Robert Bloch
Bio: Robert Bloch is perhaps best remembered for his novel Psycho, which was turned into one of the greatest horror movies of all time, under Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant direction. Bloch was also one of the most popular writers on such TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. As author of a score of best-selling novels and hundreds of short stories, Bloch's gallows humor set him apart from many of his contemporaries. Bloch was born in 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. His interest in fantasy was sparked at an early age, after a chance encounter with magician Howard Thurston. He later discovered science fiction in Amazing Stories and went on to establish a long correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft, whose writing he read and admired in Weird Tales. Robert Bloch died in September of 1994 from cancer of the esophagus and kidneys. He was 77 years old.
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Poul Anderson, Murray Leinster, Robert Bloch, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Sheckley pool their talents in a classic round-robin novella that stretches humanity almost to the breaking point on the wrack of Time and Space. Humanity was falling before the onslaught of the Cloud People, soon the last remains would be wiped out. So they sent Ban to the Prophetess for an oracle. "What you must overcome is Time itself," she told him and sent him off accompanied only by the youngest of her handmaidens. But ... 
