- Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer, mostly known for his works of science fiction. In addition to his published novels, Dick wrote "approximately 121 short stories, most of them for science fiction magazines." At least eight of his stories have been adapted for film. <br><br> - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion. - Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. - Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is a English film director and producer. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was first published in the 1960s. Her works explore Taoist, anarchist, feminist, psychological and sociological themes. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, … - Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828-March 24 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" (1870), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, … - Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel "Dune" and its five sequels. The "Dune" saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, … - Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey", and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of what was sometimes known as the "Big Three" of science fiction, which included Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The Martian Chronicles", a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451". - Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson, who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the pseudonym Will Stewart) was a U.S. writer considered by many the "Dean of Science Fiction". - Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusion-rich prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, which he adopted after marrying a Catholic. He is a prolific short story writer as well as a novelist, and has won the Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award twice each, the Campbell Memorial Award, and the Locus Award four times. - Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. - H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as "The Time Machine", "The War of the Worlds", "The Invisible Man", "The First Men in the Moon" and "The Island of Doctor Moreau". He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, … - Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contribution to the genre as publisher was so significant, that along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction". - Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen (born Raymond Frederick Harryhausen, June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California), is an American Film producer and, most notably, a special effects creator most famous for his brand of stop-motion model animation. Some of his most notable works have included his animation of "Mighty Joe Young" (1949) and his collaboration with Don Chaffey on "Jason and the Argonauts". - Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (born August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author, though Vance himself has reportedly objected to such labels. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen. Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, Jay Kavanse. - A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the genre. Many fans of that era would have named van Vogt, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov as the three greatest science fiction writers. - John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell, Jr. (June 8,1910 - July 11,1971) was an important science-fiction writer and editor. As a writer he was first influential under his own name as a writer of super-science space opera and then under the name Don A. Stuart, a pseudonym he used for moodier, less pulpish stories. However, Campbell's primary influence on the science-fiction field was as the editor of "Astounding Science Fiction", … - Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is a noted American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over sixty years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited "Galaxy" magazine and its sister magazine "if", winning the Hugo for "if" three years running. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993. - Damon Knight
Damon Knight (September 19, 1922 - April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. - Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE, (born August 18, 1925 in East Dereham, Norfolk) is a prolific English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by SF pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. - Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author. He was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York; in 1929, after a divorce, his mother married William Sturgeon, and Edward changed his name to Theodore the better to match his nickname, "Ted". Sturgeon died on May 8 1985, of pneumonia, in Eugene, Oregon. Sturgeon lived for several years in the neighboring city of Springfield. - Frank Kelly Freas
Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 - 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas (pronounced like the English word "freeze") was educated at Lafayette High School in Buffalo, where he received training from long-time art teacher Elizabeth Weiffenbach. - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. - E. E. Smith
E. E. Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E.E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science fiction author who wrote the "Lensman" series and the "Skylark" series, among others. - Hal Clement
Harry Clement Stubbs (b. May 30, 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts - d. October 29, 2003 in Milton, Massachusetts), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. - Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 - September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel "The Demolished Man". - C. L. Moore
Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction. She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic. - Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 - March 17, 2005), science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction), was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. She published her first novel in 1934. She was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and she won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983. - Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. - Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (born April 1, 1926) is an American science fiction author best known for her "Dragonriders of Pern" series. - Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, March 12 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel "Make Room! Make Room!" (1966), the basis for the film "Soylent Green" (1973). - Kate Wilhelm
Kate Wilhelm (born June 8, 1928) (nee Katie Gertrude Meredith) is a writer whose work has included science fiction, mysteries, and fantasy. She was born in Toledo, Ohio. Her work has been published in "Quark (the anthology series)", "Orbit (the anthology series)", "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Locus", "Amazing Stories", "Asimov's Science Fiction", "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", … - Gordon R. Dickson
Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his "Childe Cycle" and the "Dragon Knight series". He won three Hugo awards. - Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author of the genre's Golden Age. Poul Anderson also wrote several works of fantasy. He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married the former Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear. He was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. - Chesley Bonestell
Chesley Bonestell (1888 - 11 june 1986) was a painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. - A. Merritt
Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884 - August 21, 1943), who published under the byline A. Merritt, was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction. - Wilson Tucker
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer and fan. He did his fan writing under the name Bob Tucker, and is best known to the fan community under that name. Tucker became involved in science fiction fandom in 1932 and in that decade began publishing a fanzine, "The Planetoid". From 1938 to 1975, he published the fanzine "Le Zombie", … - Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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