List of Scottish science fiction writers

This is an alphabetical list of science fiction writers connected to Scotland by birth, death or long-term residence.

A

*Gilbert Adair
*Mea Allan
*William Archer (critic), William Archer
*Marion Arnott
*Kate Atkinson (writer), Kate Atkinson
*William Auld

B

*Allan Baillie
*David_Baillie_(comics)
*Andrew Balfour
*Iain Banks
*Robert Barr (writer), Robert Barr
*Eric Temple Bell
*Margot Bennett (writer), Margot Bennett
*Julie Bertagna
*Chris Boyce
*Christopher Brookmyre
*George MacKay Brown
*John Brunner (novelist), John Brunner
*Jonathan Burke
*Ron Butlin

C

*J Storer Clouston
*Michael Cobley
*Arthur Conan Doyle
*JJ Connington

D

*Florence Dixie
*Dougal Dixon
*Diane Duane – resident in Scotland for a period
*Robert Ellis Dudgeon
*Dave Duncan (writer), Dave Duncan
*Hal Duncan

E

*Margaret Elphinstone

F

*Michel Faber – Dutch writer resident in Scotland; has used Scotland as a setting
*Matthew Fitt

G

* Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
* Mark Gallacher
* Lewis Grassic Gibbon
* Gary Gibson (author), Gary Gibson
* Richard Gordon (Scottish author), Richard Gordon
* Stuart Gordon
* Alan Grant (writer), Alan Grant
* John Grant (author), John Grant
* Alasdair Gray
* Stephen Greenhorn
* Neil M Gunn
* Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

H

* JBS Haldane
* Owen Hall
* Peter Hamilton (editor), Peter Hamilton
* Ronald Hingley

J

* William James
* Richard Jobson (television presenter), Richard Jobson

K

* Chris Kelso
* James Kennaway
* Cam Kennedy
* Philip Kerr
* William King (author), William King

L

*Archibald Lamont
*Alan W. Lear
*David Lindsay (novelist), David Lindsay
*Eric Linklater
*Duncan Lunan

M

* Stuart MacBride
* Hugh MacColl
* J. T. McIntosh (James Murdoch MacGregor)
* F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
* Compton Mackenzie
* Alistair MacLean
* Ken MacLeod
* Graham McNeill
* Angus MacVicar
* Donald Malcolm
* Colin Manlove
* Bruce Marshall (writer), Bruce Marshall
* Troy Kennedy Martin
* David I. Masson
* Robert Duncan Milne
* William Minto
* Naomi Mitchison
* Steven Moffat
* Dan Morgan (writer), Dan Morgan
* Grant Morrison
* Peter Morwood – resident in Scotland for a while

N

* Bill Napier
* Ian Niall (John McNeillie)
* Joseph Shield Nicholson
* Hume Nisbet
* Lisanne Norman

O

* Margaret Oliphant
* George Orwell – English writer of Scottish extraction; wrote ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' while living in Isle of Jura
* Walter Owen

P

* James Peddie (Scottish author), James Peddie
* David Pringle

Q

*Frank Quitely

R

* Hannu Rajaniemi – Finnish writer; long-term resident in Scotland
* Gordon Rennie
* Ivan T. Sanderson, Terence Roberts (Ivan T. Sanderson)
* Michael Scott Rohan
* Archie Roy
* Brian Ruckley

S

*Ivan T. Sanderson (Terence Roberts)
* Graham Seton
* Michael Shea (diplomat), Michael Shea
* Catherine Helen Spence
* Gordon Stables
* Robert Louis Stevenson
* Charles Stross
*Martin Swayne

T

* Eric Temple Bell, John Taine (Eric Temple Bell)
* Ismar Thiusen (John MacNie)
* Ruthven Todd

U

* Thomas Urquhart

W

* David Walker (author), David Walker
* Irvine Welsh
* Gordon Williams (writer), Gordon Williams

Y

* Jane Yolen – American writer; long-term resident of Scotland

See also

* List of science fiction writers
* List of Scottish writers

References

Footnotes

Online resources

Books from Scotland, Scottish Science fiction

SF Encyclopedia

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