to meet:

Here are some important web sites:

http://FaithAndFairies.com (my novel)
http://FirstOfMay.com (my movie)
http://CSHaviland.com (my author homepage)
http://Family.Haviland.net (my family homepage)
http://Havilands.org (my genealogy site)

"Ocean Ways"
(some of my original computer art)

Grace Park and me
She plays "Boomer", "Athena", and various other Cylon clones
on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica which is one of my favorite shows.
One of the most difficult roles on television, IMHO, and she handles it brilliantly.

I met a Taiwanese girl on the internet in 1998, and we flew back and forth between Taiwan and New York to date. We married in 2000. Make sure to catch my award winning "true internet love story" (at Haviland.us ) which was featured in the Japanese magazine Hiragana Times and at the Australian site LoveStory.au . We were also interviewed on KGAB live radio in Cheyenne, WY.

My wife and Me
Taiwan, 2000

We now live in East Longmeadow, MA. We have two boys, Forest Sirmons Haviland and William Skyler Haviland. We refer to William by the nickname "Sky" because it works well with "Forest."

My 1st son Forest
at 2.5 months
2004

Sky with binky
2 days old
2006

Through my mother I am the grandson of former CBS executive James F. Sirmons. He began his career as a writer and announcer for radio stations in Ohio and joined CBS in 1942 as a Production Supervisor, then Production Manager in 1949, and successively as Operations Supervisor, Operations Manager, and in 1957 Assistant Director of Labor Relations. He was appointed in 1961 to Director of Labor Relations, became Vice President Employee Relations in 1969, and Vice President Personnel and Labor Relations in 1971. Then he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations in 1981, and finally Executive Vice President of Industrial Relations in 1994, finally retiring in 1999 after 57 years with the network (longer than nearly any other employee). Larry King credits Grandpa (in his autobiography ) as one of the individuals whose advice helped to launch his career.

Reception for Grandpa's 50th anniversary with CBS.
Because his name starts with S,
Howard Stringer and Dan Rather awarded
him the "S" which used to be mounted on
the old CBS broadcasting building (see below).

Engraved Plate on the S box.

The S came off of the old CBS Broadcasting building, shown in this picture.

An original RCA 77B Uni-Directional Ribbon Velocity microphone,
mounted on a plaque. This studio mike was probably used by
Edward R. Murrow , Douglas Edwards , Walter Cronkite ,
and most of the other radio announcers / newscasters of the
1930's-1950's at CBS.

Grandpa (left) in his Production Supervisor days at CBS News in 1946.
That's Edward R. Murrow in the middle, who was the V.P. of CBS News at the time,
one of the most famous radio news reporters in history. (It was Murrow who
launched Walter Cronkite's career at CBS, who would become a very good
friend of Grandpa's.)

Grandpa at work in the 1940's.

James F. Sirmons Conference Room
Headquarters of the Health and Retirement Funds
of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
(80th Floor of 261 Madison Avenue btwn 40th & 41st St in New York City),
on which Grandpa was an Industry Trustee since 1968 and was Industry Chairman
from 1970-2001. The conference room was so-named by Industry and AFTRA Trustees
in 2002 to recognize his many contributions to the success of the Funds.

Grandpa's son (my uncle) Tom Sirmons is a former award-winning KNX-AM (Los Angeles) radio host, and currently a popular conservative blogger. His son (my uncle) John Sirmons is Vice President of Sales at Christal Radio in NYC. His brother's son (my 1st cousin once removed) Paul Sirmons (mentioned above) was a career DGA assistant director, having worked on The Waltons , Flamingo Road , Falcon Crest , The New Leave it to Beaver , Superboy , Quantum Leap , seaQuest DSV , and others. Paul is the person who helped me into the business. After co-founding SHO Entertainment with me, he became an indie producer / director. He directed and produced The First of May (on which I have a co-producer credit and worked as a location manager), then went on to produce several other independent productions such as Florida City , Dunsmore , and The Way Back Home . In 2005 he was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush as the Florida State Film Commissioner . He resigned the post in early 2008 to re-focus on filmmaking.

