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science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univers ...

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Dafydd ab Hugh Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990. Simon & Schuster has published eleven ab Hugh ...

(born 1960) *

Alexander Abasheli 250px, Alexander Abasheli Alexander Abasheli ( ka, ალექსანდრე აბაშელი) was a pen name of Isaac Chochia (ისააკ ჩოჩია) (August 15, 1884 – September 27, 1954), a Georgian poet and prose writer. ...

(1884–1954) *

Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella ''Flatland'' (1884). Biography Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of ...

(1838–1926) *

Kōbō Abe , pen name of , was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. He is best known for his 1962 novel '' The Woman in the Dunes'' that was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often bee ...

(1924–1993) *

Robert Abernathy Robert Abernathy (1924–1990) was an American science fiction author during the 1940s and 1950s. He was known primarily for his short stories which were published in many of the pulp magazines that flourished during the Golden Age of Science ...

(1924–1990) *

Dan Abnett Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, sinc ...

(born 1965) * Daniel Abraham (born 1969) *

Forrest J Ackerman Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction authors, science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror ...

(1916–2008) *

Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' developed into a " ...

(1952–2001) * Robert Adams (1932–1990) * Ann Aguirre (born 1970) *

Jerry Ahern Jerome Morrell Ahern (June 23, 1946 – July 24, 2012) was an American writer of science fiction and action novels, non-fiction books, and articles for various firearms publications. He was considered an expert on firearms and related accessories, ...

(1946–2012) *

Jim Aikin James Douglas Aikin (born 1948) is an American science fiction writer based in Livermore, California. He is also a music technology writer, an interactive fiction writer, freelance editor and writer, cellist, and teacher. He frequently writes ar ...

(born 1948) *

Alan Burt Akers Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction. Life Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. B ...

(1921–2005) (pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer) *

Tim Akers John Timothy Akers is an American author of speculative fiction.Akers, Tim.About" on timakers.net. He writes as Tim Akers. Life John Timothy Akers was born in rural Buncombe County, North Carolina, the only son of John Nance Akers, a theologian. ...

(born 1972) *

Brian Aldiss Brian Wilson Aldiss (; 18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer, artist, and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for ...

(1925–2017) * David M. Alexander (born 1945) *

Grant Allen Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Biography Early life a ...

(1848–1899) *

Roger MacBride Allen Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and grew up outside of Washington, D.C., graduating from Walt Whitman High School. He graduated from Boston University ...

(born 1957) *

Hans Joachim Alpers Hans Joachim Alpers (14 July 1943 – 16 February 2011) was a German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy. Together with Werner Fuchs and Ulrich Kiesow he founded Fantasy Productions, which became one of the premier German RPG- and boa ...

(1943–2011) *

Steve Alten Steven Robert Alten (born August 21, 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American science-fiction author. He is best known for his ''Meg'' series of novels set around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant, prehistoric shark. Bio ...

(born 1959) *

Genrich Altshuller Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller (Ге́нрих Сау́лович Альтшу́ллер, ) (born Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR, 15 October 1926; died Petrozavodsk, Russia, 24 September 1998), was a Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer. He is most ...

(1926–1998) *

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social an ...

(1922–1995) *

Paul Rafaelovich Amnuél Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

(born 1944) *

Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders is an American writer and commentator. She has written several novels, published magazines and websites, and hosted podcasts. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, t ...

(born 1969) *

Kevin J. Anderson Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...

(born 1962) *

Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until the 21st century. Anderson wrote also historical novels. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and ...

(1926–2001) *

Jean-Pierre Andrevon Jean-Pierre Andrevon (born 19 September 1937 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French science fiction author, as well as a painter and singer. He has used the pseudonym ''Alphonse Brutsche'' for novels published under the Fleuve Noir label. In a ...

(born 1937) *

Arlan Andrews Arlan Keith Andrews, Sr. (born 1940) is an American engineer and writer of science fiction and non-fiction. He attended New Mexico State University, where he earned bachelor, master, and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering. Since 1971, he ...

(born 1940) *

Patricia Anthony Patricia Marie Anthony (March 29, 1947 – July 2, 2013) was an American science fiction and slipstream author. Anthony published her first science fiction novel in 1992 with ''Cold Allies'', about the arrival of extraterrestrials in the midst of ...

(1947–2013) *

Piers Anthony Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and Fantasy (genre), fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is best known for his :Xanth books, long-running novel series set in ...

(born 1934) *

Christopher Anvil Christopher Anvil (March 11, 1925 – November 30, 2009) is a pseudonym used by American author Harry Christopher Crosby. Biography and work Crosby was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the only child of Harry Clifton Crosby and Rose Glasbrenner. ...

(1925–2009) (pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby) *

K. A. Applegate Katherine Alice Applegate (born October 9, 1956), known professionally as K. A. Applegate or Katherine Applegate, is an American young adult and children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the ''Animorphs'', '' Remnants'', ''Everworld ...

(born 1956) * E.L. Arch (1922–1988) (pseudonym of Rachel Cosgrove Payes) *

Eleanor Arnason Eleanor Atwood Arnason (born December 28, 1942) is an American author of science fiction novels and short stories. Arnason's earliest published story, "A Clear Day in the Motor City", appeared in ''New Worlds'' in 1973. Her work often depicts cul ...

(born 1942) * Robert Arthur (1909–1969) *

Catherine Asaro Catherine Ann Asaro (born November 6, 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, singer and teacher. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty, called the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Biography Catherine Asaro was bo ...

(born 1955) *

Neal Asher Neal Asher (born 4 February 1961) is an English science fiction writer. He lives near Chelmsford. Career Both of Asher's parents are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing speculative fiction in secondary school, he did ...

(born 1961) * Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994) *

Pauline Ashwell Pauline Whitby was a British science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym Pauline Ashwell (1926 Hatfield, Hertfordshire - 23 November 2015). She also wrote under the names Paul Ashwell and Paul Ash. She took her surname from Ashwell, Hert ...

(1928–2015) *

Isaac Asimov yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (192 ...

(1920–1992) *

Janet Asimov Janet Opal Asimov (née Jeppson; August 6, 1926 – February 25, 2019), usually written as J. O. Jeppson, was an American science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. She started writing children's science fiction in the 1970s. She w ...

(1926–2019) *

Nancy Asire Nancy Asire (born 1945) was an American fantasy and science fiction author, best known for her ''Twilight's Kingdoms'' fantasy trilogy and her contributions to the shared universe series ''Heroes in Hell'', '' Sword of Knowledge'' and '' Merovin ...

(1945–2021) *

Robert Asprin Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, known best for his humorous series '' MythAdventures'' and '' Phule's Company''. Background Robert Asprin was born in St. J ...

(1946–2008) * Francis Henry Atkins (1847–1927) *

A. A. Attanasio Alfred Angelo Attanasio, born on September 20, 1951, in Newark, New Jersey, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His science fiction novel ''Radix'', winner of the French literary award, the Prix Cosmos 2000, was also nominated for th ...

(born 1951) *

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 ...

(born 1939) * Ayerdhal (1959–2015)

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Richard Bachman Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King. King portrays Bachman in the third season of the FX television series '' Sons of Anarchy''. Origin At the beginning of King's care ...

(pseudonym of

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high s ...

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Paolo Bacigalupi Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and has been nominated for the Na ...

(born 1972) *

Hilary Bailey Hilary Bailey (19 September 1936 – 19 January 2017) was a British writer, critic and editor. Life Bailey attended Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was a founder-member of the Cambridge University Women's Union. She was born in Brom ...

(1936–2017) *

Robin Wayne Bailey Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American writer of speculative fiction, both fantasy and science fiction. He is a founder of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1996) and a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ...

(born 1952) *

Kage Baker Kage Baker (June 10, 1952 – January 31, 2010Obituary: Kage Baker
" SF Site, January ...

(1952–2010) * Scott Baker (born 1947) *

J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explored the relations between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass medi ...

(1930–2009) *

Edwin Balmer Edwin Balmer (July 26, 1883 – March 21, 1959) was an American science fiction and Mystery fiction, mystery writer. Biography Balmer was born in Chicago to Helen Clark (Pratt) and Thomas Balmer. In 1909, he married Katharine MacHarg, sister o ...

(1883–1959) * Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) *

Michael A. Banks Michael A. Banks (born 21 March 1951 in Princeton, IndianaISFDB, Michael A. Banks - Summary Biblio ...

(born 1951) * Raymond E. Banks (1918–1996) (also known as Ray Banks, Ray E. Banks, R.E. Banks, and Fred Freair) * Marek Baraniecki (born 1954) *

Miquel Barceló Miquel Barceló Artigues (born 1957) is a Spanish painter. Career Barceló was born at Felanitx, Mallorca. After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 197 ...

(1948–2021) *

René Barjavel René Barjavel (24 January 1911 – 24 November 1985) was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern ...

(1911–1985) *

Wayne Barlowe Wayne Douglas Barlowe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, painter, and concept artist. Barlowe's work focuses on esoteric landscapes and creatures such as citizens of hell and alien worlds. He has painted over 300 book and magazi ...

(born 1958) *

Arthur K. Barnes Arthur Kelvin Barnes (6 December 1909 – 11 March 1969) was an American science fiction author. Barnes wrote mostly for pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Barnes was most noted for his vivid and believable portrayals of alien life. As suc ...

(1911–1969) *

John Barnes John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager. He currently works as an author, commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. Initially a quick, skilful left winger, he moved to cent ...

(born 1957) *

Steven Barnes Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles. Career ...

(born 1952) *

William Barnwell William Barnwell (born 1943) is an American author of science fiction, and of other genres. He has written the ''Blessing Trilogy'', set in a future Ireland, and which has metaphysics, metaphysical content. It was praised by Andre Norton, while Pet ...

(born 1943) *

Donald Barr Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...

(1921–2004) * João Barreiros (born 1952) * William Barton (born 1950) *

T. J. Bass T. J. Bass, real name Thomas J. Bassler, MD (July 7, 1932 – December 13, 2011) was an American science fiction author and physician, having graduated from the University of Iowa in 1959. Bassler is also known for his controversial claim tha ...

(1932–2011) (pseudonym of Thomas J. Bassler) * Harry Bates (1900–1981) *

L. Frank Baum Lyman Frank Baum (; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the ''Oz'' series, plus 41 other novels (not includ ...

(1856–1919) * John Baxter (born 1939) * Stephen Baxter (born 1957) *

Georgy Baydukov Georgy Filippovich Baydukov (russian: Гео́ргий Фили́ппович Байдуко́в; – 28 December 1994) was a Soviet test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936), writer and hunter. Early years Baydukov was born at the Tar ...

(1907–1994) * Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008) *

Elizabeth Bear Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo A ...

(born 1971) *

Greg Bear Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict ('' Forge of God'' books), parallel universes ('' The Way'' series), ...

(born 1951) *

Jerome Beatty Jr Jerome M. Beatty Jr. (December 9, 1916 – July 31, 2002) was a twentieth-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines. Beatty served in the United States Army, achieving the rank of ...

(1918–2002) *

Charles Beaumont Charles Beaumont (January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres.Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, "Beaumont, Charles" in David Pringle, ed., ''S ...

(1929–1967) *

Vladimir Beekman Vladimir Beekman (23 August 1929 – 3 October 2009) was an Estonian writer, poet and translator. Early life and education After completing his primary education, he attended the Tallinn University of Technology and graduated in 1953 with a degre ...

(1929–2009) * Ugo Bellagamba (born 1972) *

Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel ''Looking Backward''. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerou ...

(1850–1898) *

Alexander Belyaev Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Беля́ев, ; – 6 January 1942) was a Soviet Russian writer of science fiction. His works from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded figure in Russia ...

(1884–1942) *

Andrei Belyanin Andrei Olegovich Belyanin (born 24 January 1967, Astrakhan) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy writer, who wrote at least 15 novels with many of them selling over 2 million copies. He is especially known for humour and parody in his fiction. ...

(born 1967) *

Don Bendell Don Bendell (born January 8, 1947) is an American author, rancher, tracker, producer, director, actor, and a former Green Beret. He has published 29 books and assisted in exposing former Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy's claims of serving as a Gr ...

(born 1947) (pseudonym of Ron Stillman) *

Gregory Benford Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reason ...

(born 1941) *

Donald R. Bensen Donald Roynald Bensen (October 3, 1927 – October 19, 1997), known also as Don Bensen and listed sometimes as D.R. Bensen, was an American editor and science fiction writer. As an editor he is known best for editing works of P. G. Wodehouse and ...

