Canadian science fiction A strong element in contemporary Canadian culture is rich, diverse, thoughtful and witty science fiction. History of Canadian science fiction Possibly the first recorded Canadian work of science fiction is the 1896 '' Tisab Ting, or, The Electrical ...

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* Kelley Armstrong *

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...

Malcolm Azania Malcolm Azania (born 1969), is a Kenyan-Canadian novelist, teacher, writer, and journalist. He is primarily known by his pen name, Minister Faust. In addition to writing science fiction, he is a playwright, journalist, teacher, and poet. He has also ...

R. Scott Bakker Richard Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author and frequent lecturer in the South Western Ontario university community. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the Univers ...

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime Stephanie Bedwell-Grime is a Canadian author of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and romance novels. She has written more than a dozen novels and many pieces of short fiction. She has been nominated for the Prix Aurora Award five times. Bedwell-G ...

Erin Bow Erin Bow (born April 1, 1972), born Erin Noteboom, is an American-born Canadian author. Biography Early life Erin Noteboom was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She had one sibling, a younger sister named Wendy. As a child ...

Paul Chafe Paul Chafe was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1965 and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a Canadian science fiction author who frequently publishes with Baen Books. In addition to his own original work, he has published several stories in Larry Niv ...

Michael G. Coney Michael Greatrex Coney (28 September 1932 - 4 November 2005) was a British science fiction writer, best known for his novel ''Hello Summer, Goodbye.'' Life Coney was born in Birmingham, England, on 28 September 1932. As an adult, he worked as ...

Seán Cummings Seán Cummings is a Canadian film and television industry professional and former playwright, actor, producer, and director from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Ontario on January 17, 1968. Cummings' first full-length play, " ...

Julie E. Czerneda Julie E. Czerneda (born April 11, 1955) is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author. She has written many novels, including four Aurora Award for Best Novel winners (''In the Company of Others'', ''A Turn of Light'', ''A Play of Shadow'', an ...

* Charles de Lint * Arinn Dembo *

James De Mille James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian novelist who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Life De Mille w ...

* Gordon R. Dickson *

Candas Jane Dorsey Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist who resides in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Dorsey became a writer from an early age and works across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mai ...

* Cory Doctorow * Dave Duncan *

Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar (born 13 December 1984) is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction. She has published short fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, and has edited the fantastic poetry quarterly magazine ''Goblin Fruit'' since 2006. El-Moht ...

Steven Erikson Steve Rune Lundin (born October 7, 1959), known by his pseudonym Steven Erikson, is a Canadian novelist who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist. He is best known for his ten-volume spanning epic fantasy series ...

* Nigel Findley *

J.M. Frey Jessica Marie Frey is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author. While she is best known for her debut novel ''Triptych'', Frey's work encompasses poetry, academic and magazine articles, screenplays, and short stories. Frey calls herself a ...

Barb Galler-Smith Barb Galler-Smith is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author living in Edmonton, Alberta. Her published works include The Druid Saga series of historical fantasy novels, including ''Druids'', ''Captives'' and ''Warrior''. ''Druids'' was shor ...

* James Alan Gardner *

Pauline Gedge Pauline Gedge (born December 11, 1945) is a Canadian novelist best known for her historical fiction novels, including the best-selling ''Child of the Morning'', ''The Eagle and the Raven'', her fantasy novel ''Stargate'', and her Egyptian trilogies ...

Terence M. Green Terence Michael Green (born 2 February 1947) is a Canadian science-fiction and fantasy writer. He has published short stories and novels, among the best received of which is ''Children of the Rainbow'' (1992). His works focus on characterization an ...

Ed Greenwood Ed Greenwood (born July 21, 1959) is a Canadian fantasy writer and the original creator of the ''Forgotten Realms'' game world. He began writing articles about the Forgotten Realms for ''Dragon'' magazine beginning in 1979, and subsequently sold ...

* William Gibson * Phyllis Gotlieb * Hiromi Goto

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PJ Haarsma Philip-Jon Haarsma (born June 5, 1964), more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian-born producer and science fiction author best known for his creation of the ''Rings of Orbis'' universe, which encompasses '' The Softwire'' series of books ...

* J. C. Hall * H. A. Hargreaves *

Rachel Hartman Rachel Hartman (born July 9, 1972 in Kentucky) is an American writer and artist of comics, and an author of young adult fiction. She is known for her books ''Seraphina'' (2012), '' Shadow Scale'' (2015), '' Tess of the Road'' (2018), and '' In T ...

Nalo Hopkinson Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels ('' Brown Girl in the Ring'', ''Midnight Robber'', '' The Salt Roads'', ''The New Moon's Arms'') and short stories such as thos ...

Tanya Huff Tanya Sue Huff (born 1957) is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science fiction series. One of these, her '' Blood Books'' series, featuring detective Vicki Ne ...

* Matt Hughes *

Monica Hughes Monica Hughes (November 3, 1925 – March 7, 2003) was an English-Canadian author of books for children and young adults, especially science fiction. She also wrote adventure and historical novels set in Canada, and the text for some children's ...