Paul Sirmons, Florida State Film Commissioner & Me
(Dec 2007)
In Paul's office at the government building in Tallahassee Florida

Deeper genealogy: I'm the 3rd great grandson of Connecticut State Senator Caleb Johnson Allen (brother of Texas landowner Samuel Tabor Allen ), the 8th great grandson of Rhode Island Governor Joseph Jenks (grandson of Joseph Jenckes who proposed the first Fire Engine), the 8th great grandson of Connecticut Governor Gurdon Saltonstall (son of Col. Nathaniel Saltonstal , a judge who refuted the Salem Witch Trials ), the 10th great grandson of Maryland Governor Robert Brooke , and the 11th great grandson of Lord George Calvert (the First Lord Baltimore).

My paternal ancestry traces back to my 14th great paternal grandfather Thomas, Sieur De Haveilland, a Jurat of Guernsey in 1470. (A Jurat is a magistrate in the Channel Isles who is life member of the Royal Court of Justice.) From him descend a vast majority of Havilands and De Havillands in the world today, including actresses Olivia de Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine (my 13th cousins once removed), Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (inventor of the De Havilland airplane, also my 13th cousin once removed), David Haviland and his brothers (who founded Haviland brand china , my 3rd cousins 6 times removed), fairy tale author Virginia Haviland (founder of the Children's Book section of the Library of Congress, my 4th cousin once removed), Senator Thomas Heath Haviland (co-founder of the Canadian confederacy, my 10th cousin 4 times removed), John Haviland (the Philadelphia architect, most famous for designing the Tombs prison of New York City, my 7th cousin 5 times removed), Montana State Senator Dr. Willis Henry Haviland (my 1st cousin thrice removed), anthropologist and professor William Arthur Haviland (my 12th cousin and friend), Frank Burty Haviland (a fine artist, my 5th cousin 4 times removed) whose own portrait was rendered by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani in 1914, Frank's brother Paul Burty Haviland (a photographer, my 5th cousin 4 times removed), whose portrait as a boy was painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1884, and Willis Haviland Carrier (the inventor of air conditioning, my 3rd cousin twice removed; named after Willis Hoag Haviland, father of Dr. Willis Henry Haviland above, for taking care of Mr. Carrier's mother before she was married).

William Pitt "The Elder", British Prime Minister during the French and Indian War, was also a Haviland descendant, becoming my 6th cousin 8 times removed.

Two Haviland relatives died in highly publicized national disasters, themselves only first cousins of one another: Timothy Aaron Haviland (my 8th cousin once removed) died in the 96th floor of the North World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. His father's sister's daughter, Commander Laurel Blair (Salton) Clark (also my 8th cousin once removed), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003.

Most American and Canadian Havilands descend from the immigrant William Haviland (my 9th great paternal grandfather), who was made Freeman in Rhode Island in 1653 and Commissioner of that place in 1656. He is mentioned in the will of the first Rhode Island Governor, Benedict Arnold (not to be confused with the famous Revolutionary War traitor, who was his great grandson). William went on to co-sign the confirmation of the patent of Flushing, NY, along with several my other ancestors who lived in that area (Queens). William's father might have been either James Haviland (Mayor of Salisbury, England in 1598) or Matthew Haviland (Mayor of Bristol in 1607), both of whom were sons of Christopher Havilland (Mayor of Poole, England in 1569).

My Mayflower descents:

9th great grandson of John Alden (via the Chesebrough/Palmer/Gallup/Haley/Allen/Haviland families) 10th great grandson of William Mullins (via Priscilla Mullins, wife of John Alden) 10th great grandson of Richard Warren (via the Little/Otis/Haviland families) 11th great grandson of William Brewster (via the Bradley/Christophers/Allen/Haviland families)

I'm the 20th great grandson of King Edward III and various other pre-Victorian English royalty, tracing back to them through numerous lines (along with most of the global population), most notably via the families of Saltonstall and Brooke (proved) and possibly Morgan (not proved).

WHOM I'D LIKE TO MEET ON MYSPACE

1) Anyone interested or working in movies, in any capacity. 2) Anyone interested in science fiction, fantasy or horror. 3) Anyone who is a fiction writer, published or not, especially in said genres. 4) Anyone who is a current or potential customer of my own work. (Duh!)

