List of science fiction authors

Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. There is also a considerable overlap with the List of fantasy authors, since many authors are equally comfortable with both genres, and in any case some works deliberately combine the two or blur the distinction.

Some notable science fiction authors are (in alphabetical order): Template:CompactTOC5

A

Dafydd ab Hugh (born 1960)

Lynn Abbey (born 1948)

Edwin Abbott (1838-1926), Flatland

Kobo Abe (1924-1993)

Robert Abernathy (1924-1990)

Forrest J. Ackerman (born 1916)

Douglas Adams, (1952-2001)

Juan Miguel Aguilera (born 1960)

Jerry Ahern, (born 1946)

Brian Aldiss, (born 1925)

David M. Alexander, (born 1945), not to be confused with the David Alexander who wrote some Star Trek novelizations

Lloyd Alexander, (born 1924)

Roger MacBride Allen, (born 1957)

Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995)

Colin Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson (born 1962)

Poul Anderson, (1926-2001)

Patricia Anthony, (born 1947)

Piers Anthony, (born 1934)

Christopher Anvil, (born 1922) (pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby)

Robert Arthur, (1909-1969)(Pseudonym, Robert A. Feder)

Catherine Asaro, (born 1955)

Neal Asher, (born 1961)

Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)

Janet Asimov, (born 1926)

Robert Asprin, (born 1946)

B

Kage Baker, (born 1952)

J.G. Ballard, (born 1930)

Iain M. Banks, (born 1954)

Raymond E. Banks, (1918-1996)

Miquel Barceló, (born 1948)

Arthur K. Barnes, (1911-1969)

John Barnes, (born 1957)

Steven Barnes, (born 1952)

William Barnwell, (born 1943)

T. J. Bass, (born 1932) (Thomas J. Bassler)

Harry Bates, (1900-1981)

L. Frank Baum, (1856-1919)

Stephen Baxter, (born 1957)

Barrington J. Bayley, (born 1937)

Elizabeth Bear, (born 1971) (Pseudonym of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky)

Greg Bear, (born 1951)

Charles Beaumont, (1929-1967)

Edward Bellamy, (1850-1898)

Gregory Benford, (born 1941)

Alfred Bester, (1913-1987)

Lloyd Biggle, Jr., (1923-2002)

Eando Binder (Otto and Earl Binder) (1911-1974)(1904-1966)

Michael Bishop

Terry Bisson (born 1942)

Jerome Bixby, (1923-1998)

James Blish, (1921-1975)

Robert Bloch, (1917-1994)

Nelson S. Bond, (born 1908)

Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986)

Anthony Boucher, (1911-1968) (pseudonym of William A.P. White)

Ben Bova, (born 1932)

Leigh Brackett, (1915-1978)

Ray Bradbury, (born 1920)

Marion Zimmer Bradley, (1930-1999)

Reginald Bretnor, (1911-1992)

David Brin, (born 1950)

Damien Broderick, (born 1944)

Terry Brooks, (born 1944)

Eric Brown, (born 1960)

Fredric Brown, (1906-1972)

John Brunner, (1934-1995)

Steven Brust, (born 1955)

Algis Budrys, (born 1931)

Tobias S. Buckell, (born 1979)

Lois McMaster Bujold, (born 1949)

Kenneth Bulmer, (born 1921)

Kir Bulychev, (1934 - 2003)

Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993)

Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1875-1950)

Michael A. Burstein, (born 1970)

Octavia E. Butler, (born 1947)

C

Pat Cadigan, (born 1953)

Jack Cady, (1932-2004)

John W. Campbell Jr., (1910-1971) (Pseudonym, Don A. Stuart)

Karel Capek, (1890-1938)

Orson Scott Card, (born 1951)

Terry Carr, (1937-1987)

Lin Carter, (1930-1988)

Paul A. Carter, (born 1926)

Cleve Cartmill, (1908-1964)

Jeffrey Carver (born 1949)

Gabriel Bermudez Castillo

Jack L. Chalker, (1944-2005)

A. Bertram Chandler, (1912-1984)

C. J. Cherryh, (born 1942)

Ted Chiang

Charles Chilton, (born 1917)

John Christopher, (born 1922) (Pseudonym of Samuel Youd)

Arthur C. Clarke, (born 1917)

Jo Clayton, (1939-1998)

Hal Clement, (1922-2003) (Pseudonym of Harry Clement Stubbs)

