Don Perrin
With Margaret Weis, Perrin is the author of Knights of the Black Earth and Robot Blues, science fiction novels set in the Star of the Guardians universe, and Doom Brigade, a War of Chaos series novel. On his own he's written Theros Ironfeld, a Dragonlance® Warriors novel, and several short stories. In the gaming community he's known as the co-designer (with Jeff Grubb) of the Wing Commander® Collectible Trading Card Game, and Star of the Guardians card game.

Steve Perry
Steve Perry was born in 1947 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana He has lived in California, Washington and Oregon. He is married to the former Dianne Waller, Executive Director of the Columbia River Channel Coalition. Before turning to full-time freelance writing, he held a variety of jobs, including swimming instructor and lifeguard, hotel gift shop and car rental clerk, martial arts instructor, private detective, Licensed Practical Nurse and Certified Physician's Assistant. They have two grown children and two grandsons.

Meredith Ann Pierce
Meredith Ann Pierce is the author of a number of award-winning fantasy novels for young adults, including the Darkangel Trilogy, the Firebringer Trilogy, and The Woman Who Loved Reindeer. She received both a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Florida, and an M.L.S. from Florida State University, and spends her days as a librarian. Her hobbies include composing music and playing the harp. She lives in the woods south of Micanopy, Florida, in a house powered by solar energy.

Ricardo Pinto
Ricardo Pinto was born in Lisbon, Portugal. When he was six, his family moved first to London and then Dundee, Scotland. He received a degree in mathematics at Dundee University, and in 1983 moved to London without a job and bluffed his way into writing computer games for a local firm. Some time later, a friend whose company produced tabletop wargames asked Pinto to design a world. This led to the self-publication of his first book, Kryomek. Further work in gaming, that allowed him to continue writing, finally led to the sale of the three-volume epic The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, the first volume of which, The Chosen, was published in 1999.

Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl was born in 1919 in New York City. His first novel was The Space Merchants (with C.M. Kornbluth) serialized in Galaxy magazine (1952) and his first solo novel was Drunkard's Walk, a Galaxy serial in 1960. He has won Hugo Awards as an editor (1966, 1967 and 1968), short story writer for "The Meeting" (with C.M. Kornbluth) in 1973 and in 1986 for "Fermi and Frost", novelist for Gateway in 1978. He won Nebula Awards for Man Plus in 1976 and Gateway in 1977. As well he has served as President of SFWA during 1974-76 and World SF for 1980-82.

Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett lives in Somerset, England, where he spends all his time, and more, writing his rigorously naturalistic, curiously entertaining, shamelessly popular Discworld novels which have earned him extravagant acclaim and puzzled stares from millions of readers around the world. Terry Pratchett has numerous sites devoted to his work. This site tells you where most of them are. Perhaps even our Terry Pratchett Reading List is there.