* Tina Hunter * Marie Jakober *

K.V. Johansen K.V. Johansen (born 1968) is a Canadian fantasy, science fiction, and children's author. Krista Victoria Johansen was born in Kingston, Ontario. She holds Master's degrees in Medieval Studies and English literature. She lives in Sackville, New ...

Karl Johanson ''Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine'' is a digest sized, perfect bound, Canadian magazine publishing science fiction and fantasy stories, science and opinion articles, SF news and reviews. ''Neo-opsis'' is based in Victoria, British Columbia, Ca ...

* Daniel Heath Justice * Guy Gavriel Kay *

Eileen Kernaghan Eileen Kernaghan (born January 6, 1939) is a Canadian novelist and three-time winner of the Prix Aurora Awards, Prix Aurora Award for English-language Canadian speculative fiction. The settings of her historical fantasy novels range from the prehis ...

Crawford Kilian Crawford Kilian (born February 7, 1941) is a Canadian novelist and a college professor. He is also the former public education columnist for the Vancouver Province newspaper. Kilian holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and master ...

Donald Kingsbury Donald MacDonald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929, in San Francisco) is an American–Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986. Bibliography Books ...

* W. H. C. Lawrence * Mark Leslie * Nicole Luiken *

Maggie MacDonald Maggie MacDonald (born 1979) is a writer, playwright, and musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education MacDonald grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, where she became active in the local independent rock music scene. She put on sh ...

* Nathalie Mallet * Paul Marlowe *

Suzanne Martel Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Life Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and ...

* Moira J. Moore * Jim Munroe * Nina Munteanu * Francine Pelletier *

Fiona Patton Fiona Patton (born 1962) is a Canadian fantasy author. She has written more than 50 short stories including within the genres heroic fantasy, horror and science fiction and is well known for her The Warriors of Estavia series. Born in Calgary, A ...

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Mark A. Rayner Mark A. Rayner is a Canadian author of satire, humour and speculative fiction from London, Ontario. He is the author of four books: His first novel, ''The Amadeus Net'', was published by ENC Press in New York in 2005 and his second novel, ''Marvel ...

* Vincent Reid *

Spider Robinson Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian list of science fiction authors, science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 198 ...

* Joel Rosenberg * Sean Russell * Geoff Ryman *

Michelle Sagara Michelle Michiko Sagara (born May 5, 1963) is a Japanese-Canadian author of fantasy literature, active since the early 1990s. She has published as Michelle Sagara, as Michelle West (using her husband's surname) and as Michelle Sagara West. Sagara ...

* Liselle Sambury *

Lynsay Sands Lynsay Sands (born Leamington, Ontario) is a Canadian author of over 30 books. She is noted for the humor she injects into her stories. While she writes both historical and paranormal romance novels, she is best known for her Argeneau series abou ...

Charles R. Saunders Charles Robert Saunders (July 12, 1946May 2020) was an African-American author and journalist, a pioneer of the "sword and soul" literary genre with his Imaro novels.Tattrie, Jon.The extraordinary inner world of Charles R. Saunders, father of ...

* Robert J. Sawyer * Karl Schroeder *

Daniel Sernine Alain Lortie, commonly known under the pseudonym Daniel Sernine, is a French Canadian writer. Biography Sernine obtained a Bachelor's in history in 1975 and a Master's in library science in 1977, both from the University of Montréal. He dedicat ...

* William Shatner *

Lisa Smedman Lisa Smedman is a science fiction and fantasy author and journalist. Her novel ''Extinction'', set in the Forgotten Realms universe, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Smedman first became known for gaming adventure novels, and later published ...

* Linda Smith *

Caro Soles Caro Soles is a Canadian author of science fiction, mystery and erotica literature,"Sci-fi author Soles tests waters of mainstream". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', April 10, 2001. who has published work both in her own name and under the pen name Ky ...

Steve Stanton Steve Stanton is a Canadian author, editor, and publisher. He founded Skysong Press in 1988 and published the literary fanzine ''Dreams & Visions'' for twenty years, as well as the ''Sky Songs'' anthology series, 2002–2005. He served on the B ...

S.M. Stirling Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author who was born in France. Stirling is well known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel/alternate his ...

* Kenneth Tam *

Jean-Louis Trudel Jean-Louis Trudel (born 1967) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and has lived in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal before moving to Quebec City, Quebec in 2010. He teaches history part-time at the Unive ...

Elisabeth Vonarburg Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ...

* A. E. van Vogt * Jo Walton * Peter Watts *

Lynda Williams Lynda Williams (born February 17, 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author and blogger. Williams' fiction is centered on a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishi ...

* Robert Charles Wilson *

Evan Winter Evan Winter is a Canadian author of epic fantasy. His first novel, ''The Rage of Dragons'', was originally self-published. In 2020, ''TIME'' named it one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. A sequel, called ''The Fires of Vengeance'', was ...

Tim Wynne-Jones Tim Wynne-Jones, (born 12 August 1948) is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production ''Fraggl ...

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External links

SF Canada, Canada's National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals

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