(1927–1997) *

J. D. Beresford John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 2 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H.G. Wells, and w ...

(1873–1947) *

Fyodor Berezin Fyodor Dmitrievich Berezin (russian: Фёдор Дмитриевич Березин; born February 7, 1960) is a Russian science fiction writer. He has published 3 novel series, and 2 separate works, scoring him awards at the International Scienc ...

(born 1960) *

Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...

(1619–1655) * Jack Bertin (1913–1983) (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) *

Alfred Bester Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. He is best remembered for his science fiction, inclu ...

(1913–1987) *

Bruce Bethke Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story ''Cyberpunk'' which led to the widespread use of the term, including for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, ''Headcrash'', won the Philip K. Dic ...

(born 1955) *

Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – ) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book ''The Devil's Dictionary'' was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by t ...

(1842 – c. 1914) *

Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Lloyd Biggle Jr. (April 17, 1923 – September 12, 2002), was an American musician, author, and internationally known oral historian. Biography Biggle was born in 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. He served in World War II as a communications sergeant i ...

(1923–2002) *

Eando Binder Eando Binder is a pen name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder (1904–1965) and his brother Otto Binder (1911–1974). The name is derived from their first initials ''(E and O Binder).'' Under the Eando nam ...

(joint pseudonym of Earl (1904–1966) and

Otto Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...

(1911–1974) Binder) *

John Birmingham John Birmingham (born 7 August 1964) is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'', and his ''Axis of Time'' trilogy. Early life and education Birmingham was born in Liverpool, United ...

(born 1964) *

David Bischoff David F. Bischoff (December 15, 1951 – March 19, 2018) was an American science fiction and television writer. General background Born in Washington D.C., Bischoff wrote science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. He beg ...

(1951–2018) * Michael Bishop (born 1945) *

Terry Bisson Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), Am ...

(born 1942) *

Jerome Bixby Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short-story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story " It's a Good Life", which was the basis of a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' and was included ...

(1923–1998) *

Malorie Blackman Malorie Blackman is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethica ...

(born 1962) *

Jayme Lynn Blaschke Jayme Lynn Blaschke (born 1969) is an American journalist and author of science fiction, fantasy and related non-fiction. Primarily known for his genre-related interviews with authors and editors, he published a collected volume of 17 interviews, ' ...

(born 1969) *

James Blaylock James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wel ...

(born 1950) *

James Blish James Benjamin Blish () was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his ''Cities in Flight'' novels and his series of ''Star Trek'' novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel ''A Case of Conscienc ...

(1921–1975) *

Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...

(1917–1994) *

Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...

(1873–1928) *

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954) is an American sci-fi and fantasy author. Personal life Bohnhoff, mother of three, has been married since 1981 to Jeff Bohnhoff. The couple and their children are members of the Baháʼí Faith. She began her ...

(born 1954) *

Nelson S. Bond Nelson Slade Bond (November 23, 1908 – November 4, 2006) was an American writer. His works included books, magazine articles, and scripts used in radio, for television and on the stage. The 1998 recipient of the Nebula Author Emeritus award ...

(1908–2006) * Kevin Bokeili (1963–2014) * John Boland (1913–1976) *

Pierre Bordage Pierre Bordage (born 29 January 1955 in La Réorthe, Vendée) is a French science fiction author. He won the Cosmos 2000 prize in 1996 for his novel ''La Citadelle Hyponéros''. Pierre Bordage is one of France's best-selling science fiction writ ...

(born 1955) *

François Bordes François Bordes (December 30, 1919 – April 30, 1981), also known by the pen name of Francis Carsac, was a French scientist, geologist, archaeologist, and science fiction writer. Biography He was a professor of prehistory and quaternary g ...

(1919–1981) *

Anthony Boucher William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher (), was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio d ...

(1911–1968) (pseudonym of William A.P. White) *

Pierre Boulle Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, ''The Bridge over the River Kwai'' (1952) and ''Planet of the Apes (novel), Planet of the Apes'' (1963), that were both mad ...

(1912–1994) *

Sydney James Bounds Sydney James Bounds (4 November 1920 – 24 November 2006) was a British author. He wrote as Sydney J. Bounds and S. J. Bounds, as well as under the pen names Clifford Wallace, James Marshall, Earl Ellison and Rex Marlowe. He wrote over forty no ...

(1920–2006) *

Louis Henri Boussenard Louis Henri Boussenard (4 October 1847, Escrennes, Loiret – 11 September 1910 in Orléans) was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed "the French Henry Rider Haggard, Rider Haggard" during his lifetime, but better known today in Eastern Euro ...

(1847–1910) *

Ben Bova Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of '' Analog Science Fiction and F ...

(1932–2020) *

Leigh Brackett Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for ''The Big Sleep'' (1946), '' Rio Bravo'' (1959), and '' The Long Goo ...

(1915–1978) *

Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and r ...

(1920–2012) *

Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel ''The Mists of Avalon'' an ...

(1930–1999) *

Gillian Bradshaw Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are oft ...

(born 1956) *

Johanna Braun Johanna Braun (7 May 1929 – 24 October 2008) was a German writer. Biography Johanna Braun was born in Magdeburg on 7 May 1929. Her father was an optician. She spent most of her life living in East Germany and held a number of jobs including se ...

(1929–2008) * Mark Brandis (1931–2000) *

Miles J. Breuer Miles John Breuer (January 3, 1889 – October 14, 1945) was an American physician and science fiction writer of Czech origin. Although he had published elsewhere since the early 20th century, he is considered the part of the first generation of ...

(1889–1945) *

Reginald Bretnor Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn; July 30, 1911 – July 22, 1992) was an American science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story l ...

(1911–1992) *

David Brin Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction. He has won the Hugo,Jason V Brock Jason Vincent Brock (born March 1, 1970) is an American author, artist, editor and filmmaker. He is the CEO and co-founder (with his wife, Sunni) of JaSunni Productions, LLC, whose documentary films include ''Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of ...

(born 1970) *

Damien Broderick Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. His science fiction novel ''The Dreaming Dragons'' (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine ...

(born 1944) *

Kristi Brooks Kristi Brooks is the author of ''Vision²'', a science fiction novel, various short stories, and columns for local publications. She is noted for her blending of genres, often merging elements of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror in her stories. The ...

(born 1980) *

Max Brooks Maximillian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972) is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedy filmmaker Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War I ...

(born 1972) *

Terry Brooks Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations. He has written 23 ''New York Times'' bestsellers during his writing career, and has ...

(born 1944) *

John Brosnan John Raymond Brosnan (7 October 1947 – 11 April 2005) was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works in the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, and died in South Harrow, London, fro ...

(1947–2005) * Eric Brown (born 1960) *

Fredric Brown Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer.D. J. McReynolds, "The Short Fiction of Fredric Brown" in Frank N. Magill, (ed.) ''Survey of Science Fiction Literature'', Vol. 4 ...

(1906–1972) *

James Cooke Brown James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game ''Careers''. Brown's nove ...

(1921–2000) * Rosel George Brown (1926–1967) * Simon Brown (born 1956) * John Brunner (1934–1995) *

Steven Brust Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He is best known for his series of novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a disdained minority group of humans livi ...

(born 1955) *

Edward Bryant Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave. At the time of his death, ...

(1945–2017) *

Valery Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov ( rus, Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Брю́сов, p=vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbrʲusəf, a=Valyeriy Yakovlyevich Bryusov.ru.vorb.oga; – 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, drama ...

(1873–1924) *

Tobias S. Buckell Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and ...

(born 1979) *

Algis Budrys Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome (in collaboration with Jerome Bixby), John ...

(1931–2008) * Vitaly Bugrov (1938–1994) *

Lela E. Buis Lela E. Buis is a speculative fiction writer, playwright, poet and artist who was born in Middlesboro, KY. She graduated from Florida State University (FSU) and the Florida Institute of Technology, and worked in engineering for a number of years ...

( fl. 1978–present) *

Lois McMaster Bujold Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is an acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her no ...

(born 1949) *

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

(1891–1940) *

Faddey Bulgarin Thaddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin (russian: Фаддей Венедиктович Булгарин; Polish Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, – ), was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry. In addition to his newspaper ...

(1789–1859) *

Kenneth Bulmer Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction. Life Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. B ...

(1921–2005) *

Kir Bulychev Kir Bulychev (russian: Кир Булычёв ''Kir Bulychyov 18 October 1934 – 5 September 2003) is a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a Soviet Russian science fiction writer, ...

(1934–2003) *

Chris Bunch Christopher R. Bunch (December 22, 1943 – July 4, 2005) was an American science fiction, fantasy and television writer, who wrote and co-wrote about thirty novels. Early life and education Bunch was born in Fresno, California and attended Mir ...

(1943–2005) *

David R. Bunch David Roosevelt Bunch (August 7, 1925 – May 29, 2000) was an American writer of short stories and poetry. He worked mainly in the genres of science fiction, satire, surrealism, and literary fiction. Although prolific and critically acclaimed, Bu ...

(1925–2000) *

Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, d ...

(1917–1993) *

Sue Burke Sue Burke (born 1955) is an American writer and translator. She has written the science fiction novel '' Semiosis'' (2018) and its sequel, ''Interference'' (2019). ''Semiosis'' attracted favorable attention and acclaim and appeared on numerous l ...

(born 1955) *

Yuli Burkin Yuliy Burkin (russian: Юлий Серге́евич Буркин) (b. 1960, Tomsk) is a Russian science fiction writer and Music of Russia, musician. He has coauthored a trilogy ''Island Russia'' with Sergey Lukyanenko. Books External links ...

(born 1960) *

Arthur J. Burks Arthur Josephus Burks (September 13, 1898 – May 13, 1974) was an American Marine officer and fiction writer. Burks was born to a farming family in Waterville, Washington. He married Blanche Fidelia Lane on March 23, 1918, in Sacramento, ...

(1898–1974) *

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he ...

(1875–1950) * Michael A. Burstein (born 1970) *

F. M. Busby Francis Marion Busby (March 11, 1921 – February 17, 2005) was an American science fiction writer and science fiction fandom, science fiction fan. In 1960 he was a co-winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. Biography Francis Busby was born in ...

(1921–2005) *

Aleksandr Bushkov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bushkov (born April 5, 1956) is a best-selling Russian author who has written books in the genres of science fiction, crime fiction, popular history and non-fiction. In his belletristic, published in literary and popular j ...

(born 1956) * Alain Le Bussy (1947–2010) *

Jim Butcher Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author., He has written the contemporary fantasy ''The Dresden Files'', ''Codex Alera'', and ''Cinder Spires'' book series. Personal life Butcher was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1971. He ...

(born 1971) *

Octavia E. Butler Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowshi ...

(1947–2006) *

Stuart J. Byrne Stuart James Byrne (October 26, 1913 - September 23, 2011) was an American screenwriter and writer of science fiction and fantasy. He published under his own name and the pseudonyms Rothayne Amare, John Bloodstone, Howard Dare, and Marx Kaye ...

(1913–2011)

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Pat Cadigan Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human ...

(born 1953) *

Jack Cady Jack Cady (March 20, 1932 – January 14, 2004) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as an award winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker ...

(1932–2004) *

Martin Caidin Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author, screenwriter, and an authority on aeronautics and aviation. Caidin began writing fiction in 1957. In his career he authored more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books ...

(1927–1997) *

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosmicomi ...

(1923–1985) * Jack Campbell (born 1956) *

John W. Campbell, Jr. John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

(1910–1971) (also known as Don A. Stuart) *

Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel ''War with the Newts'' (1936) and play ''R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal Ro ...

(1890–1938) *

Paul Capon Harry Paul Capon (18 December 1912, in Kenton, Suffolk – 24 November 1969) was a British author who wrote fiction in various genres. He also worked as an editor in three films for Maurice Elvey (1887–1967), as an administrator in film and TV ...

(1912–1969) *

Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is the first and (as of 2022) only person to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for both ...

(born 1951) * Joseph Carne-Ross (1846–1911) *

Terry Carr Terry Gene Carr (February 19, 1937 – April 7, 1987) was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor. Background and discovery of fandom Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He attended the City College of San ...

(1937–1987) *

Lin Carter Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. L ...

(1930–1988) *

Cleve Cartmill Cleve Cartmill (June 21, 1908 in Platteville, Wisconsin – February 11, 1964 in Orange County, California) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cle ...

(1908–1964) *

Jeffrey Carver Jeffrey A. Carver (born 1949) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland, graduated from Brown University, and lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his family. His 2000 novel ''Eternity's End'' was a n ...

(born 1949) *

Jay Caselberg Jay Caselberg (born 1958) is an Australian science fiction writer. He has also used the name 'James Hartley' for some of his short fiction. His four novels to date are the ''Jack Stein'' series, comprising ''Wyrmhole'', ''Metal Sky'', ''The Star ...

(born 1958) *

Beth Cato Beth Cato is an American speculative fiction writer and poet,Clute, John.Cato, Beth" In ''SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', March 23, 2020. best known for her Clockwork Dagger and Blood of Earth series. She usually writes as Beth Cato, ...

(born 1980) * Hugh B. Cave (1910–2004) * Franci Cerar ( fl. 1970s) *

Jack L. Chalker Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a m ...

(1944–2005) * Joël Champetier ( 1957–2015) *

A. Bertram Chandler Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England – 6 June 1984 in Sydney, Australia) was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop ships, but who later tur ...

(1912–1984) *

Suzy McKee Charnas Suzy McKee Charnas (October 22, 1939 – January 2, 2023) was an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the N ...

(born 1939) *

Daína Chaviano Daína Chaviano () (born 19 February 1957, Havana)Profile
''Encyclopæd ...

(born 1960) *

J. Kathleen Cheney J. Kathleen Cheney is an American school teacher and author of speculative fiction, active in the field since 2005 and professionally published since 2007. Biography Cheney was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of two rocket scienti ...

(born 1964) *

C. J. Cherryh Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels '' Downbelo ...

(born 1942) *

Ted Chiang Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the ...

(born 1967) *

Charles Chilton Charles Chilton MBE (15 June 1917 – 2 January 2013) was a British presenter, writer and producer who worked on BBC Radio. He created the 1950s radio serials ''Riders of the Range'' and ''Journey into Space'', and also inspired the stage ...

(1917–2013) *

John Christopher Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), was a British writer, best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels ''The Death of Grass'', ''The Possessors'', and the young-adult novel series ...

(1922–2012) (pseudonym of Samuel Youd) *

Richard Chwedyk Richard Chwedyk (born 1955) is a science fiction author. In 2003, he won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novella for his story "Brontë's Egg." Chwedyk's first published story was "Getting Along with Larga," which was the first winner of the IS ...

(born 1955) *

Massimo Citi Massimo Citi (born 1955) is an Italian science fiction writer and reviewer. He was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, and has published a number of stories on various magazines and anthologies. He is a co-editor of the literary magazin ...

(born 1955) *

Charles Heber Clark Charles Heber Clark (July 11, 1841 – August 10, 1915) was an American novelist and humorist. Most of his work was written under the pen name Max Adeler. Clark was also known by the pseudonym, John Quill. Biography Clark was born in Berlin, Ma ...

(1841–1915) (also known as Max Adeler and John Quill) *

Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...

(1917–2008) *

Jo Clayton Jo Clayton (February 15, 1939 – February 13, 1998) was an American fantasy and science fiction author. She wrote 35 novels and many short stories. Her works sold over one and a quarter million copies.James W. Fiscus,Obituary and fact sheet: Jo ...

(1939–1998) *

Hal Clement Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under ...

(1922–2003) (pseudonym of Harry Clement Stubbs) * John Cleve (1934–2013) (pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt) *

Mark Clifton Mark Clifton (1906–1963) was an American science fiction writer, the co-winner of the second Hugo Award for best novel. He began publishing in May 1952 with the widely anthologized story "What Have I Done?". Series About half of his work fa ...

(1906–1963) *

Ernest Cline Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American science fiction novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter. He wrote the novels ''Ready Player One'', '' Armada'', and ''Ready Player Two'' and co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation o ...

(born 1972) *

Mildred Clingerman Mildred McElroy Clingerman (March 14, 1918 – February 26, 1997) was an American science fiction author. Clingerman was born Mildred McElroy in Allen, Oklahoma, and her family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1929. She graduated from Tucson High Sc ...

(1918–1997) *

Brenda Clough Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced ''Cluff'')">/nowiklinknowiki>/nowiki> *"The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin", ''Aboriginal SF'', Mar/Apr 1989 *"Provisional Solution", ''Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Stat ...

(born 1955) *

John Clute John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part o ...

(born 1940) *

Stanton A. Coblentz Stanton Arthur Coblentz (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an American literature, American writer and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first publi ...

(1896–1982) *

Robbie Coburn Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet. Biography Coburn was born in Melbourne in 1994 and grew up on his family's farm in Woodstock, Victoria.

(born 1994) *

Theodore Cogswell Theodore Rose Cogswell (March 10, 1918 – February 3, 1987) was an American science fiction author. Profile During the Spanish Civil War, Cogswell served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His ear ...

(1918–1987) *

Frona Eunice Wait Colburn Frona Eunice Wait (1859–1946) was an American author and newspaper writer. From her beginning as a journalist, she rose to become an associate editor for the ''Overland Monthly''. Biography Frona Eunice was born in Yolo County, California in 1 ...

(1859–1946) *

Allan Cole Allan Cole (November 19, 1943 – March 29, 2019) was an American author and television writer, who wrote or co-wrote nearly thirty books. The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middl ...

(1943–2019) *

Robert William Cole Robert William Cole (6 April 1869 - 12 November 1937) was born in Heston, Middlesex and studied law at Balliol, Oxford, intending to become a barrister, but instead worked as a professional photographer and author. Some of his works are early sc ...

(1869–1937) *

Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer (; born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl (series), ''Artemis Fowl'' series. I ...

(born 1965) *

Erroll Collins Erroll Collins (pseudonym of Ellen Edith Hannah Redknap, 15 April 1906 – 11 March 1991) was a British writer active during the 1940s, specialising in adventure and science fiction for boys. Ellen Redknap wrote under several other names. Lif ...

(1906–1991) (pseudonym of Ellen Edith Hannah Redknap) *

Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American author and television writer. She is known as the author of the book series ''The Underland Chronicles'' and ''The Hunger Games''. Early life Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in ...

(1962) *

Juanita Coulson Juanita Ruth Coulson (née Wellons) (born February 12, 1933) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer most well known for her ''Children of the Stars'' books, published from 1981 to 1989. She was a longtime editor of the science fiction ...

(1933) *

David G. Compton David Guy Compton (born August 19, 1930) is a British author who writes science fiction under the name D. G. Compton. He used the name Guy Compton for his earlier crime novels and the pseudonym Frances Lynch for his Gothic novels. He has also wri ...

(born 1930) *

Michael 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 ...

(1932–2005) *

Groff Conklin Edward Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904 – July 19, 1968) was an American science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories (co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant), wrote books on home improvemen ...

(1904–1968) *

Storm Constantine Storm Constantine (12 October 1956 – 14 January 2021) was a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series,Encyclopedia of Science Fictio"Constantine, Storm" Retrieved 2010-01-21. which began as one trilog ...

(1956–2021) *

Glen Cook Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for ''The Black Company'' and ''Garrett P.I.'' fantasy series. Biography Cook was born in New York City.Hugh Cook (1956–2008) *

Paul Cook Paul Thomas Cook (born 20 July 1956) is an English drummer and member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He was also called "Cookie" by his friends on the punk music scene. Early life and career Cook was raised in Hammersmith and atte ...

(born 1950) * Rick Cook (1944–2022) *

Brenda Cooper Brenda Cooper (born August 12, 1960) is an author and futurist who resides in Kirkland, Washington, where she is the Chief Information Officer of the city of Kirkland. She has co-written various short stories with Larry Niven Laurence v ...

(born 1960) *

Edmund Cooper Edmund Cooper (30 April 1926 – 11 March 1982) was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. These were published under his own name and several pe ...

(1926–1982) *

Alfred Coppel Alfred Coppel, Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel (November 9, 1921 – May 30, 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started ...

(1921–2004) *

James S. A. Corey James S. A. Corey is the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, authors of the science fiction series ''The Expanse''. The first and last name are taken from Abraham's and Franck's middle names, respectively, and S. A. ar ...

(joint pseudonym of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) *

Larry Correia Larry Correia is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his ''Monster Hunter International'', ''Grimnoir Chronicles'', and ''Saga of the Forgotten Warrior'' series. He has authored or co-authored over 20 novels, has over 50 pub ...

(born 1977) *

Richard Cowper John Middleton Murry Jr. (9 May 1926 – 31 March 2002) was an English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. Early life Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, Violet Le Maistre. His mother c ...

(1926–2002) (pseudonym

John Middleton Murry, Jr. John Middleton Murry Jr. (9 May 1926 – 31 March 2002) was an English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. Early life Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, Violet Le Maistre. His mother c ...

used when writing science fiction) *

Erle Cox Erle Cox (15 August 1873 – 20 November 1950) was an Australian journalist and science fiction writer. Life Cox was born at Emerald Hill, Victoria, on 15 August 1873, the second son of Ross Cox, who had emigrated from his native Dublin as ...

(1873–1950) * John G. Cramer (born 1934) *

Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...

(1942–2008) *

Robert Cromie Robert Cromie (1855–1907) was a Northern Irish journalist and novelist. Early life and family Robert Cromie was the third son of Dr. Cromie J.P., of Clough, the local registrar of births and deaths and ruling elder of Clough Presbyterian chu ...

(1855–1907) * John Crowley (born 1942) *

Andrew Crumey Andrew Crumey (born 1961) is a novelist and former literary editor of the Edinburgh newspaper ''Scotland on Sunday''. Life and career Crumey was born in Kirkintilloch, north of Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with First Class Honours from the Uni ...

(born 1961) *

Ray Cummings Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books. Early life Cummings was born in New York City in 1887. He worked with Thomas Edison as a ...

(1887–1957) * Philippe Curval (born 1929) *

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 ...

(born 1955)

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Judy Lynn and Lester Del Rey at Minicon 8 (1974)

Roald Dahl Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter ace of Norwegian descent. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl has be ...

(1916–1990) *

Brian Daley Brian Charles Daley (December 22, 1947 – February 11, 1996) was an American science fiction novelist. He also adapted for radio the ''Star Wars'' radio dramas and wrote all of its episodes. Biography Daley was born in Englewood, New Jersey ...

(1947–1996) *

John Dalmas John Robert Jones ( – ) wrote science fiction as John Dalmas. He wrote many books based on military and governmental themes throughout his career. His first published novel was ''The Yngling'', serialized beginning in the October–November 19 ...

(1926–2017) *

James Dashner James Smith Dashner (born November 26, 1972) is an American writer known for speculative fiction. Many of his books are primarily aimed at children or young adults. He is best known for ''The Maze Runner'' series and the young adult fantasy ser ...

(born 1972) *

Tony Daniel Tony S. Daniel, is an American comic book writer and artist, known for his work on various books for DC Comics, including ''Teen Titans'', '' Flash: The Fastest Man Alive'', and ''Batman''and ''Deathstroke'' and '' Nocterra'' as well as many othe ...

(born 1963) *

Jack Dann Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-edit ...

(born 1945) *

Maurice Georges Dantec Maurice Georges Dantec (; 13 June 1959 – 25 June 2016) was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician. Biography Dantec was born in Grenoble, France, the son of a journalist and a seamstress. He grew up primarily in Ivry-sur-Se ...

(1959–2016) *

Dennis Danvers Dennis Danvers (born 1947) is an American author of science fiction novels. He lives in Richmond, Virginia. He is the president of the Byrd Park Civic League. Bibliography *Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel The Bram S ...

(born 1947) * Clark Darlton (1920–2005) (pseudonym of Walter Ernsting) *

Avram Davidson Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews ...

(1923–1993) *

Chan Davis Horace Chandler Davis (August 12, 1926 – September 24, 2022) was an American-Canadian mathematician, writer, educator, and political activist: "an internationally esteemed mathematician, a minor science fiction writer of note, and among the mos ...

(born 1926) (pseudonym of Dr. Chandler Davis) *

Vox Day Theodore Robert Beale (born August 21, 1968), also known as Vox Day, is an American far-right activist, writer, publisher, and video game designer. He has been described as a white supremacist, a misogynist, and part of the alt-right. ''The Wall ...

(born 1968) *

L. Sprague de Camp Lyon Sprague de Camp (; November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biog ...

(1907–2000) *

Antonio de Macedo Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

(1931–2017) *

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 ...

(1833–1880) * Marianne de Pierres (born 1961) *

Stephen Dedman Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. Biography Dedman's short stories have appeared in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', '' Year's Best SF'', and ''The Best Australian Sc ...

(born 1959) *

Lester del Rey Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science ...

(1915–1993) *

Miriam Allen deFord Miriam Allen deFord (August 21, 1888 – February 22, 1975) was an American writer best known for her mysteries and science fiction. During the 1920s, she wrote for a number of left-wing magazines including ''The Masses'', '' The Liberator'', a ...

(1888–1975) *

Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (, ) (born April 1, 1942), is an American author and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays (on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society). His ...

(born 1942) * Martha deMey Clow (1932–2010) *

Bradley Denton Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958) is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel ''Blackburn'', about a sympathetic serial killer. He was born in Towanda, Kansas, and atten ...

(born 1958) *

Charles Derennes Charles Derennes (4 August 1882 – 27 April 1930) was a French novelist, essayist and poet, the winner of the Prix Femina in 1924. Biography Derennes was born in Charente, the son of Gustave, a professor of history, and Marthe Cassan, the daugh ...

(1882–1930) *

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ...

(1909–1971) *

A.J. Deutsch Armin Joseph Deutsch (January 25, 1918–November 11, 1969), was an American astronomer and a science fiction writer. __NOTOC__ Life and career Deutsch was born in Chicago and earned a BS from the University of Arizona in 1940 and, after wartim ...

(1918–1969) *

Graham Diamond Graham Diamond (born 18 August 1949, Manchester, England) is an author who writes across multiple genres, including fantasy and science fiction. He has published twenty novels with more than a million copies of his books in print."Low-Key Author ...

(born 1949) *

Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his l ...

(1928–1982) *

Gordon R. Dickson Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. Biography Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, ...

(1923–2001) *

Lyuben Dilov Lyuben Dilov Ivanov (Любен Дилов Иванов, 25 December 1927- 10 June 2008), occasionally spelled Luben Dilov, Ljuben Dilov or Liuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science fiction writer of the Communist era and the author of acclaimed chi ...

(1927–2008) *

Dougal Dixon Dougal Dixon (born 1 March 1947) is a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, educator and author. Dixon has written well over a hundred books on geology and palaeontology, many of them for children, which have been credited with attracting many to ...

(born 1947) *

William C. Dietz William C. Dietz (born 1945) is an American science fiction writer, principally of military science fiction novels and video game novelizations. Early life and career Dietz grew up in the Seattle area and served in both the Navy and in the Marin ...

(born 1945) *

Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nomination ...

(1940–2008) *

Alfred Döblin Bruno Alfred Döblin (; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel '' Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of ...

(1878–1957) *

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of ...

(born 1971) *

Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity ...

(born 1947) *

Alain Dorémieux Alain Dorémieux (born Paris, France 15 August 1933; died Paris, 26 July 1998) was a French writer, editor, translator, anthologist and critic of science fiction. He is best known as the editor for more than 20 years of ''Fiction'' (French edition ...

(1933–1998) *

Sonya Dorman Sonya Dorman (June 4, 1924 – February 14, 2005), born Sonya Gloria Hess, was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005, at the age of 80. Dorman published arou ...

(1924–2005) * Candas Dorsey (born 1952) * Ian Douglas (born 1950) (pseudonym of William H. Keith, Jr.) *

Terry Dowling Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist. He writes primarily speculative fiction though he considers himself an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the cons ...

(born 1947) *

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

(1859–1930) *

Debra Doyle Debra Doyle (November 30, 1952 – October 31, 2020) was an American author in multiple related fiction genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, for young adults and adults. Her works were co-written with her husband, James D. Mac ...

(1952–2020) *

Gardner Dozois Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American people, American science fiction author and editing, editor. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of ...

(1947–2018) *

David Drake David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi ...

(born 1945) *

Tananarive Due Tananarive Priscilla Due ( ) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator. Due won the American Book Award for her novel '' The Living Blood''. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a cours ...

(born 1966) * Catherine Dufour (born 1966) *

Jacek Dukaj Jacek Józef Dukaj (born 30 July 1974) is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer. He has received numerous literary prizes including the European Union Prize for Literature and Janusz A. Zajdel Award. Career He was born on 30 July 1974 in ...

(born 1974) *

Jean-Claude Dunyach Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer. Overview Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France. Dunyach has been w ...

(born 1957) *

Nictzin Dyalhis Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis (June 4, 1873 – May 8, 1942) was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of cel ...

(1873–1942)

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* C. M. Eddy, Jr. (1896–1967) *

G. C. Edmondson G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson (full name "José Mario Garry Ordoñez Edmondson y Cotton") (October 11, 1922 in Washington state – December 14, 1995 in San Diego, California). According to the obit ...

(1922–1995) *

George Alec Effinger George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American list of science fiction authors, science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Writing career Effinger was a part of the Clarion Workshop, Clarion class of 1970 an ...

(1947–2002) *

Ivan Antonovich Efremov Ivan Antonovich (real patronymic Antipovich) Yefremov ( ru , Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; April 23, 1908 – October 5, 1972; last name sometimes transliterated as Efremov) was a Soviet paleonto ...

(1907–1972) (in

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

Иван Антонович Ефремов) *

Greg Egan Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, an ...

(born 1961) *

Gordon Eklund Gordon Eklund (born July 24, 1945 in Seattle, Washington) is an American science fiction author whose works include the "Lord Tedric" series and two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s '' Star Trek'' TV series. He has written under ...

(born 1945) *

Suzette Haden Elgin Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins; November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015) was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded t ...

(1936–2015) * E. C. Eliott (1908–1971) (pseudonym of Reginald Alec Martin) *

William B. Ellern William B. Ellern (November 30, 1933 – November 18, 2023) was an American science fiction author. Ellern had worked as an engineer, including for JPL, Raytheon, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft and Northrop Corporation. He was born in Portland, Orego ...

(born 1933) *

Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...

(1934–2018) *

Phyllis Eisenstein Phyllis Eisenstein (February 26, 1946 – December 7, 2020) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as novels. Her work was nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. Early life Eisenstein was born Phy ...

(1946–2020) *

Roger Elwood Roger Elwood (January 13, 1943 – February 2, 2007) was an American science fiction writer and editor, who edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early to mid-1970s. Biography Born and rais ...

(1933–2007) *

Victor Rousseau Emanuel Victor Rousseau Emanuel (born Avigdor Rousseau Emanuel; January 1879 – 6 April 1960, Tarrytown, New York) was a British writer who wrote novels, newspaper series, science fiction and pulp fiction works. He was active in Great Britain and th ...

(1879–1960) *

Carol Emshwiller Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a ma ...

(1921–2019) * M. J. Engh (born 1933) *

George Allan England George Allan England (9 February 1877 - 26 June 1936) was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England wa ...

(1877–1936) * Inge Eriksen (1935–2015) *

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 ...

(born 1959) pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin *

Walter Ernsting Walter Ernsting (13 June 1920 – 15 January 2005) was a German science fiction and fantasy author who mainly published under the pseudonym Clark Darlton. He grew up in Koblenz and was drafted into the German Wehrmacht shortly after the beginn ...

(1920–2005) *

Andreas Eschbach Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in Ulm) is a German writer, primarily of science fiction. His stories that are not clearly in the SF genre usually feature elements of the fantastic. Biography Eschbach studied aerospace engineering ...

(born 1959) *

Kelley Eskridge Kelley Eskridge (born 21 September 1960) is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. Her work is generally regarded as speculative fiction and is associated with the more literary edge of the category, as well as with the cat ...

(born 1960) *

Valerio Evangelisti Valerio Evangelisti (20 June 1952 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels, and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamu ...

(1952–2022) * Christopher Evans (born 1951) *

E. Everett Evans Edward Everett Evans (November 30, 1893 – December 2, 1958) was an American science fiction writer and science fiction fandom, fan. He married science-fiction author Thelma D. Hamm in 1953. His works include the novels ''Man of Many Minds'' ( ...

(1893–1958)

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* Paul W. Fairman (1916–1977) *

Jane Fancher Jane Suzanne Fancher (born 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy author and artist. Work In the early 1980s, she worked for Warp Graphics as an art assistant on '' Elfquest'', providing inking assistance on the black and white comics and colori ...

(born 1952) *

Ralph Milne Farley Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General, for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley. Family Hoar w ...

(1887–1963) (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar) *

Philip José Farmer Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Obituary. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novels, especially the ''World of Tiers ...

(1918–2009) *

Nabil Farouk Nabil Farouk Ramadan Bayoumi Ramadan ( ar, نبيل فاروق رمضان بيومي رمضان ) (9 February 1956 – 9 December 2020) was an Egyptian novelist. best known for his books in the '' Rewayāt Masreyya Lel Gēb'' (''Egyptian Pocket ...

(1956–2020) *

Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...

(1914–2003) *

John Russell Fearn John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British writer, one of the first to appear in American pulp magazine, pulp science fiction magazines. A prolific author, he published his novels also as Vargo Statten and with various pseudonyms including T ...

(1908–1960) *

Cynthia Felice Cynthia Felice (born October 12, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer. She is best known for her complex, carefully plotted stories and expansive universes. Her first novel, ''Godsfire'', and her first short story, " ...

(born 1942
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Brad Ferguson Bradley Michael Ferguson (born 1953) is a journalist and science fiction writer.Clute, John.Ferguson, Brad" (entry in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. He writes as Brad Ferguson. Life Ferguson is married to scientist Kathi Ferguson, with ...

(born 1953) *

Paul Di Filippo Paul Di Filippo (born October 29, 1954) is an American science fiction writer. He is a regular reviewer for print magazines ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Science Fiction Eye'', ''The New York Re ...

(born 1954) *

Sheila Finch Sheila Finch (born 1935) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. She is best known for her sequence of stories about the Guild of Xenolinguists. Biography Sheila Finch was born in London, UK, 29 October 1935. She attended Bishop O ...

(born 1935) *

Jack Finney Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including ''The Body Snatchers'' and '' Time and Again''. The former was the ba ...

(1911–1995) *

Eliot Fintushel Eliot S. Fintushel (born March 13, 1948) is an American actor, educator and speculative fiction writer. He writes as Eliot Fintushel.Nicholas Fisk David Higginbottom (14 October 1923 – 10 May 2016), pen name Nicholas Fisk, was a British writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include ''Grinny'', ''You Remember Me'', ''Space Hostages'', and ''Trillions''. ...

(1923–2016) (pseudonym of David Higginbottom) *

Francis Flagg George Henry Weiss (1898–1946) was an American poet, writer and novelist. His science fiction stories and poetry appeared under the pseudonym "Francis Flagg" in the magazines ''Amazing Stories'', ''Astounding'', '' Tales of Wonder'', ''Weird T ...

(1898–1946) (pseudonym of George Henry Weiss) *

Camille Flammarion Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction ...

(1842–1925) *

Eric Flint Eric Flint (February 6, 1947 – July 17, 2022) was an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also wrote humorous fantasy adventures. His works have been listed ...

(1947–2022) *

Homer Eon Flint Homer Eon Flint (born as Homer Eon Flindt; 1888 –1924) was an American writer of pulp science fiction novels and short stories. He began working as a scenarist for silent films in 1912 (reportedly at his wife's insistence).Munn, Vella (Mar ...

(1888–1924) *

Michael Flynn Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 24, 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and conspiracy theorist who was the 24th U.S. National Security Advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration. He resigned in light of ...

(born 1947) *

Charles L. Fontenay Charles Louis Fontenay (March 17, 1917 – January 27, 2007) was an American journalist and science fiction writer. He wrote science fiction novels and short stories. His Nonfiction includes the biography of the prominent New Deal era politician ...

(1917–2007) *

Jeffrey Ford Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humo ...

(born 1955) *

John M. Ford John Milo "Mike" Ford (April 10, 1957 – September 25, 2006) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet. A contributor to several online discussions, Ford composed poems, often improvised, in both complicated ...

(1957–2006) * William R. Forstchen (born 1950) *

E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ...

(1879–1970) *

Robert L. Forward Robert Lull Forward (August 15, 1932 – September 21, 2002) was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as an aerospace engineer. He ...

(1932–2002) *

Richard Foss Richard Foss is an American journalist, science fiction author, and food historian who has also chaired science fiction conventions and worked as a travel agent, restaurant reviewer, theater director, and instructor in Elizabethan history and cu ...

(born 1956) *

Alan Dean Foster Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels, and many novelizations of film scripts. Career ''Star Wars'' Foster was the ghos ...

(born 1946) *

M. A. Foster Michael Anthony Foster (July 2, 1939 - November 14, 2020) was an American science fiction writer from Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force. "Ler" books He wrot ...

(1939–2020) *

Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel ''The Jan ...

(born 1950) *

Gardner Fox Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC ...

(1911–1986) *

Randall Frakes Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends Bill Wisher and James Cameron on ''The Terminator'' and '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day''. While Frakes was in the U.S. Army, he was stationed i ...

(born 1947
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Herbert W. Franke Herbert W. Franke (14 May 1927 – 16 July 2022) was an Austrian scientist and writer. ''Die Zeit'' calls him "the most prominent German writing Science Fiction author". He is also one of the important early computer artists (and collectors), cr ...

(1927–2022) * Yves Fremion (born 1940) * C. S. Friedman (born 1957) *

Oscar J. Friend Oscar Jerome Friend (January 8, 1897 – January 19, 1963) began his career primarily as a pulp fiction writer in various genres including horror, Westerns, science fiction, and detective fiction. As a pulp writer he worked with ''Wonder Storie ...

(1897–1963) *

Esther Friesner Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner (born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is also a poet and playwright. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themsel ...

(born 1951)

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Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...

(born 1960) *

Raymond Z. Gallun Raymond Zinke Gallun (March 22, 1911 – April 2, 1994) was an American science fiction writer. Early life Gallun (rhymes with "balloon") was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, the son of Adolph and Martha Zinke Gallun. He graduated from high scho ...

(1911–1994) *

Arnould Galopin Arnould Galopin (1865, Marbeuf, Eure - 1934) was a prolific French writer with more than 50 novels to his credit. Galopin won the French Academy's Grand Prize for his ''Sur le Front de Mer'' (1918), a critically acclaimed novel about the Merchant ...

(1865–1934) *

Daniel F. Galouye Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing ...

(1920–1976) *

Charles E. Gannon Charles E. Gannon is a novelist and game designer who has worked primarily on hard science-fiction and role-playing games. Career Charles Gannon wrote '' Hard Times'' (1991), a '' MegaTraveller'' book which pushed the background metaplot up b ...

(born 1960) *

James Alan Gardner James Alan Gardner (born January 10, 1955) is a Canadian science fiction author. Raised in Simcoe, Ontario, Simcoe and Bradford, Ontario, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Gardner ...

(born 1955) *

Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of Lewis ...

(1914–2010) *

Richard Garfinkle Richard Garfinkle (born 1961) is an American List of science fiction authors, writer of science fiction. He is best known as the author of ''Celestial Matters'', a novel published by Tor Books, which won the Compton Crook Award in 1997. Garfinkle ...

(fl. 1990s) *

Randall Garrett Gordon Randall Phillip David GarrettGarrett, Randall
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Laurent Genefort (born 1968) *

Mary Gentle Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author. Literary career Mary Gentle's first published novel was ''Hawk in Silver'' (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the '' Orthe'' duology, w ...

(born 1956) * Peter George (1924–1966) *

Hugo Gernsback Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish–American editor and magazine publisher, whose publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publ ...

(1884–1967) (namesake of the

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...

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David Gerrold David Gerrold (born Jerrold David Friedman; January 24, 1944)Reginald, R. (September 12, 2010)''Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volume 2'' Borgo Press p. 911. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved June 23, 2013. is an American science fic ...

(born 1944) * Mark S. Geston (born 1946) *

Edward Gibson Edward George Gibson (born November 8, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut, pilot, engineer, and physicist. Before becoming an astronaut, Gibson graduated from the University of Rochester and the California Institute of Technology. He became a rese ...

(born 1936) * Gary Gibson (born 1965) *

William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ...

(born 1948) *

John Ulrich Giesy John Ulrich Giesy (August 6, 1877 – September 8, 1947) was an American physician, novelist and author. He was one of the early writers in the Sword and Planet genre, with his Jason Croft series. He collaborated with Junius B. Smith on many of h ...

(1877–1947) *

Alexis A. Gilliland Alexis Arnaldus Gilliland (born August 10, 1931 in Bangor, Maine) is an American science fiction writer and cartoonist. He resides in Arlington, Virginia. Gilliland won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1982, notably beating David ...

(born 1931) *

John Glasby John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a British author born in East Retford in Nottinghamshire whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician,Robert M. Price, "About ''The B ...

(1928–2011) *

John Gloag John Gloag (10 August 1896 - 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Gloag also wrote science fiction novels. Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home af ...

(1896–1981) *

Molly Gloss Molly Gloss (born November 20, 1944) is an American writer of historical fiction and science fiction. Life Gloss grew up in rural Oregon and began writing seriously when she became a mother. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, and was close friend ...

(born 1944) *

Dmitry Glukhovsky Dmitry Alekseyevich Glukhovsky (russian: Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский, born 12 June 1979) is a Russian author and journalist best known for the science fiction novel ''Metro 2033'' and its sequels. As a journal ...

(born 1979) *

Parke Godwin Parke Godwin (January 28, 1929 – June 19, 2013) was an American writer. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1982 for his story "The Fire When It Comes". He was a native of New York City, where he was born in 1929. He was the g ...

(1929–2013) *

Tom Godwin Tom Godwin (June 6, 1915 – August 31, 1980) was an American science fiction author active throughout the 1950s into the 1970s. In his career, Godwin published three novels and around thirty short stories. He is best known for his short sto ...

(1915–1980) *

Jacques Goimard Jacques Goimard (May 31, 1934 – October 25, 2012) was a French writer of science fiction and fantasy anthologies. He is also an essayist. Biography He was born in 1934 in La Couronne, France. He taught at Henri-IV, a secondary school, before ...

(1934–2012) *

H. L. Gold Horace Leonard Gold (April 26, 1914 – February 21, 1996) was an American science fiction writer and editing, editor. Born in Canada, Gold moved to the United States at the age of two. He was most noted for bringing an innovative and fresh app ...

(1914–1996) *

Lee Gold Lee Gold is a member of California science fiction fandom and a writer and editor in the role-playing game and filk music communities. Gaming Gold became prominent after 1975 as the editor of '' Alarums and Excursions'', a monthly amateur pre ...

(born 1942) *

Stephen Goldin Stephen Charles Goldin (born February 28, 1947) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Biography Goldin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Astronomy, he worked for the U.S. Navy a ...

(born 1947) *

Lisa Goldstein Lisa Goldstein (born Elizabeth Joy Goldstein on November 21, 1953) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. Her 1982 novel '' The Red Magician'' won a National B ...

(born 1953) *

Kathleen Ann Goonan Kathleen Ann Goonan (May 14, 1952 – January 28, 2021)Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952–2021)

(1952–2021) * Rex Gordon (1917–1998) (pseudonym of Stanley Bennett Hough) * Richard Gordon (1947–2009) *

Phyllis Gotlieb Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet. Biography Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 ...

(1926–2009) *

Ron Goulart Ronald Joseph Goulart (; January 13, 1933 – January 14, 2022) was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author. He published novelizations and other work under various pseudonyms: Kenneth Robeson, Con ...

(1933–2022) *

Steven Gould Steven Charles Gould (born February 7, 1955) is an American science fiction writer and teacher. He has written ten novels. He is best known for his 1992 novel ''Jumper'', which was adapted into a film released in 2008. Biography Steven Charles ...

(born 1955) *

Charles L. Grant Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 – September 15, 2006) was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called " dark fantasy" and "quiet horror". He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fe ...

(1942–2006) * Dominic Green (born 1967) *

Roland J. Green Roland James Green (September 2, 1944 - April 20, 2021) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. He wrote as Roland Green and Roland J. Green; and had 28 books in the Richard Blade series published under the pen name 'Jef ...

(1944–2021) * Simon R. Green (born 1955) *

A. T. Greenblatt Aliza T. Greenblatt is an American mechanical engineer and author of speculative fiction who writes as A. T. Greenblatt.Greenblatt, A. T.About" Accessed Sep. 4, 2020 to avoid confusion with poet Aliza Greenblatt. Life Greenblatt attended the Scho ...

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Colin Greenland Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954 in Dover, Kent, England) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition. His best-known novel is ''Take Back Plenty'' (1990), winner of both majo ...

(born 1954) * William Greenleaf (born 1948) *

Percy Greg Percy Greg (7 January 1836 Bury – 24 December 1889, Chelsea), son of William Rathbone Greg, was an English writer. Percy Greg, like his father, wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary: his ''History of the United States t ...

(1836–1889) *

Lois Gresh Lois Harriet Gresh is a New York Times Best-Selling author of ten science fiction novels and story collections and seventeen popular science and pop culture books, some in collaboration with Robert Weinberg. Gresh has also written approximate ...

(born 1965) *

George Griffith George Griffith (1857–1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazin ...

(1857–1906) *

Nicola Griffith Nicola Griffith (; born 30 September 1960) is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. Persona ...

(born 1960) *

Jon Courtenay Grimwood Jon Courtenay Grimwood (born 1953 in Valletta, Malta) is a Maltese born British science fiction and fantasy author. He also writes literary fiction as Jonathan Grimwood, and crime fiction and thrillers as Jack Grimwood. Biography Grimwood was b ...

(born 1953) *

Ken Grimwood Kenneth Milton Grimwood (February 27, 1944 – June 6, 2003) was an American author, who also published work under the name of Alan Cochran. In his fantasy fiction, Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concep ...

(1944–2003) *

Alexander Gromov Alexander Nikolayevich Gromov () is a Russian science fiction writer, who began writing in 1986 and was first published in the early 1990s. His work is influenced by that of the Strugatsky brothers, and he has stated a preference for the soc ...

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Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Грóмов) *

Martin Grzimek Martin Grzimek (born 1950) is a German author. He was born in Trutzhain. Having spent a number of years living and working in South America and the United States, he now resides in a village near Heidelberg. His work that raised the most interest i ...

(born 1950) *

Wyman Guin Wyman Woods Guin (pseudonym: Norman Menasco; March 1, 1915 – February 19, 1989) was an American pharmacologist and advertising executive best known for writing science fiction. Born in Wanette, Oklahoma, he started publishing during 1950, a ...

(1915–1989) *

Eileen Gunn Eileen Gunn (born June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson, wo ...

(born 1945) *

James E. Gunn James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume '' Road to Science Fiction'' series. He won the Hugo ...

(1923–2020)

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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 ...

(born 1964) *

Karen Haber Karen Haber (born January 9,"She came upon the story somehow, was startled and amused to find that she shared a birthday with its protagonist (...) Her name was Karen Haber (...) Today was her birthday, the seventh of January": introduction to "Ca ...

(born 1955) * H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) *

Ronald M. Hahn Ronald M. Hahn (born 20 December 1948 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German science-fiction writer, translator and author of reference books pertaining to Speculative fiction, speculative literature and film. He was editor of the German edition of The ...

(born 1948) *

Isidore Haiblum Isidore Haiblum (May 23, 1935 – October 25, 2012) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels. He was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for his novel ''The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders''. Biographic data ...

(1935–2012) *

Jack C. Haldeman II Jack Carroll "Jay" Haldeman II (December 18, 1941 – January 1, 2002) was an American biologist and science-fiction writer. He was the older brother of SF writer and MIT writing professor Joe Haldeman. Biography Jack Haldeman studied environ ...

(1941–2002) *

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), have wo ...

(born 1943) * Austin Hall (1885–1933) *

Barbara Hambly Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free ...

(born 1951) *

Edmond Hamilton Edmond Moore Hamilton (October 21, 1904 – February 1, 1977) was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century. Early life Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. So ...

(1904–1977) *

Peter F. Hamilton Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) is a British author. He is known for writing science fiction space opera. Biography Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He did not attend university. He said in an interview, "I did science at school ...

(born 1960) *

Elizabeth Hand Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer. Life and career Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine ...

(born 1957) *

Otfrid von Hanstein Otfrid von Hanstein (1869–1959) was a German actor and writer. As a novelist, he was prolific in various genres; his best-known works in English-language translation are science fiction novels published in various magazines by Hugo Gernsback. Joh ...

(1869–1959) *

Lee Harding Lee Harding (born 8 June 1983) is an Australian singer from Frankston, Victoria. He is best known for placing third in the third season of ''Australian Idol'' in 2005. Career Bedrock Prior to competing in ''Australian Idol'', Harding was a me ...

(born 1937) * Charles L. Harness (1915–2005) *

Clare Winger Harris Clare Winger Harris (January 18, 1891 – October 26, 1968) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction mag ...

(1891–1968) * Harry Harrison (1925–2012) *

M. John Harrison Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic.Kelley, George. "Harrison, M(ichael) John" in Jay P. Pederson (.ed) ''St. James guide to sci ...

(born 1945) *

Henry Hasse Henry Louis Hasse (February 7, 1913 – May 20, 1977) was an American science fiction author and fan. He is probably known best for being the co-author of Ray Bradbury's first professionally published story, "Pendulum", which appeared in Novemb ...

(1913–1977) *

Simon Hawke Simon Hawke (born September 30, 1951) is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also writt ...

(born 1951) *

Peter Heck Peter Jewell Heck (born September 4, 1941, in Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author. His books include the "Mark Twain Mysteries"—historical whodunits featuring the famous author as a detective—and four book ...

(born 1941) *

Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accu ...

(1907–1988) *

Zenna Henderson Zenna Chlarson Henderson (November 1, 1917 – May 11, 1983) was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in 1951. Her work is cit ...

(1917–1983) *

Brian Herbert Brian Patrick Herbert (born June 29, 1947) is an American author who lives in Washington (state), Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert (who died in 1986). Brian Herbert's novels include ''Sidney's Comet' ...

(born 1947) *

Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel '' Dune'' and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked a ...

(1920–1986) * Paul van Herck (1938–1989) * Philip E. High (1914–2006) *

Douglas Hill Douglas Arthur Hill (April 6, 1935 – June 21, 2007) was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fic ...

(1935–2007) * Ernest Hill (1915–2003) *

Charles Howard Hinton Charles Howard Hinton (1853 – 30 April 1907) was a British mathematician and writer of science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and ...

(1853–1907) *

Christopher Hinz Christopher Hinz (born March 10, 1951) is an American writer best known for the Paratwa science fiction trilogy. Hinz has also written comic books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He won the Compton Crook Award in 1988 for his novel ''Liege-Killer' ...

(born 1951) * Morioka Hiroyuki (born 1962) (in Japanese 森岡浩之) *

Christopher Hodder-Williams John Christopher Glazebrook Hodder-Williams (25 August 1926—15 May 1995) was an English musician, songwriter and author, mainly of science fiction. But he also wrote novels about aviation and espionage. He was the son of Ralph Hodder-Williams, wh ...

(1926–1995) *

P. C. Hodgell Patricia "Pat" Christine Hodgell (born March 16, 1951) is an American fantasy writer and former academic. Hodgell taught in the English Department at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, but retired in 2006 to pursue a full-time writing career. She ...

(born 1951) *

William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and sci ...

(1877–1918) *

E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Penrith Goff, "E.T.A. Hoffmann" in E ...

(1776–1822) *

Lee Hoffman Lee Hoffman, born Shirley Bell Hoffman, (August 14, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois – February 6, 2007 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Wester ...

(1932–2007) *

Ludvig Holberg Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, ...

(1684–1754) *

H. H. Hollis H. H. Hollis was a pseudonym of Ben Neal Ramey (7 October 1921 - May 1977), who was an American science fiction short story writer and essayist. Ramey's main career was as a lawyer in Texas; he wrote science fiction as a hobby. Two of his stories, ...

(1921–1977) (pseudonym of Ben Neal Ramey) * James P. Hogan (1941–2010) *

Elizabeth Holden Elizabeth Holden (5 June 1943 – 6 December 2013), better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, was an English science fiction author best known for her work published in the 1970s and 1980s. She has been classified as a writer for young adult ...

(1943–2013) *

Robert Holdstock Robert Paul Holdstock (2 August 1948 – 29 November 2009) was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celts, Celtic, Nordic countries, Nordic, Goths, Gothic and Picts, Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fanta ...

(1948–2009) *

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 ...

(born 1960) *

Shinichi Hoshi Shinichi Hoshi (星新一 ''Hoshi Shin'ichi'', September 6, 1926 – December 30, 1997) was a Japanese people, Japanese novelist and science fiction writer best known for his "flash fiction, short-short" science fiction stories, often no more ...

(1926–1997) * Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain (Begum Rokheya) (1880? – 1932) * Hayden Howard (1925–2014) *

Robert Ervin Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...

(1906–1936) *

Hugh Howey Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series ''Silo'', part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system. Howey was raised in Monroe, North Carolina and be ...

(born 1975) *

Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper. He also held controversial stances on other sci ...

(1915–2001) *

L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author, primarily of science fiction and fantasy stories, who is best known for having founded the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored '' Dianetic ...

(1911–1986) *

Marek Huberath Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral, and religious: how people become beast ...

(born 1954) * Matt Hughes (born 1949) *

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 ...

(1925–2003) *

Kameron Hurley Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Biography Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio. Hurley has been publ ...

(born 1980) *

Edna Mayne Hull Edna May Hull van Vogt (May 1, 1905 – January 20, 1975) was a Canadian science fiction writer who published under the name E. Mayne Hull. She was the first wife of A. E. van Vogt, also a science fiction writer. Early life and marriage Edna Ma ...

(1905–1975) *

Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''. He was an editor of the collection ''The Yale Record ...

(1900–1966) *

Stephen Hunt Stephen Hunt or Steven Hunt may refer to: Football *Stephen Hunt (footballer, born 1981), Republic of Ireland footballer *Stephen Hunt (footballer, born 1984), English footballer *Steve Hunt (footballer, born 1956), England, Coventry, Aston Villa ...

(born 1966) *

Dave Hutchinson Dave Hutchinson is a science fiction writer who was born in Sheffield in England in 1960 and read American Studies at the University of Nottingham. He subsequently moved into journalism, writing for ''The Weekly News'' and the ''Dundee Courier' ...

(born 1960) *

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley ...

(1894–1963)

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* Dragutin Ilić (1858–1926) *

Dean Ing Dean Charles Ing (June 17, 1931 – July 21, 2020) was an American author, who usually wrote in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres. His novel ''The Ransom of Black Stealth One'' (1989) was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. He wrote ...

(1931–2020) *

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Muhammed Zafar Iqbal ( bn, মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল; ; born 23 December 1952) is a Bangladeshi science fiction author, physicist, academic, activist & former professor of computer science and engineering and former head ...

(born 1952) *

Kazuo Ishiguro Sir Kazuo Ishiguro ( ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most cr ...

(born 1954) *

Simon Ings Simon Ings is an English novelist and science writer living in London. He was born in July 1965 in Horndean and educated at Churcher's College, Petersfield and at King's College London and Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck College, London. ...

(born 1965) * Emmi Itäranta (born 1976)

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Muriel Jaeger Muriel Jaeger (23 May 1892 – 21 November 1969) was a British author who wrote early novels of science fiction as well as plays and non-fiction. Early life and education Jaeger was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1892, the daughter of John Edwa ...

(1892–1969) *

John Jakes John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical and speculative fiction. His Civil War trilogy, ''North and South'', has sold millions of copies worldwide. He is also the author of The Kent Famil ...

(born 1932) *

Malcolm Jameson Malcolm Routh Jameson (December 21, 1891 – April 16, 1945), commonly known as Malcolm Jameson, was an American science fiction author. An officer in the US Navy, he was active in American pulp magazines during the Golden Age of Science Fic ...

(1891–1945) *

Phil Janes , Phil Janes is a writer and author. He has published a series of three science fiction comedy novels about interstellar space travel, in a humorous style, similar to Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Grant Naylor Grant Naylor was the collec ...

( fl. 1993–present) *

Laurence Janifer Laurence M. Janifer (born Laurence M. Harris; March 17, 1933 – July 10, 2002) was an American science fiction author, with a career spanning over 50 years. Biography Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York with the surname of ''Harris'', but ...

(1933–2002) *

N.K. Jemisin NK may refer to: Businesses *Imerys (Euronext ticker code NK) *Nordiska Kompaniet, a department store in Stockholm, Sweden *Northrup-King Seed Company *Spirit Airlines (IATA code NK) *NK.pl, a Polish school-based social networking service Places ...

(born 1972) *

P. C. Jersild Per Christian Jersild, better known as ''P. C. Jersild'', (born 1935) is a Sweden, Swedish author and physician. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University from 22 January 2000, and another one in engine ...

(born 1935) *

Wolfgang Jeschke Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction. Biography Jeschke was born in 1936 in Dě ...

(1936–2015) *

K. W. Jeter Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the '' Star Trek'' and '' Star Wa ...

(born 1950) *

Michel Jeury Michel Jeury (23 January 1934 – 9 January 2015) was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon. Biography Michel Jeury was born in Razac-d'Eymet. He began writing science fiction under t ...

(1934–2015) *

Xia Jia Wang Yao (; born 4 June 1984), known by the pen name Xia Jia (), is a Chinese science-fiction and fantasy writer. After receiving her Ph.D. in comparative literature and world literature at Department of Chinese, Peking University in 2014, she ...

(born 1984) *

George Clayton Johnson George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer, best known for co-writing with William F. Nolan the novel ''Logan's Run'', the basis for the MGM 1976 film. He was also known for his televis ...

(1929–2015) * D. F. Jones (1917–1981) * Gwyneth Jones (born 1952) *

Neil R. Jones Neil Ronald Jones (May 29, 1909 – February 15, 1988) was an American writer who worked for the state of New York. Not prolific, and little remembered today, Jones was ground-breaking in science fiction. His first story, "The Death's Head Meteo ...

(1909–1988) *

Raymond F. Jones Raymond Fisher Jones (15 November 1915 – 24 January 1994) was an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1952 novel ''This Island Earth'', which was adapted into the eponymous 1955 film. Personal life Jones w ...

(1915–1994) *

Diana Wynne Jones Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually de ...

(1934–2011) *

Robert Jordan James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan,"Robert Jordan" was the name of the protagonist in the 1940 Hemingway novel ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'', though this is not how the na ...

(1948–2007) *

M. K. Joseph Michael Kennedy Joseph (9 July 1914 – 4 October 1981) was a British-born New Zealand poet and novelist in several genres. He studied at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, and at Merton College, Oxford, from 1936 to 1939. During the Second World War ...

(1914–1981) *

Emmanuel Jouanne Emmanuel Jouanne (born 1960 in Caen; died 6 February 2008) was a French science fiction writer who won the Prix Rosny-Aîné The Prix Rosny-Aîné is a literary prize for French science fiction. It has been awarded annually since 1980 in two cate ...

(1960–2008) *

Theodore Judson Theodore Judson (born December 19, 1951) is an American science fiction writer and high school teacher. He began writing after the death of his wife and he is the author of '' Tom Wedderburn's Life'' (2002), ''Fitzpatrick's War'' (2004), '' Th ...

(born 1951) *

Unno Juza was the pen name of Sano Shōichi (佐野昌一), the founding father of Japanese science fiction. He was born to a family of medical doctors in Tokushima city. In 1928 he opened his writer’s career with ''The case of the mysterious death i ...

(1897–1949)

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Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

(1883–1924) *

Janet Kagan Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author. Her works include two science fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that app ...

(1946–2008) *

Michael Kandel Michael Kandel (born December 24, 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American translator and author of science fiction. Biography Kandel received a doctorate in Slavistics from Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University. His most rece ...

(born 1941) *

Colin Kapp Derek Ivor Colin Kapp (3 April 1928"C Kapp birth record ...

(1928–2007) *

Alexander Kazantsev Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Каза́нцев; 2 September 1906 – 13 September 2002) was a popular Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer. Biography He was b ...

(1906–2002) * Joseph E. Kelleam (1913–1975) *

David H. Keller David Henry Keller (December 23, 1880 – July 13, 1966) was an American writer who worked for pulp magazines in the mid-twentieth century, in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. He was also a psychiatrist and physician to shell- ...

(1880–1966) *

James Patrick Kelly James Patrick Kelly (born April 11, 1951 in Mineola, New York) is an American science fiction author who has won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. Biography Kelly made his first fiction sale in 1975. He graduated magna cum laude from ...

(born 1951) *

Rick Kennett Rick Kennett'(born 1956) is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely published genre author in Australia after Paul Collins (fantasy writer), Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, w ...

(born 1956) * Steven L. Kent (born 1928) *

Katharine Kerr Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry. Biography Katharine Kerr was born in Cleveland, Ohio; her ...

(born 1944) *

John Kessel John Joseph Vincent Kessel (born September 24, 1950) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, '' Good News From Outer Space'' (1989), ''Corrupting Dr. Nice'' ( ...

(born 1950) * Roy Kettle (born 1949) *

Alexander Key Alexander Hill Key (September 21, 1904 – July 25, 1979) was an American science fiction writer who primarily wrote children's literature. Early life Key was born in 1904 in LaPlatte, Maryland. His parents, Alexander Hill and Charlotte ...

(1904–1979) *

Daniel Keyes Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel ''Flowers for Algernon''. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Biography Early life ...

(1927–2014) *

Gregory Keyes Gregory Keyes (born April 11, 1963) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names J. Gregory Keyes and Greg Keyes. Early life Keyes was born in Meridian, Mississi ...

(born 1963) * David Kier (born 1943) *

Caitlín R. Kiernan Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novella ...

(born 1964) * Lee Killough (born 1942) * Wade A. Kimberlin (born 1970) *

Sara King Sara J. King (born 1982) is an Alaskan Fantasy writer residing in the Alaska Bush. She is currently working on her 11th novel, part of the "After Earth" series History Sara King was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1982. She has remained an Ala ...

(born 1982) *

(born 1947) *

Vincent King Rex Thomas Vinson (October 22, 1935 – May 2000) was an English art teacher, artist and science fiction author active in writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who wrote under the pen name of Vincent King. Writing career King's novels were p ...

(1935–2000) *

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

(1865–1936) *

John Kippax John Kippax (1915-1974) was the pen name of English science fiction writer John Charles Hynam, author of many short stories and the ''Venturer Twelve'' series of space opera novels (most in collaboration with Dan Morgan). Hynam was killed on the ...

(1915–1974) *

Annette Curtis Klause Annette Curtis Klause (born June 20, 1953) is an English-American writer and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. She is currently a children's materials selector for Montgomery County Public Libraries in Montgomery County, Maryland. ...

(born 1953) *

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 ...

(born 1929) *Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) *David Barr Kirtley (born 1977) *Gérard Klein (born 1937) *Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) *Marko Kloos ( fl. 2011–present) *Nigel Kneale (1922–2006) *Boban Knežević (born 1959) *Damon Knight (1922–2002) *Norman L. Knight (1895–1972) *Walter Koenig (born 1936) *Lazar Komarčić (1839–1909) *Dean R. Koontz (born 1945) *Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) *Mary Robinette Kowal (born 1969) *Tom Kratman (born 1956) *Nancy Kress (born 1948) *Günther Krupkat (1905–1990) *Zoran Krušvar (born 1977) *Michael P. Kube-McDowell (born 1954) *Walter Kubilius (1918–1993) *Michael Kurland (born 1938) *Katherine Kurtz (1944) *Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) *David Kyle (1919–2016)

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*W. S. Lach-Szyrma (1841–1915) *R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) *Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) *Geoffrey Landis (born 1955) *David Langford (born 1953) *Sterling E. Lanier (1927–2007) *Justine Larbalestier (born 1967) *Glen A. Larson (1937–2014) *Kurd Lasswitz (1848–1910) *Robert S. Richardson, Philip Latham (1902–1981) (pseudonym of Robert S. Richardson) *Yulia Latynina (born 1966) *Keith Laumer (1925–1993) *Stephen R. Lawhead (born 1950) *W. H. C. Lawrence ( fl. 1889) *Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) *Ann Leckie (born 1966) *Gentry Lee (born 1942) *Mary Soon Lee (born 1965) *Sharon Lee (writer), Sharon Lee (born 1952) *Stan Lee (1922–2018) *Tanith Lee (1947–2015) *Yoon Ha Lee (born 1979) *Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) *Murray Leinster (1896–1975) (pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins) *Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) *Edward M. Lerner (born 1949) *Stephen Marlowe, Milton Lesser (1928–2008) (pseudonym of Stephen Marlowe) *Doris Lessing (1919–2013) *Jonathan Lethem (born 1964) *David D. Levine (born 1961) *Paul Levinson (born 1947) *Roger Levy ( fl. 2001–present) *C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) *Shariann Lewitt (born 1954) *Jacqueline Lichtenberg (born 1942) *Jean-Marc Ligny (born 1956) *Brad Linaweaver (1952–2019) *Dénis Lindbohm (1927–2005) *David Lindsay (novelist), David Lindsay (1876–1945) *Liu Cixin (born 1963) *Ken Liu (born 1976) *John Uri Lloyd (1849–1936) *Jack London (1876–1916) *Amelia Reynolds Long (1904–1978) *Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994) *Barry B. Longyear (born 1942) *Jean Lorrah (born 1938) *H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) *Archibald Low (1888–1956) *Nathan Lowell (born 1952) *Robert A. W. Lowndes (1916–1998) *Lois Lowry (born 1937) *George Lucas (born 1944) *Lucian (120–after 180) *Nicole Luiken (born 1971) *Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968) *Sam Lundwall (born 1941) *Duncan Lunan (born 1945) *Richard A. Lupoff (1935–2020) *John Lymington (1911–1983) *Elizabeth A. Lynn (born 1946) *Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)

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James Morrow South Street Seaport 2007-04-10

*Darko Macan (born 1966) *James D. Macdonald (born 1954) *John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) *F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (c. 1948–2010) *R. W. Mackelworth (1930–2000) *Katherine MacLean (1925–2019) *Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956) *Ken MacLeod (born 1954) *Angus MacVicar (1908–2001) *Tom Maddox (born 1945) *Charles Eric Maine (1921–1981) (pseudonym of David McIlwain) *Donald Malcolm (1930–1975) *Daryl F. Mallett (born 1969) *Barry N. Malzberg (born 1939) *George Mann (writer), George Mann (born 1978) *Laurence Manning (1899–1972) *Leo Margulies (1900–1975) *Stephen Marley (writer), Stephen Marley (born 1946) *Paul Marlowe ( fl. 2000–present) *George R. R. Martin (born 1948) *Arkady Martine (born 1985) *David Marusek (born 1951) *Richard Matheson (1926–2013) *Susan R. Matthews (born 1952) *Julian May (1931–2017) *Ged Maybury (born 1953) *Paul J. McAuley (born 1955) *Ed McBain (1926–2005) *Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) *Wil McCarthy (born 1966) *David McDaniel (1944–1977) *Jack McDevitt (born 1935) *Ian McDonald (author), Ian McDonald (born 1960) *William P. McGivern (1918–1982) *Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) *J. T. McIntosh (1925–2008) *Will McIntosh (born 1962) *Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019) *Richard McKenna (1913–1964) *Neil McMahon (born 1949) *Sean McMullen (born 1948) *Mike McQuay (1949–1995) *John Meaney (born 1957) *S. P. Meek (1894–1972) *R. M. Meluch (born 1956) *Miguel Mendonça (born 1973) *Richard C. Meredith (1937–1979) *Robert Merle (1908–2004) *Judith Merril (1923–1997) *A. Merritt (1884–1943) *Sam Merwin Jr. (1910–1996) *Régis Messac (1893–1945) *John Metcalfe (writer), John Metcalfe (1891–1965) *Melinda Metz (born 1962) *Robert A. Metzger (born 1956) *Stephenie Meyer (born 1973) *John B. Michel (1917–1969) *China Miéville (born 1972) *Victor Milán (1954–2018) *John J. Miller (author), John J. Miller (1954–2022) *P. Schuyler Miller (1912–1974) *Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923–1996) *Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) *Kirk Mitchell (born 1950) *Syne Mitchell (born 1970) *Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999) *Premendra Mitra (1904–1988) *L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (born 1943) *Judith Moffett (born 1942) *Donald Moffitt (1936–2014) *Thomas F. Monteleone (born 1946) *Elizabeth Moon (born 1945) *Michael Moorcock (born 1939) *Alan Moore (born 1953) *C. L. Moore (1911–1987) *Patrick Moore (1923–2012) *Ward Moore (1903–1978) *Daniel Keys Moran (born 1962) *Dan Morgan (writer), Dan Morgan (1925–2011) *Richard K. Morgan (born 1965) *Chris Moriarty (born 1968) *A. R. Morlan (1958–2016) *John Morressy (1930–2006) *Chris Morris (author), Chris Morris (born 1946) *Janet Morris (born 1946) *Joseph Samachson, William Morrison (1906–1982) (pseudonym of Joseph Samachson) *James Morrow (born 1947) *Sam Moskowitz (1920–1997) *Pat Murphy (writer), Pat Murphy (born 1955)

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*Linda Nagata (born 1960) *Jayant Narlikar (born 1938) (Marathi: जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) *Grant Naylor (joint pseudonym of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor) *Ondrej Neff (born 1945) *Geoff Nelder (born 1947) *Ray Nelson (author), Ray Nelson (born 1931) *István Nemere (born 1944) *Josef Nesvadba (1926–2005) *Kris Neville (1925–1980) *Eirik Newth (born 1964) *Yuri Nikitin (author), Yuri Nikitin (in

Юрий Никитин) (born 1939) *Larry Niven (born 1938) *William F. Nolan (1928–2021) *Jeff Noon (born 1957) *John Norman (born 1931), the ''Gor'' series *Lisanne Norman (born 1951) *Bernard Cronin, Eric North (1884–1968) (pseudonym of Bernard Cronin) *Andre Norton (1912–2005) (pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton) *Philip Francis Nowlan (1888–1940) *Alan E. Nourse (1928–1992) *Eric S. Nylund (born 1964)

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*Robert C. O'Brien (author), Robert C. O'Brien (1918–1973) *Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. (1950–2012) *Patrick O'Leary (writer), Patrick O'Leary (born 1952) *Raven Oak (born 1977) *Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956) *Alan Odle, Edwin Vincent Odle (1890–1942) *Andrew J. Offutt (1934–2013) *Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) *Chad Oliver (1928–1993) *Bob Olsen (1884–1956) *Jerry Oltion (born 1957) *Karen Osborne (born 1980) *John Ostrander (born 1949) *Jerry Ordway (born 1957) *Marek Oramus (born 1952) *Rebecca Ore (born 1948) *George Orwell (1903–1950) (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) *A. K. Otterness ( fl. 1990s)

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Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off

Jerry Pournelle in a tux small (cropped)

*Lewis Padgett (joint pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) *Michel Pagel (born 1961) *George Pal (1908–1980) *Ada Palmer (born 1981) *David R. Palmer (born 1941) *Jane Palmer (born 1946) *Philip Palmer (born 1960) *Raymond A. Palmer (1910–1977) *Edgar Pangborn (1909–1976) *Alexei Panshin (1940–2022) *Cory Panshin (born 1947) *Christopher Paolini (born 1980) *Richard Parks (author), Richard Parks (born 1955) *James Patterson (born 1947) *Stel Pavlou (born 1970) *Donald G. Payne (1924–2018) (also known as James Vance Marshall, Ian Cameron, and Donald Gordon) *Hayford Peirce (1942–2020) *Charles Pellegrino (born 1953) *Dalibor Perković (born 1974) *Lawrence Person (born 1965) *Steve Perry (author), Steve Perry (born 1947) *Emil Petaja (1915–2000) *Wildy Petoud (born 1957) *John T. Phillifent (1916–1976) *Mark Phillips (author), Mark Phillips (joint pseudonym used by

(1933–2002) and

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*Ayn Rand (1905–1982) *Hannu Rajaniemi (born 1978) *Marta Randall (born 1948) *Sujatha (writer), Sujatha (1935–2008) *Bill Ransom (born 1945) *Carlos Rasch (1932–1921) *Melanie Rawn (born 1954) *Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) *Francis G. Rayer (1921–1981) *Tom Reamy (1935–1977) *Robert Reed (author), Robert Reed (born 1956) *Philip Reeve (born 1966) *Miha Remec (1928–2020) *Maurice Renard (1875–1939) *Ed Earl Repp (1901–1979) *Laura Resnick (born 1962) *Mike Resnick (1942–2020) *

(1915–1993) *Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) *Mack Reynolds (1917–1983) *Christopher Rice (born 1978) *Christopher Ride (born 1965) *John Ringo (born 1963) *Adam Roberts (British writer), Adam Roberts (born 1965) *Keith Roberts (1935–2000) *Shauna S. Roberts (born 1956) *Stephen Robinett (1941–2004) *Frank M. Robinson (1926–2014) *Jeanne Robinson (1948–2010) *Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952) *Spider Robinson (born 1948) *Justina Robson (born 1968) *Esther Rochon (born 1948) *Ross Rocklynne (1913–1988) *Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) *Simon Rose (author), Simon Rose (born 1961) *Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author), Joel Rosenberg (1954–2011) *Mary Rosenblum (1952–2018) *J.-H. Rosny (joint pseudonym of J.-H. Rosny aîné, Joseph (1856–1940) and J.-H. Rosny jeune, Séraphin (1859–1948) Boex) *Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) *M. A. Rothman *Milton A. Rothman (1919–2001) *Tony Rothman (born 1953) *William Rotsler (1926–1997) *Gustave Le Rouge (1867–1938) *Christopher Rowley (born 1948) *Rudy Rucker (born 1946) *Anthony M. Rud (1893–1942) *Christopher Ruocchio *Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born 1960) *Joanna Russ (1937–2011) *Richard Paul Russo (born 1954) *Eric Frank Russell (1905–1978) *Mary Doria Russell (born 1950) *Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, A. Merc Rustad (born 1986) *Geoff Ryman (born 1951)

S

*Fred Saberhagen (1930–2007) *Carl Sagan (1934–1996) *Nick Sagan (born 1970) *Don Sakers (1958–2021) *Emilio Salgari (1862–1911) *Ramiro Sanchiz (born 1978) *Cathal Ó Sándair (1922–1996) *Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) *Domingo Santos (1941–2018) (pseudonym of Pedro Domingo Mutiñó) *Pamela Sargent (born 1948) *Al Sarrantonio (born 1952) *Robert J. Sawyer (born 1960) *John Scalzi (born 1969) *Nat Schachner (1895–1955) *K. H. Scheer (1928–1991) *Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) *Herman George Scheffauer (1876–1927) *Joseph Schlossel (1902–1977) *Bryan Thomas Schmidt (born 1969) *Stanley Schmidt (born 1944) *James H. Schmitz (1911–1974) *Lawrence M. Schoen (born 1959) *Karl Schroeder (born 1962) *J. Neil Schulman (1953–2019) *George H. Scithers (1929–2010) *Thomas N. Scortia (1926–1986) *Arthur Sellings (1911–1968) *Józef Sękowski (1800–1858) *Rod Serling (1924–1975) *Garrett P. Serviss (1851–1929) *Michael Shaara (1928–1988) *William Shatner (born 1931) *Richard S. Shaver (1907–1975) *Bob Shaw (1931–1996) *Larry Shaw (editor), Larry Shaw (1924–1985) *Nisi Shawl (born 1955) *Michael Shea (author), Michael Shea (1946–2014) *Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) *Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) *Mary Shelley (1797–1851) *Lucius Shepard (1947–2014) *Joel Shepherd (born 1974) *M. P. Shiel (1865–1947) *R. C. Sherriff (1896–1975) *T. L. Sherred (1915–1985) *David Sherman (born 1958) *Lewis Shiner (born 1950) *Sharon Shinn (born 1957) *Wilmar H. Shiras (1908–1990) *John Shirley (born 1953) *Shumil (born 1957) *William Shunn (born 1967) *Luís Filipe Silva (born 1969) *Robert Silverberg (born 1935) *Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) *Dan Simmons (born 1948) *Johanna Sinisalo (born 1958) *Curt Siodmak (1902–2000) *Jack Skillingstead (born 1955) *John Sladek (1937–2000) *William Sleator (1945–2011) *Henry Slesar (1927–2002) *William Milligan Sloane III (1906–1974) *Joan Slonczewski (born 1956) *George Edgar Slusser (1939–2014) *Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) *Cordwainer Smith (1913–1966) (pseudonym of Paul M.A. Linebarger) *E. E. Smith (1890–1965) *Evelyn E. Smith (1922–2000) *Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965) *George H. Smith (fiction author), George H. Smith (1922–1996) *George O. Smith (1911–1981) *L. Neil Smith (1946–2021) *Melinda Snodgrass (born 1951) *Jerry Sohl (1913–2002) *Martha Soukup (born 1959) *Steven Spielberg (born 1946) *Norman Spinrad (born 1940) *Jacques Spitz (1896–1963) *Nancy Springer (born 1948) *Margaret St. Clair (1911–1995) (also known as Idris Seabright) *Dana Stabenow (born 1952) *Brian Stableford (born 1948) *Michael Stackpole (born 1957) *Robert Lester Stallman, Robert Stallman (1930–1980) *Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) *Roman Frederick Starzl (1899–1976) *Christopher Stasheff (1944–2018) *John Steakley (1951–2010) *Allen Steele (born 1958) *Angela Steinmüller (born 1941) *Karlheinz Steinmüller (born 1950) *Neal Stephenson (born 1959) *Jacques Sternberg (1923–2006) *Bruce Sterling (born 1954) *Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Francis Stevens (1883–1948) (pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett) *Marc Stiegler (born 1954) *G. Harry Stine (1928–1997) (also known as Lee Corey) *S. M. Stirling (born 1953) *Sam Stone ( fl. 2000s–present) *John E. Stith (born 1947) *J. Michael Straczynski (born 1954), ''Babylon 5'' *Giampietro Stocco (born 1961) *Manning Lee Stokes (1911–1976) *Charles Stross (born 1964) *Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ((1925–1991) and (1933–2012) respectively) (in

, Аркадий и Борис СтругацкиеIndividually, their names are Аркадий Стругацкий and Борис Стругацкий.) *Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) (pseudonym of Edward Hamilton Waldo) *Somtow Sucharitkul (also known as S. P. Somtow) (born 1952) *Tricia Sullivan (born 1968) *Michael Swanwick (born 1950) *Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) *Michael Szameit (1950–2014)

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*Eric Temple Bell, John Taine (1883–1960) (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell) *Stephen Tall (1908–1981) (pseudonym of Compton Newby Crook) *Yoshiki Tanaka (born 1952) *Charles R. Tanner (1896–1974) *Andrius Tapinas (born 1977) *Dennis E. Taylor ( fl. 2015–present) *Howard Tayler (born 1968) *Mark Anthony Taylor (born 1970) *Travis S. Taylor (born 1968) *Adrian Tchaikovsky (born 1972) *Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) *William F. Temple (1914–1989) *Tais Teng (born 1952) (nom de plume of Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen) *William Tenn (1920–2010) (pseudonym of Philip Klass) *Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) *Tom Terry (author), Tom Terry (born 1963) *Walter Tevis (1928–1984) *Felix Thijssen (1933–2022) *Theodore L. Thomas (1920–2005) *Tade Thompson ( fl. 2005–present) *Robert Thurston (1936–2021) *Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954) *Patrick Tilley (1928–2020) *James Tiptree Jr. (1915–1987) (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon) *Lavie Tidhar (born 1976) *Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi (born 1882 or 1883, died 1945) (in

Алексей Николаевич Толстой) *Arthur Tofte (1902–1980) *Brad R. Torgersen (born 1974) *Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) *Karen Traviss ( fl. 2004–present) *F. Orlin Tremaine (1899–1956) *Edwin Charles Tubb (1919–2010) *George Tucker (politician), George Tucker (1775–1861) *Wilson Tucker (writer), Wilson Tucker (1914–2006) *George Turner (writer), George Turner (1916–1997) *Harry Turtledove (born 1949) *Mary Turzillo (born 1940) *Lisa Tuttle (born 1952) *John Twelve Hawks ( fl. 2005–2014) *Kathy Tyers (born 1952)

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*Steven Utley (1948–2013)

V

*Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979) *Jack Vance (1916–2013) *Jeff VanderMeer (born 1968) *James Van Pelt (born 1954) *Sydney J. Van Scyoc (born 1939) *Robert E. Vardeman (born 1947) *Pierre Versins (1923–2001) *A. E. van Vogt (1912–2000) *John Varley (author), John Varley (born 1947) *Vladimir Vasilyev (writer), Vladimir Vasilyev (born 1967) *Jean Bruller, Vercors (1902–1991) (pseudonym of Jean Bruller) *Jules Verne (1828–1905) *Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871–1954) *Harl Vincent (1893–1968) *Joan D. Vinge (born 1948) *Vernor Vinge (born 1944) *Julius Vogel (1835–1899) *Voltaire (1694–1778) *Elisabeth Vonarburg (born 1947) *Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007)

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Jack Womack at the Shirley Jackson Award Benefit, KGB bar, New York City - 20080723

*Karl Edward Wagner (1945–1994) *Roland C. Wagner (1960–2012) *Howard Waldrop (born 1946) *Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) *F. L. Wallace (1915–2004) (also known as Floyd Wallace) *Ian Wallace (author), Ian Wallace (1912–1998) *Hugh Walters (author), Hugh Walters (1910–1993) *Bryce Walton (1918–1988) *Jo Walton (born 1964) *Donald Wandrei (1908–1987) *Ian Watson (author), Ian Watson (born 1943) *Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) *Peter Watts (author), Peter Watts (born 1958) *Don Webb (writer), Don Webb (born 1960) *David Weber (born 1952) *Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902–1935) *Richard M. Weiner (1930–2020) *Andy Weir (born 1972) *Jan Weiss (1892–1972) *Manly Wade Wellman (1903–1986) *Angus Wells (1943–2006) *Basil Wells (1912–2003) *Dan Wells (author), Dan Wells (born 1977) *H. G. Wells (1866–1946) *Martha Wells (born 1964) *Chuck Wendig (born 1976) *K. D. Wentworth (1951–2012) *Bernard Werber (born 1961) *Wallace West (1900–1980) *Scott Westerfeld (born 1963) *Suzanne Weyn (born 1955) *Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977) *Alex White (author), Alex White (born 1981) *James White (author), James White (1928–1999) *Steve White (science fiction), Steve White (born 1946) *Ted White (author), Ted White (born 1938) *Sonny Whitelaw (born 1956) *Cherry Wilder (1930–2002) *Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018) *Lynda Williams (born 1958) *Liz Williams (born 1965) *Rob Williams (comics), Rob Williams *Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977) *Sean Williams (author), Sean Williams (born 1967) *Tad Williams (born 1957) *Walter Jon Williams (born 1953) *Jack Williamson (1908–2006) *Michael Z. Williamson (born 1967) *Connie Willis (born 1945) *Colin Wilson (1931–2013) *D. Harlan Wilson (born 1971) *F. Paul Wilson (born 1946) *Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) *Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) *Richard Wilson (author), Richard Wilson (1920–1987) *David Wingrove (born 1954) *Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (1937–1995) *Otto Witt (1875–1923) *Bernard Wolfe (1915–1985) *Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) *Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990) (various pseudonyms) *Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (1944–2015) *Jack Womack (born 1956) *John C. Wright (author), John C. Wright (born 1961) *S. Fowler Wright (1874–1965) *Stefan Wul (1922–2003) (pseudonym of Pierre Pairault) *Philip Wylie (1902–1971) *John Wyndham (1903–1969) (pseudonym of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)

Y

*Neon Yang (born ?) *Nir Yaniv (born 1972) *Tetsu Yano (1923–2004) *Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born 1942) *Jun'ya Yokota (1945–2019) *Jane Yolen (born 1939) *Robert Franklin Young (1915–1986) *Charles Yu (born 1976)

Z

*Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949) *Timothy Zahn (born 1951) *Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Mohammad Zafar Iqbal (1952-present) *Janusz Zajdel (1938–1985) *Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) *George Zebrowski (born 1945) *Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) *Alexander Zelenyj ( fl. 2005–present) *Kenneth Bulmer, Tully Zetford (pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer) *Sarah Zettel (born 1966) *Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz (born 1964) *Andrzej Ziemiański (born 1960) *Aleksandar Ziljak (born 1963) *Werner Zillig (born 1949) *David Zindell (born 1952) *Zoran Živković (writer), Zoran Živković (born 1948) *Pamela Zoline (born 1941) *Alexander Zorich (born 1973) (joint pseudonym of Yana Botsman and Dmitry Gordevsky) *Joseph Zornado ( fl. 2000–present) *Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915)

References

Resources

A useful book for looking up authors is ''A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction'', by Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin (1979). It also tells you whom else you might like if you like one author. Other invaluable works include ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls (2nd. Ed. 1991), ''The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', edited by George Mann (1999) ( or ), and ''Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers'', edited by Curtis C. Smith (1981) ().

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