John Cleve, (Pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt)

Mark Clifton (1906-1963)

Brenda Clough (born 1955)

Stephen Euin Cobb (born 1955)

Stanton A. Coblentz (1896-1982)

Theodore Cogswell, (1918-1987)

Alberto Cola, (born, 1967)

James Coltrane

Groff Conklin, (1904-1968)

Glen Cook, (born 1944)

Edmund Cooper, {1926-1982}

Michael Crichton, (born 1942)

Compton N. Crook, (1908-1981) (Pseudonym, Stephen Tall)

John Crowley

Vittorio Curtoni, (born 1949)

D

Roald Dahl, (1916-1990)

Brian Daley, (1947-1996)

John Dalmas

Jack Dann, (born 1945)

Avram Davidson, (1923-1993)

Chan Davis, (born 1926)(Dr. Chandler Davis)

L. Sprague de Camp, (1907-2000)

Samuel R. Delany, (born 1942)

Lester del Rey, (1915-1993)

August Derleth, (1909-1971)

A.J. Deutsch, (Armin Deutsch)

Philip K. Dick, (1928-1982)

Gordon R. Dickson, (1923-2001)

Thomas M. Disch, (born 1940)

Cory Doctorow, (born 1971)

Hans Joachim Dominik, (1872-1945)

Candas Dorsey (born 1952)

Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)

Gardner Dozois, (born 1947)

David Drake, (born 1945)

Jacek Dukaj, (born 1974)

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

E

David Eckert (born 1987)

Dolton Edwards

George Alec Effinger, (1947-2002)

Greg Egan, (born 1961)

Suzette Haden Elgin (born 1936)

William B. Ellern, (born 1933)

Harlan Ellison, (born 1934)

Roger Elwood, (born 1933)

Carol Emshwiller, (born 1921)

Valerio Evangelisti

F

Philip José Farmer, (born 1918)

Howard Fast (1914-2003)

John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) (Pseudonym, Vargo Statten)

Nicholas Fisk

Eric Flint, (born 1947)

Michael Flynn (born 1947)

Jeffrey Ford

William R. Forstchen

Edward Morgan Forster, (1879-1970) (E.M. Forster)

Robert L. Forward, (1932-2002)

Alan Dean Foster, (born 1946)

M. A. Foster (born 1939)

Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950)

Randall Frakes

C. S. Friedman, (born 1957)

Oscar J. Friend, (1897-1963)

Esther Friesner (born 1951)

G

Neil Gaiman, (born 1960)

Raymond Z. Gallun, (1911-1994)

Daniel F. Galouye, (1920-1976)

James Alan Gardner

Martin Gardner, (born 1914)

Randall Garrett (1927-1987)

Mary Gentle (born 1956)

Alistair Gentry

Hugo Gernsback, (1884-1967), (of Hugo Award fame)

David Gerrold, (born 1944)

Mark S. Geston

Edward Gibson

William Gibson, (born 1948)

Alexis A. Gilliland, (born 1931)

Tom Godwin, (1915-1980)

H.L. Gold, (1914-1996)

Terry Goodkind, (born 1948)

Phyllis Gotlieb, (born 1926)

Ron Goulart, (born 1933)

Charles L. Grant, (born 1942)

Colin Greenland (born 1954)

Edward Grendon, (born 1920)(Pseudonym of Lawrence L. LeShan)

Nicola Griffith (born 1960)

Ken Grimwood

John Grisham (born February 8, 1955)

Wyman Guin

Eileen Gunn, (born 1945)

James E. Gunn, (born 1923)

H

Karen Haber (born 1955)

H. Rider Haggard, (1856-1925)

Jack C. Haldeman II, (1941-2002)

Joe Haldeman, (born 1943)

Barbara Hambly (born 1951)

Edmond Hamilton, (1904-1977)

Peter F. Hamilton, (born 1960)

Elizabeth Hand (born 1957)

Charles L. Harness (born 1915)

Harry Harrison, (born 1925)

M. John Harrison, (born 1945)

Henry Hasse

Willard Hawkins

Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988)

Zenna Henderson (1917-1983)

Brian Herbert, (born 1947)

Frank Herbert, (1920-1986)

Philip E. High, (born 1914)

Douglas Hill

Christopher Hinz

P. C. Hodgell

Paul Hofrichter

H.H. Hollis

James P. Hogan, (born 1941)

Robert L. Holt & Frank L. Holt

Nalo Hopkinson

Fred Hoyle, (1915-2001)

L. Ron Hubbard, (1911-1986)

Marek Huberath, (1954-)

Monica Hughes, (1925-2003)

Stephen Hunt

Matthew Hunter

Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963)

I

Dean Ing, (born 1931)

Simon Ings

J

John Jakes, (born 1932)

Tatjana Jambrisak

Laurence M. Janifer, (1933-2002)

K. W. Jeter, (born 1950)

George Clayton Johnson, (born 1929)

D. F. Jones

Diana Wynne Jones, (born 1934)

Raymond F. Jones, (1915-1994)

K

Franz Kafka, (1883-1924)

Colin Kapp, (born 1928)

Joseph E. Kelleam, (born 1913)

Daniel Keyes, (born 1927)

Stephen King, (born 1947)

Annette Curtis Klause

Donald Kingsbury, (born 1929)

David Barr Kirtley, (born 1977)

Damon Knight, (1922-2002)

Dean R. Koontz, (born 1945)

Cyril M. Kornbluth, (1923-1958)

Nancy Kress, (born 1948)

Michael P. Kube-McDowell (born 1954)

Henry Kuttner, (1915-1958)

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R. A. Lafferty, (1914-2002)

Geoffrey Landis (born 1955)

David Langford (born 1953)

Glen A. Larson, (born 1937)

Keith Laumer, (1925-1993)

Stephen R. Lawhead, (born 1950)

Ursula K. Le Guin, (born 1929)

Gentry Lee

Sharon Lee, (born 1952)

Tanith Lee, (born 1947)

Kimmo Lehtonen

Fritz Leiber, (1910-1992)

Murray Leinster, (born 1896) (Pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins)

Stanislaw Lem, (born 1921)

Doris Lessing, (born 1919)

Jonathan Lethem (born 1964)

Roger Levy

C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963)

Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Nina Liedtke

Brad Linaweaver

Jack London

Barry B. Longyear (born 1942)

Jean Lorrah

H. P. Lovecraft, (1890-1937)

George Lucas, (born 1944, Star Wars)

Sergey Lukyanenko, (born 1968)

Richard Lupoff, (born 1935)

Mercedes Lackey

M

Darko Macan, (born 1966)

John D. MacDonald (1916-1986)

Katherine Maclean, (born 1925)

Ian R. MacLeod, (born 1956)

Ken MacLeod, (born 1954)

Angus MacVicar, (born 1908)

Charles Eric Maine, (1921-1981)(pseudonym of David McIlwain)

Barry N. Malzberg, (born 1939)

Laurence Manning, (1899-1972)

Leo Margulies, (1900-1975)

Paul Marlowe

George R. R. Martin, (born 1948)

Richard Matheson, (born 1926)

Julian May, (born 1931)

Paul J. McAuley, (born 1955)

Anne McCaffrey, (born 1926)

Jack McDevitt, (born 1935)

Ian McDonald

Maureen F. McHugh, (born 1959)

Sean McMullen (born 1948)

Mike McQuay

Capt. S.P. Meek

Richard C. Meredith, (1937-1979)

Judith Merril, (1923-1997)

Abraham Merritt, (1884-1943) (A. Merritt)

Gustav Meyrink

China Miéville, (born 1972)

P. Schuyler Miller, (1912-1974)

Steve Miller, (born 1950) Liaden universe®

Walter M. Miller, Jr., (1923-1996)

Kirk Mitchell, (born 1950)

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., (born 1943)

Donald Moffitt, (born 1936)

Richard Morgan, (born 1965)

Elizabeth Moon, (born 1945)

Michael Moorcock, (born 1939)

Alan Moore, (born 1953)

C. L. Moore, (1911-1987)

Patrick Moore, (born 1923)

Ward Moore (1903-1978)

Daniel Keys Moran, (born 1962)

Chris Moriarty (born 1968)

Janet Morris (born 1946)

William Morrison, (1906-1982)(Pseudonym of Joseph Samachson)

Sam Moskowitz, (1920-1997)

Pat Murphy (born 1955)

Howard L. Myers, (1930-1971) (Pseudonym, Verge Foray)

N

Linda Nagata, (born 1960)

Ondřej Neff, (born 1945)

Larry Niven, (born 1938)

Nick Nielsen (possibly pseudonym)

William F. Nolan, (born 1928)

Jeff Noon, (born 1957)

John Norman, (born 1931)

Andre Norton, (1912-2005) (pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton)

Alan E. Nourse, (1928-1992)

O

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. (born 1950)

Charles Oberndorf

Andrew J. Offutt, (born 1937)

Chad Oliver, (1928-1993)

Jerry Oltion (born 1957)

John Ostrander

Jerry Ordway, (born 1957)

Marek Oramus

Rebecca Ore (born 1948)

George Orwell, (1903-1950) (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair)

P

Ray Palmer (1910-1977)

Edgar Pangborn (1909-1976)

Alexei Panshin, (born 1940)

Cory Panshin

Hayford Peirce, (born 1942)

Charles Pellegrino

Dalibor Perkovic, (born 1974)

Steve Perry (author), (born 1947)

Rog Phillips, (1909-1965) (Pseudonym of Roger P. Graham)

Peter Phillips, (born 1921)

John R. Pierce, (1910-2002)(Pseudonym, J.J. Coupling)

H. Beam Piper, (1904-1964)

Doris Piserchia (born 1928)

Charles Platt (born 1945)

Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849)

Frederik Pohl, (born 1919)

Jerry Pournelle, (born 1933)

Terry Pratchett, (born 1948)

Paul Preuss (born 1942)

Christopher Priest

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R

Bill Ransom

Rick Raphael

Tom Reamy, (1935-1977)

Javier Redal

Robert Reed (born 1956)

Miha Remec, (born 1928)

Laura Resnick

Mike Resnick, (born 1942)

Alastair Reynolds, (born 1966)

Mack Reynolds, (1917-1983)

Anne Rice, (born October 4, 1941)

Christopher Rice

John Ringo, Legacy of the Aldenata, Empire of Man series with David Weber

Kim Stanley Robinson, (born 1952)

Spider Robinson, (born 1948)

Adam Roberts

Keith Roberts, (1935-2000)

Ross Rocklynne, (1913-1988)

Gene Roddenberry, (1921-1991, Star Trek)

Joel Rosenberg, (born 1954), Guardians of the Flame

Milton A. Rothman, (1919-2001)

Tony Rothman

Christopher Rowley

Rudy Rucker, (born 1946)

Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born 1960)

Joanna Russ, (born 1937)

Richard Paul Russo (born 1954)

Eric Frank Russell, (1905-1978)

Mary Doria Russell, (born 1950)

Geoff Ryman

S

Fred Saberhagen, (born 1930)

Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)

Nick Sagan, (born 1970)

Margaret St. Clair, (1911-1995), (Pseudonym, Idris Seabright)

Emilio Salgari, (1862-1911)

Domingo Santos (born 1941) (pseudonym of Pedro Domingo Mutiñó)

David Saperstein

Andrzej Sapkowski

Pamela Sargent, (born 1948)

Al Sarrantonio

Robert J. Sawyer, (born 1960)

Nat Schachner (1895-1955)

James H. Schmitz, (1911-1974)

Stanley Schmidt, (born 1944)

Thomas N. Scortia, (1926-1986)

Rod Serling, (1924-1975)

Michael Shaara, (1928-1988)

William Shatner, (born 1931)

Richard S. Shaver, (1907-1975)

Bob Shaw, (1931-1996)

Charles Sheffield, (1935-2002)

Robert Sheckley, (born 1928)

Mary Shelley, (1797-1851)

Lucius Shepard (born 1947)

Joel Shepherd, (born 1974)

T.L. Sherred

Wilmar H. Shiras, (1908-1990)

John Shirley, (born 1953)

Robert Silverberg, (born 1935)

Clifford D. Simak, (1904-1988)

Dan Simmons, (born 1948)

Johanna Sinisalo, (born 1958)

Curt Siodmak, (1902-2000)

John Sladek, (1937-2000)

William Sleator (born 1945)

Joan Slonczewski (born 1956)

Clark Ashton Smith, (1893-1961)

Cordwainer Smith, (1913-1966) (Pseudonym of Paul M.A. Linebarger)

E. E. Smith, (1890-1965), (Edward E. "Doc" Smith)

George O. Smith, (1911-1981)

L. Neil Smith (born 1946)

Nancy Springer (born 1948)

Jerry Sohl, (1913-2002)

Norman Spinrad, (born 1940)

James Spix, (born 1974)

Margaret St. Clair

Michael A. Stackpole, (born 1957)

Olaf Stapledon, (1886-1950)

Christopher Stasheff (born 1944)

Allen Steele (born 1958)

Neal Stephenson, (born 1959)

Bruce Sterling, (born 1954)

G. Harry Stine, (1928-1997)(pseudonym, Lee Corey)

S. M. Stirling, (born 1953)

J. Michael Straczynski, (born 1954)

Charles Stross, (born 1964)

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (sometimes listed contrariwise), a.k.a. the Strugatsky brothers (1925-1991) (born 1933)

Theodore Sturgeon, (1918-1985)

Somtow Sucharitkul, (Pseudonym, S. P. Somtow)

Michael Swanwick, (born 1950)

Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745)

Michael Szameit, (born 1950)

T

John Taine, (1883-1960) (Pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell)

William Tenn, (born 1920) (Pseudonym of Philip Klass)

Steve Rasnic Tem, (born 1950) (Steve Rasnic)

William F. Temple, (1914-1989)

Sheri S. Tepper (born 1929)

Robert Thurston

Patrick Tilley, (born 1928)

James M. Tiptree, Jr, (1915-1987) (Pseudonym of Alice Sheldon)

Karen Traviss

Wilson Tucker, (born 1914)

Harry Turtledove, (born 1949)

Kathy Tyers

U

V

Voltaire, (1694-1778)

Jack Vance, (born 1916)

Sydney J. Van Scyoc, (born 1939)

A. E. van Vogt, (1912-2000)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (born 1922)

John Varley, (born 1947)

Jules Verne, (1828-1905)

Joan D. Vinge, (born 1948)

Vernor Vinge, (born 1944)

Elisabeth Vonarburg, (born 1947)

W

Roland C. Wagner, (born 1960)

Howard Waldrop, (born 1946)

F.L. Wallace, (Floyd Wallace)

Ian Wallace, (1912-1998)

Jerome L. Walton, (1914-?)

Ian Watson

Lawrence Watt-Evans, (born 1954)

Stanley G. Weinbaum, (1902-1935)

David Weber, Honor Harrington series

H. G. Wells, (1866-1946)

K. D. Wentworth, Heyoka Blackeagle

Wallace West

Scott Westerfeld

James White, (1928-1999), Sector General series

Steve White, (born 1946)

Cherry Wilder, (1930-2002)

Kate Wilhelm, (born 1928)

Lynda Williams, (born 1958) Okal Rel Universe series

Tad Williams, (born 1957) Otherland

Walter Jon Williams (born 1953)

Jack Williamson, (born 1908)

Connie Willis, (born 1945)

Robert Anton Wilson, (born 1932)

Robert Charles Wilson, (born 1953)

David Wingrove

Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, (1937-1995)

Gene Wolfe, (born 1931)

Donald A. Wollheim, (1914-1990), (Pseudonyms, various)

Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, (born 1944)

Jack Womack (born 1956)

John Wyndham, (1903-1969) (Pseudonym of John Beynon Harris)

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Y

Jane Yolen, (born 1939)

Tetsu Yano

Z

Timothy Zahn, (born 1951)

Janusz A. Zajdel, (1938-1985)

Yevgeny Zamyatin, (1884-1937)

George Zebrowski, (born 1945)

Roger Zelazny, (1937-1995)

Tully Zetford (Pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer)

Sarah Zettel, (born 1966)

Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz (born 1964)

Andrzej Ziemianski

Aleksandar Ziljak, (born 1963)

David Zindell, (born 1952)

Gianluigi Zuddas, (born 1943)

Enrica Zunic'

See also

• List of science fiction editors
• Novelists
• List of fantasy authors
• List of horror fiction authors
• Lists of authors
• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
• Category:Science fiction writers which contains additions not in this list, and will soon be more complete than this list.
• If you add any authors to this list, please also consider adding them to the A-Z list of authors.

Resources

A great book for looking up authors 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. It tells you whom else you might like if you like one author.

Also invaluable are The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nd. Ed. 1991) ed. by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, and The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. by George Mann (1999) (ISBN 0786708875 or ISBN 1841191779).

External links

• Official website (http://www.sfwa.org) for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• Official website (http://rusf.ru/english/) for "Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy"

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