I should note that I accept about 90% of the people who invite me to be friends. However if it looks like, from your profile, that you have no interest in any of my subjects, and you do not look like a potential customer, your chances may not be good unless you send me a message first. I check all profiles before adding. For instance if you are selling sexual images of yourself or trying to draw traffic to a sex site by adding as many "friends" as possible, I'm not likely to accept you (unless you actually tell me you'd like to read my novel).

I also sometimes go seeking friends who seem to overlap my interests. Any fan of Steven Spielberg, for instance, is welcome to be my friend. Even a profile pretending to belong to a celebrity is welcome to be my friend, if it's an actor or filmmaker or author I like. A vast majority of the celebrity profiles at MySpace are created by fans who have no connection with the celebrity. They are role players, whether they admit it at their profile or not. But the way I see it, they're as much a fan and a potential customer as anyone else. ;-) There are a few legitimate celebrity profiles out there, and someday I may identify my favorites for certain and highlight them in my profile, but for now I don't have the time.

WHOM I'D MOST LIKE TO MEET IN THE MOVIE BUSINESS:

I've seen, met, or worked with many actors and a few directors, though not nearly as many as some of my friends and associates. Though I've met Steven Spielberg , I'd still like the opportunity to work on one of his movies someday, but at this rate that doesn't look possible. I've also met John Landis on several occasions (the first time at a wrap party for The New Leave it to Beaver , which he crashed), Joe Dante various times while he was shooting Matinee , Mick Garris during the shoot of Psycho IV , and Brian Levant while he Executive Produced Beaver , plus a number of television directors too many to remember. And need I mention Paul Sirmons , my cousin.

I've also seen quite a few directors, or worked on their movies, but had not officially "met" them, such as Nora Ephron , Howard Zieff , Frank Pierson , Ron Howard , Ed Zwick , and Kevin Hooks . Joe Dante came into my office one day and signed my poster for The Howling . (His actor buddy Bob Picardo did the same on another occasion. Bob would later get a long gig on Star Trek Voyager as "The Doctor.") I never asked John Landis to sign my poster for An American Werewolf in London , though I did tell him I thought it was one of the great horror movies of its time, and he was appreciative. He also read one of my screenplays once. I've never met George Lucas , though I have known various people who worked with him, or for one of his companies. I would love to meet him myself. As corny as it may sound, Star Wars (1977) did literally change my life when I was 12 years old. I also would like to meet Christopher Nolan , James Cameron , Oliver Stone , Ridley Scott , Peter Jackson , John Carpenter , Robert Zemeckis , Quentin Tarantino , and M. Night Shyamalan , all of whom I admire.

I have met or seen many actors from my favorite movies and TV shows, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Firefly, Lord of the Rings, etc. (Recently I signed a copy of my novel Faith & Fairies for John Rhys-Davies , for instance--a very friendly man, and also one for J.R.R. Tolkien's great grandson Royd Tolkien.) I have a large collection of signatures, many of them personalized, mostly on movie posters. Someday I would love to meet or work with the following brilliant actors: Harrison Ford , Bruce Willis , Johnny Depp , Brad Pitt , William H. Macy , Terry O'Quinn , Gary Oldman , Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts , Sandra Bullock , Julia Ormond , Madeleine Stowe , and Anne Hathaway . I have I ever seen any of them in person (though I was an extra in a Bruce Willis film, he was not on call that day). I would also love to meet Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Alba .

PEOPLE I WISHED I'D MET BEFORE THEY DIED:

Michael Landon , Jim Henson , Isaac Asimov , John Denver , Alfred Hitchock , Rod Serling , and Frank Herbert .

AUTHORS I'D LIKE TO MEET:

I have met many authors, mostly in the SF-Fantasy genre, and I'm working with dozens of them on a book project. The list of authors I have spoken to for one reason or another, or sat with in signings or panels, is quite large and I just don't have the patience to list them all. I have personalized signatures in my library from most of them.

But I have not yet met Stephen King (a master character developer), Dean Koontz (one of the great suspense writers of our time), Michael Crichton, or J.K. Rowling, and I would surely like to. I spoke to Rowling's agent once, but that's as close as I've ever come to her. I would have met Crichton at Book Expo 2005 but I missed him because I arrived too late.

