Robert Bloch has been a prolific writer in many genres. In his youth, he was inspired by his mentor N.P. Lovecraft was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. In addition to hundreds of short stories and novels, he wrote several scripts for television and films, including several scripts for the original movie Star Trek. In 1959, Bloch wrote the novel Psycho, which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to the film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the former president of America's Secret Writers. This populous Earth, published in "Amazing Stories" in 1958, is a thriller on the overpopulated Earth of the future.
