Cordwainer Bird

Cordwainer Bird

male, 75 years old (California)
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television...
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

female, 80 years old
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories,...
Larry Niven

Larry Niven

male, 71 years old
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles, California) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is "Ringworld"...
Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress

female, 61 years old
Nancy Kress (born Nancy Anne Koningisor in Buffalo, New York on January 20, 1948) is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976...
James Patrick Kelly

James Patrick Kelly

male, 58 years old
James Patrick Kelly (born 1951 in Mineola, New York) is a Hugo- and Nebula-award winning American science fiction author who began publishing in...
Charles Sheffield

Charles Sheffield

male, deceased (2002)
Charles Sheffield (June 25, 1935 - November 2, 2002), was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. He had been a...
Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson

male, 67 years old
Terry Ballantine Bisson (born February 12, 1942, Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short...
Charles Messier

Charles Messier

male, deceased (1817)
Charles Messier was a French astronomer who in 1774 published a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of...
Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

female, deceased (2006)
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula...
Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop

male, 64 years old
Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning American writer. Over four decades and thirty books, he has...