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Philippe Thirault is a French novelist and comics writer who was born in Paris in 1967. In the late 1990s, he published the novel Feathered Serpent, the trilogy Hemoglobin Blues, and his first comic series, the critically acclaimed Miss: Better Living Through Crime. He has since become a very prolific comic book creator, writing series such as Thousand Faces, The Hounds of Hell, Balkans Arena and Mandalay. He often writes stories with a historical or fantastic setting and runs writing workshops in Paris. Laura Zuccheri is an Italian artist who has worked on numerous Italian publications including Ken Parker magazine, The Condemned and Hardware (Sergio Bonelli). She won the The Grand Guinigi Award for Best Art at Lucca Festival for her Swords of Glass work. Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. His books have been translated into over forty languages.
Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow. --Isaac Asimov At its heart Downward to the Earth is a good old-fashioned science fiction tale hearkening back to a time when cosmic was the operative word for several levels of any given scenario, like a throwback to Heavy Metal magazine. --THE BEAT Silverberg is at the top of his form. --George R.R. Martin
