Balanos Georgios (1944–2020) was a Greek translator, author, publisher and researcher of the fields of science fiction, paranormal and magick. According to his official biography presented on his web site, he was born in Athens on 12 April 1944 and attended various university schools without receiving any qualifications. His bio include work as teacher of English language, a photographer, a journalist, a translator and an author. Science fiction-translation Balanos has worked in the field of science fiction and fantasy for many years. Within the Greek novels publisher "Aurora", he translated a great amount of short and medium size novels. One of the most distinctive characteristics, due to which he justifiably became noted, of these his translations is his comments in prologues, where he gave clues about some elements of the unexplained and the paranormal. Balanos' translating activity had begun years before the "Aurora" period. As far back as the early and mid 1980s he had published on his own efforts (through his own "Selefais" publications) several collections of translated science fiction, heroic fantasy and fantasy literature. He was the first to translate into Greek a wide variety of works by renowned English-speaking science fiction and fantasy writers, such as Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Algernon Blackwood, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Jose Farmer, Harry Harrison, William H. Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, H. G. Wells, Colin Wilson, John Wyndham, Roger Zelazny, etc., the vast majority of whom were virtually unknown to the Greek public up to then. Balanos's own works George Balanos is positively a prominent figure in the paranormal research field in Greece. A one-time APRO's local representative, apart from being a most celebrated translator into Greek of many famous English-speaking science-fiction and fantasy writers, he has also written many books of his own, which are the outcome of a lifelong research into the paranormal and occult. The titles of the books written by him follow below: "Flying Saucers – Intruders?" ("Iptamenoi Discoi – Eisvoleis?", 1973) “Beings from Outer Space” (“Onta Apo To Diastima”, 1974) “The Worlds of Fire” (“Oi Kosmoi Tis Fotias”, 1976) “The Sands of Time” (“Oi Ammoi Tou Khronou”, 1977) "In Search of Unknown Worlds ("Anazitontas Agnostous Kosmous", 1979) “Dreamlands of the Earth” (“Oi Oneirotopoi Tis Ghis”, science fiction short story collection 1979) "The Enigma of Penteli" ("To Enigma tis Pentelis, 1982) "Pathways