This is a list of notable science-fiction authors, in alphabetical order:
Catherine Asaro , around 2009Isaac Asimov , before 1959Margaret Atwood , 2015Elizabeth Bear , 2017Gregory Benford , 2008Cyrano de Bergerac , one of the earliest SF writers, ca. 1654John Birmingham , 2009Ray Bradbury , 1975Lois McMaster Bujold , 2009Edgar Rice Burroughs , c. 1920Octavia Butler , 2005C. J. Cherryh , 2006Ted Chiang , 2011Arthur C. Clarke , ca. 2005Storm Constantine 2016Michael Crichton , 2002Julie Czerneda 2012 Jack Dann , 2007Judy Lynn and Lester Del Rey , 1974 Samuel R. Delany , 2011Cory Doctorow , 2007Carol Emshwiller , 1998Camille Flammarion, date unknown Eric Flint , ca. 2007 Neil Gaiman , 2004 Nicola Griffith , 2007James Gunn , ca. 2007Peter F. Hamilton , 2006Elizabeth Hand , 2007Midshipman Robert A. Heinlein , 1929Aldous Huxley , 1954Muhammed Zafar Iqbal , 2013N.K. Jemisin , 2015Robert Jordan , 2005James Patrick Kelly , 2008Stephen King , 2007Nancy Kress (center), with author Delia Sherman (left) and editor Ellen Datlow (right). 2007 photo.Ursula K. Le Guin , 2009Shariann Lewitt , 2007Jack London , 1900Stanisław Lem , 1966A. Merritt , c. 1920 China Miéville , 2006Naomi Mitchison , 1920sJudith Moffett , 2008Elizabeth Moon , 2005Richard Morgan , 2008James Morrow, 2007 Larry Niven , photo before 2005George Orwell , 1943Edgar Allan Poe , 1849Frederik Pohl (center) with Donald A. Wollheim (left) and John Michel (right, circa 1938Jerry Pournelle , 2005Fletcher Pratt (left) with Christopher Morley and Rex Stout , 1944Mike Resnick , 2008Adam Roberts , 2008Kim Stanley Robinson , 2005Rudy Rucker , 2006Robert J. Sawyer , 2005Mary Shelley , ca. 1840Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger), 1953Allen Steele , ca. 2007Charles Stross , 2019Somtow Sucharitkul , 2005Michael Swanwick , 2005Tricia Sullivan , 2012Lavie Tidhar , 2006Wilson Tucker , ca. 1988Harry Turtledove , 2005Jack Vance at the helm of his boat, early 1980sStanley G. Weinbaum H. G. Wells , 1920Walter Jon Williams , 2006Connie Willis , 1998Jack Womack at the KGB Bar , NYC, 2008Charles Yu , 2011Timothy Zahn , 2012
^ Individually, their names are Аркадий Стругацкий and Борис Стругацкий.
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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