Science fiction authors

Some notable science fiction authors are

• Douglas Adams
• Brian Aldiss
• Poul Anderson
• Piers Anthony
• Isaac Asimov
• [Robert Asprin]?
• J.G. Ballard
• Iain M. Banks
• L. Frank Baum
• [Greg Bear]?
• [John Bellairs]?
• [Gregory Benford]?
• [Alfred Bester]?
• James Blish
• Robert Bloch
• [Ben Bova]?
• [Leigh Brackett]?
• Ray Bradbury
• [Marion Zimmer Bradley]?
• [David Brin]?
• [Fredric Brown]?
• John Brunner
• [Steven Brusy]?
• [Algis Budrys]?
• [Lois McMaster Bujold]?
• [Anthony Burgess]?
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• [Octavia E. Butler]?
• Pat Cadigan
• John W. Campbell (yes, he wrote also)
• Orson Scott Card
• Jack L. Chalker
• [C. J. Cherryh]?
• [John Christopher]?
• Arthur C. Clarke
• [Jo Clayton]?
• Hal Clement
• [Glen Cook]?
• [Roald Dahl]?
• [John Dalmas]?
• [L. Sprague de Camp]?
• [Samuel R. Delany]?
• [Lester del Ray]?
• Philip K. Dick
• [Gordon R. Dickson]?
• [Thomas M. Disch]?
• [David Drake]?
• [George Alec Effinger]?
• Greg Egan
• Harlan Ellison
• [Robert L. Forward]?
• [Alan Dean Foster]?
• [C. S. Friedman]?
• Hugo Gernsback (of Hugo Award fame)
• William Gibson
• [Ron Goulart]?
• Peter F. Hamilton
• Robert Heinlein
• [Zenna Henderson]?
• Frank Herbert
• [James P. Hogan]?
• Fred Hoyle
• L. Ron Hubbard
• [Raymond F. Jones]?
• Franz Kafka
• Colin Kapp
• [Damon Knight]?
• [Cyril M. Kornbluth]?
• [Henry Kuttner]?
• [R. A. Lafferty]?
• [Keith Laumer]?
• [Tanith Lee]?
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Fritz Leiber
• [Murray Leinster]?
• Stanislaw Lem
• [Nina Liedtke]?
• George R. R. Martin
• Richard Matheson
• [Anne McCaffrey]?
• [Judith Merril]?
• Michael Moorcock
• [C. L. Moore]?
• Larry Niven
• [Jeff Noon]?
• [Andre Norton]?
• [Marek Oramus]?
• [Alexei Panshin]?
• [Corey Panshin]?
• [H. Beam Piper]?
• [Doris Piserchia]?
• [Frederik Pohl]?
• Jerry Pournelle
• [Mike Resnick]?
• [Alastair Reynolds]?
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• [Spider Robinson]?
• [Tony Rothman]?
• Joanna Russ
• [Eric Frank Russell]?
• [Fred Saberhagen]?
• Carl Sagan
• [James H. Schmitz]?
• Alice Sheldon (listed under her pen name of James Tiptree, Jr)
• Mary Shelley
• [Clifford Simak]?
• Dan Simmons
• [William Sleator]?
• Cordwainer Smith
• E. E. Smith ("Doc" Smith)
• [L. Neil Smith]?
• [Norman Spinrad]?
• [Olaf Stapledon]?
• Neal Stephenson
• Bruce Sterling
• [Christopher Stasheff]?
• Theodore Sturgeon
• [Boris and Arkady Strugatsky]?
• James Tiptree, Jr
• [John Varley]?
• [Jack Vance]?
• A. E. van Vogt
• Jules Verne
• Vernor Vinge
• [Stanley G. Weinbaum]?
• [James White]?
• [Jack Williamson]?
• [Connie Willis]?
• [Adam Wisniewski-Snerg]?
• H. G. Wells
• [Gene Wolfe]?
• Donald A. Wollheim (mostly wrote under pseudonyms)
• John Wyndham
• Janusz A. Zajdel
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• [Roger Zelazny]?
• [Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz]?
• [David Zindell]?

See also

• Novelists
• Fantasy authors
• Horror fiction authors

A great book for looking up authors (and it tells you who else you might like if you like one author) is A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction by Baird Searles, Martin Last, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin. Even if it hasn't been updated since the 1979 publication at hand, it's very useful.

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