Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pseudonym C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s,...
John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about overpopulation, won the 1969...
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and...
Isaac Asimov , pronounced /ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv/, originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов, was a Russian-born American author and professor...
Orson Scott Card is a bestselling American author, critic, political writer and speaker. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's...
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and...
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received both the Hugo and Nebula Awards . Brin was born in Glendale, California...
Laurence van Cott Niven is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards....
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although also a short story author, he is best...
Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious...
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in...
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly,...
Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos...
James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction...
Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime....
Clifford Donald Simak was a major American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, as well as being named the third Grand Master by the...
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated...
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. Leiber...
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo...
Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel...
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written...
Vonda Neel McIntyre is a U.S. science fiction author. She is one of the first successful graduates of the Clarion Science fiction writers workshop. She attended...
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is a American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine...
Kate Wilhelm , born June 8, 1928 in Toledo, Ohio, is a writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Her work has been published in Quark (the anthology...
Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. Haldeman was born 09. June 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans...