List of science-fiction authors
Some notable science fiction authors are
- Forrest J. Ackerman
- Douglas Adams
- Brian Aldiss
- Kingsley Amis
- Kevin J Anderson
- Poul Anderson
- Piers Anthony
- Catherine Asaro
- Isaac Asimov
- Janet Asimov
- Robert Asprin
- J.G. Ballard
- Iain M. Banks
- John Barnes
- Steven Barnes
- L. Frank Baum
- Stephen Baxter
- Greg Bear
- Gregory Benford
- Alfred Bester
- James Blish
- Robert Bloch
- Ben Bova
- Leigh Brackett
- Ray Bradbury
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Reginald Bretnor
- David Brin
- Fredric Brown
- John Brunner
- Steven Brust
- 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
- Brenda Clough
- Glen Cook
- Roald Dahl
- John Dalmas
- Eric von Daniken
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Samuel R. Delany
- Lester del Rey
- Philip K. Dick
- Gordon R. Dickson
- Thomas M. Disch
- David Drake
- Philip José Farmer
- Eric Flint
- Edward Morgan Forster
- Robert L. Forward
- Alan Dean Foster
- C. S. Friedman
- Neil Gaiman
- Randall Garrett
- Mary Gentle
- Hugo Gernsback (of Hugo Award fame)
- William Gibson
- Terry Goodkind
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Ron Goulart
- Joe Haldeman
- Edmond Hamilton
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Harry Harrison
- M. John Harrison
- Robert Heinlein
- Zenna Henderson
- Frank Herbert
- James P. Hogan
- Fred Hoyle
- L. Ron Hubbard
- R. A. Lafferty
- Keith Laumer
- Tanith Lee
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Fritz Leiber
- Murray Leinster
- Stanislaw Lem
- Nina Liedtke
- Ken MacLeod
- Ian R. MacLeod
- George R. R. Martin
- Richard Matheson
- Paul J. McAuley
- Anne McCaffrey
- Jack McDevitt
- Judith Merril
- China Mieville
- Michael Moorcock
- C. L. Moore
- Alexei Panshin
- Corey Panshin
- H. Beam Piper
- Doris Piserchia
- Frederik Pohl
- Jerry Pournelle
- Terry Pratchett
- Mike Resnick
- Alastair Reynolds
- Mack Reynolds
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Spider Robinson
- Joel Rosenberg
- Tony Rothman
- Joanna Russ
- Eric Frank Russell
- Fred Saberhagen
- Carl Sagan
- Robert Sawyer
- James H. Schmitz
- Alice Sheldon (listed under her pen name of James Tiptree, Jr)
- Mary Shelley
- Robert Silverberg
- Clifford Simak
- Dan Simmons
- William Sleator
- Joan Slonczewski
- Cordwainer Smith
- E. E. Smith ("Doc" Smith)
- L. Neil Smith
- Norman Spinrad
- Olaf Stapledon
- Christopher Stasheff
- Allen Steele
- Neal Stephenson
- Bruce Sterling
- S. M. Stirling
- J. Michael Straczynski
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Stanley G. Weinbaum
- H. G. Wells
- James White
- Jack Williamson
- Connie Willis
- Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
- Gene Wolfe
- Donald A. Wollheim (mostly wrote under pseudonyms)
- John Wyndham
See also
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.
Also invaluable is "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (2nd. Ed. 1991) edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls.