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List of science-fiction authors

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative, futuristic and scientific concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances.

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Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative, futuristic and scientific concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances.

Science fiction is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many subgenres. The genre's precise definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are cyberpunk, which explores the interface between technology and society, climate fiction, which addresses environmental issues, and space opera, which emphasizes pure adventure in a universe in which space travel is common.

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Catherine Asaro, around 2009 source ↗
Isaac Asimov, before 1959 source ↗
Margaret Atwood, 2015 source ↗

B

Elizabeth Bear, 2017 source ↗
Gregory Benford, 2008 source ↗
Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the earliest SF writers, ca. 1654 source ↗
John Birmingham, 2009 source ↗
Ray Bradbury, 1975 source ↗
Lois McMaster Bujold, 2009 source ↗
Edgar Rice Burroughs, c. 1920 source ↗
Octavia Butler, 2005 source ↗

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C. J. Cherryh, 2006 source ↗
Ted Chiang, 2011 source ↗
Arthur C. Clarke, ca. 2005 source ↗
Storm Constantine 2016 source ↗
Michael Crichton, 2002 source ↗
Julie Czerneda 2012 source ↗

D

Jack Dann, 2007 source ↗
Judy Lynn and Lester Del Rey, 1974 source ↗
Samuel R. Delany, 2011 source ↗
Cory Doctorow, 2007 source ↗

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Carol Emshwiller, 1998 source ↗
Kelley Eskridge, 2002 source ↗

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Camille Flammarion, date unknown source ↗
Eric Flint, ca. 2007 source ↗
John M Ford, 2001 source ↗

G

Neil Gaiman, 2004 source ↗
William Gibson, 2008 source ↗
Nicola Griffith, 2007 source ↗
James Gunn, ca. 2007 source ↗

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Peter F. Hamilton, 2006 source ↗
Elizabeth Hand, 2007 source ↗
Midshipman Robert A. Heinlein, 1929 source ↗
Aldous Huxley, 1954 source ↗
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, 2013 source ↗

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N. K. Jemisin, 2015 source ↗
Robert Jordan, 2005 source ↗

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James Patrick Kelly, 2008 source ↗
Stephen King, 2007 source ↗
Nancy Kress (center), with author Delia Sherman (left) and editor Ellen Datlow (right). 2007 photo. source ↗

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Ursula K. Le Guin, 2009 source ↗
Stanisław Lem, 1966 source ↗
Shariann Lewitt, 2007 source ↗
Jack London, 1900 source ↗

M

A. Merritt, c. 1920 source ↗
China Miéville, 2006 source ↗
Naomi Mitchison, 1920s source ↗
Judith Moffett, 2008 source ↗
Elizabeth Moon, 2005 source ↗
Richard Morgan, 2008 source ↗
James Morrow, 2007 source ↗

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Larry Niven, photo before 2005 source ↗

O

George Orwell, 1943 source ↗

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Edgar Allan Poe, 1849 source ↗
Frederik Pohl (center) with Donald A. Wollheim (left) and John Michel (right, circa 1938 source ↗
Jerry Pournelle, 2005 source ↗
Fletcher Pratt (left) with Christopher Morley and Rex Stout, 1944 source ↗

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R

Mike Resnick, 2008 source ↗
Adam Roberts, 2008 source ↗
Kim Stanley Robinson, 2005 source ↗
Rudy Rucker, 2006 source ↗

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Robert J. Sawyer, 2005 source ↗
Mary Shelley, ca. 1840 source ↗
Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger), 1953 source ↗
Allen Steele, ca. 2007 source ↗
Charles Stross, 2019 source ↗
Somtow Sucharitkul, 2005 source ↗
Michael Swanwick, 2005 source ↗
Tricia Sullivan, 2012 source ↗

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Lavie Tidhar, 2006 source ↗
Wilson Tucker, ca. 1988 source ↗
Harry Turtledove, 2005 source ↗

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Jack Vance at the helm of his boat, early 1980s source ↗

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Stanley G. Weinbaum source ↗
H. G. Wells, 1920 source ↗
Walter Jon Williams, 2006 source ↗
Connie Willis, 1998 source ↗
Jack Womack at the KGB Bar, NYC, 2008 source ↗

Y

Charles Yu, 2011 source ↗

Z

Timothy Zahn, 2012 source ↗
See also

See also


References

References

  1. Individually, their names are Аркадий Стругацкий and Борис Стругацкий.

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.
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