Music:

Selection of music for Faith & Fairies composed and performed by Don Brunning.

The Secrets of Haviland Hollow

Mariam's Theme

Katy's Theme

Be Mindful of the Soultoucher

The Cloven

Horde Kaa's Theme / The Sacrifice of the Twelve

Halvire Suite: Burnt / Regrown

The Orphanage

I mostly listen to movie soundtracks. John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, and Wojciech Kilar. I also love classical music, especially Beethoven. It helps me write.

I can't listen to "singing" very much because it distracts me from writing. But if I do listen, my favorites are Enya (probably the most brilliant musician of our century), Billy Joel, Elton John, John Denver, Loreena McKennitt, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Yanni, Simon and Garfunkel, and a mixed bag of others. I don't listen to most of the new music (which for my age means any musician who came out after 1990). Just never kept up.

Movies:

ABOUT MY MOVIE INTERESTS
AND THE FIRST OF MAY

Movies have been an obsession since I first snuck down to the basement at 11 PM at night to watch Godzilla when I was 6 years old. Since 1983 when I entered the film program at the University of North Texas (then called North Texas State University), I've watched about 2 movies a week at the theater (which adds up to about 2600 movies), plus anywhere from 5-20 movies a month on video (though many of them repeated watchings). In film school I studied all the film discliplines, and while I was single I watched the entire range from foreign independents and art / experimentals to blockbuster Hollywood movies. It is very difficult for me to wade through a weekend without seeing a movie at the theater.

My first attempt to work on a movie project was my submission for extra work on Endangered Species , starting Robert Urich, which was filmed in my highschool home town of Buffalo, Wyoming in 1981. It was about the mysterious cattle mutilations that took place mostly in Colorado in the 1970's which many people attributed to "Extraterrestrial visitation." (Ironically my step-father at the time was a former deputy from Woodland Park, Colorado and had investigated several of these mutilizations himself. He was not a believer in aliens from other worlds but said he'd never seen anything like it.) Endangered Species did not cast me, but two of my schoolmates did get a brief shot in a scene, pointing at a mutilated cow they tossed up on the town hall lawn.

My first chance to work on a movie was Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July , working as a wardrobe PA, but I wasn't able to work it around my college schedule. My second chance to work in the business was on The New Leave It to Beaver television series (originally called Still the Beaver) in Orlando in 1989, and I moved to Orlando just for that opportunity.

The First of May was shot in 1997, and so far it's the only one produced by the company I co-founded in 1990, and the only one I have with a co-producer credit. Truthfully I intended to set out and direct my own films, but financial pressures forced me into the internet business to make ends meet. Movie making is extremely expensive, and you must have an aptitude for either raising lots of money (tens of thousands for a shoestring budget, hundreds of thousands for a low budget, millions for a normal movie) or whipping lots of people into working for free. (Or both.) I'm a storyteller not a salesman, and so much of my focus since The First of May has been on novel writing. But my fingers are still in the cookie jar, so you never know what may happen.

Listed herebelow are the awards our film has won since its 1999 release:

ABOUT STAR WARS

Star Wars had a profound effect on me when I saw it in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1977 at 12 years old. Prior to this movie I loved science fiction and fantasy, but my biggest love was dinosaurs, and I wanted to study to become a Paleontologist. When I walked out of Star Wars, I had changed my mind. From that day forth I wanted to be a movie maker. But my filmmaker career was handicapped from the start, as I lived in an environment that did not easily foster such interests. In frustration, I turned to writing to vent my passions for storytelling. So Star Wars was largely responsible for dedicating my life to telling stories.

I see the six Star Wars episodes as a single movie (as does George Lucas), and I see the three Lord of the Rings films as a single story (as J.R.R. Tolkien intended). As such, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings tie as my two favorite movies of all time.

With regard to Star Wars, there are some episodes I like better than others. In the below ranking I am considering only the most recent DVD releases, including improved effects, added scenes and fixed continuity. In order from best to worst, this is how I rank the six episodes of Star Wars:

1) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - The original 1977 movie (when it was just called "Star Wars" - no episodes) was a life-changer for me. I saw it at only 12 years old at a movie theater in Sheridan, Wyoming. So this episode will always be special to me. R2-D2 and C-3PO were so original and funny that they charmed millions of people around the world, the light sabers were startling innovative and intriguing, and Darth Vader was the nemesis everyone loved to hate. Nobody from my generation will ever forget the opening shot of the Imperial Star Destroyer roaring overhead firing laser bolts. Nothing that realistic had ever been seen before 1977.

2) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - When this first came out, nobody knew that Darth Vader would turn out to be Luke's father, so his famous line knocked everyone out of their seat. It was a huge emotional shocker, and it was also far more "adult" than all the other Star Wars movies, making it my next favorite in the series. The awesome AT-AT Walker battle and asteroid chase sequence were also very memorable. R2-D2 and C-3PO had some of the best dialog in the series here. In fact, Episodes IV and V are the only two episodes in which the two droids had dialog of any real quality.

3) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - The Anakin / Obi-Wan showdown was the most remarkable sword fight I have ever seen. The epic scale of this movie was mind boggling. And Anakin's conversion from a Jedi to a Sith Lord couldn't have been done any better. I think this movie was a masterpiece.

4) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones - The amazing droid vs. Jedi / Clone battle sequences were eye candy in the extreme, and watching Yoda finally spring into action for the first time was quite a thrill for old fans like me. I qualify this episode almost equal to Episode III.

5) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - Darth Maul really made this movie for me, though we didn't get to see him very much. I like the political background of the conflict here, but it was a little hard to follow. Certainly the biggest flaw in the movie was the character JarJar Binks, because the actor they chose to portray him, and the way George shaped that behavior, was too goofy. JarJar's personality seemed a better fit for Howard the Duck than Star Wars. I think this could have been a lot better had they casted a tried-and-tested comic actor to play JarJar, someone who is witty rather than hammy.

6) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi - This is my least favorite episode for numerous reasons. Even all its fixes and improvements on the DVD's can't boost it from the bottom rank because it was written and directly poorly (with respect to the other movies) from the beginning. The plot and soundtrack both seemed to borrow too heavily from the previous two films, some of the dialog was weak or otherwise ridiculous, some of the special effects were not good (though a few of these were improved in the more recent editions), and some scenes were just corny. (I hate the robot torture scene.) I wasn't very fond of the Ewoks. Yes they looked like costumes--but so do other aliens in the series. I can forgive that. The main reason is that they were not interesting enough to be featured so heavily. The space battle was incredible, and so was the confrontation between Luke, Darth Vader and the Emperor, which was the only scene with strong dialog. I was a little disappointed in the actor they chose for Anakin when Luke unmasked him. I felt he should have had a stronger presence.

And now here is my list (not definitive):

Television:

Not in any order, here are some of my all-time favorite TV shows:

Babylon 5

Firefly

Battlestar Galactica (new)

LOST

Friends

Books:

First, some books I'm published in. :-)

Faith & Fairies

Pronto! Writings from Rome ..
Short Story: "Change"
(Other contributing authors include Terry Brooks , John Saul & Mike Sack, Dorothy Allison , Eldon Thompson , Brian Moreland , Kathleen Antrim , John Oglesby, Elizabeth Engstrom , John Tullius, Marie E. Reid, Bill Neugent , Suzanne Tyrpak, Elva Adams, Robin Field Gainey, Judith K. Clements, David Nutt, Ann Klein, Mary Ann Brock, Phillip Dibble, Carolyn Buchanan, Barbara de Normandie, Andrea Mach, Mark E. Prose, Sandra Loera, Kathryn Mattingly, Leah Tribolo, Octavia Hudson, Joni Barron Brotherton, Coco Tralla, Susan Agee, Sandra Richardson, Jack Smith, Olivia Barbee, Larry Mulkerin, Myrna Murdoch, Mark Sylvester, Diana Rowe , Janette Ressue)

Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad ..
Short Story: "The Reality Division"
(Other contributing authors include John Passarella , CJ Henderson , L. Jagi Lamplighter , Phil Brucato , James Chambers , Jeffrey Lyman , Lee C. Hillman, D.C. Wilson, Danielle Ackley-McPhail , Elaine Corvidae , Skyla Dawn Cameron , James Daniel Ross , Brian Koscienski, Chris Pisano, Trisha Wooldridge , Christy Tohara, Steven Mangold, Jason Franks, Bernie Mojzes, Steven Earl Yoder, Lorne Dixon)

Not in any order, here is just a sampling of my favorite books:

The Wheel of Time series
by Robert Jordan
(I like these as a series
more than any individual
book)

The Hobbit &
Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sword of Shannara
by Terry Brooks
(and its sequels)

A Spell for Chameleon
by Piers Anthony
(and its first sequel,
The Source of Magic)

Lord Foul's Bane
by Stephen R. Donaldson
(and a few of its
sequels)

Gateway
by Frederik Pohl

The Complete Robot
(includes I, Robot)
by Isaac Asimov

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum

Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie

Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi

White Fang
by Jack London
(the only novel I've
ever read more than
twice)

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Dune
by Frank Herbert
(the best Space Opera
ever written)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne

The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells

..and many more...

Here are some of the authors in my personal fiction library:

A.A. Milne, A.C. Crispin, A.E. van Vogt, Aaron Allston, Aesop, Agatha Christie, Alan Dean Foster, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Bester, Allen Steele, Andre Norton, Andrew Lang, Anne Bishop, Anne McCaffrey, Anne Rice, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Hailey, Avram Davidson, Ben Bova, Bill Neugent, Bram Stoker, Brian Herbert, Brian Jacques, Brian W. Aldiss, Brothers Grimm, Bruce Coville, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Wagner, C.J. Cherryh, C.M. Kornbluth, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Carlo Collodi, Cary Osborne, Charles de Lint, Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault, Charles Williams, China Miéville, Christopher Paolini, Christopher Stasheff, Clifford D. Simak, Clive Barker, Colin Wilson, Connie Willis, Cornelia Funke, Craig Shaw Gardner, Craig Thomas, D.F. Jones, D.H. Lawrence, Damon Knight, Dan Brown, Dan Simmons, Daniel Keyes, David A. Kyle, David Baldacci, David Brin, David Drake, David Gerrold, David Seltzer, Dean Ing, Dean Koontz, Debra Doyle, Dee Davis, Diane Duane, Donald Barr, Donald F. Glut, Donald Moffitt, Doris Egan, Douglas Adams, Douglas J. Preston, Douglas Niles, E. E. Knight, E. Nesbit, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edmond Hamilton, Eldon Thompson, Elizabeth Becka, Elizabeth George, Elizabeth Haydon, Elmore Leonard, Eoin Colfer, F. Paul Wilson, Frank Herbert, Fred Hoyle, Fred Saberhagen, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Fulton Oursler, Gail Radley, Gail Tsukiyama, Garth Nix, Gaston Leroux, Gene Roddenberry, Gentry Lee, Geo. W. Proctor, George MacDonald, George Orwell, George R.R. Martin, Gordon R. Dickson, Greg Bear, Greg Iles, Gregory Benford, Gregory Maguire, H. Beam Piper, H. Rider Haggard, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Hal Clement, Hans Christian Andersen, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison, Harry Turtledove, Henry James, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Herman Melville, Holly Black, Holly Lisle, Hugo Gernsback, Iain Banks, Ian Fleming, Ian R. MacLeod, Ira Levin, Irving Wallace, Isaac Asimov, J.D. Salinger, J.F. Bone, J.K. Rowling, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Finney, Jack Higgins, Jack L. Chalker, Jack London, Jack Vance, Jack Williamson, Jack Zipes, Jacqueline Carey, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, James Alan Gardner, James BeauSeigneur, James Blish, James D. MacDonald, James Gurney, James Luceno, James P. Blaylock, James P. Hogan, James Patterson, James Redfield, James Reese, James Thurber, Jane Lindskold, Jane Yolen, Janet Kagan, Jay Anson, Jean M. Auel, Jeffrey A. Carver, Jennifer Roberson, Jerry Pournelle, Jim Butcher, Joan Aiken, Joan D. Vinge, Joanna Russ, Joe Haldeman, Joel Chandler Harris, Johann David Wyss, John B. Olson, John Boyd, John Brunner, John Case, John Christopher, John Clute, John Cramer, John Crowley, John D. MacDonald, John E. Muller, John Grisham, John Maddox Roberts, John Marco, John Saul, John Steakley, John Varley, John W. Campbell (aka Don A. Stuart), John Wyndham, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Jacobs, Judith Tarr, Jules Verne, Julian Barnes, K.D. Wentworth, Kate Elliott, Kate Wilhelm, Kathleen Antrim, Kay Kenyon, Keith Laumer, Keith Miles, Ken Follett, Kenneth Robeson, Kevin J. Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson, L. Frank Baum, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Sprague De Camp, Larry Burkett, Larry Niven, Laura Hickman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laurel Winter, Leigh Richards, Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler), Leonard Carpenter, Lester Del Rey, Lew Wallace, Lewis Carroll, Lin Carter, Lincoln Child, Lloyd C. Douglas, Lois Lowry, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lord Dunsany, M. Bradley Kellogg, Madeleine L'Engle, Manda Scott, Margaret Ball, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Margaret Weis, Maria Tatar, Marie Jakober, Marjorie Holmes, Mark Twain (aka Samuel L. Clemens), Martin Booth, Martin Caidin, Martin Cruz Smith, Mary H. Herbert, Mary Norton, Mary Shelley, Matthew Hughes, Melanie Rawn, Mercedes Lackey, Mervyn Peake, Michael A. Stackpole, Michael Bishop, Michael Crichton, Michael Ende, Michael Moorcock, Michelle M. Welch, Mike Conner, Morris L. West, Murray Leinster, Nancy Varian Berberick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neil Gaiman, Nelson Erlick, Nicholas Meyer, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Norman Spinrad, Norton Juster, Orson Scott Card, P.L. Travers, Paddy Chayefsky, Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia C. Wrede, Paul L. Maier, Paul Meier, Paul Preuss, Peter Benchley, Peter David, Peter Lord-Wolff, Peter S. Beagle, Peter Straub, Philip José Farmer, Philip K. Dick, Philip Pullman, Philip Wylie, Pierre Boulle, Piers Anthony, Poul Anderson, R.A. Salvatore, Rand Miller, Randall Ingermanson, Ray Bradbury, Raymond E. Feist, Richard A. Knaak, Richard Adams, Richard Chase, Richard F. Burton, Richard Matheson, Richard Paul Evans, Richard Sherbaniuk, Roald Dahl, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Browning, Robert Charles Wilson, Robert Doherty (aka Bob Mayer), Robert E. Howard, Robert E. Vardeman, Robert Holdstock, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Jordan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Ludlum, Robert Merle, Robert Shea, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Robert T. Bakker, Robin Cook, Rod Serling, Roger Zelazny, Roland Green, Roland J. Bishop, Ross Anton Coe, Rudyard Kipling, S.L. Farrell, S.M. Stirling, Salman Rushdie, Samuel R. Delany, Sara Douglass, Scott Ciencin, Shane Johnson, Shirley Jackson, Sidney Sheldon, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen W. Frey, Steve Perry, Steven Barnes, Steven Erikson, Susan Cooper, Susan Mallery, Susan Torian Olan, Susan Wiggs, Suzette Haden Elgin, Sydney J. Bounds, T.H. White, T.J. Bass, Tad Williams, Tamora Pierce, Tanith Lee, Terri Windling, Terry Brooks, Terry Goodkind, Terry Pratchett, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas J. Davis, Thomas M. Disch, Tim LaHaye, Tim Powers, Timothy Zahn, Tom Clancy, Tony DiTerlizzi, Tracy Hickman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vernor Vinge, Virginia Haviland, Vonda Mcintyre, Vonda N. McIntyre, W. Jenkyn Thomas, W.J. Stuart, W.T. Quick, Walt Becker, Walt Morey, Walter M. Miller, Walter Tevis, Warren Norwood, Washington Irving, Weslynn McCallister, Whitley Strieber, Wil McCarthy, Will Collins, William Golding, William Brown Meloney, William Gibson, William Goldman, William H. Stephens, William Peter Blatty, William Sleator, Wilson Rawls, Wilson Tucker

Heroes: